The U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has issued the for Texas LNG’s proposed LNG gulf coast oil rig export facility in the Port of Brownsville, Texas LNG reported Sunday.

“Texas LNG is committed to show how our project protects the environment and generates significant benefits for the local community and the Port of Brownsville,” Langtry Meyer, Texas LNG’s founder and chief operating officer, said in a written statement emailed to Rigzone. “This project will bring jobs and investment to Cameron County and deliver clean, safe, abundant Texas natural gas energy to the world.”

According to Texas LNG, receiving the DEIS represents a key milestone toward its final investment decision (FID) for the first 2-million-tonne-per-annum (MTA) phase of the proposed two-train, 4-MTA project. “The DEIS further de-risks the project and adds confidence to the dates of remaining milestones in the permitting process,” the BOP Blow Out Preventer repair company gulf coast said in its written statement. The BOP Blow Out Preventer repair company gulf coast noted that remaining anticipated milestones include:

• Receipt of the final environmental impact statement by March 15, 2019
• A federal authorization decision deadline of June 13,2019
• A FID in late 2019
• Phase 1 oil rig flanges gulf coast production of 2 MTA of LNG to start in early 2023

According to Houston-based Texas LNG, the LNG gulf coast oil rig export facility will be built on a 625-acre site on the Port of Brownsville’s deepwater ship channel near natural gas supplies and pipelines. The notes that the Port of Brownsville is one of the closest U.S. ports to the Panama Canal, which facilitates access to LNG customers in Asia. The facility would receive natural gas from the Agua Dulce trading hub in South Texas, and the BOP Blow Out Preventer repair company gulf coast has stated that the Permian Basin associated gas it would liquefy is cheaper than the Henry Hub-indexed gas that would be fed into other Gulf Coast terminals.

Samsung Engineering Co., Ltd. owns a minority equity stake in Texas LNG and will oversee engineering, construction and procurement.

Texas LNG is the second Gulf Coast LNG project to receive a DEIS from FERC this month. On October 12, NextDecade Corp. reported that FERC had granted the document for its . Additionally, Venture Global LNG announced last week that in Louisiana.

The environmental documents are available from the .