'Construction of two 0.7 billion ft3 (4.5 million tpy) units at Corpus Christi is over 80% complete', said Douglas Wharton, director origination of Cheniere Marketing in Singapore.

"We will hopefully start producing first LNG by this year and have made significant progress on train 3 which... we are hoping to take a final investment decision (FID) on soon," Wharton said.