King & Spalding Advises Freeport LNG on Front-End Engineering and Design Contract for Liquefaction

HOUSTON, TX--(Marketwire - Feb 15, 2012) - King & Spalding advised Freeport LNG Expansion, L.P., in a front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract with a joint venture comprised of Zachry Industrial, Inc., and CB&I Inc. for the engineering and design of the Freeport Liquefaction Project near Freeport, Texas.

The contract calls for the engineering and design of three LNG liquefaction trains and corresponding pretreatment facilities to be located near the existing Freeport LNG regasification terminal that is owned and operated by Freeport LNG's parent company, Freeport LNG Development, L.P. Each liquefaction train would be rated at 4.4 million tons per year.

A press release announcing this contract can be found here:
http://freeportlng.newsrouter.com/FLNG_News_Releases_view.asp?editid1=6490.

King & Spalding partner Scott A. Greer, who leads the firm's global construction transactional practice, and global transactions associate Robert B. Garner represented Freeport LNG. Both lawyers are resident in the firm's Houston office.

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