LNG news updates

Lloyd's Register, Seapeak, Kongsberg Maritime, and Tunable have joined forces to advance emissions compliance through the deployment and verification of onboard emissions monitoring technology.

Deutsche Energy Terminal GmbH has started preparations to commission the Stade floating LNG terminal, with the docking of the FSRU Energos Force.

Korean Register has signed a memorandum of understanding with HD Hyundai Heavy Industries, BAR Technologies, and the Liberian International Ship & Corporate Registry to jointly develop an LNG carrier equipped with the WindWings® wind-assisted propulsion system.

Caturus LLC has announced a five train, 7.75 million tpy expansion project for its Commonwealth LNG export facility in Cameron Parish, Louisiana, which would nearly double the site’s planned capacity to approximately 17.25 million tpy.

Santos has announced two new separate non-binding LNG agreements with POSCO Steel and Western LNG.

Cheniere Energy’s Corpus Christi Liquefaction Stage 3 project, with an expanded capacity of 3.1 billion ft3/d, has made the Corpus Christi terminal the second-largest facility in the US.

Sempra Infrastructure has announced a 20-year sales and purchase agreement with Petrobras, under which Sempra Infrastructure will supply approximately 0.8 million tpy of LNG.

Venture Global, Inc. and China Gas Holdings Ltd have executed a new sales and purchase agreement for the purchase of 0.5 million tpy of US LNG from Venture Global for 20 years starting in 2030.

Lloyd’s Register has joined forces with HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering and HD Hyundai Heavy Industries to develop a new generation of LNG carrier designs using hybrid electric propulsion.

Naftogaz Group and Kino Aski LNG have signed a memorandum of understand-ing on potential co-operation in the supply of low-carbon LNG from Canada to the European market.

MET International and Shell have entered into a new long-term LNG purchase agreement, whereby Shell will supply MET with LNG from its US portfolio over a multi-year period.

CB&I and AG&P Industrial have completed and commissioned two 60 000 m3 full containment LNG storage tanks at the LNGPH Ilijan LNG facility in the Philippines.

METLEN and PETRONAS have entered into a sale and purchase agreement for a long-term supply of LNG to Greece.

Baker Hughes and Venture Global LNG are expanding their long-standing collaboration to advance critical US gas infrastructure including the Cloud Connector Pipeline project and Plaquemines LNG facility.

Kanata Clean Power & Climate Technologies Corp. and Hanwha Ocean’s Energy Plant Unit have agreed to indicative terms for a strategic partnership to move towards a definitive agreement and launch of pre-FEED study for the proposed 12 milion tpy floating LNG project in British Columbia, Canada.

Wood has been awarded a new US$200 million contract by ExxonMobil PNG for construction services in support of the PNG LNG project in Papua New Guinea.

RWE and ADNOC have signs a letter of intent regarding future LNG supplies.

PETRONAS LNG Ltd has entered into a master sales and purchase agreement with JOGMEC during the LNG Producer and Consumer Conference 2026.

Saipem and Jan De Nul have signed a letter of intent with ExxonMobil Moçambique, Limitada, on behalf of the Mozambique Rovuma Venture S.p.A representing the Area 4 partners, for the Rovuma LNG Phase 1 EPCI contract.

SEA-LNG publishes new position paper urging DG ENER to protect the mass-balance terminal pathway (liquefaction by equivalence) as it prepares proposed revisions to the RED III implementing framework.

GasEntec Holdings Inc. has announced a new ownership structure designed to accelerate its next phase of growth and expand the commercialisation of its proprietary LNG technologies and solutions.

‘K’ LINE has held the naming ceremony for a newbuilding LNG carrier at a Samsung Heavy Industries Co., Ltd facility in South Korea, with the vessel named TOHO EMERALD.

CB&I has been chosen by Argent LNG as the preferred EPC contractor for three full-containment LNG storage tanks at Argent LNG’s proposed LNG export terminal at Port Fourchon, Louisiana.

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd has held a naming ceremony at Hanwha Ocean Co., Ltd’s Geoje Shipyard for the world's first LNG carrier equipped with two Wind Challenger units.