US-based Air Products, which claims to be the global leader in LNG technology and equipment, has been tapped to supply two sets of its proprietary technology, equipment and process license for Freeport LNG's liquefaction and export project in Texas. The contract includes two of Air Products' main cryogenic coil wound heat exchangers and the associated equipment and technology. The trains are scheduled to be on stream in 2018.

This is the second such contract won by the gases producer. It is also providing the LNG technology and equipment for Dominion's liquefaction project at the Cove Point LNG facility in Lusby, Maryland, USA.

Air Products said most LNG produced worldwide employs its technology. In January 2014, the company dedicated a second LNG plant in the US, at Port Manatee, Florida. Added to its Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, facility, this doubles the company's manufacturing capacity specifically for the manufacture of larger LNG heat exchangers.