Companies NextDecade Corp FollowJuly 13 (Reuters) - NextDecade Corp shares (NEXT.O) fell 23% on Thursday on investor worries over the terms of $18.4 billion financing the U.S. liquefied natural gas developer obtained to go ahead with the long-delayed Phase 1 of Rio Grande LNG export facility.
NextDecade said its financial partners and TotalEnergies combined will hold stake that could fetch them at least 79.2% of the cash flow generated from Phase 1 of the project.
It also said the lump-sum turnkey engineering, procurement and construction contracts of $12 billion were lower than its forecast of $12.5 billion.
"Investors are looking at the huge portion of cash flow that the new project level investors get relative to the equity holders and don't love that," said Sean Morgan, an analyst at Evercore.
NextDecade is expected to produce 27 million tonnes of LNG a year from the facility.
Persons:
NextDecade, TotalEnergies, TD Cowen, Sean Morgan, Arshreet Singh, Shweta Agarwal
Organizations:
NextDecade, NextDecade Corp, Evercore, Thomson
Locations:
Rio Grande LNG, United States