Cheniere Energy said Friday it had engaged more than two dozen banks and financial institutions to help it finance a third liquefaction train at its Corpus Christi LNG export facility, and it expects to make a final investment decision on the unit by the end of June. The arranging and closing of financing reflects the last major step the company needs to complete prior to making a formal decision whether to move forward with construction of the third production unit at the terminal, spokesman Eben Burnham-Snyder said in an e-mail. Reaching FID in the first half of this year, as Cheniere now says it is targeting, would be in line with timing a Cheniere executive had suggested during a conference in Houston last month. The first two trains are already being built, and the market believes Cheniere will build the third based on the strong signals sent by the […]