A subsidiaryissued a private placement of $1.25 billion ofinvestment-grade project bondsto fund the second train of the LNG terminal being built on Quintana Islandnear Freeport, Texas.

The 4.125% senior secured notes due 2038 are part ofan effort to refinance some of $4.025 billion of for the construction anddevelopment of the project's second liquefaction train, according to a July 21news release from the law firm White & Case LLP, which represented Freeportsubsidiary FLNG Liquefaction 2 LLC in the transaction.

The issuance is the first in Freeport's program torefinance the initial senior secured debt, a seven-year mini-perm constructionfacility from a syndicate of commercial lenders. The lead book runners for theissuance were Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs & Co., HSBC and RBC CapitalMarkets.