日本三井物产公司从运营商 Silver Hill Eagle Ford E&P（达拉斯 Silver Hill Energy Partners 的子公司）手中购买了 Eagle Ford 非常规油气田 Hawkville 气田 92% 的工作权益，收购金额未公开。

三井物产在 4 月 20 日的新闻稿中宣布，位于德克萨斯州南部的占地 8,500 英亩的资产可通往墨西哥湾沿岸工业区，其中包括液化天然气出口码头和合成氨工厂。

三井物产的全资子公司Mitsui E&P USA将开发和运营该资产，旨在使Hawkville气田的天然气产量稳定超过200 MMcf/D。三井表示，天然气和液化天然气是能源转型的“务实解决方案”，有助于稳定的能源供应。

这家日本贸易公司打算出口美国液化天然气，并以天然气为原料生产甲醇。除了积极寻求上游开发项目外，三井物产表示将加强包括邻近业务在内的天然气价值链，并致力于通过碳捕获和封存等技术实现进一步的低碳解决方案和脱碳。

此次收购是三井物产在美国的第二笔收购。三井物产持有路易斯安那州哈克伯里卡梅伦液化天然气设施 16.6% 的股权，其他股东包括 Sempra 基础设施公司 (50.2%)、TotalEnergies (16.6%) 和日本液化天然气投资公司 (16.6%)（一家由三菱商事株式会社和日本公司共同拥有的公司）邮船株式会社）。

卡梅伦液化天然气1号列车于2019年8月开始商业运营；2 号生产线随后于 2020 年 3 月投入使用。Cameron LNG原计划的三条液化生产线中的第三条于 2020 年 8 月投入商业运营。

据 TotalEnergies 称，今年，合作伙伴预计将做出最终投资决定，增加第四条生产线，产能为 6.75 吨/年，并消除原有的三条生产线的瓶颈，将工厂 13.5 吨/年的生产能力提高 5%。

根据合作伙伴于 2022 年 4 月签署的框架协议 (HOA) 条款，TotalEnergies 表示同意承担第四条生产线预计产能的 16.6% 和预计消除瓶颈产能的 25%。

路易斯安那州西南部的卡梅伦扩建项目还包括减少设施排放的设计改进，包括电力驱动技术。

签署扩建 HOA 一个月后，Sempra、三井物产、三菱和 TotalEnergies 同意建设Hackberry 碳封存项目，以捕获Cameron LNG 生产的最多 2 mpta 的 CO _{2 。}据 TotalEnergies 称， CO _{2将通过酸性气体去除装置捕获，脱水、压缩，并通过约 10 公里长的管道输送，使用 CO 2}容量高达 2 mtpa 的注入井注入咸水层。

Japan’s Mitsui has purchased a 92% working interest in the Hawkville gas field in the Eagle Ford unconventional play, from the operator Silver Hill Eagle Ford E&P, a subsidiary of Dallas-based Silver Hill Energy Partners, for an undisclosed sum.

The 8,500-acre asset in south Texas has access to the Gulf Coast industrial area, which includes LNG export terminals and ammonia plants, Mitsui announced in a 20 April news release.

Mitsui E&P USA, a wholly owned subsidiary of Mitsui, will develop and operate the asset, aiming for stable gas production of more than 200 MMcf/D from the Hawkville field. Gas and LNG are a “pragmatic solution” to the energy transition which contribute to a stable energy supply, Mitsui said.

The Japanese trading house intends to export US LNG as well as produce methanol using natural gas as feedstock. Besides proactively pursuing upstream development projects, Mitsui said it will strengthen its natural gas value chain, including adjacent businesses, and work toward achieving further low-carbon solutions and decarbonization through carbon capture and storage and other technologies.

The acquisition is Mitsui’s second venture in the US. Mitsui holds a 16.6% ownership stake in the Cameron LNG facility in Hackberry, Louisiana, together with Sempra Infrastructure (50.2%), TotalEnergies (16.6%), and Japan LNG Investment (16.6%), a company jointly owned by Mitsubishi Corporation and Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha).

Cameron LNG train 1 began commercial operation in August 2019; train 2 followed in March 2020. The third of Cameron LNG’s three originally planned liquefaction trains entered commercial operation in August 2020.

This year, the partners anticipate a final investment decision to add a fourth train with a production capacity of 6.75 mtpa and debottleneck the three original trains to raise the facility’s 13.5-mtpa capacity by 5%, according to TotalEnergies.

Under terms of the Heads of Agreement (HOA) signed by the partners in April 2022, TotalEnergies said it agreed to offtake 16.6% of the projected fourth train’s production capacity and 25% of the projected debottlenecked capacity.

The Cameron expansion project in southwest Louisiana also includes design enhancements to reduce emissions of the facility, including electric-drive technology.

A month after signing the expansion HOA, Sempra, Mitsui, Mitsubishi, and TotalEnergies agreed to build the Hackberry Carbon Sequestration project to capture up to 2 mpta of CO₂ produced at Cameron LNG. CO₂ will be captured by acid-gas removal units, dehydrated, compressed, and transported by pipeline about 10 km for injection into a saline aquifer using an injection well with a capacity of up to 2 mtpa of CO₂, according to TotalEnergies.