Corpus Christi Liquefaction S-4Registration of securities issued in business combination transactions

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 14, 2020

Registration No. 333-

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM S-4

Registration Statement

UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

Cheniere Corpus Christi Holdings, LLC*

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

700 Milam Street, Suite 1900

Houston, Texas 77002

(713) 375-5000

(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)

Michael J. Wortley

President and Chief Financial Officer
700 Milam Street, Suite 1900

Houston, Texas 77002

(713) 375-5000

(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

Copy to:

George J. Vlahakos

Sidley Austin LLP

1000 Louisiana Street, Suite 5900

Houston, TX 77002

(713) 495-4522

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: As soon as practicable following effectiveness of this registration statement.

If the securities being registered on this Form are to be offered in connection with the formation of a holding company and there is compliance with General Instruction G, check the following box. ☐

If this Form is filed to register additional securities for an offering pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. ☐

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If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act. ☐

If applicable, place an X in the box to designate the appropriate rule provision relied upon in conducting this transaction:

Exchange Act Rule 13e-4(i) (Cross-Border Issuer Tender Offer) ☐

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CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

Each registrant hereby amends this Registration Statement on such date or dates as may be necessary to delay its effective date until the registrant shall file a further amendment which specifically states that this Registration Statement shall thereafter become effective in accordance with Section 8(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 or until this Registration Statement shall become effective on such date as the Securities and Exchange Commission, acting pursuant to said Section 8(a), may determine.

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TABLE OF ADDITIONAL REGISTRANT GUARANTORS

* The following are additional registrants that are guaranteeing the securities registered hereby:

The information in this prospectus is not complete and may be changed. These securities may not be sold until the registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission is effective. This prospectus is not an offer to sell nor does it seek an offer to buy these securities in any jurisdiction where the offer or sale is not permitted.

SUBJECT TO COMPLETION DATED July 14, 2020

PROSPECTUS

CHENIERE CORPUS CHRISTI HOLDINGS, LLC

Offer to exchange up to
$1,500,000,000 of 3.700% Senior Secured Notes due 2029
(CUSIP No. 16412X AJ4)
that have been registered under the Securities Act of 1933
for
$1,500,000,000 of 3.700% Senior Secured Notes due 2029
(CUSIP NOS. 16412X AH8 AND U16327 AD7)

that have not been registered under the Securities Act of 1933

THE EXCHANGE OFFER EXPIRES AT 5:00 P.M., NEW YORK
CITY TIME, ON           , 2020, UNLESS WE EXTEND IT

Terms of the Exchange Offer:

Please read “Risk Factors” beginning on page 15 for a discussion of certain risks that you should consider prior to tendering your outstanding Old Notes in the exchange offer.

Neither the Securities and Exchange Commission nor any state securities commission has approved or disapproved of these securities or passed upon the adequacy or accuracy of this prospectus. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense.

Each broker-dealer that receives New Notes for its own account pursuant to the exchange offer must acknowledge by way of letter of transmittal that it will deliver a prospectus in connection with any resale of such New Notes. The letter of transmittal states that by so acknowledging and by delivering a prospectus, such broker‑dealer will not be deemed to admit that it is an “underwriter” within the meaning of the Securities Act. This prospectus, as it may be amended or supplemented from time to time, may be used by a broker-dealer in connection with resales of New Notes received in exchange for Old Notes where such Old Notes were acquired by such broker‑dealer as a result of market-making activities or other trading activities. We have agreed that, for a period of 180 days after the consummation of the exchange offer, we will make this prospectus available to any broker-dealer for use in connection with any such resale. Please read “Plan of Distribution.”

The date of this prospectus is, 2020.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

This prospectus incorporates important business and financial information about us that is not included or delivered with this prospectus. We will provide this information to you at no charge upon written or oral request directed to Corporate Secretary, Cheniere Corpus Christi Holdings, LLC, 700 Milam Street, Suite 1900, Houston, Texas 77002 (telephone number (713) 375-5000).

In order to ensure timely delivery of this information, any request should be made by, 2020, five business days prior to the expiration date of the exchange offer.

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ABOUT THIS PROSPECTUS

This prospectus is part of a registration statement we filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, referred to in this prospectus as the SEC. No person has been authorized to give any information or any representation concerning us or the exchange offer (other than as contained in this prospectus or the related letter of transmittal) and we take no responsibility for, nor can we provide any assurance as to the reliability of, any other information that others may give you. We are not making an offer to sell these securities in any state or jurisdiction where the offer is not permitted. You should not assume that the information contained in or incorporated by reference into this prospectus is accurate as of any date other than the date on the front cover of this prospectus or the date of such incorporated documents, as the case may be.

WHERE YOU CAN FIND MORE INFORMATION

We file annual, quarterly, current and other reports with the SEC under the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”). Our SEC filings are available to the public over the Internet at the SEC’s website at http://www.sec.gov. We will provide you upon request, without charge, a copy of the notes and the indenture governing the notes. You may request copies of these documents by contacting us at:

Cheniere Corpus Christi Holdings, LLC
Attention: Corporate Secretary
700 Milam Street, Suite 1900
Houston, Texas, 77002
(713) 375-5000

We also make all periodic and other information filed or furnished with the SEC available, free of charge, on our website at www.cheniere.com as soon as reasonably practicable after such information is electronically filed with or furnished to the SEC. Except as otherwise set forth herein, information on our website or any other website is not incorporated by reference into this prospectus and does not constitute a part of this prospectus.

PRESENTATION OF INFORMATION

In this prospectus, we rely on and refer to information and statistics regarding our industry. We obtained this market data from independent industry publications or other publicly available information. Although we believe that these sources are reliable, we have not independently verified and do not guarantee the accuracy or completeness of this information.

In this prospectus, unless the context otherwise requires:

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SPECIAL NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

This prospectus contains certain statements that are, or may be deemed to be, “forward-looking statements.” All statements, other than statements of historical or present facts or conditions, included herein are “forward-looking statements.” Included among “forward-looking statements” are, among other things:

All of these types of statements, other than statements of historical or present facts or conditions, are forward-looking statements. In some cases, forward-looking statements can be identified by terminology such as “may,” “will,” “could,” “should,” “achieve,” “anticipate,” “believe,” “contemplate,” “continue,” “estimate,” “expect,” “intend,” “plan,” “potential,” “predict,” “project,” “pursue,” “target,” the negative of such terms or other comparable terminology. The forward-looking statements contained in this prospectus are largely based on our expectations, which reflect estimates and assumptions made by our management. These estimates and assumptions reflect our best judgment based on currently known market conditions and other factors. Although we believe that such estimates are reasonable, they are inherently uncertain and involve a number of risks and uncertainties beyond our control. In addition, assumptions may prove to be inaccurate. We caution that the forward-looking statements contained in this prospectus are not guarantees of future performance and that such statements may not be realized or the forward-looking statements or events may not occur. Actual results may differ materially from those anticipated or implied in forward-looking statements as a result of a variety of factors described in this prospectus and in the reports and other information that we file with the SEC, including those discussed in “Risk Factors” and elsewhere in this prospectus. All forward-looking statements attributable to us or persons acting on our behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by these risk factors. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date made, and other than as required by law, we undertake no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statement or provide reasons why actual results may differ, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

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SUMMARY HISTORICAL FINANCIAL DATA

The following table sets forth the summary consolidated financial data for the periods indicated for CCH. We have derived the selected consolidated statement of operations data presented for the years ended December 31, 2019, 2018 and 2017 and the selected consolidated balance sheet data as of December 31, 2019 and 2018 from our audited financial statements included elsewhere in this prospectus, and the selected financial data presented for the three months ended March 31, 2020 and 2019 and as of March 31, 2020 from our unaudited consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this prospectus. The selected consolidated statement of operations data presented for the years ended December 31, 2016 and 2015 and the selected consolidated balance sheet data as of December 31, 2017, 2016 and 2015 were derived from our audited financial statements, which are not included in this prospectus but were filed with the SEC. You should read the selected financial data set forth below in conjunction with our consolidated financial statements and the related notes and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” contained elsewhere in this prospectus.

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RISK FACTORS

Before deciding to participate in the exchange offer, you should carefully consider the risks and uncertainties described below together with all other information contained in this prospectus. The following are some of the important factors that could affect our financial performance or could cause actual results to differ materially from estimates or expectations contained in our forward-looking statements. We may encounter risks in addition to those described below.

Certain terms used and not defined in this section shall have the meanings attributed to such terms in the Glossary of Certain Finance Document Terms or the Glossary of Certain Defined Terms.

The risk factors in this prospectus are grouped into the following categories:

Risks Relating to Our Financial Matters

Our existing level of cash resources, operating cash flow and significant debt could cause us to have inadequate liquidity and could materially and adversely affect our business, contracts, financial condition, operating results, cash flow, liquidity and prospects.

As of March 31, 2020, we had no cash and cash equivalents, $94 million of current restricted cash and $10.4 billion of total debt outstanding on a consolidated basis (before unamortized debt issuance costs), excluding $399 million of outstanding letters of credit. We incur, and will incur, significant interest expense relating to the assets at the Liquefaction Project. Our ability to refinance our indebtedness will depend on our ability to access the capital markets. A variety of factors beyond our control could impact the availability or cost of capital, including domestic or international economic conditions, increases in key benchmark interest rates and/or credit spreads, the adoption of new or amended banking or capital market laws or regulations and the repricing of market risks and volatility in capital and financial markets. Our financing costs could increase or future borrowings or equity offerings may be unavailable to us or unsuccessful, which could cause us to be unable to pay or refinance our indebtedness or to fund our other liquidity needs.

We have not always been profitable historically, and we have not historically had positive operating cash flow. We may not achieve profitability or generate positive operating cash flow in the future.

We had net losses of $374 million and $49 million for the years ended December 31, 2019 and 2017, respectively. In addition, our net cash flow used in operating activities was $33 million, $60 million and $64 million for the years ended December 31, 2019, 2018 and 2017, respectively. In the future, we may incur operating losses and experience negative operating cash flow. We may not be able to reduce costs, increase revenues or reduce our debt service obligations sufficiently to maintain our cash resources, which could cause us to have inadequate liquidity to continue our business.

We will continue to incur significant capital and operating expenditures while we develop and construct the Liquefaction Project. Any delays beyond the expected development period for Train 3 could cause operating losses and negative operating cash flows. Our future liquidity may also be affected by the timing of receipt of cash flows under SPAs in relation to the incurrence of project and operating expenses. Moreover, many factors (including factors beyond our control) could result in a disparity between liquidity sources and cash needs, including factors such as construction delays and breaches of agreements. Our ability to generate any significant positive operating cash flow and achieve profitability in the future is dependent on our ability to successfully and timely complete the applicable Train.

The outbreak of COVID-19 and volatility in the energy markets may materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition, operating results, cash flow, liquidity and prospects.

The outbreak of COVID-19 and its development into a pandemic in March 2020 have resulted in significant disruption globally. Actions taken by various governmental authorities, individuals and companies around the world to prevent the spread of COVID-19 have restricted travel, business operations, and the overall level of individual movement and in-person interaction across the globe. Additionally, recent disputes over production levels between members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and other oil producing countries has resulted in increased volatility in oil and natural gas prices.

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The extent, duration and magnitude of the COVID-19 pandemic’s effects will depend on future developments, all of which are highly uncertain and difficult to predict, including the impact of the pandemic on global and regional economies, travel, and economic activity, as well as actions taken by governments, business and individuals in response to the pandemic or any future resurgence. These developments include the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on unemployment rates, the demand for oil and natural gas, levels of consumer confidence and the post-pandemic pace of recovery.

Many uncertainties remain with respect to the COVID-19 pandemic, and we continue to monitor the rapidly evolving situation. The COVID-19 pandemic alone or coupled with continued volatility in the energy markets may materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition, operating results, cash flow, liquidity and prospects or have the effect of heightening many of the other risks described herein. The extent to which our business, contracts, financial condition, operating results, cash flow, liquidity and prospects are affected by the COVID-19 outbreak or volatility in the energy markets will depend on various factors beyond our control and are highly uncertain, including the duration and scope of the outbreak, decreased demand for LNG and the resulting economic effects of the outbreak of COVID-19.

Our ability to generate cash is substantially dependent upon the performance by customers under long-term contracts that we have entered into, and we could be materially and adversely affected if any significant customer fails to perform its contractual obligations for any reason.

Our future results and liquidity are substantially dependent upon performance by our customers to make payments under long-term contracts. As of March 31, 2020, we had SPAs with nine third-party customers. We are dependent on each customer’s continued willingness and ability to perform its obligations under its SPA. We are exposed to the credit risk of any guarantor of these customers’ obligations under their respective agreements in the event that we must seek recourse under a guaranty. As a result of the disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the volatility in the energy markets, we believe we are exposed to heightened credit and performance risk of our customers. Additionally, some customers have indicated to us that COVID-19 has begun to impact their operations and/or may impact their operations in the future. Some of our SPA customers’ primary countries of business have experienced a significant number of COVID-19 cases and/or have been subject to government imposed lockdown or quarantine measures. Although we believe that impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on LNG regasification facilities, downstream markets and broader energy demand do not constitute valid force majeure claims under our FOB LNG SPAs, if any significant customer fails to perform its obligations under its SPA, our business, contracts, financial condition, operating results, cash flow, liquidity and prospects could be materially and adversely affected, even if we were ultimately successful in seeking damages from that customer or its guarantor for a breach of the agreement.

Outbreaks of infectious diseases, such as the outbreak of COVID-19, at our facilities could adversely affect our operations.

Federal, state and local governments have enacted various measures to try to contain the outbreak of COVID-19, such as travel bans and restrictions, quarantines, shelter-in-place orders and business shutdowns. Our facilities at the Corpus Christi LNG terminal are critical infrastructure and have continued to operate during the outbreak, which means that Cheniere must keep its employees who operate our facilities safe and minimize unnecessary risk of exposure to the virus. In response, Cheniere has taken extra precautionary measures to protect the continued safety and welfare of its employees who continue to work at our facilities and have modified certain business and workforce practices, such as implementing work from home policies where appropriate. The measures taken to prevent an outbreak at our facilities have resulted in increased costs. If a large number of Cheniere’s employees in those critical facilities were to contract COVID-19 at the same time, our operations could be adversely affected.

Each of our customer contracts is subject to termination under certain circumstances.

Each of our SPAs contains various termination rights allowing our customers to terminate their SPAs, including, without limitation: (1) upon the occurrence of certain events of force majeure; (2) if we fail to make available specified scheduled cargo quantities; and (3) delays in the commencement of commercial operations. We may not be able to replace these SPAs on desirable terms, or at all, if they are terminated.

Our use of hedging arrangements may adversely affect our future operating results or liquidity.

To reduce our exposure to fluctuations in the price, volume and timing risk associated with the purchase of natural gas, we use futures, swaps and option contracts traded or cleared on the Intercontinental Exchange and the New York Mercantile

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Exchange or over-the-counter options and swaps with other natural gas merchants and financial institutions. Hedging arrangements could expose us to risk of financial loss in some circumstances, including when:

The use of derivatives also may require the posting of cash collateral with counterparties, which can impact working capital when commodity prices change.

The regulatory and other provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act and the rules adopted thereunder and other regulations could adversely affect our ability to hedge risks associated with our business and our operating results and cash flows.

The provisions of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the “Dodd-Frank Act”) and the rules adopted and to be adopted by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (the “CFTC”), the SEC and other federal regulators establishing federal regulation of the over-the-counter (“OTC”) derivatives market and entities like us that participate in that market may adversely affect our ability to manage certain of our risks on a cost effective basis. Such laws and regulations may also adversely affect our ability to execute our strategies with respect to hedging our exposure to variability in expected future cash flows attributable to the future sale of our LNG inventory and to price risk attributable to future purchases of natural gas to be utilized as fuel to operate our LNG terminal and to secure natural gas feedstock for our liquefaction facilities.

The CFTC has re-proposed position limits rules that would modify and expand the applicability of position limits on the amounts of certain speculative futures contracts, as well as economically equivalent options, futures and swaps for or linked to certain physical commodities, including Henry Hub natural gas, that market participants may hold, subject to limited exemptions for certain bona fide hedging positions and other types of transactions. To the extent the revised CFTC position limits proposal becomes final, our ability to execute our hedging strategies described above could be limited. It is uncertain at this time whether, when and in what form the CFTC’s proposed new position limits rules may become final and effective.

Under the Dodd-Frank Act and the rules adopted thereunder, certain swaps may be required to be cleared through a derivatives clearing organization. While the CFTC has designated certain interest rate swaps and index credit default swaps for mandatory clearing, it has not yet finalized rules designating any physical commodity swaps, for mandatory clearing or mandatory exchange trading. Further, we qualify for the end-user exception from the mandatory clearing and trade execution requirements for our swaps entered into to hedge our commercial risks. If we fail to qualify for that exception as to any swap we enter into and have to clear that swap through a derivatives clearing organization, we could be required to post margin (or post higher margin than if we entered into an uncleared OTC swap) with respect to such swap, our cost of entering into and maintaining such swap could increase and we would not enjoy the same flexibility with the cleared swaps that we enjoy with the uncleared OTC swaps we enter into. Moreover, the application of the mandatory clearing and trade execution requirements to other market participants, such as swap dealers, may change the market cost and general availability in the market of swaps of the type we enter into to hedge our commercial risks and, thus, the cost and availability of the swaps that we use for hedging.

As required by the Dodd-Frank Act, the CFTC and federal banking regulators have adopted rules to require certain market participants to collect and post initial and/or variation margin with respect to uncleared swaps from their counterparties that are financial end users and certain registered swap dealers and major swap participants. Although we believe we will not be required to post margin with respect to any uncleared swaps we enter into in the future, were we required to post margin as to our uncleared swaps in the future, our cost of entering into and maintaining swaps would be increased. Our counterparties that are subject to the regulations imposing the Basel III capital requirements on them may increase the cost to us of entering into swaps with them or, although not required to collect margin from us under the margin rules, contractually require us to post collateral with them in connection with such swaps in order to offset their increased capital costs or to reduce their capital costs to maintain those swaps on their balance sheets.

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The Dodd-Frank Act also imposes other regulatory requirements on swaps market participants, including end users of swaps, such as regulations relating to swap documentation, reporting and recordkeeping, and certain business conduct rules applicable to swap dealers and major swap participants. Together with the Basel III capital requirements on certain swaps market participants, the regulatory requirements of the Dodd-Frank Act and the rules thereunder relating to swaps and derivatives market participants could significantly increase the cost of derivative contracts (including through requirements to post margin or collateral), materially alter the terms of derivative contracts, reduce the availability of derivatives to protect against certain risks that we encounter and reduce our ability to monetize or restructure our existing derivative contracts and to execute our hedging strategies. If, as a result of the swaps regulatory regime discussed above, we were to reduce our use of swaps to hedge our risks, such as commodity price risks that we encounter in our operations, our operating results and cash flows may become more volatile and could be otherwise adversely affected.

The Federal Reserve Board also has proposed rules that would limit certain physical commodity activities of financial holding companies. Such rules, if adopted, may adversely affect our ability to execute our strategies by restricting our available counterparties for certain types of transactions, limiting our ability to obtain certain services, and reducing liquidity in physical and financial markets. It is uncertain at this time whether, when and in what form the Federal Reserve’s proposed rules regarding financial holding companies may become final and effective.

We expect that our hedging activities will remain subject to significant and developing regulations and regulatory oversight. However, the full impact of the various U.S. (and non-U.S.) regulatory developments in connection with these activities will not be known with certainty until such derivatives market regulations are fully implemented and related market practices and structures are fully developed.

Risks Relating to the Completion of Our Liquefaction Facilities and the Development and Operation of Our Business

Our ability to complete construction of the Liquefaction Project depends on our ability to obtain sufficient equity funding to cover the remaining capital costs. If we are unable to obtain sufficient equity funding, we may experience delays in completing, or we may not be able to complete, construction of the Liquefaction Project.

In May 2018, we amended and restated the existing equity contribution agreement with Cheniere (the “CEI Equity Contribution Agreement”), pursuant to which Cheniere agreed to provide cash contributions up to approximately $1.1 billion, not including $2.0 billion previously contributed under the original equity contribution agreement. As of March 31, 2020, we have received $558 million in contributions under the CEI Equity Contribution Agreement and Cheniere has posted $365 million of letters of credit on our behalf. Cheniere is only required to make additional contributions under the CEI Equity Contribution Agreement after the commitments under the Term Loan Facility have been reduced to zero and to the extent certain cash flows from operations of the Liquefaction Project are unavailable to fund Liquefaction Project costs.

The insufficiency of equity contributions to meet the equity-funded portion of our finance plan for the remaining costs to construct the Liquefaction Project may cause a delay in development of our Trains and we may not be able to complete Train 3. Even if we are able to obtain alternative equity funding, the funding may be inadequate to cover any increases in costs and may not be sufficient to mitigate the impact of delays in completion of Train 3, which may cause a delay in the receipt of revenues projected therefrom or cause a loss of one or more customers in the event of significant delays. Any significant construction delay, whatever the cause, could have a material adverse effect on our business, contracts, financial condition, operating results, cash flow, liquidity and prospects.

Cost overruns and delays in the completion of Train 3 or any future Trains, as well as difficulties in obtaining sufficient financing to pay for such costs and delays, could have a material adverse effect on our business, contracts, financial condition, operating results, cash flow, liquidity and prospects.

The actual construction costs of Train 3 and any future Trains may be significantly higher than our current estimates as a result of many factors, including change orders under existing or future EPC contracts resulting from the occurrence of certain specified events that may give our EPC contractor the right to cause us to enter into change orders or resulting from changes with which we otherwise agree. We have already experienced increased costs due to change orders. As construction progresses, we may decide or be forced to submit change orders to our contractor that could result in longer construction periods, higher construction costs or both, including change orders to comply with existing or future environmental or other regulations.

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The outbreak of COVID-19 and the resulting actions taken by governmental and regulatory authorities to prevent the spread of COVID-19 may cause a slow-down in the construction of one or more Trains. Our EPC contractor has advised us of voluntary proactive measures it is taking to protect employees and to mitigate risks associated with COVID-19, however, it has not indicated that there will be any changes to the project cost or schedule and is still performing its obligations under its EPC contract. While the construction of Train 3 is continuing, if there was a major outbreak of COVID-19 at any construction site or the implementation of restrictions by the government that prevented construction for an extended period, we could experience significant delays in the construction of one or more Trains.

Delays in the construction of one or more Trains beyond the estimated development periods, as well as change orders to our existing EPC contract or any future EPC contract related to additional Trains, could increase the cost of completion beyond the amounts that we estimate, which could require us to obtain additional sources of financing to fund our operations until the Liquefaction Project is fully constructed (which could cause further delays). Our ability to obtain financing that may be needed to provide additional funding to cover increased costs will depend, in part, on factors beyond our control. Accordingly, we may not be able to obtain financing on terms that are acceptable to us, or at all. Even if we are able to obtain financing, we may have to accept terms that are disadvantageous to us or that may have a material adverse effect on our current or future business, contracts, financial condition, operating results, cash flow, liquidity and prospects.

We are dependent on Bechtel and other contractors for the successful completion of the Liquefaction Project.

Timely and cost-effective completion of the Liquefaction Project in compliance with agreed specifications is central to our business strategy and is highly dependent on the performance of Bechtel and our other contractors under their agreements. The ability of Bechtel and our other contractors to perform successfully under their agreements is dependent on a number of factors, including their ability to:

Although some agreements may provide for liquidated damages if the contractor fails to perform in the manner required with respect to certain of its obligations, the events that trigger a requirement to pay liquidated damages may delay or impair the operation of the Liquefaction Project, and any liquidated damages that we receive may not be sufficient to cover the damages that we suffer as a result of any such delay or impairment. The obligations of Bechtel and our other contractors to pay liquidated damages under their agreements are subject to caps on liability, as set forth therein.

Furthermore, we may have disagreements with our contractors about different elements of the construction process, which could lead to the assertion of rights and remedies under their contracts and increase the cost of the Liquefaction Project or result in a contractor’s unwillingness to perform further work on the Liquefaction Project. If any contractor is unable or unwilling to perform according to the negotiated terms and timetable of its respective agreement for any reason or terminates its agreement, we would be required to engage a substitute contractor. This would likely result in significant project delays and increased costs, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, contracts, financial condition, operating results, cash flow, liquidity and prospects.

We have historically not had any revenues or positive cash flows. Our ability to achieve profitability and generate positive operating cash flow in the future is subject to significant uncertainty.

We will continue to incur significant capital and operating expenditures while we develop and construct the Liquefaction Project. We began to generate cash flow from operations in the first quarter of 2019 when Substantial Completion of Train 1 was achieved.

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Any delays beyond the construction of Train 3 or the development period for any future Train we may develop could result in operating losses and negative operating cash flows. Our future liquidity may also be affected by the timing of construction financing availability in relation to the incurrence of construction costs and other outflows and by the timing of receipt of cash flow under SPAs in relation to the incurrence of project and operating expenses. Moreover, many factors (including factors beyond our control) could result in a disparity between liquidity sources and cash needs, including factors such as construction delays and breaches of agreements. Our ability to generate any significant positive operating cash flows and achieve profitability in the future is dependent on our ability to successfully and timely complete the applicable Train.

We are relying on estimates for the future capacity ratings and performance capabilities of the Liquefaction Project, and these estimates may prove to be inaccurate.

We are relying on third parties, principally Bechtel, for the design and engineering services underlying our estimates of the future capacity ratings and performance capabilities of the Liquefaction Project. If any Train, when actually constructed, fails to have the capacity ratings and performance capabilities that we intend, our estimates may not be accurate. Failure of any of our Trains to achieve our intended capacity ratings and performance capabilities could prevent us from achieving the commercial start dates under our SPAs and could have a material adverse effect on our business, contracts, financial condition, operating results, cash flow, liquidity and prospects.

If third-party pipelines and other facilities interconnected to our pipeline and facilities are or become unavailable to transport natural gas, this could have a material adverse effect on our business, contracts, financial condition, operating results, cash flow, liquidity and prospects.

We depend upon third-party pipelines and other facilities that provide gas delivery options to our Liquefaction Project. If the construction of new or modified pipeline connections is not completed on schedule or any pipeline connection were to become unavailable for current or future volumes of natural gas due to repairs, damage to the facility, lack of capacity or any other reason, our ability to meet our SPA obligations and continue shipping natural gas from producing regions or to end markets could be restricted, thereby reducing our revenues which could have a material adverse effect on our business, contracts, financial condition, operating results, cash flow, liquidity and prospects.

Failure to obtain and maintain approvals and permits from governmental and regulatory agencies with respect to the design, construction and operation of our facilities, the development and operation of our pipeline and the export of LNG could impede operations and construction and could have a material adverse effect on us.

The design, construction and operation of interstate natural gas pipelines, LNG terminal, including the Liquefaction Project and other facilities, and the import and export of LNG and the purchase and transportation of natural gas, are highly regulated activities. Approvals of the FERC and DOE under Section 3 and Section 7 of the NGA, as well as several other material governmental and regulatory approvals and permits, including several under the Clean Air Act (the “CAA”) and the Clean Water Act (the “CWA”), are required in order to construct and operate an LNG facility and an interstate natural gas pipeline and export LNG. Although the FERC has issued orders under Section 3 of the NGA authorizing the siting, construction and operation of the three Trains and related facilities of the Liquefaction Project and Section 7 of the NGA authorizing the siting, construction and operation of the Corpus Christi Pipeline, the FERC orders require us to comply with certain ongoing conditions and obtain certain additional approvals in conjunction with ongoing construction and operations of the Liquefaction Project. We will be required to obtain similar approvals and permits with respect to any expansion or modification of our liquefaction and pipeline facilities. We cannot control the outcome of the regulatory review and approval processes. Certain of these governmental permits, approvals and authorizations are or may be subject to rehearing requests, appeals and other challenges.

Authorizations obtained from the FERC, DOE and other federal and state regulatory agencies also contain ongoing conditions, and additional approval and permit requirements may be imposed. We do not know whether or when any such approvals or permits can be obtained, or whether any existing or potential interventions or other actions by third parties will interfere with our ability to obtain and maintain such permits or approvals. If we are unable to obtain and maintain the necessary approvals and permits, including as a result of untimely notices or filings, we may not be able to recover our investment in our projects. Additionally, government disruptions, such as a U.S. government shutdown, may delay or halt our ability to obtain and maintain necessary approvals and permits. There is no assurance that we will obtain and maintain these governmental permits, approvals and authorizations, or that we will be able to obtain them on a timely basis, and failure to obtain and maintain any of these permits, approvals or authorizations could have a material adverse effect on our business, contracts, financial condition, operating results, cash flow, liquidity and prospects.

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Delays in the completion of Train 3 could lead to reduced revenues or termination of one or more of the SPAs by our customers.

Any delay in completion of Train 3 could cause a delay in the receipt of revenues projected therefrom or cause a loss of one or more customers in the event of significant delays. In particular, each of our SPAs provides that the customer may terminate that SPA if the relevant Train does not timely commence commercial operations. As a result, any significant construction delay, whatever the cause, could have a material adverse effect on our business, contracts, financial condition, operating results, cash flow, liquidity and prospects.

Our Corpus Christi Pipeline and its FERC gas tariffs are subject to FERC regulation.

The Corpus Christi Pipeline is subject to regulation by the FERC under the NGA and the Natural Gas Policy Act of 1978 (the “NGPA”). The FERC regulates the purchase and transportation of natural gas in interstate commerce, including the construction and operation of pipelines, the rates, terms and conditions of service and abandonment of facilities. Under the NGA, the rates charged by the Corpus Christi Pipeline must be just and reasonable, and we are prohibited from unduly preferring or unreasonably discriminating against any person with respect to pipeline rates or terms and conditions of service. If we fail to comply with all applicable statutes, rules, regulations and orders, the Corpus Christi Pipeline could be subject to substantial penalties and fines.

In addition, as a natural gas market participant, should we fail to comply with all applicable FERC-administered statutes, rules, regulations and orders, we could be subject to substantial penalties and fines. Under the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (the “EPAct”), the FERC has civil penalty authority under the NGA and the NGPA to impose penalties for current violations of up to $1.3 million per day for each violation.

Pipeline safety integrity programs and repairs may impose significant costs and liabilities on us.

The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (the “PHMSA”) requires pipeline operators to develop integrity management programs to comprehensively evaluate certain areas along their pipelines and to take additional measures to protect pipeline segments located in “high consequence areas” where a leak or rupture could potentially do the most harm. As an operator, we are required to:

We are required to maintain pipeline integrity testing programs that are intended to assess pipeline integrity. Any repair, remediation, preventative or mitigating actions may require significant capital and operating expenditures. Should we fail to comply with applicable statutes and the Office of Pipeline Safety’s rules and related regulations and orders, we could be subject to significant penalties and fines.

Our business could be materially and adversely affected if we lose the right to situate the Corpus Christi Pipeline on property owned by third parties.

We do not own the land on which the Corpus Christi Pipeline is situated, and we are subject to the possibility of increased costs to retain necessary land use rights. If we were to lose these rights or be required to relocate the Corpus Christi Pipeline, our business could be materially and adversely affected.

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Hurricanes or other disasters could result in an interruption of our operations, a delay in the completion of our Liquefaction Project, damage to our Liquefaction Project and increased insurance costs, all of which could adversely affect us.

Hurricane Harvey in 2017 caused temporary suspension in construction of our Liquefaction Project or caused minor damage to our Liquefaction Project. Future storms and related storm activity and collateral effects, or other disasters such as explosions, fires, floods or accidents, could result in damage to, or interruption of operations at, the Corpus Christi LNG terminal or related infrastructure, as well as delays or cost increases in the construction and the development of the Liquefaction Project or our other facilities and increases in our insurance premiums. The U.S. Global Change Research Program has reported that the U.S.’s energy and transportation systems are expected to be increasingly disrupted by climate change and extreme weather events. An increase in frequency and severity of extreme weather events such as storms, floods, fires and rising sea levels could have an adverse effect on our operations.

We may not be successful in fully implementing our proposed business strategy to provide liquefaction capabilities at the Liquefaction Project.

It will take several years to finish construction of Train 3 at the Liquefaction Project and any additional stages of the Liquefaction Project that we may develop, and even if successfully constructed, the Liquefaction Project already is, and will continue to be, subject to the operating risks described herein. Accordingly, there are many risks associated with the Liquefaction Project, and if we are not successful in implementing our business strategy, we may not be able to generate cash flows, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, contracts, financial condition, operating results, cash flow, liquidity and prospects.

We may not complete construction or operate our proposed LNG facility or all of our Trains or any additional LNG facilities or Trains beyond those currently planned, which could limit our growth prospects.

We may not complete construction of our proposed LNG facility or some of our Trains, whether due to lack of commercial interest or inability to obtain financing or otherwise. Our ability to develop additional liquefaction facilities will also depend on the availability and pricing of LNG and natural gas in North America and other places around the world. Competitors may have longer operating histories, more development experience, greater name recognition, larger staffs and substantially greater financial, technical and marketing resources and access to sources of natural gas and LNG than we do. If we are unable or unwilling to construct and operate additional LNG facilities, our prospects for growth will be limited.

Our cost estimates for Trains are subject to change as a result of cost overruns, change orders under existing or future construction contracts, changes in commodity prices (particularly nickel and steel), escalating labor costs and the potential need for additional funds to be expended to maintain construction schedules. In the event we experience cost overruns, delays or both, the amount of funding needed to complete a Train could exceed our available funds and result in our failure to complete such Train and thereby negatively impact our business and limit our growth prospects.

We may enter into certain arrangements to share the use and operations of our facilities with adjacent projects, which would require us to meet certain conditions under the indentures governing each of our senior notes (the “CCH Indentures”). Despite the protection provided by the CCH Indentures, the nature of such sharing arrangements is not currently known and may limit our operational flexibility, use of land and/or facilities and the ability of the security trustee under the CSAA to take certain enforcement actions against the Collateral.

Cheniere is developing up to seven midscale Trains with an expected total production capacity of approximately 10 mtpa of LNG adjacent to the Liquefaction Project, along with a second natural gas pipeline. If these entities ultimately construct these Trains and facilities or any additional Trains or facilities, they would not be part of the Liquefaction Project but CCL and CCP may nevertheless enter into sharing arrangements with the entities owning those Trains and related facilities that would involve sharing the use and capacity of each other’s land and facilities, including pooling of capacity of Trains, sharing of common facilities, such as storage tanks and berths, and use of capacity of the pipeline facilities, to the extent permitted under the Common Terms Agreement and the CCH Indentures. CCL and CCP also may transfer and/or amend previously-obtained permits and other authorizations or applications such that they may be used by those entities. As future arrangements that would only be fully determined if the circumstances arise, there is uncertainty as to the full scope and impact of these sharing arrangements. The CCH Indentures require us to meet certain conditions in respect of such sharing arrangements. These sharing arrangements would be subject to quiet enjoyment rights for CCL, CCP and the owner of the other Train(s). The nature of these sharing arrangements could limit the ability of the security trustee under the CSAA to take certain enforcement action against the security interest in substantially all of our assets and the assets of our current and any future guarantors in respect of which quiet enjoyment rights have been granted to a third party.

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We may not be able to purchase or receive physical delivery of sufficient natural gas to satisfy our delivery obligations under the SPAs, which could have a material adverse effect on us.

Under the SPAs with our customers, we are required to make available to them a specified amount of LNG at specified times. However, we may not be able to purchase or receive physical delivery of sufficient quantities of natural gas to satisfy those obligations, which may provide affected SPA customers with the right to terminate their SPAs. Our failure to purchase or receive physical delivery of sufficient quantities of natural gas could have a material adverse effect on our business, contracts, financial condition, operating results, cash flow, liquidity and prospects.

A major health and safety incident relating to our business could be costly in terms of potential liabilities and reputational damages.

Health and safety performance is critical to the success of all areas of our business. Any failure in health and safety performance may result in personal harm or injury, penalties for non-compliance with relevant regulatory requirements or litigation, and a failure that results in a significant health and safety incident is likely to be costly in terms of potential liabilities. Such a failure could generate public concern and have a corresponding impact on our reputation and our relationships with relevant regulatory agencies and local communities, which in turn could have a material adverse effect on our business, contracts, financial condition, operating results, cash flow, liquidity and prospects.

We are entirely dependent on Cheniere, including employees of Cheniere and its subsidiaries, for key personnel, and a loss of key personnel could have a material adverse effect on our business.

As of March 31, 2020, Cheniere and its subsidiaries had 1,538 full-time employees, including 327 employees who directly supported the Liquefaction Project. We have contracted with subsidiaries of Cheniere to provide the personnel necessary for the construction and operation of the Liquefaction Project. We depend on Cheniere’s subsidiaries hiring and retaining personnel sufficient to provide support for the Liquefaction Project. Cheniere competes with other liquefaction projects in the United States and globally, other energy companies and other employers to attract and retain qualified personnel with the technical skills and experience required to construct and operate liquefaction facilities and pipelines and to provide our customers with the highest quality service. We also compete with any other project Cheniere is developing, including the liquefaction facility operated by Sabine Pass Liquefaction, LLC (“SPL”), for the time and expertise of Cheniere’s personnel. Further, we and Cheniere face competition for these highly skilled employees in the immediate vicinity of the Liquefaction Project and more generally from the Gulf Coast hydrocarbon processing and construction industries.

Our executive officers are officers and employees of Cheniere and its affiliates. We do not maintain key person life insurance policies on any personnel, and we do not have any employment contracts or other agreements with key personnel binding them to provide services for any particular term. The loss of the services of any of these individuals could have a material adverse effect on our business. In addition, our future success will depend in part on our ability to engage, and Cheniere’s ability to attract and retain, additional qualified personnel.

A shortage in the labor pool of skilled workers or other general inflationary pressures or changes in applicable laws and regulations could make it more difficult to attract and retain qualified personnel and could require an increase in the wage and benefits packages that are offered, thereby increasing our operating costs. Any increase in our operating costs could materially and adversely affect our business, contracts, financial condition, operating results, cash flow, liquidity and prospects.

We have numerous contractual and commercial relationships, and conflicts of interest, with Cheniere and its affiliates.

We have agreements to compensate and to reimburse expenses of affiliates of Cheniere. In addition, CMI UK has entered into an SPA with us to purchase, at CMI UK’s option, any LNG produced by us in excess of that required for other customers. These agreements involve conflicts of interest between us, on the one hand, and Cheniere and its other affiliates, on the other hand. In addition, Cheniere is currently developing the the liquefaction facility operated by SPL in Cameron Parish, Louisiana, and is developing additional Trains and related facilities and a second natural gas pipeline at a site adjacent to the Liquefaction Project. Cheniere may enter into commercial arrangements with respect to these projects that might otherwise have been entered into with respect to Train 3 or another expansion of the Liquefaction Project and may require that we transfer and/or amend permits and other authorizations we have received to enable them to be used by such projects.

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We have or will have numerous contracts and commercial arrangements with Cheniere and its affiliates, including future SPAs, transportation, interconnection, marketing and gas balancing arrangements with one or more Cheniere-affiliated entities as well as other agreements and arrangements. We anticipate that we will enter into other such agreements in the future, which cannot now be anticipated. In those circumstances where additional contracts with Cheniere and its affiliates will be necessary or desirable, additional conflicts of interest will be involved.

We are dependent on Cheniere and its affiliates to provide services to us. If Cheniere or its affiliates are unable or unwilling to perform according to the negotiated terms and timetable of their respective agreement for any reason or terminate their agreement, we would be required to engage a substitute service provider. This could result in a significant interference with operations and increased costs.

We face competition based upon the international market price for LNG.

Our liquefaction project is subject to the risk of LNG price competition at times when we need to replace any existing SPA, whether due to natural expiration, default or otherwise, or enter into new SPAs. Factors relating to competition may prevent us from entering into a new or replacement SPA on economically comparable terms as existing SPAs, or at all. Such an event could have a material adverse effect on our business, contracts, financial condition, operating results, cash flow, liquidity and prospects. Factors which may negatively affect potential demand for LNG from our liquefaction project are diverse and include, among others:

Cyclical or other changes in the demand for and price of LNG and natural gas may adversely affect our LNG business and the performance of our customers and could have a material adverse effect on our business, contracts, financial condition, operating results, cash flows, liquidity and prospects.

Our LNG business and the development of domestic LNG facilities and projects generally is based on assumptions about the future availability and price of natural gas and LNG and the prospects for international natural gas and LNG markets. Natural gas and LNG prices have been, and are likely to continue to be, volatile and subject to wide fluctuations in response to one or more of the following factors:

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Adverse trends or developments affecting any of these factors could result in decreases in the price of LNG and/or natural gas, which could materially and adversely affect the performance of our customers, and could have a material adverse effect on our business, contracts, financial condition, operating results, cash flows, liquidity and prospects.

Failure of exported LNG to be a competitive source of energy for international markets could adversely affect our customers and could materially and adversely affect our business, contracts, financial condition, operating results, cash flow, liquidity and prospects.

Operations of the Liquefaction Project will be dependent upon the ability of our SPA customers to deliver LNG supplies from the United States, which is primarily dependent upon LNG being a competitive source of energy internationally. The success of our business plan is dependent, in part, on the extent to which LNG can, for significant periods and in significant volumes, be supplied from North America and delivered to international markets at a lower cost than the cost of alternative energy sources. Through the use of improved exploration technologies, additional sources of natural gas may be discovered outside the United States, which could increase the available supply of natural gas outside the United States and could result in natural gas in those markets being available at a lower cost than LNG exported to those markets.

Political instability in foreign countries that import or export natural gas, or strained relations between such countries and the United States, may also impede the willingness or ability of LNG purchasers or suppliers and merchants in such countries to import or export LNG from or to the United States. Furthermore, some foreign purchasers or suppliers of LNG may have economic or other reasons to obtain their LNG from, or direct their LNG to, non-U.S. markets or from or to our competitors’ liquefaction or regasification facilities in the United States.

In addition to natural gas, LNG also competes with other sources of energy, including coal, oil, nuclear, hydroelectric, wind and solar energy. LNG from the Liquefaction Project also competes with other sources of LNG, including LNG that is priced to indices other than Henry Hub. Some of these sources of energy may be available at a lower cost than LNG from the Liquefaction Project in certain markets. The cost of LNG supplies from the United States, including the Liquefaction Project, may also be impacted by an increase in natural gas prices in the United States.

As a result of these and other factors, LNG may not be a competitive source of energy in the United States or internationally. The failure of LNG to be a competitive supply alternative to local natural gas, oil and other alternative energy sources in markets accessible to our customers could adversely affect the ability of our customers to deliver LNG from the United States or to the United States on a commercial basis. Any significant impediment to the ability to deliver LNG to or from the United States generally, or to the Corpus Christi LNG terminal or from the Liquefaction Project specifically, could have a material adverse effect on our customers and on our business, contracts, financial condition, operating results, cash flow, liquidity and prospects.

We are subject to significant construction and operating hazards and uninsured risks, one or more of which may create significant liabilities and losses for us.

The construction and operation of our LNG terminal and liquefaction facilities are and will be subject to the inherent risks associated with these types of operations, including explosions, pollution, release of toxic substances, fires, hurricanes and adverse weather conditions and other hazards, each of which could result in significant delays in commencement or interruptions of operations and/or in damage to or destruction of our facilities or damage to persons and property. In addition, our operations and the facilities and vessels of third parties on which our operations are dependent face possible risks associated with acts of aggression or terrorism.

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We do not, nor do we intend to, maintain insurance against all of these risks and losses. We may not be able to maintain desired or required insurance in the future at rates that we consider reasonable. The occurrence of a significant event not fully insured or indemnified against could have a material adverse effect on our business, contracts, financial condition, operating results, cash flow, liquidity and prospects.

Operation of the Liquefaction Project involves significant risks.

As of March 31, 2020, Trains 1 and 2 of the Liquefaction Project had reached Substantial Completion and were placed into operation, and Train 3 was under construction. As more fully discussed in these Risk Factors, the Liquefaction Project faces operational risks, including the following:

We may not be able to secure firm pipeline transportation capacity on economic terms that is sufficient to meet our feed gas transportation requirements, which could have a material adverse effect on us.

We believe that there is sufficient capacity on the Corpus Christi Pipeline to accommodate all of our natural gas feedstock transportation requirements for Trains 1 through 3. We have also entered into firm transportation agreements with several third-party pipeline companies partially securing firm pipeline transportation capacity for the Liquefaction Project on interstate and intrastate pipelines which will connect to the Corpus Christi Pipeline for the production contemplated for Trains 1 through 3. If and when we need to replace one or more of our existing agreements with these interconnecting pipelines or enter into additional agreements, we may not be able to do so on commercially reasonable terms or at all, which would impair our ability to fulfill our obligations under certain of our SPAs and could have a material adverse effect on our business, contracts, financial condition, operating results, cash flow, liquidity and prospects. Additionally, the capacity on the Corpus Christi Pipeline and the interconnecting pipelines may not be sufficient to accommodate any additional Trains. Development of any additional Trains will require us to secure additional pipeline transportation capacity but we may not be able to do so on commercially reasonable terms or at all.

Various economic and political factors could negatively affect the development, construction and operation of the Liquefaction Project, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, contracts, financial condition, operating results, cash flow, liquidity and prospects.

Commercial development of an LNG facility takes a number of years, requires a substantial capital investment and may be delayed by factors such as:

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There may be shortages of LNG vessels worldwide, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, contracts, financial condition, operating results, cash flow, liquidity and prospects.

The construction and delivery of LNG vessels require significant capital and long construction lead times, and the availability of the vessels could be delayed to the detriment of our business and our customers because of:

Terrorist attacks, cyber incidents or military campaigns may adversely impact our business.

A terrorist attack, cyber incident or military incident involving an LNG facility, our infrastructure or an LNG vessel may result in delays in, or cancellation of, construction of new LNG facilities, including one or more of the Trains, which would increase our costs and decrease our cash flows. A terrorist incident or cyber incident may also result in temporary or permanent closure of our existing facilities, which could increase our costs and decrease our cash flows, depending on the duration and timing of the closure. Our operations could also become subject to increased governmental scrutiny that may result in additional security measures at a significant incremental cost to us. In addition, the threat of terrorism and the impact of military campaigns may lead to continued volatility in prices for natural gas that could adversely affect our business and our customers, including their ability to satisfy their obligations to us under our commercial agreements. Instability in the financial markets as a result of terrorism, cyber incidents or war could also materially adversely affect our ability to raise capital. The continuation of these developments may subject our construction and our operations to increased risks, as well as increased costs, and, depending on their ultimate magnitude, could have a material adverse effect on our business, contracts, financial condition, operating results, cash flow, liquidity and prospects.

Existing and future environmental and similar laws and governmental regulations could result in increased compliance costs or additional operating costs or construction costs and restrictions.

Our business is and will be subject to extensive federal, state and local laws, rules and regulations applicable to our construction and operation activities relating to, among other things, air quality, water quality, waste management, natural resources, and health and safety. Many of these laws and regulations, such as the CAA, the Oil Pollution Act, the CWA and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (the “RCRA”), and analogous state laws and regulations, restrict or prohibit the types, quantities and concentration of substances that can be released into the environment in connection with the construction and operation of our facilities, and require us to maintain permits and provide governmental authorities with access to our facilities for inspection and reports related to our compliance. In addition, certain laws and regulations authorize regulators having jurisdiction over the construction and operation of our LNG terminal and pipelines, including FERC and PHMSA, to issue compliance orders, which may restrict or limit operations or increase compliance or operating costs. Violation of these laws and regulations could lead to substantial liabilities, compliance orders, fines and penalties or to capital expenditures that could have a material adverse effect on our business, contracts, financial condition, operating results, cash flow, liquidity and prospects. Federal and state laws impose liability, without regard to fault or the lawfulness of the original conduct, for the release of certain types or quantities of hazardous substances into the environment. As the owner and operator of our facilities, we could be liable for the costs of cleaning up hazardous substances released into the environment at or from our facilities and for resulting damage to natural resources.

In 2009, the Environmental Protection Agency (the “EPA”) promulgated and finalized the Mandatory Greenhouse Gas Reporting Rule requiring annual reporting of greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions from stationary sources in a variety of industries. In 2010, the EPA expanded the rule to include reporting obligations for LNG terminals. In addition, the EPA has defined GHG emissions thresholds that would subject GHG emissions from new and modified industrial sources to regulation if the source is subject to the Prevention of Significant Deterioration Permit (the “PSD Permit”) requirements due to its emissions of non-GHG criteria pollutants. While the EPA subsequently took a number of additional actions primarily relating to GHG emissions from the electric power generation and the oil and gas exploration and production industries, those rules have largely

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been stayed or repealed including by amendments adopted by the EPA on February 23, 2018, additional proposed amendments to new source performance standards for the oil and gas industry on September 24, 2019, and the EPA’s June 19, 2019 adoption of the Affordable Clean Energy rule for power generation. However, Congress or a future Administration may reverse these decisions. Other federal and state initiatives may be considered in the future to address GHG emissions through, for example, United States treaty commitments, direct regulation, market-based regulations such as a carbon emissions tax or cap-and-trade programs, or clean energy standards. Such initiatives could affect the demand for or cost of natural gas, which we consume at our terminal, or could increase compliance costs for our operations.

Other future legislation and regulations, such as those relating to the transportation and security of LNG imported to or exported from our terminal or climate policies of destination countries in relation to their obligations under the Paris Agreement or other national climate change-related policies, could cause additional expenditures, restrictions and delays in our business and to our proposed construction activities, the extent of which cannot be predicted and which may require us to limit substantially, delay or cease operations in some circumstances. Revised, reinterpreted or additional laws and regulations that result in increased compliance costs or additional operating or construction costs and restrictions could have a material adverse effect on our business, contracts, financial condition, operating results, cash flow, liquidity and prospects.

Our lack of diversification could have an adverse effect on our business, contracts, financial condition, operating results, cash flow, liquidity and prospects.

Substantially all of our anticipated revenue in 2020 will be dependent upon the Liquefaction Project. Due to our lack of asset and geographic diversification, an adverse development at the Liquefaction Project or in the LNG industry would have a significantly greater impact on our financial condition and operating results than if we maintained more diverse assets and operating areas.

Risks Relating to the Exchange Offer and the New Notes

If you do not properly tender your Old Notes, you will continue to hold unregistered outstanding notes and your ability to transfer outstanding notes will be adversely affected.

We will only issue New Notes in exchange for Old Notes that you timely and properly tender. Therefore, you should allow sufficient time to ensure timely delivery of the Old Notes, and you should carefully follow the instructions on how to tender your Old Notes. Neither we nor the exchange agent is required to tell you of any defects or irregularities with respect to your tender of Old Notes. Please read “The Exchange Offer—Procedures for Tendering Old Notes” and “Description of Senior Notes.”

If you do not exchange your Old Notes for New Notes in the exchange offer, you will continue to be subject to the restrictions on transfer of your Old Notes described in the legend on the certificates for your Old Notes. In general, you may only offer or sell the Old Notes if they are registered under the Securities Act and applicable state securities laws, or offered and sold under an exemption from these requirements. Except in connection with this exchange offer or as required by the registration rights agreement, we do not intend to register resales of the Old Notes under the Securities Act. For further information regarding the consequences of not tendering your Old Notes in the exchange offer, please read “The Exchange Offer—Consequences of Not Exchanging Your Old Notes.”

We will still be able to incur substantially more indebtedness in the future. This could further exacerbate the risks associated with our substantial leverage.

Subject to the covenant described under the heading “Description of Senior Notes—Covenants Applicable to the Notes—Limitation on Indebtedness,” the indenture governing the New Notes does not prohibit us from incurring additional indebtedness, including additional senior or secured indebtedness, and other liabilities, or from pledging assets to secure such indebtedness and liabilities. As of March 31, 2020, we had approximately $10.4 billion of long-term debt outstanding (before unamortized debt issuance costs). As of March 31, 2020, we had $660 million of available commitments, $399 million aggregate amount of issued letters of credit and $141 million of loans outstanding under the Working Capital Facility. Additionally, we may incur additional Senior Debt including Working Capital Debt, Expansion Senior Debt, Replacement Senior Debt (each as defined in the Description of Senior Notes) to replace any of our existing Senior Debt (see “Description of Senior Notes—Incurrence of Senior Debt”). We anticipate incurring additional indebtedness in connection with the construction of any additional Trains we may construct. The incurrence of additional indebtedness and, in particular, the granting of a security interest in the collateral to secure the indebtedness could adversely affect our ability to pay our obligations on the New Notes.

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Our substantial indebtedness could adversely affect our ability to operate our business and prevent us from fulfilling our obligations under the New Notes.

Our substantial indebtedness could have important consequences to you, including:

Our ability to satisfy our obligations, including the New Notes, will depend upon our future operating performance. Prevailing economic conditions and financial, business, regulatory and other factors, many of which are beyond our control, will affect our ability to make payments on our debt obligations. If we cannot generate sufficient cash from operations to meet our other obligations, we may not be able to obtain sufficient funding to make the payments required by all of our debt, including the New Notes. This may require that we refinance our indebtedness, seek to modify the terms of our indebtedness or sell assets.

To service our indebtedness, we require significant amounts of cash. Our ability to generate cash depends on many factors beyond our control.

Our ability to make payments on and to refinance our indebtedness, including the New Notes, and to fund planned capital expenditures, depends on our ability to generate cash in the future. Our business may not generate sufficient cash flow from operations, currently anticipated costs may increase or future borrowings may not be available to us in an amount sufficient to enable us to pay our indebtedness, including the New Notes, or to fund our other liquidity needs. We may need to refinance all or a portion of our indebtedness, including the New Notes, on or before maturity. For instance, the indebtedness under our Term Loan Facility will mature on June 30, 2024, unless we replace it with other indebtedness with a longer maturity. Our ability to replace our indebtedness with indebtedness with a longer maturity will depend on completion of our facilities under construction and our current and future operating performance. If we cannot generate sufficient cash flow from operations we may not be able to obtain sufficient funds to make payments on or to refinance our indebtedness, including the New Notes. If any of the counterparties to our SPAs fails to perform its obligations under its respective SPA or if any of our SPAs are terminated, it could adversely affect our ability to make payments on or refinance the New Notes. We may not be able to refinance any of our indebtedness, including the New Notes, on commercially reasonable terms or at all.

We will have to seek additional financing to finance the construction of any additional Trains.

As of March 31, 2020, we had approximately $10.4 billion of long-term debt outstanding (before unamortized debt issuance costs) and approximately $2.4 billion of member’s equity. In 2019, we started to generate cash flows from Train 1 and Train 2. If our cash flows from operations are less than projected, or if our future operating, capital and debt service requirements are higher than we currently estimate, we may require additional debt or equity financing in amounts that could be substantial.

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The type, timing and terms of any future financing will depend on our cash requirements, our cash flows and prevailing conditions in the financial markets. Future financing may not be available to us at any given time or the terms thereof may not be favorable to us. Our current estimates of future operating results (which will depend upon numerous future factors and conditions, many of which are outside of our control) may not be accurate. They are merely estimates of future events and actual events will probably vary from current estimates, possibly materially. If we decide or are required to further expand our facility or to introduce new products or services, our funding needs will increase, possibly to a significant degree.

Because the costs of constructing, maintaining and operating the Liquefaction Project, the costs of conducting our business, and the amounts of our future revenues, will all depend on a variety of factors (including our ability to meet our construction schedules, performance by our contract counterparties and potential regulatory changes), actual costs and revenues may vary from expected amounts, possibly to a material degree, and such variations are likely to affect our future capital requirements. Accordingly, we may be required to raise substantial additional capital in the future and our current estimates may prove to be inaccurate.

The indenture governing the New Notes contains restrictions that limit our flexibility in operating our business.

The indenture governing the New Notes contains several significant covenants that, among other things, restrict our ability to:

Under some circumstances, these restrictive covenants may not allow us the flexibility that we need to operate our business in an effective and efficient manner and may prevent us from taking advantage of strategic and financial opportunities that would benefit our business. However, certain of these covenants are also subject to significant exceptions which provide flexibility to us but may provide greater risk to holders of the New Notes.

If we fail to comply with the restrictions in the indenture governing the New Notes, the Common Terms Agreement or any other subsequent financing agreements, a default may allow the creditors, if the agreements so provide, to accelerate the related indebtedness as well as any other indebtedness to which a cross-acceleration or cross-default provision applies.

We may not be able to repurchase notes upon a Change of Control or upon the exercise of the holders’ options to require repurchase of notes if certain prepayment triggering events occur, and the occurrence of certain of these events and our repurchase of notes as a result thereof could result in an event of default under the indenture or other agreements governing our indebtedness.

We will be required to make an offer to repurchase notes: (i) upon the occurrence of a Change of Control as described in “Description of Senior Notes—Repurchase at the Option of Noteholders—Change of Control;” provided that after the Project Completion Date, a Change of Control shall not be deemed to have occurred if we receive rating reaffirmations from two rating agencies (or one rating agency, if only one rating agency currently rates the New Notes) reaffirming the then-current rating of the New Notes as of the date of such Change of Control, (ii) if we fail to use, apply or invest certain proceeds from Asset Sales in accordance with the terms of the indenture, as described in “Description of Senior Notes —Repurchase at the Option of Noteholders—Asset Sales,” (iii) if we fail to apply or invest certain proceeds we receive in respect of an Event of Loss in accordance with the terms of the indenture, as described in “Description of Senior Notes—Repurchase at the Option of Noteholders— Events of Loss,” (iv) if we fail to apply certain Performance Liquidated Damages we receive in respect of diminution of the performance of the Project Facilities in accordance with the terms of the indenture, as described in “Description of Senior Notes—Repurchase at the Option of Noteholders—Performance Liquidated Damages” or (v) if an Indenture LNG SPA Mandatory Prepayment Event occurs because we have failed to maintain (or replace) certain Qualifying LNG SPAs or if, with respect to a Required LNG SPA, a Required Export Authorization is Impaired, as described in “Description of Senior Notes—Repurchase at the Option of Noteholders—LNG SPA Mandatory Offer.” If a Change of Control event as described above occurs, you will have the right to require us to repurchase the New Notes at a purchase price in cash equal to 101% of the principal amount of your notes, plus accrued and unpaid interest. If any of the other events described above occurs, you will have the right to require us to repurchase a certain portion of the New Notes at a purchase price in cash equal to 100% of the principal amount of your New Notes, plus accrued and unpaid interest.

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Credit agreements or other agreements relating to indebtedness incurred by CCH or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries may contain prohibitions on the occurrence of events that would constitute a Change of Control, an Asset Sale, a termination of Qualifying LNG SPAs or an Impairment of Export Authorizations, or may prohibit repurchases of or other prepayments in respect of the New Notes upon the occurrence of such events or upon an Event of Loss or the receipt of Performance Liquidated Damages. See “—Change of Control,”, “—Asset Sales,” “—Events of Loss,” “— Performance Liquidated Damages” and “—LNG SPA Mandatory Offer” under the caption “Description of Senior Notes—Repurchase at the Option of Noteholders.” For example, the Term Loan Facility contains provisions prohibiting certain asset sales, and provides that, prior to the end of the availability period under that facility, a change of control (as defined in the Term Loan Facility) constitutes an event of default thereunder. In the event a Change of Control, Asset Sale, Event of Loss, the receipt of Performance Liquidated Damages or an Indenture LNG SPA Prepayment Event occurs at a time when the occurrence of such event could result in a default under any of our agreements or when a repurchase of notes as a result thereof or otherwise is prohibited, CCH and/or its Restricted Subsidiaries could seek the consent of their applicable creditors to waive such default or to purchase the New Notes, or could attempt to refinance the indebtedness that contains such prohibition. If CCH and/or its Restricted Subsidiaries do not obtain a consent or repay those borrowings, they could have an event of default under such other indebtedness or will remain prohibited from purchasing notes. In that case, CCH’s failure to purchase tendered notes would constitute an Indenture Event of Default which could, in turn, constitute a default under other indebtedness.

In addition, in the event that a Change of Control, Asset Sale or Indenture LNG SPA Prepayment Event occurs that results in us having to repurchase the New Notes, we may not have sufficient financial resources to satisfy all of our obligations under the New Notes and, if applicable, our other debt instruments. In general, our failure to make any offer to repurchase the New Notes when required under the indenture or to pay the required purchase price in respect of such offer when due, could result in an Indenture Event of Default.

Federal and state statutes allow courts, under specific circumstances, to void the New Notes and require note holders to return payments received from us.

Under the federal bankruptcy laws and comparable provisions of state fraudulent transfer laws, the New Notes could be voided, or claims in respect of the New Notes could be subordinated to all other debts of ours if, among other things, we, at the time the indebtedness evidenced by the New Notes was incurred:

In addition, any payment by us could be voided and required to be returned to us, or to a fund for the benefit of our creditors. In any such case, your right to receive payments in respect of the New Notes from us would be effectively subordinated to all of our indebtedness and other liabilities.

Your ability to resell the New Notes may be limited by a number of factors; prices for the New Notes may be volatile.

There currently is no established market for the New Notes. We do not intend to apply for listing of the New Notes on any securities exchange or on any automated dealer quotation system. If a market for the New Notes were to develop, the New Notes could trade at prices that may be higher or lower than reflected by their initial offering price, depending on many factors, including among other things:

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There may not be sufficient collateral to pay all or any amounts due on the New Notes.

We own no significant assets other than those related to the ownership and operation of the Liquefaction Project. If we default under the indenture governing the New Notes, the Security Trustee’s remedies under the Security Documents, including foreclosure on the collateral, may not provide sufficient funds to pay our obligations under the indenture governing the New Notes. Moreover, our direct and indirect owners and their affiliates do not have any liability for the payment or performance of the New Notes.

The New Notes are secured by a first priority lien on the collateral, equal in right of security with the lenders under the Term Loan Facility, the Working Capital Facility and holders of the Senior Notes and any of our other debt permitted to be secured by the collateral. To the extent third parties enjoy prior liens, such third parties may have rights and remedies with respect to the property subject to such liens that, if exercised, could adversely affect the value of the collateral. See “Description of Senior Notes—Security.” Any additional permitted liens or the incurrence of additional secured debt may have the effect of significantly diluting your ability to recover payment in full on the New Notes from the then-existing pool of collateral and will adversely affect your relative position with respect to the collateral. See “Description of Other Indebtedness—Common Terms Agreement—Additional Senior Debt.”

No appraisals of any collateral have been prepared in connection with the offering of the notes. The value of the collateral at any time will depend on market and other economic conditions, including the availability of suitable buyers for the collateral. The value of the assets which will be pledged or charged, as applicable, as collateral could be impaired in the future as a result of changing economic conditions, competition or other future trends. In the event of a foreclosure, liquidation, bankruptcy or similar proceeding, no assurance can be given that the proceeds from any sale or liquidation of the collateral will be sufficient to pay our obligations under the New Notes, in full or at all. Accordingly, there may not be sufficient collateral to pay all or any of the amounts due on the New Notes. Any claim for the difference between the amount, if any, realized by you from the sale of any portion of the collateral and the amount of our obligations owed to you under the New Notes will rank equally in right of payment with all of our other unsecured debt and other obligations that are not subordinated, including trade payables.

In addition, releases of collateral from the liens securing the New Notes will be permitted under certain circumstances. The actual provisions relating to such releases are contained in the CSAA (as defined below) and are contained in the indenture governing the New Notes. See “Description of Senior Notes—Security.” If the Security Trustee were to foreclose upon our assets, there are certain of our assets, such as permits and certain contracts, which the Security Trustee may not be able to effectively foreclose upon without the consent of third parties, such as a governmental authority. We cannot assure you that if the Security Trustee forecloses on our assets, the Security Trustee will be able to obtain all of the third-party approvals necessary to obtain or transfer ownership of all assets necessary to operate the Liquefaction Project.

Furthermore, if the Security Trustee forecloses on the collateral, then, in connection therewith, transferring required permits to a purchaser or new operator of the Liquefaction Project may require additional governmental approvals or proceedings, which could result in delays. Accordingly, we cannot assure investors that, if we default on the payments due on the New Notes and the Security Trustee forecloses on and sells the collateral, you will receive sufficient proceeds to pay all amounts that we owe on the New Notes.

Parties who have provided services or supplies in connection with the construction of the Trains and the Corpus Christi Pipeline may have a lien on the real property comprising the Trains and the Corpus Christi Pipeline that is senior to the security interests securing the New Notes.

Texas law provides design professionals, contractors, subcontractors and material suppliers with rights to record a lien on the property improved by their services or supplies in order to secure their right to be paid. If these parties are not paid in full, they may seek foreclosure on their liens. In Texas, the priority of certain construction liens related to a particular construction project relate back to the date of the commencement of construction of improvements or delivery of materials to the land on which the improvements are to be located and on which the materials are to be used. Accordingly, certain parties providing labor, material or services in connection with the design or construction of the Trains and the Corpus Christi Pipeline who otherwise comply with the applicable requirements of Texas law may have a lien on the Trains and the Corpus Christi Pipeline senior in priority to the security interests securing the New Notes until they are paid in full. Additionally, in the event of a liquidation any proceeds from the sale of collateral may be used to pay the holders of any construction liens then in existence before holders of the New Notes.

Real property rights required for the construction, operation and maintenance of the Corpus Christi Pipeline and that are subsequently acquired by us for other purposes will not be mortgaged prior to the issuance of the New Notes.

The real property rights related to the Liquefaction Facilities and the real property rights related to the Corpus Christi Pipeline that we held on the closing date of the Term Loan Facility are subject to deeds of trust, each granting a lien to the trustee

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under the deed of trust for the benefit of the Security Trustee, as beneficiary for the obligations under the New Notes (hereinafter, collectively, the “mortgage”). We have, and may in the future, also acquire real property rights in furtherance of the Liquefaction Facilities and Corpus Christi Pipeline or for other purposes in the future. Under the CSAA (as defined below), we have to grant a mortgage over such real property rights within 60 days after our acquisition thereof if the property has a purchase price in excess of $10 million or is otherwise material to the operation of the Liquefaction Project. If we are unable to provide these future mortgages or amend our existing mortgage to cover such real property rights, and/or record such mortgages, the New Notes will not benefit from these real property rights as collateral, and we will be in default of our obligations under the CSAA (as defined below) to grant and if requested, record, such mortgage over these real property rights. The Project Entities will execute a mortgage reaffirmation agreement pursuant to which they will reaffirm the Lien granted pursuant to the mortgage on the real property rights described therein to the trustee for the benefit of the Security Trustee, as beneficiary for the ratable benefit of the Secured Parties as security for the Senior Debt Obligations, including the obligations under the New Notes.

If we were to become subject to a bankruptcy proceeding after the issue date of the New Notes, any mortgage recorded more than 30 days after the issue date of the New Notes would face a greater risk of being invalidated than if we had recorded it at the issue date or within such 30 day period, as U.S. federal bankruptcy laws contain a safe harbor for mortgages delivered substantially contemporaneously with the issuance of indebtedness and recorded within 30 days of the grant of the underlying security interest. If a mortgage is recorded more than 30 days after the issue date, outside of this safe harbor, or is not delivered substantially contemporaneously with indebtedness it will be treated under U.S. federal bankruptcy laws as if it were delivered to secure antecedent (or previously existing) debt, and would be subject to avoidance as a preference by the bankruptcy court to the extent that other statutory elements are present and certain statutory defenses are inapplicable. To the extent that the grant of any such mortgage is avoided as a preference, holders of the New Notes would lose the benefit as collateral of the property encumbered by that mortgage.

A title insurance policy has been obtained only on the real property rights that are subject to our existing mortgage over property rights of CCL and will be obtained only on future real property comprising the Liquefaction Facilities. Title insurance will not be obtained for any real property interests underlying the Corpus Christi Pipeline.

A title insurance policy in the amount of $3.7 billion in favor of the Security Trustee for the benefit of our Senior Creditors has been obtained with respect to the real property rights that are subject to our existing mortgage related to the Liquefaction Facilities that consist primarily of the real property rights underlying the Trains to be constructed as part of the Liquefaction Project. Notwithstanding the existence of the title insurance policy, there is no assurance that the holders of the New Notes would be entitled to recover proceeds under such existing policy. Additionally, the title insurance policy we have obtained on the real property underlying the Trains to be constructed as part of the Liquefaction Project covers only a portion of the value of the loans secured by such property. Accordingly, if any title defects were to exist, any payments made from the title policy in respect of such defect may be insufficient to cover any losses to the noteholders caused by such defect. Further, the amount of title insurance and the structure of the mortgage lien and title insurance may be insufficient for all lienholders who have incurred an insured loss to fully recover such loss. Parties who share a lien under the mortgage may be required to share in any recovery under the title insurance policy and such recovery may be in an amount insufficient for a full recovery of any loss to each lienholder. Further, under our Finance Documents, we are required to obtain title insurance only in respect of future real property rights underlying the Liquefaction Facilities and we are not required to obtain title insurance in respect of any real property rights underlying the Corpus Christi Pipeline. As such, title company lien searches may not be obtained in respect of these real property interests for the Corpus Christi Pipeline and we may therefore not discover title defects or prior liens on such real property interests. Accordingly, any mortgages that may secure such real property rights underlying the Corpus Christi Pipeline will not have the benefit of lien searches or title insurance policies insuring title to and the first priority of the liens in favor of the Security Trustee for the benefit of our Senior Creditors, including the holders of the New Notes with respect to such real property owned, leased or otherwise held by us. There can be no assurance that there will not exist a title defect or a mechanics’ judgment, tax or other lien encumbering such real property rights that is senior to the lien (or a portion of the lien) of any such mortgage. The existence of such defect or liens could adversely affect the value of such real property rights securing the New Notes as well as the ability of the Security Trustee to realize or foreclose on such real property rights.

Surveys obtained in connection with the real property rights underlying the Liquefaction Facilities and the Corpus Christi Pipeline, if obtained, may not be accurate or comprehensive, or reveal all restrictions applicable to such real property rights.

We have obtained surveys over the real property rights underlying the Trains to be constructed as part of the Liquefaction Project which are subject to our existing mortgage and title insurance for the Liquefaction Facilities. We also have obtained surveys in connection with the real property rights we have acquired by our right of eminent domain or otherwise to develop the Corpus Christi Pipeline. If any of these surveys are not accurate or comprehensive, they may not have revealed the full scope of gaps, encroachments, adverse possession claims, zoning or other restrictions with respect to such real property rights and, in the case of the surveys with respect to Corpus Christi Pipeline, may delay or hinder our efforts to secure the necessary real property

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underlying our proposed route. In addition, there can be no assurance that the legal descriptions attached to the existing mortgage or any future mortgages covering any of our real property rights (i) do or will accurately describe and encumber the real property rights intended to be mortgaged as security for the New Notes, (ii) include all real property rights owned, leased or otherwise held by us intended to constitute collateral or (iii) do or will not include real property not owned, leased or otherwise held by us.

Remedies available to the Security Trustee may be limited by lease provisions.

The real property interests supporting the Liquefaction Facilities and the Corpus Christi Pipeline are all located in two counties in Texas. The Security Trustee could elect to forego foreclosure on the individual real properties, due to their location in different counties or otherwise, and foreclose on our equity interests instead. A foreclosure on our equity interests could violate provisions of certain leases, easements, rights of way and other contractual arrangements that contain certain change of control provisions and could result in early termination of such arrangements. A foreclosure of our equity interest, rather than of the liens of the mortgages, will leave in place any junior liens that may have been recorded subsequent to the recording of the mortgages.

Certain real property rights held by us constituting collateral for the New Notes are, and may be, held pursuant to leases, easements, rights of way, and other use arrangements instead of through ownership of such real property through a fee interest. There is a risk that such leases, easements, rights of way, and other use arrangements may terminate and no longer constitute collateral for the New Notes.

The Liquefaction Facilities and the Corpus Christi Pipeline are being constructed and operated on real property we own, or plan to purchase, pursuant to a fee interest and also on real property for which we would hold real property rights pursuant to leases, easements, rights of way, and other use arrangements. If we fail to maintain these rights, such failure could have a material adverse effect on our business, contracts, operating results, financial condition, cash flow, liquidity, prospects and ability to make payments of interest on, premium, if any, and principal of the New Notes.

Indebtedness secured by a lien on a lease, easement, right of way, or other use arrangement is subject to risks not associated with indebtedness secured by a mortgage lien on a fee interest in real property. The most significant of these risks is that such real property rights could be terminated before the debt secured by the mortgage over such rights is paid in full. If a mortgage on the third party’s fee interest in the property is recorded prior to the recordation of a memorandum of our interest, as easement holder, tenant or other right holder (or if the lease, easement, right of way or other use arrangement, by its terms, is subordinate to the fee holder’s mortgage), the holder of such fee mortgage could, in the event of the foreclosure of such fee mortgage, elect to terminate the applicable lease, easement, right of way or other use arrangement, and, thereby, the mortgage lien on such lease, easement, right of way or other use arrangement constituting collateral would terminate and no longer constitute collateral for the New Notes. Additionally, a bankruptcy court could determine that such lease, easement, right of way or other use arrangement is not a real property right under applicable state law, and accordingly allow a bankrupt counterparty to reject such arrangement as an executory contract. Such termination rights may result in our loss of the associated arrangements during the course of the Liquefaction Project and, if our senior creditors take enforcement action against the collateral, may limit the number of potential bidders therefore, and may delay any sale thereof, either of which may have an adverse effect on the sale price of the collateral.

The CSAA contains provisions that may limit the remedies that could be exercised in respect of an event of default, unless and until the required parties have directed the Security Trustee to do so. The holders of the New Notes are also deemed to vote in conformity with the Term Lenders in numerous instances.

On May 22, 2018, we entered into the Amended and Restated Common Security and Account Agreement (as amended on November 28, 2018, and August 30, 2019, the “CSAA”) with representatives of the Term Lenders under our Term Loan Facility, Société Générale, as the Security Trustee and Intercreditor Agent, and Mizuho Bank, Ltd. as the Account Bank, which includes provisions governing the relationship between all the Secured Parties and regulates the claims of the Secured Parties against us and the enforcement by such parties of the liens upon any collateral, including the method of voting and decision making.

The CSAA requires the affirmative vote of Secured Parties representing a certain percentage of our outstanding Senior Debt Obligations to direct specific actions of the Security Trustee, including the exercise of remedies with respect to the collateral following an event of default under the indenture governing the New Notes or the documents governing such other Senior Debt (including the Term Loan Facility and the Working Capital Facility). Because the affirmative vote of these required Secured Parties will be required before the Security Trustee will be able to exercise remedies, if an event of default under the indenture governing the New Notes were to occur, no remedies could be exercised in respect of the collateral unless and until the required Secured Parties have directed the Security Trustee to do so. If the holders of the New Notes do not constitute holders of at least the applicable percentage of the outstanding indebtedness secured by the collateral, the Indenture Trustee and the holders of the New Notes may not be able to direct the Security Trustee to exercise remedies in respect of the collateral upon the occurrence of an event of default under the indenture governing the New Notes without the affirmative vote of other Secured Parties. In certain

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cases under the CSAA and under the indenture, the holders of the New Notes do not have the right to vote and decisions will be determined by other holders of our Senior Debt. See “Description of Senior Notes—Events of Default and Remedies” and “Description of Senior Notes—Certain Intercreditor Arrangements.”

The indenture also provides that in numerous instances the holders of the New Notes are deemed to vote in conformity with the Term Lenders, without the requirement of a vote or consent by the holders of the New Notes. See “Description of Senior Notes—Certain Intercreditor Arrangements.”

The remedies available to the holders of the notes and the Security Trustee may be limited in bankruptcy.

If we seek the protection of bankruptcy or insolvency laws, or if one or more of our creditors commences an involuntary bankruptcy proceeding against us, the Security Trustee’s rights to foreclose on the collateral and our ability to make payments in respect of the notes are likely to be significantly impaired. Upon the commencement of a case for relief under the Bankruptcy Code, a secured creditor such as the Security Trustee is prohibited from repossessing its security from a debtor in a bankruptcy case, or from disposing of security repossessed from such debtor, without bankruptcy court approval. Moreover, the Bankruptcy Code permits the debtor to continue to remain and use collateral even though the debtor is in default under the applicable debt instrument, provided that the secured creditor is given “adequate protection.” The meaning of the term “adequate protection” may vary according to the circumstances, but it is intended to protect the value of the secured creditor’s interest in the collateral and may include cash payments or the granting of additional security if and at such times as the court in its discretion determines that the value of the secured creditor’s interest in the collateral is declining during the pendency of the bankruptcy case. A bankruptcy court may determine that a secured creditor is “adequately protected” and therefore not entitled to prevent diminution in the value of its collateral if the value of the collateral sufficiently exceeds the debt it secures.

In view of the lack of a precise definition of the term “adequate protection” and the broad discretionary and equitable powers of a bankruptcy court, it is impossible to predict:

Furthermore, in the event a bankruptcy court determines that the value of the collateral is not sufficient to repay all amounts due on the New Notes, the holders of the notes would hold a secured claim to the extent of the value of the collateral to which the holders of the notes are entitled and would hold unsecured claims with respect to such shortfall. The Bankruptcy Code permits the payment and accrual of post-petition interest, costs and attorney’s fees to a secured creditor during a debtor’s court proceeding to exceed the aggregate outstanding principal amount of the obligations secured by the collateral up to the value of the collateral. In addition, because part of the collateral consists of our contracts, if we or any counterparty to any one of those contracts were the subject of bankruptcy proceedings, then we or such counterparty, as the case may be, or a trustee appointed in the applicable bankruptcy case, could choose to reject the contract. If that occurred, the contract would be treated as terminated and the Security Trustee could not specifically enforce the rejected contract.

Your rights in the collateral may be adversely affected by the failure to perfect security interests in such collateral and other issues generally associated with the realization of security interests in such collateral.

Generally, a security interest in tangible and intangible assets can only be properly perfected, a valid lien created on such assets can only be granted, and the priority of such lien can only be retained, if certain actions are undertaken by the applicable secured party. The liens in all collateral from time to time owned by us may not be perfected or validly created with respect to the New Notes if the Security Trustee has not taken the actions necessary to perfect or validly create any of those liens upon or prior to the issuance of the New Notes. The inability or failure of the Security Trustee to take all actions necessary to create properly perfected security interests or validly created liens on the collateral may result in the loss of the priority of the security interest for your benefit to which you would have been entitled had such perfection or valid creation of such liens been effectuated by the Security Trustee.

In addition, applicable law provides that certain property and rights acquired after the grant of a general security interest can only be perfected and a lien on such property and rights validly created at the time such property and rights are acquired and identified.

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We will have limited obligations to perfect your security interest in, or create valid liens with respect to, specified collateral. We cannot assure you that the Security Trustee will monitor, or that we will inform the Security Trustee of, the future acquisition of property and rights that constitute collateral, and that the necessary action will be taken to properly perfect the security interest in, or create a valid lien with respect to, such after-acquired collateral. Our failure to meet our obligations to inform the Security Trustee of the future acquisition of property or rights that constitute collateral may constitute a breach under the Security Documents, which may result in the acceleration of our indebtedness. However, acceleration of such obligations in such situation may not provide an adequate remedy to you if the value of the collateral is impaired by the failure to perfect the security interest in, or create a valid lien with respect to, such after-acquired collateral. The Security Trustee has no obligation to monitor the acquisition of additional property or rights that constitute collateral or the perfection of any security interest or the creation of a valid lien with respect thereto. Such failure may result in the loss of the security interest in the collateral or the priority of the security interest granted to secure the New Notes as against third parties.

The mortgages for real property rights not yet obtained may never be recorded and/or the recordation of mortgages securing a lien on the real property rights currently owned or to be acquired may be subject to delays such as those resulting from illegible legal descriptions or delays at the county recording office. In addition, applicable law requires that certain real property rights and other rights acquired after the grant of a general security interest, such as real property, equipment subject to a certificate of title and certain proceeds, can only be perfected at the time such property and rights are acquired and identified. Further, no title search will be performed to identify any encumbrances on all the necessary real property needed for the construction, operation and maintenance related to the Corpus Christi Pipeline. There can be no assurance that the Security Trustee will monitor, or that we will inform such trustee of, the future acquisition of property and rights that should constitute collateral, and that the necessary action will be taken to properly perfect the security interest in such after-acquired collateral. The Security Trustee does not have an obligation to monitor the acquisition of additional property or rights that constitute collateral or the perfection of any security interest. Such failure may result in the loss of the security interest in the collateral or the priority of the security interest in favor of the New Notes against third parties.

The collateral is subject to casualty risks, which may limit your ability to recover as a secured creditor for losses to the collateral, and which may have an adverse impact on our operations and results.

The indenture governing the New Notes and the Security Documents requires us to maintain insurance with responsible and financially sound insurance carriers, in such form and amounts as is necessary to insure the projected maximum loss for the Liquefaction Project. However, there are certain losses, including losses resulting from terrorist acts, which may be either uninsurable or not economical to insure, in whole or in part. As a result, we cannot assure you that the insurance proceeds will compensate us fully for our losses. If there is a total or partial loss of any of the collateral, we cannot assure you that any insurance proceeds received by us will be sufficient to satisfy all of our obligations, including the New Notes.

In the event of a total or partial loss affecting any of the collateral securing the New Notes, certain items of equipment and inventory may not be easily replaced. Accordingly, even though there may be insurance coverage, the extended period needed to obtain replacement units or inventory may cause significant delays, which may have an adverse impact on our operations and results.

The indenture governing the New Notes does not contain the representations and warranties, covenants or events of default contained in the Common Terms Agreement.

On May 22, 2018, we entered into an amended and restated common terms agreement (as amended on November 28, 2018, and August 30, 2019, the “Common Terms Agreement”) with Société Générale, as the Facility Agent for the lenders under the Term Loan Facility and as Intercreditor Agent, The Bank of Nova Scotia, as the Working Capital Facility Agent (the “Working Capital Facility Agent”), and each other Facility Agent party thereto from time to time, in order to set out certain provisions regarding, among other things: (a) common representations and warranties of the Project Entities; (b) common covenants of the Project Entities; and (c) common events of default under the secured debt instruments constituting Loan Facility Agreements, such as the Term Loan Facility. The Indenture Trustee will not become party to the Common Terms Agreement and the Intercreditor Agreement. Consequently, the Indenture Trustee will not have the benefit of the representations and warranties, covenants or any events of default under the Common Terms Agreement, and the covenants and events of default applicable to the New Notes shall be as set forth in the indenture, as described under “Description of Senior Notes.” As a holder of the New Notes, you will not have the benefit of the representations and warranties, covenants or any of the events of default pursuant to the Common Terms Agreement.

Any future pledge of collateral might be avoidable in bankruptcy.

Any future pledge of collateral in favor of the Security Trustee, including pursuant to Security Documents delivered after the date of the indenture governing the New Notes, might be avoidable by the pledgor (as the debtor in possession in a bankruptcy proceeding) or by the trustee in bankruptcy if certain events or circumstances exist or occur, including, among others, if the

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pledgor is insolvent at the time of the pledge, the pledge permits the holders of the New Notes to receive greater recovery than if the pledge had not been given and a bankruptcy proceeding in respect of the pledgor is commenced within 90 days following the pledge or, in certain circumstances, a longer period.

An existing or future subsidiary’s guarantee of the New Notes may be reduced, avoided or released under certain circumstances and you may not receive any payments from some or all of those Guarantors.

Our existing subsidiaries, CCL, CCP and CCP GP are guaranteeing the New Notes. Our future domestic subsidiaries will be required to guarantee the New Notes under certain circumstances. There is uncertainty whether any such guarantees would be legally enforceable in any bankruptcy proceedings involving those Guarantors.

If a subsidiary grants a security interest in its assets and that grant of security interests is unenforceable, any such security interest in that subsidiary’s assets could be set aside and the property made available to other creditors of the bankrupt subsidiary. Among other things, there is a risk that the guarantee, and any related security interest, could be considered a fraudulent conveyance, that can be set aside in bankruptcy proceedings.

The CSAA governing the New Notes contains a “savings clause,” which limits the liability of a subsidiary guarantor with assets exceeding $10 million at the time of the guarantee to the maximum amount that such guarantor can incur without risk that its note guarantee will be subject to avoidance as a fraudulent transfer. As a result, a Guarantor’s liability under its note guarantee could be reduced in amount or reduced to zero, depending upon the amount of other obligations of such Guarantor. We cannot assure you that this limitation of liability will protect such note guarantees from fraudulent transfer challenges or, if it does, that the remaining amount due and collectible under the note guarantees would be sufficient to pay the New Notes in full when due.

The New Notes will be structurally subordinated in right of payment to the indebtedness and other liabilities of any subsidiaries that do not guarantee the New Notes.

As of the date of this prospectus, we have three subsidiaries, each of which is a Guarantor of the New Notes: CCL, CCP and CCP GP. Upon such time as any subsidiary Guarantor is released and relieved of its obligations under its subsidiary guarantee, such subsidiary will cease to guarantee the New Notes. In the event that a subsidiary is released from its note guarantee pursuant to the terms of the indenture, such subsidiary will no longer be obligated to pay any amounts due under the New Notes or to make any funds available for payments on the New Notes, and the New Notes and note guarantees will be structurally subordinated to all of the liabilities of that subsidiary. In addition, the New Notes and note guarantees will be structurally subordinated to all of the liabilities of any of our future subsidiaries that do not guarantee the New Notes and these liabilities would be required to be paid before the holders of the New Notes have a claim, if any, against those subsidiaries and their assets. If there was a dissolution, bankruptcy, liquidation or reorganization of any non-Guarantor subsidiary, the holders of notes would not receive any amounts with respect to the New Notes from the assets of such non-Guarantor subsidiary until after the payment in full of the claims of creditors of such subsidiary.

Your right to receive payments under the New Notes will be effectively subordinated to indebtedness secured by other assets.

The New Notes will be effectively subordinated to any secured debt we may incur that is secured by assets that are not part of the collateral securing the New Notes to the extent of such other assets securing such debt. In the event of a liquidation, dissolution, reorganization, bankruptcy or similar proceeding involving us, such assets which serve as collateral for such other secured debt that are not part of the collateral securing the New Notes will be available to satisfy the obligations under such secured debt before any payments are made on the New Notes.

The ratings of the New Notes may be lowered or withdrawn.

The ratings address the likelihood of timely payment of the scheduled interest and principal on each scheduled payment date. The ratings do not address the likelihood of payment of any overdue interest, premiums or any other amounts payable in respect of the New Notes or the timeliness of any accelerated principal payments coming due as the result of the occurrence of an event of default. A rating is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold a note (or beneficial interests therein) and is subject to revision or withdrawal in the future by each rating agency.

Changes in our credit rating could adversely affect the market price or liquidity of the New Notes.

Credit rating agencies continually revise their ratings for the companies that they follow. Credit rating agencies also evaluate our industry as a whole and may change their credit ratings for CCH based on their overall view of our industry. We cannot be sure that credit rating agencies will maintain their initial ratings on the New Notes. A negative change in our ratings could have an adverse effect on the trading price or liquidity of the New Notes.

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USE OF PROCEEDS

The exchange offer is intended to satisfy our obligations under the registration rights agreement we entered into in connection with the private offering of the Old Notes. We will not receive any proceeds from the issuance of the New Notes in the exchange offer. In consideration for issuing the New Notes as contemplated in this prospectus, we will receive, in exchange, outstanding Old Notes in like principal amount. We will cancel all of the Old Notes surrendered in exchange for New Notes in the exchange offer. As a result, the issuance of the New Notes will not result in any increase or decrease in our indebtedness.

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MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

The following discussion and analysis presents management’s view of our business, financial condition and overall performance and should be read in conjunction with our historical financial statements included elsewhere in this prospectus. The following discussion contains, in addition to historical information, forward- looking statements that are subject to significant risks and uncertainties. Our actual results may differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements as a result of various factors, including those factors set forth under the captions “Forward-Looking Statements” and “Risk Factors” and elsewhere in this prospectus. Certain terms used and not defined in this section shall have the meanings attributed to such terms in the Glossary of Certain Finance Document Terms or the Glossary of Certain Defined Terms.

Our discussion and analysis include the following subjects:

Overview of Business

CCH is a Delaware limited liability company formed in September 2014 by Cheniere, a Houston-based energy company primarily engaged in LNG-related businesses, to develop, construct, operate, maintain and own the Liquefaction Facilities and the Corpus Christi Pipeline, through wholly-owned subsidiaries CCL and CCP, respectively.

We are currently operating two Trains and are constructing one additional Train for a total production capacity of approximately 15 mtpa of LNG. The Liquefaction Project, once fully constructed, will contain three LNG storage tanks with aggregate capacity of approximately 10 Bcfe and two marine berths that can each accommodate vessels with nominal capacity of up to 266,000 cubic meters.

Impact of COVID-19 and Market Environment

The business environment in which we operate has been impacted by the recent downturn in the energy market as well as the outbreak of COVID-19 and its progression into a pandemic in March 2020. As a result of these developments, our growth estimates for LNG in 2020 have moderated from previous expectations. Annual LNG demand grew by 13% in 2019 to approximately 360 mtpa. In a report published in the month of April 2020, IHS Markit projected LNG demand in 2020 to reach 363 mtpa, down from a pre-COVID-19 estimate of approximately 377 mtpa. This implies a year-over-year rate of growth of approximately 0.8% in 2020 compared to the implied 4.7% pre-COVID-19 year-over-year growth estimate. While worldwide demand increased by approximately 10% during the three months ended March 31, 2020 compared to the comparable period of 2019, we expect to potentially see year-over-year declines in some future quarters as reduced economic activity affects LNG demand and high storage inventory levels reduce the need for imports. The robust LNG supply additions over the past several years, along with warmer winters and now strict virus containment measures, have exerted downward pressure on global gas prices. As an example, the Dutch Title Transfer Facility (“TTF”), a virtual trading point for natural gas in the Netherlands, averaged $3.35 during the quarter ended March 31, 2020, 51% lower than the comparable period of 2019, while the Japan Korean Marker (“JKM”), an LNG benchmark price assessment for spot physical cargoes delivered ex-ship into certain key markets in Asia, averaged $4.82 during the three months ended March 31, 2020, 43% lower than the comparable period of 2019. As a result of the weaker LNG market environment, as well as customer-specific variables, we have recently experienced an increase in the number of LNG cargoes for which our customers have notified us they will not take delivery. During the three months ended March 31, 2020, we recognized revenue of approximately $37 million associated with canceled LNG cargoes.

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In addition, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Cheniere has modified certain business and workforce practices to protect the safety and welfare of its employees who continue to work at its facilities and offices worldwide, as well as implemented certain mitigation efforts to ensure business continuity. In March 2020, Cheniere began consulting with a medical advisor, and implemented social distancing through revised shift schedules, work from home policies and designated remote work locations where appropriate, restricted non-essential business travel and began requiring self-screening for employees and contractors. In April 2020, Cheniere began utilizing temporary on-site housing for its workforce at our facilities, implemented temperature testing, incorporated medical and social workers to support employees, enforced prior self-isolation and screening for on-site housing and implemented marine operations with zero contact during loading activities. These measures have resulted in increased costs, which Cheniere expects to continue until the risks associated with the COVID-19 pandemic diminish. As of April 28, 2020, we have incurred approximately $13 million of such costs.

Liquidity and Capital Resources

The following table provides a summary of our liquidity position at March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019 (in millions):

For additional information regarding our debt agreements, see “Description of Other Indebtedness—Term Loan Facility,” “Description of Other Indebtedness—Working Capital Facility,” Note 9—Debt of our notes to the consolidated financial statements of CCH for the three months ended March 31, 2020 and Note 10—Debt of our notes to the consolidated financial statements of CCH for the year ended December 31, 2019 that have been included elsewhere in this prospectus.

Corpus Christi LNG Terminal

Liquefaction Facilities

We are currently operating two Trains and one marine berth at the Liquefaction Project and are constructing one additional Train and marine berth. We have received authorization from the FERC to site, construct and operate Trains 1 through 3 of the Liquefaction Project. We completed construction of Trains 1 and 2 of the Liquefaction Project and commenced commercial operating activities in February 2019 and August 2019, respectively. The following table summarizes the project completion and construction status of Train 3 of the Liquefaction Project, including the related infrastructure, as of March 31, 2020:

The DOE has authorized the export of domestically produced LNG by vessel from the Corpus Christi LNG terminal to FTA countries for a 25-year term and to non-FTA countries for a 20-year term, both of which commenced in June 2019, up to a combined total of the equivalent of 767 Bcf/yr (approximately 15 mtpa) of natural gas. The terms of each of these authorizations began on the date of first export thereunder.

An application was filed in September 2019 to authorize additional exports from the Liquefaction Project to FTA countries for a 25-year term and to non-FTA countries for a 20-year term in an amount up to the equivalent of approximately 108 Bcf/yr of natural gas, for a total Liquefaction Project export of 875.16 Bcf/yr. The terms of the authorizations are requested to commence on the date of first commercial export from the Liquefaction Project of the volumes contemplated in the application. DOE’s Free Trade Agreement authorization has been granted. The DOE Non-Free-Trade authorization and the related FERC application are currently pending before DOE and FERC.

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Customers

CCL has entered into fixed price long-term SPAs generally with terms of 20 years (plus extension rights) with nine third parties for Trains 1 through 3 of the Liquefaction Project to make available an aggregate amount of LNG that is approximately 70% of the total production capacity from these Trains. Under these SPAs, the customers will purchase LNG from CCL on a FOB basis for a price consisting of a fixed fee per MMBtu of LNG (a portion of which is subject to annual adjustment for inflation) plus a variable fee per MMBtu of LNG equal to approximately 115% of Henry Hub. The customers may elect to cancel or suspend deliveries of LNG cargoes, with advance notice as governed by each respective SPA, in which case the customers would still be required to pay the fixed fee with respect to the contracted volumes that are not delivered as a result of such cancellation or suspension. We refer to the fee component that is applicable regardless of a cancellation or suspension of LNG cargo deliveries under the SPAs as the fixed fee component of the price under our SPAs. We refer to the fee component that is applicable only in connection with LNG cargo deliveries as the variable fee component of the price under our SPAs. The variable fee under CCL’s SPAs entered into in connection with the development of the Liquefaction Project was sized at the time of entry into each SPA with the intent to cover the costs of gas purchases and transportation and liquefaction fuel to produce the LNG to be sold under each such SPA. The SPAs and contracted volumes to be made available under the SPAs are not tied to a specific Train; however, the term of each SPA generally commences upon the Date of First Commercial Delivery for the applicable Train, as specified in each SPA.

In aggregate, the minimum fixed fee portion to be paid by the third-party SPA customers is approximately $550 million for Train 1, increasing to approximately $1.4 billion upon the Date of First Commercial Delivery for Train 2 and further increasing to approximately $1.8 billion following the Substantial Completion of Train 3 of the Liquefaction Project.

In addition, CMI UK, an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Cheniere, has agreements with CCL to purchase: (1) approximately 15 TBtu per annum of LNG with an approximate term of 23 years, (2) any LNG produced by CCL in excess of that required for other customers at CMI UK’s option and (3) approximately 44 TBtu of LNG with a term of up to seven years associated with the IPM gas supply agreement between CCL and EOG.

Natural Gas Transportation, Storage and Supply

To ensure CCL is able to transport adequate natural gas feedstock to the Corpus Christi LNG terminal, it has entered into transportation precedent agreements to secure firm pipeline transportation capacity with CCP and certain third-party pipeline companies. See “Description of Material Project Agreements—Transportation Agreements.” CCL has entered into a firm storage services agreement with a third party to assist in managing variability in natural gas needs for the Liquefaction Project. CCL has also entered into enabling agreements and long-term natural gas supply contracts with third parties, and will continue to enter into such agreements, in order to secure natural gas feedstock for the Liquefaction Project. As of March 31, 2020, CCL had secured up to approximately 3,182 TBtu of natural gas feedstock through long-term natural gas supply contracts with remaining terms that range up to 10 years, a portion of which is subject to the achievement of certain project milestones and other conditions precedent.

A portion of the natural gas feedstock transactions for CCL are IPM transactions, in which the natural gas producers are paid based on a global gas market price less a fixed liquefaction fee and certain costs incurred by us.

Construction

CCL entered into separate lump sum turnkey contracts with Bechtel for the engineering, procurement and construction of Trains 1 through 3 of the Liquefaction Project under which Bechtel charges a lump sum for all work performed and generally bears project cost, schedule and performance risks unless certain specified events occur, in which case Bechtel may cause CCL to enter into a change order, or CCL agrees with Bechtel to a change order.

The total contract price of the EPC contract for Train 3, which is currently under construction, is approximately $2.4 billion, reflecting amounts incurred under change orders through March 31, 2020. As of March 31, 2020, we have incurred $2.1 billion under this contract.

Our cost estimates are subject to change due to such items as cost overruns, change orders, escalation of labor costs and additional funds that may be expended to maintain our construction schedule. See “Risk Factors—Risks Relating to the Completion of Our Liquefaction Facilities and the Development and Operation of Our Business—Cost overruns and delays in the completion of Train 3 or any future Trains, as well as difficulties in obtaining sufficient financing to pay for such costs and delays, could have a material adverse effect on our business, contracts, financial condition, operating results, cash flow, liquidity and prospects.”

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Pipeline Facilities

In December 2014, the FERC issued a certificate of public convenience and necessity under Section 7(c) of the NGA, authorizing CCP to construct and operate the Corpus Christi Pipeline. The Corpus Christi Pipeline is designed to transport 2.25 Bcf/d of natural gas feedstock required by the Liquefaction Project from the existing regional natural gas pipeline grid. The construction of the Corpus Christi Pipeline was completed in the second quarter of 2018.

Capital Resources

We expect to finance the construction costs of the Liquefaction Project from one or more of the following: operating cash flows from CCL and CCP, project debt and equity contributions from Cheniere. The following table provides a summary of our capital resources from borrowings and available commitments for the Liquefaction Project, excluding any equity contributions, at March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019 (in millions):

For additional information regarding our debt agreements, see “Description of Other Indebtedness—Term Loan Facility,” “Description of Other Indebtedness—Working Capital Facility,” Note 9—Debt of our notes to the consolidated financial statements of CCH for the three months ended March 31, 2020 and Note 10—Debt of our notes to the consolidated financial statements of CCH for the year ended December 31, 2019 that have been included elsewhere in this prospectus.

Senior Notes

On May 18, 2016, we issued $1.25 billion aggregate principal amount of our 2024 Senior Notes, on December 9, 2016, we issued $1.5 billion aggregate principal amount of our 2025 Senior Notes, on May 15, 2017, we issued $1.5 billion aggregate principal amount of our 2027 Senior Notes and on November 13, 2019, we issued $1.5 billion aggregate principal amount of Old Notes. On September 27, 2019, we issued $727.0 million aggregate principal amount of our 4.80% Senior Notes, and, on October 17, 2019, we issued $475.0 million aggregate principal amount of our 3.925% Senior Notes. The net proceeds of the Outstanding Senior Notes were used to prepay a portion of the principal amounts then outstanding under the Term Loan Facility. Interest on the Outstanding Senior Notes is payable semi-annually in arrears.

Each of the 4.80% Senior Notes and the 3.925% Senior Notes are fully amortizing according to a fixed sculpted amortization schedule with semi-annual payments of principal and interest and have a weighted average life of 15 years. Amortization of each of the 4.80% Senior Notes and the 3.925% Senior Notes is deferred until June 30, 2027.

At any time prior to six months before the respective dates of maturity for the Outstanding Senior Notes, we may redeem all or part of such series of Outstanding Senior Notes at a redemption price equal to the “makewhole” price set forth in the applicable indenture governing the Outstanding Senior Notes, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to the date of redemption. At any time within six months of the respective dates of maturity of the Outstanding Senior Notes, we may redeem all or part of the applicable series of Outstanding Senior Notes, in whole or in part, at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount of such Outstanding Senior Notes to be redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to the date of redemption.

The indenture governing the 144A Senior Notes includes restrictive covenants. We may incur additional indebtedness in the future, including by issuing additional 144A Senior Notes, and such indebtedness could be at higher interest rates and have different maturity dates and more restrictive covenants than our current outstanding indebtedness, including the 144A Senior Notes, the 4.80% Senior Notes, the 3.925% Senior Notes and the Term Loan Facility.

The 144A Senior Notes were issued under the indenture (and, in the case of the 2025 Senior Notes, the 2027 Senior Notes and the Old Notes, a supplemental indenture thereto). A description of certain terms of such indenture can be found under the caption “Description of Senior Notes.”

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The 4.80% Senior Notes and the 3.925% Senior Notes were issued under separate indentures.

The Outstanding Senior Notes are jointly and severally guaranteed by the Guarantors.  The indentures governing the Outstanding Senior Notes also provide that the Outstanding Senior Notes will be guaranteed by any future domestic subsidiaries, other than immaterial subsidiaries. The indentures governing the Outstanding Senior Notes contain terms and events of default and certain covenants that, among other things, limit our ability and the ability of our restricted subsidiaries to: incur additional indebtedness or issue preferred stock; make certain investments or pay dividends or distributions on membership interests or subordinated indebtedness or purchase, redeem or retire membership interests; sell or transfer assets, including membership or partnership interests of our restricted subsidiaries; restrict dividends or other payments by restricted subsidiaries to us or any of our restricted subsidiaries; incur liens; enter into transactions with affiliates; dissolve, liquidate, consolidate, merge, sell or lease all or substantially all of the properties or assets of us and our restricted subsidiaries taken as a whole; or permit any Guarantor to dissolve, liquidate, consolidate, merge, sell or lease all or substantially all of its properties and assets.  The covenants included in the indentures governing the Outstanding Senior Notes are subject to a number of important limitations and exceptions.

The Guarantors’ guarantees are full and unconditional, subject to certain release provisions including (1) the sale, exchange, disposition or transfer (by merger, consolidation or otherwise) of all or substantially all of the capital stock or the assets of the Guarantors, (2) the designation of the Guarantor as an “unrestricted subsidiary” in accordance with the indentures governing the Outstanding Senior Notes, (3) upon the legal defeasance or covenant defeasance or discharge of obligations under the Indentures and (4) the release and discharge of the Guarantors pursuant to the CSAA.  In the event of a default in payment of the principal or interest by us, whether at maturity of the Senior Notes or by declaration of acceleration, call for redemption or otherwise, legal proceedings may be instituted against the Guarantors to enforce the guarantee.

The rights of holders of the Outstanding Senior Notes against the Guarantors may be limited under the U.S. Bankruptcy Code or federal or state fraudulent transfer or conveyance law.  Each guarantee contains a provision intended to limit the Guarantor’s liability to the maximum amount that it could incur without causing the incurrence of obligations under its guarantee to be a fraudulent conveyance or transfer under U.S. federal or state law.  However, there can be no assurance as to what standard a court will apply in making a determination of the maximum liability of the Guarantors.  Moreover, this provision may not be effective to protect the guarantee from being voided under fraudulent conveyance laws.  There is a possibility that the entire guarantee may be set aside, in which case the entire liability may be extinguished.

The Outstanding Senior Notes and the related guarantees are our and the Guarantors’ respective senior secured obligations, ranking senior in right of payment to any and all of our and the Guarantors’ future indebtedness that is subordinated to the Outstanding Senior Notes and equal in right of payment with our and the Guarantors’ other existing and future indebtedness that is senior and secured by the same collateral securing the Outstanding Senior Notes.  The Outstanding Senior Notes are secured by a first-priority security interest in substantially all of our assets and the assets of the Guarantors and by a pledge of all of our equity interests and the equity interests in the Guarantors under the terms of the CSAA and the Holdco Pledge Agreement, respectively.  There is no trading market for our equity interests or the equity interests in the Guarantors that are pledged as collateral.  The equity interests in the Guarantors may be foreclosed upon in connection with a security enforcement action brought in accordance with the terms of the CSAA.

The security interests in our assets and the assets of the Guarantors are subject to release provisions including (1) upon satisfaction and discharge of the Indentures, (2) upon the legal defeasance or covenant defeasance with respect to the applicable Outstanding Senior Notes or (3) upon payment in full in cash of the applicable Outstanding Senior Notes and all other related obligations that are outstanding, due and payable at the time the Outstanding Senior Notes are paid full in cash, in each case, in accordance with the CSAA governing the parties to the Outstanding Senior Notes.  

In accordance with the amendments adopted by the SEC, because the assets, liabilities and results of operations of us and the Guarantors as a group are not materially different than the corresponding amounts presented in our consolidated financial statements, we are not required to present summary financial information regarding us and the Guarantors.

Term Loan Facility

In May 2018, we amended and restated the Term Loan Facility to increase total commitments under the Term Loan Facility from $4.6 billion to $6.1 billion. Our obligations under the Term Loan Facility are secured by a first priority lien on substantially all of our assets and the assets of our subsidiaries and by a pledge by Cheniere CCH HoldCo I (“Holdco”) of its limited liability company interests in us. As of both March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, we had no available commitments and $3.3 billion of loans outstanding under the Term Loan Facility.

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The Term Loan Facility matures on June 30, 2024, with principal payments due quarterly commencing on the earlier of (1) the first quarterly payment date occurring more than three calendar months following the Project Completion Date of the Liquefaction Project and (2) a set date determined by reference to the date under which a certain LNG buyer linked to the last Train of the Liquefaction Project to become operational is entitled to terminate its SPA for failure to achieve the Date of First Commercial Delivery for that SPA. Scheduled repayments will be based upon a 19-year tailored amortization, commencing the first full quarter after the completion of Trains 1 through 3 and designed to achieve a minimum projected fixed debt service coverage ratio of 1.50:1.

Under the Term Loan Facility, we are required to hedge not less than 65% of the variable interest rate exposure of our senior secured debt. We are restricted from making certain distributions under agreements governing our indebtedness generally until, among other requirements, the completion of the construction of Trains 1 through 3 of the Liquefaction Project, funding of a debt service reserve account equal to six months of debt service and achieving a historical debt service coverage ratio and fixed projected debt service coverage ratio of at least 1.25:1.00.

For additional information regarding the Term Loan Facility, see “Description of Other Indebtedness—Term Loan Facility.”

Working Capital Facility

In June 2018, we amended and restated the Working Capital Facility to increase total commitments under the Working Capital Facility from $350 million to $1.2 billion. The Working Capital Facility is intended to be used for loans (“Working Capital Loans”) and the issuance of letters of credit for certain working capital requirements related to developing and operating the Liquefaction Project and for related business purposes. Loans under the Working Capital Facility are guaranteed by the Guarantors. We may, from time to time, request increases in the commitments under the Working Capital Facility of up to the maximum allowed for working capital under the Common Terms Agreement that was entered into concurrently with the Term Loan Facility. As of March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, we had $660 million and $729 million of available commitments, $399 million and $471 million aggregate amount of issued letters of credit and $141 million and zero of loans outstanding under the Working Capital Facility, respectively.

The Working Capital Facility matures on June 29, 2023, and we may prepay the Working Capital Loans and loans made in connection with a draw upon any letter of credit (“LC Loans”) at any time without premium or penalty upon three business days’ notice and may re-borrow at any time. LC Loans have a term of up to one year. We are required to reduce the aggregate outstanding principal amount of all Working Capital Loans to zero for a period of five consecutive business days at least once each year.

The Working Capital Facility contains conditions precedent for extensions of credit, as well as customary affirmative and negative covenants. Our obligations under the Working Capital Facility are secured by substantially all of our and our Guarantors’ assets as well as all of our membership interests and the membership interest in each of the Guarantors on a pari passu basis with the Senior Notes and the Term Loan Facility.

For additional information regarding our Working Capital Facility, see “Description of Other Indebtedness—Working Capital Facility.”

Equity Contributions

In May 2018, we amended and restated the CEI Equity Contribution Agreement, pursuant to which Cheniere agreed to provide cash contributions up to approximately $1.1 billion, not including $2.0 billion previously contributed under the original equity contribution agreement. As of March 31, 2020, we have received $558 million in contributions under the CEI Equity Contribution Agreement and Cheniere has posted $365 million of letters of credit on our behalf under its revolving credit facility. Cheniere is only required to make additional contributions under the CEI Equity Contribution Agreement after the commitments under the Term Loan Facility have been reduced to zero and to the extent cash flows from operations of the Liquefaction Project are unavailable for Liquefaction Project costs.

Early Works Equity Contribution Agreement

In conjunction with the amendment and restatement of the CEI Equity Contribution Agreement, we terminated the early works equity contribution agreement with Cheniere entered into in December 2017. Prior to termination in May 2018, we had received $250 million in contributions from Cheniere under the early works equity contribution agreement.

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Restrictive Debt Covenants

As of March 31, 2020, we were in compliance with all covenants related to our debt agreements.

LIBOR

The use of LIBOR is expected to be phased out by the end of 2021. It is currently unclear whether LIBOR will be utilized beyond that date or whether it will be replaced by a particular rate. We intend to continue to work with our lenders to pursue any amendments to our debt agreements that are currently subject to LIBOR and will continue to monitor, assess and plan for the phase out of LIBOR.

Sources and Uses of Cash

The following table summarizes the sources and uses of our cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash for the three months ended March 31, 2020 and 2019 and the years ended December 31, 2019, 2018 and 2017 (in millions). The table presents capital expenditures on a cash basis; therefore, these amounts differ from the amounts of capital expenditures, including accruals, which are referred to elsewhere in this prospectus. Additional discussion of these items follows the table.

Operating Cash Flows

Operating cash flows during the three months ended March 31, 2020 and 2019 were net inflows of $94 million and net outflows of $22 million, respectively. The increase in operating cash net inflows was primarily due to increased cash receipts from the sale of LNG cargoes, as a result of the commencement of operations of Trains 1 and 2 of the Liquefaction Project in February 2019 and August 2019, respectively.

Operating cash net outflows during the years ended December 31, 2019, 2018 and 2017 were $33 million, $61 million and $64 million, respectively. The decrease in operating cash net outflows in 2019 compared to 2018 was primarily due to increased cash receipts from the sale of LNG cargoes, as a result of the commencement of operations of Trains 1 and 2 of the Liquefaction Project in March 2019 and August 2019, respectively, partially offset by increased operating costs and expenses. The decrease in operating cash flows in 2018 compared to 2017 was primarily due to decreased cash used for settlement of derivative instruments, partially offset by increased cash used for working capital requirements.

Investing Cash Flows

Investing cash net outflows during the three months ended March 31, 2020 and 2019 were $221 million and $372 million, respectively, and were primarily used to fund the construction costs for the Liquefaction Project. These costs are capitalized as construction-in-process until achievement of Substantial Completion.

Investing cash net outflows during the years ended December 31, 2019, 2018 and 2017 were $1,519 million, $2,960 million and $1,962 million, respectively, and were primarily used to fund the construction costs for the Liquefaction Project. These costs are capitalized as construction-in-process until achievement of Substantial Completion.

Financing Cash Flows

Financing cash net inflows during the three months ended March 31, 2020 were $141 million as a result of borrowings under the Working Capital Facility.

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Financing cash net inflows during the three months ended March 31, 2019 were $323 million, primarily as a result of:

Financing cash net inflows during the year ended December 31, 2019 were $1,343 million, primarily as a result of:

Financing cash net inflows during the year ended December 31, 2018 were $3,083 million, primarily as a result of:

Financing cash net inflows during the year ended December 31, 2017 were $1,982 million, primarily as a result of:

Contractual Obligations

We are committed to make cash payments in the future pursuant to certain of our contracts. The following table summarizes certain contractual obligations in place as of December 31, 2019 (in millions):

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In addition, as of March 31, 2019, we had $399 million aggregate amount of issued letters of credit under the Working Capital Facility. We also had tax agreements with certain local taxing jurisdictions for an aggregate amount of $212 million to be paid through 2033, based on estimated tax obligations as of December 31, 2019.

Results of Operations

We enter into derivative instruments to manage our exposure to changing interest rates and commodity-related marketing and price risk. Derivative instruments are reported at fair value on our consolidated financial statements that have been included elsewhere in this prospectus. In some cases, the underlying transactions economically hedged receive accrual accounting treatment, whereby revenues and expenses are recognized only upon delivery, receipt or realization of the underlying transaction. Because the recognition of derivative instruments at fair value has the effect of recognizing gains or losses relating to future period exposure, use of derivative instruments may increase the volatility of our results of operations based on changes in market pricing, counterparty credit risk and other relevant factors.

Three Months Ended March 31, 2020 vs. Three Months Ended March 31, 2019

Our consolidated net loss was $51 million in the three months ended March 31, 2020, compared to net loss of $71 million in the three months ended March 31, 2019. This $20 million decrease in net loss in 2019 was primarily the result of increased income from operations, which was partially offset by increased interest rate derivative loss, net and interest expense, net of capitalized interest.

Revenues

We began recognizing LNG revenues from the Liquefaction Project following the Substantial Completion and the commencement of operating activities of Trains 1 and 2 in February 2019 and August 2019, respectively. The achievement of Substantial Completion of these Trains resulted in additional revenue from the increased volume of LNG sold. LNG revenues during the three months ended March 31, 2020 also included $37 million in revenues attributable to LNG cargoes contractually canceled by our customers, for which revenue is generally recognized upon notice of customer cancellation. We expect our LNG revenues to increase in the future upon Train 3 of the Liquefaction Project becoming operational. Also included in LNG revenues are gains and losses from derivative instruments, which include the realized value associated with a portion of derivative instruments that settle through physical delivery and the sale of unutilized natural gas procured for the liquefaction process. We recognized revenues of $44 million and $13 million during the three months ended March 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively, related to derivative instruments and other revenues from these transactions.

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Prior to Substantial Completion of a Train, amounts received from the sale of commissioning cargoes from that Train are offset against LNG terminal construction-in-process, because these amounts are earned or loaded during the testing phase for the construction of that Train. During the three months ended March 31, 2019, we realized offsets to LNG terminal costs of $74 million corresponding to 15 TBtu of LNG that were related to the sale of commissioning cargoes. We did not realize any offsets to LNG terminal costs during the three months ended March 31, 2020.

Operating costs and expenses

Our total operating costs and expenses increased between the three months ended March 31, 2020 and 2019, primarily as a result of the commencement of operations of Trains 1 and 2 of the Liquefaction Project in February 2019 and August 2019, respectively.

Cost of sales (including affiliate and related party) increased between the three months ended March 31, 2020 and 2019, primarily related to the increase in the volume of natural gas feedstock related to our LNG sales due to the commencement of operations at the Liquefaction Project, partially offset by an increase in fair value of the derivatives associated with economic hedges to secure natural gas feedstock for the Liquefaction Project due to a favorable shift in long-term forward prices relative to our hedged position. Cost of sales includes costs incurred directly for the production and delivery of LNG from the Liquefaction Project, to the extent those costs are not utilized for the commissioning process.

Operating and maintenance expense primarily includes costs associated with operating and maintaining the Liquefaction Project. The increase in operating and maintenance expense (including affiliate) between the three months ended March 31, 2020 and 2019 was primarily related to increased natural gas transportation and storage capacity demand charges, increased third-party service and maintenance contract costs and increased payroll and benefit costs of operations personnel, generally as a result of the commencement of operations at the Liquefaction Project. Operating and maintenance (including affiliates) also includes insurance and regulatory costs and other operating costs.

Depreciation and amortization expense increased during the three months ended March 31, 2020 from the comparable period in 2019 as a result of commencing operations of Trains 1 and 2 of the Liquefaction Project in February 2019 and August 2019, respectively.

Other expense (income)

Interest expense, net of capitalized interest, increased between the three months ended March 31, 2020 and 2019, primarily as a result of a decrease in the portion of total interest costs that is eligible for capitalization due to the commencement of operations at the Liquefaction Project. We incurred $129 million and $133 million of total interest cost, of which we capitalized $30 million and $121 million, which was primarily related to interest costs incurred to construct the remaining assets of the Liquefaction Project during the three months ended March 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively.

Derivative loss, net increased during the three months ended March 31, 2020 compared to the three months ended March 31, 2019, primarily due to an unfavorable shift in the long-term forward LIBOR curve between the periods.

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Year Ended December 31, 2019 vs. Year Ended December 31, 2018 and Year Ended December 31, 2018 vs. Year Ended December 31, 2017

Our consolidated net loss was $374 million in the year ended December 31, 2019, compared to net income of $6 million in the year ended December 31, 2018. This $380 million decrease in net income in 2019 was primarily the result of increased interest expense, net of capitalized interest and derivative loss, net, which was partially offset by increased income from operations.

Our consolidated net income was $6 million in the year ended December 31, 2018, compared to a net loss of $49 million in the year ended December 31, 2017. This $55 million increase in net income in 2018 was primarily a result of increased derivative gain, net associated with interest rate derivative activity and decreased loss on modification or extinguishment of debt.

Revenues

During the year ended December 31, 2019, we began recognizing LNG revenues from the Liquefaction Project following the Substantial Completion and the commencement of operating activities of Train 1 and Train 2 of the Liquefaction Project in February 2019 and August 2019, respectively. We expect our LNG revenues to increase in the future upon Train 3 of the Liquefaction Project becoming operational, in addition to full year operation of the Trains that were completed during 2019. Also included in LNG revenues are gains and losses from derivative instruments, which include the realized value associated with a portion of derivative instruments that settle through physical delivery and the sale of natural gas procured for the liquefaction process.

Prior to Substantial Completion of a Train, amounts received from the sale of commissioning cargoes from that Train are offset against LNG terminal construction-in-process, because these amounts are earned or loaded during the testing phase for the construction of that Train. During the years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018, we realized offsets to LNG terminal costs of $156 million and $49 million corresponding to 38 TBtu and 7 TBtu of LNG, respectively, that related to the sale of commissioning cargoes. We did not realize any offsets to LNG terminal costs during the year ended December 31, 2017.

Operating Costs and Expenses

Our total operating costs and expenses increased during the year ended December 31, 2019 from the years ended December 31, 2018 and 2017, primarily as a result of the commencement of operations of Trains 1 and 2 of the Liquefaction Project in February 2019 and August 2019, respectively.

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Cost of sales (including affiliate and related party) increased during the year ended December 31, 2019 from the years ended December 31, 2018 and 2017, primarily related to the increase in the volume of natural gas feedstock related to our LNG sales due to the commencement of operations at the Liquefaction Project. Cost of sales includes costs incurred directly for the production and delivery of LNG from the Liquefaction Project, to the extent those costs are not utilized for the commissioning process. Cost of sales also includes gains and losses from derivatives associated with economic hedges to secure natural gas feedstock for the Liquefaction Project.

Operating and maintenance expense primarily includes costs associated with operating and maintaining the Liquefaction Project. The increase in operating and maintenance expense (including affiliate) during the year ended December 31, 2019 from the years ended December 31, 2018 and 2017 was primarily related to increased natural gas transportation and storage capacity demand charges, increased third-party service and maintenance contract costs and increased payroll and benefit costs of operations personnel, generally as a result of the commencement of operations at the Liquefaction Project. Operating and maintenance (including affiliates) also includes insurance and regulatory costs and other operating costs.

Depreciation and amortization expense increased during the year ended December 31, 2019 from the comparable period in 2018 as a result of commencing operations of Trains 1 and 2 of the Liquefaction Project in February 2019 and August 2019, respectively. Depreciation and amortization expense increased during the year ended December 31, 2018 from the comparable period in 2017 primarily due to the completion of construction of the Corpus Christi Pipeline in the second quarter of 2018, as the related assets began depreciating upon reaching Substantial Completion.

Other expenses (income)

Interest expense, net of capitalized interest, increased during the year ended December 31, 2019 compared to the years ended December 31, 2018 and 2017, primarily as a result of a decrease in the portion of total interest costs that could be capitalized due to the commencement of operations at the Liquefaction Project. For the year ended December 31, 2019, we incurred $539 million of total interest cost, of which we capitalized $261 million which was primarily related to interest costs incurred for the construction of the Liquefaction Project. During the years ended December 31, 2018 and 2017, we incurred $451 million and $361 million, which were entirely capitalized.

Loss on modification or extinguishment of debt increased during the year ended December 31, 2019 compared to the year ended December 31, 2018 and decreased between the year ended December 31, 2018 and the year ended December 31, 2017. The loss on modification or extinguishment of debt recognized in each of the years was related to the incurrence of third party fees and write off of unamortized discount and debt issuance costs recognized upon refinancing our credit facilities with senior notes, paydown of our credit facilities as part of Cheniere’s capital allocation framework or upon amendment and restatement of our credit facilities.

Derivative loss, net increased during the year ended December 31, 2019 compared to the year ended December 31, 2018, primarily due to an unfavorable shift in the long-term forward LIBOR curve between the periods. Derivative gain, net increased during the year ended December 31, 2018 compared to the year ended December 31, 2017, primarily due to a favorable shift in the long-term forward LIBOR curve between the periods.

Other income increased during the year ended December 31, 2019 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2018, primarily due to an increase in interest income earned on our cash and cash equivalents.

Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements

As of March 31, 2020, we had no transactions that met the definition of off-balance sheet arrangements that may have a current or future material effect on our consolidated financial position or operating results.

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Summary of Critical Accounting Policies

This discussion and analysis of our financial condition and the results of operation is based upon our audited annual consolidated financial statements and our unaudited interim consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this prospectus.  The preparation of consolidated financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to make certain estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts reported in the consolidated financial statements and the accompanying notes.  Management evaluates its estimates and related assumptions regularly, including those related to the valuation of derivative instruments.  Changes in facts and circumstances or additional information may result in revised estimates, and actual results may differ from these estimates.  Management considers the following to be its most critical accounting estimates that involve significant judgment.

Fair Value of Derivative Instruments

All derivative instruments, other than those that satisfy specific exceptions, are recorded at fair value. We record changes in the fair value of our derivative positions based on the value for which the derivative instrument could be exchanged between willing parties.  If market quotes are not available to estimate fair value, management’s best estimate of fair value is based on the quoted market price of derivatives with similar characteristics or determined through industry-standard valuation approaches. Such evaluations may involve significant judgment and the results are based on expected future events or conditions, particularly for those valuations using inputs unobservable in the market.

Our derivative instruments consist of interest rate swaps, financial commodity derivative contracts transacted in an over-the-counter market physical commodity contracts. We value our interest rate swaps using observable inputs including interest rate curves, risk adjusted discount rates, credit spreads and other relevant data. Valuation of our financial commodity derivative contracts is determined using observable commodity price curves and other relevant data.

Valuation of our physical commodity contracts is predominantly driven by observable and unobservable market commodity prices and, as applicable to our natural gas supply contracts, our assessment of the associated events deriving fair value, including evaluating whether the respective market is available as pipeline infrastructure is developed. The fair value of our physical commodity contracts incorporates risk premiums related to the satisfaction of conditions precedent, such as completion and placement into service of relevant pipeline infrastructure to accommodate marketable physical gas flow. A portion of our physical commodity contracts require us to make critical accounting estimates that involve significant judgment, as the fair value is developed through the use of internal models which incorporate significant unobservable inputs. In instances where observable data is unavailable, consideration is given to the assumptions that market participants would use in valuing the asset or liability. This includes assumptions about market risks, such as future prices of energy units for unobservable periods, liquidity, volatility and contract duration.

Gains and losses on derivative instruments are recognized in earnings. The ultimate fair value of our derivative instruments is uncertain, and we believe that it is reasonably possible that a change in the estimated fair value could occur in the near future as interest rates and commodity prices change.

Recent Accounting Standards

For descriptions of recently issued accounting standards, see Note 1—Nature of Operations and Basis of Presentation of our notes to the unaudited consolidated financial statements of CCH for the three months ended March 31, 2020 that have been included elsewhere in this prospectus and Note 2—Summary of Significant Accounting Policies of our notes to the audited consolidated financial statements of CCH for the year ended December 31, 2019 that have been included elsewhere in this prospectus.

Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk

Marketing and Trading Commodity Price Risk

We have entered into commodity derivatives consisting of natural gas supply contracts for the commissioning and operation of the Liquefaction Project (“Liquefaction Supply Derivatives”). In order to test the sensitivity of the fair value of the

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Liquefaction Supply Derivatives to changes in underlying commodity prices, management modeled a 10% change in the commodity price for natural gas for each delivery location as follows (in millions):

Interest Rate Risk

We are exposed to interest rate risk primarily when we incur debt related to project financing. Interest rate risk is managed in part by replacing outstanding floating-rate debt with fixed-rate debt with varying maturities. We have entered into interest rate swaps to hedge the exposure to volatility in a portion of the floating-rate interest payments under the Term Loan Facility (“CCH Interest Rate Derivatives”) and to hedge against changes in interest rates that could impact our anticipated future issuance of debt (“CCH Interest Rate Forward Start Derivatives” and, collectively with the CCH Interest Rate Derivatives, the “Interest Rate Derivatives”). In order to test the sensitivity of the fair value of the Interest Rate Derivatives to changes in interest rates, management modeled a 10% change in the forward one-month LIBOR curve across the remaining terms of the Interest Rate Derivatives as follows (in millions):

See Note 6—Derivative Instruments of our notes to the unaudited consolidated financial statements of CCH for the three months ended March 31, 2020 that have been included elsewhere in this prospectus and Note 7—Derivative Instruments of our notes to the audited consolidated financial statements of CCH for the year ended December 31, 2019 that have been included elsewhere in this prospectus.

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BUSINESS

Certain terms used and not defined in this section shall have the meanings attributed to such terms in the Glossary of Certain Finance Document Terms or the Glossary of Certain Defined Terms.

General

CCH is a Delaware limited liability company formed in September 2014 by Cheniere, a Houston-based energy infrastructure company primarily engaged in LNG-related businesses, to develop, construct, operate, maintain and own the Liquefaction Facilities and the Corpus Christi Pipeline through wholly-owned subsidiaries CCL and CCP, respectively.

We are currently operating two Trains and are constructing one additional Train for a total production capacity of approximately 15 mtpa of LNG. The Liquefaction Project, once fully constructed, will contain three LNG storage tanks with aggregate capacity of approximately 10 Bcfe and two marine berths that can each accommodate vessels with nominal capacity of up to 266,000 cubic meters.

Our Business Strategy

Our primary business strategy for the Liquefaction Project is to develop, construct and operate assets supported by long-term, fixed fee contracts. We plan to implement our strategy by:

Our Liquefaction Project

We are currently operating two Trains and one marine berth at the Liquefaction Project and are constructing one additional Train and marine berth. We have received authorization from the FERC to site, construct and operate Trains 1 through 3 of the Liquefaction Project. We completed construction of Trains 1 and 2 of the Liquefaction Project and commenced commercial operating activities in February 2019 and August 2019, respectively. The following table summarizes the project completion and construction status of Train 3 of the Liquefaction Project, including the related infrastructure, as of March 31, 2020:

The DOE has authorized the export of domestically produced LNG by vessel from the Corpus Christi LNG terminal to FTA countries for a 25-year term and to non-FTA countries for a 20-year term, both of which commenced in June 2019, up to a combined total of the equivalent of 767 Bcf/yr (approximately 15 mtpa) of natural gas. The terms of each of these authorizations began on the date of first export thereunder.

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An application was filed in September 2019 to authorize additional exports from the Liquefaction Project to FTA countries for a 25-year term and to non-FTA countries for a 20-year term in an amount up to the equivalent of approximately 108 Bcf/yr of natural gas, for a total Liquefaction Project export of 875.16 Bcf/yr. The terms of the authorizations are requested to commence on the date of first commercial export from the Liquefaction Project of the volumes contemplated in the application. DOE’s Free Trade Agreement authorization has been granted. The DOE Non-Free-Trade authorization and the related FERC application are currently pending before DOE and FERC.

Customers

CCL has entered into fixed price long-term SPAs generally with terms of 20 years (plus extension rights) with nine third parties for Trains 1 through 3 of the Liquefaction Project to make available an aggregate amount of LNG that is approximately 70% of the total production capacity from these Trains. Under these SPAs, the customers will purchase LNG from CCL on a FOB basis for a price consisting of a fixed fee per MMBtu of LNG (a portion of which is subject to annual adjustment for inflation) plus a variable fee per MMBtu of LNG equal to approximately 115% of Henry Hub. The customers may elect to cancel or suspend deliveries of LNG cargoes, with advance notice as governed by each respective SPA, in which case the customers would still be required to pay the fixed fee with respect to the contracted volumes that are not delivered as a result of such cancellation or suspension. We refer to the fee component that is applicable regardless of a cancellation or suspension of LNG cargo deliveries under the SPAs as the fixed fee component of the price under our SPAs. We refer to the fee component that is applicable only in connection with LNG cargo deliveries as the variable fee component of the price under our SPAs. The variable fee under CCL’s SPAs entered into in connection with the development of the Liquefaction Project was sized at the time of entry into each SPA with the intent to cover the costs of gas purchases and transportation and liquefaction fuel to produce the LNG to be sold under each such SPA. The SPAs and contracted volumes to be made available under the SPAs are not tied to a specific Train; however, the term of each SPA generally commences upon the Date of First Commercial Delivery for the applicable Train, as specified in each SPA.

In aggregate, the minimum fixed fee portion to be paid by the third-party SPA customers is approximately $550 million for Train 1, increasing to approximately $1.4 billion upon the Date of First Commercial Delivery for Train 2 and further increasing to approximately $1.8 billion following the Substantial Completion of Train 3 of the Liquefaction Project.

The annual contracted cash flows from fixed fees of each buyer of LNG under CCL’s third-party SPAs that constitute more than 10% of CCL’s aggregate fixed fees under all its SPAs for Trains 1 through 3 of the Liquefaction Project are:

In addition, CMI UK has agreements with CCL to purchase: (1) approximately 15 TBtu per annum of LNG with an approximate term of 23 years, (2) any LNG produced by CCL in excess of that required for other customers at CMI UK’s option and (3) approximately 44 TBtu of LNG with a term of up to seven years associated with an integrated production marketing (“IPM”) gas supply agreement, as described below.

The average annual contracted cash flow from fixed fees for all of our other SPAs with third-parties is approximately $790 million.

The following table shows customers with revenues of 10% or greater of total revenues from external customers:

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Natural Gas Transportation, Storage and Supply

To ensure CCL is able to transport adequate natural gas feedstock to the Corpus Christi LNG terminal, it has entered into transportation precedent agreements to secure firm pipeline transportation capacity with CCP and certain third-party pipeline companies. See “Description of Material Project Agreements—Transportation Agreements.” CCL has entered into a firm storage services agreement with a third party to assist in managing variability in natural gas needs for the Liquefaction Project. CCL has also entered into enabling agreements and long-term natural gas supply contracts with third parties, and will continue to enter into such agreements, in order to secure natural gas feedstock for the Liquefaction Project. As of March 31, 2020, CCL had secured up to approximately 3,182 TBtu of natural gas feedstock through long-term natural gas supply contracts with remaining terms that range up to 10 years, a portion of which is subject to the achievement of certain project milestones and other conditions precedent.

A portion of the natural gas feedstock transactions for CCL are IPM transactions, in which the natural gas producers are paid based on a global gas market price less a fixed liquefaction fee and certain costs incurred by us.

Construction

CCL entered into separate lump sum turnkey contracts with Bechtel for the engineering, procurement and construction of Trains 1 through 3 of the Liquefaction Project under which Bechtel charges a lump sum for all work performed and generally bears project cost, schedule and performance risks unless certain specified events occur, in which case Bechtel may cause CCL to enter into a change order, or CCL agrees with Bechtel to a change order.

The total contract price of the EPC contract for Train 3, which is currently under construction, is approximately $2.4 billion, reflecting amounts incurred under change orders through March 31, 2020. As of March 31, 2020, we have incurred $2.1 billion under this contract.

Our cost estimates are subject to change due to such items as cost overruns, change orders, escalation of labor costs and additional funds that may be expended to maintain our construction schedule. See “Risk Factors—Risks Relating to the Completion of Our Liquefaction Facilities and the Development and Operation of Our Business —Cost overruns and delays in the completion of Train 3 or any future Trains, as well as difficulties in obtaining sufficient financing to pay for such costs and delays, could have a material adverse effect on our business, contracts, financial condition, operating results, cash flow, liquidity and prospects.”

Pipeline Facilities

In December 2014, the FERC issued a certificate of public convenience and necessity under Section 7(c) of the NGA, authorizing CCP to construct and operate the Corpus Christi Pipeline. The Corpus Christi Pipeline is designed to transport 2.25 Bcf/d of natural gas feedstock required by the Liquefaction Project from the existing regional natural gas pipeline grid. The construction of the Corpus Christi Pipeline was completed in the second quarter of 2018.

Market Factors and Competition

If and when CCL needs to replace any existing SPA or enter into new SPAs, CCL will compete on the basis of price per contracted volume of LNG with other natural gas liquefaction projects throughout the world. Cheniere is currently constructing and operating natural gas liquefaction facilities in Cameron Parish, Louisiana through its subsidiary SPL, which has entered into fixed price SPAs with third parties for the sale of LNG from Trains 1 through 6 of these natural gas liquefaction facilities, and may continue to enter into commercial agreements with respect to this natural gas liquefaction facility that might otherwise have been entered into with respect to Train 3. Revenues associated with any incremental volumes of the Liquefaction Project, including those made available to CMI UK, will also be subject to market-based price competition. Many of the companies with which we compete are major energy corporations with longer operating histories, more development experience, greater name recognition, greater financial, technical and marketing resources and greater access to markets than us. Our affiliates have proximity to our customers, with offices located in Houston, London, Singapore, Beijing and Tokyo.

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Our ability to enter into additional long-term SPAs to underpin the development of additional Trains, sale of LNG by CMI UK, or development of new projects is subject to market factors. These factors include changes in worldwide supply and demand for natural gas, LNG and substitute products, the relative prices for natural gas, crude oil and substitute products in North America and international markets, the rate of fuel switching for power generation from coal, nuclear or oil to natural gas and economic growth in developing countries. In addition, our ability to obtain additional funding to execute our business strategy is subject to the investment community’s appetite for investment in LNG and natural gas infrastructure and our ability to access capital markets.

Our LNG terminal business has limited exposure to the decline in oil prices as we have contracted a significant portion of our LNG production capacity under long-term sale and purchase agreements. These agreements contain fixed fees that are required to be paid even if the customers elect to cancel or suspend delivery of LNG cargoes.  

Governmental Regulation

The Liquefaction Project is subject to extensive regulation under federal, state and local statutes, rules, regulations and laws. These laws require that we engage in consultations with appropriate federal and state agencies and that we obtain and maintain applicable permits and other authorizations. These regulatory requirements increase the cost of construction and operation, and failure to comply with such laws could result in substantial penalties and/or loss of necessary authorizations.

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

The design, construction, operation, maintenance and expansion of the Liquefaction Project, the import or export of LNG and the purchase and transportation of natural gas in interstate commerce through the Corpus Christi Pipeline are highly regulated activities subject to the jurisdiction of the FERC pursuant to the NGA. Under the NGA, the FERC’s jurisdiction generally extends to the transportation of natural gas in interstate commerce, to the sale for resale of natural gas in interstate commerce, to natural gas companies engaged in such transportation or sale, and to the construction, operation, maintenance and expansion of LNG terminals and interstate natural gas pipelines.

The FERC’s authority to regulate interstate natural gas pipelines and the services that they provide generally includes regulation of: