The LNG terminal will be located approximately 10 miles south of Port Arthur and two miles northwest of Sabine Pass, Texas, in an area zoned for industrial use on the Sabine-Neches Waterway, an industrial ship channel. The Port Arthur area is an excellent location for an LNG receiving terminal because it is one of a few deepwater ports along the Gulf Coast suitable for importing LNG. Sabine Pass also has an existing pipeline infrastructure with access to South East Texas and U.S. markets. Furthermore, this pipeline infrastructure is capable of handling the quantity of natural gas that this proposed project will bring to the area.

The Golden Pass LNG Project is expected to take about three years to build and involves employment for more than 1000 workers during peak construction. The facility is expected to be operational in 2009. The plant is designed with the capacity to process 15.6 million metric tons per year (MTA) of LNG, which is equivalent to approximately 2 billion cubic feet of natural gas a day.

The primary purpose of the facility would be to receive LNG ships, store LNG and revaporize the LNG to its natural gas state where it would be put into a pipeline. The facility would be very quiet, with minimal noise level due to the nature of the limited equipment on site.

The project would also include berthing facilities, vaporization equipment, LNG storage tanks and a natural gas pipeline.