NextDecade Corp. 和伊藤忠商事株式会社 (Itochu Corp.) 在 1 月 19 日的新闻稿中宣布，双方签署了一份为期 15 年的销售和采购协议，每年从 NextDecade 的里奥格兰德液化天然气出口项目向伊藤忠商事供应 100 万吨液化天然气。

据新闻稿称，该设施位于德克萨斯州布朗斯维尔，将按船上交货价格向亨利中心出口液化天然气。

NextDecade希望在2023年第一季度就格兰德河液化天然气项目的前三条生产线达成最终投资决定，并在晚些时候就其余生产线达成剩余的最终投资决定。

NextDecade 董事长兼首席执行官马特·沙茨曼 (Matt Schatzman) 在新闻稿中评论道：“我们很荣幸伊藤忠商事株式会社成为我们的第一个日本客户。” “我们期待为伊藤忠商事及其客户提供液化天然气，我们正在积极努力通过我们拟议的碳捕获和储存项目减少格兰德河液化天然气设施的碳足迹。”

NextDecade Corp. and Itochu Corp. signed a 15-year sale and purchase agreement to supply Itochu with 1 million tonnes per annum of LNG from NextDecade's Rio Grande LNG export project, the companies announced in a press release on Jan. 19.

Located in Brownsville, Texas, the facility will export the LNG LNG indexed to Henry Hub on a free-on-board basis, according to the release.

NextDecade hopes to reach final investment decision on the first three trains from the Rio Grande LNG project during first-quarter 2023 and reach the remaining final investment decisions for the remaining trains at a later time.

"We are honored to have Itochu Corporation as our first Japanese customer," NextDecade chairman and CEO Matt Schatzman commented in the release. “We look forward to providing Itochu and their customers with LNG, and we are actively working to reduce the carbon footprint of the Rio Grande LNG facility through our proposed carbon capture and storage project.”