LNG export news

The U.S. Trade and Development Agency has launched its U.S. Global Gas Initiative, a new effort to expand US LNG exports by accelerating the deployment of US-made gas infrastructure to emerging markets.

The U.S. Secretary of Energy has signed an amendment order granting additional time to commence exports of US-sourced LNG from Sempra Energy’s Energía Costa Azul mid scale project that is currently under construction in Baja California, Mexico.

The U.S. Department of Energy has authorised an immediate 13% increase in exports at Venture Global’s Plaquemines LNG terminal in Louisiana.

Argent LNG, LLC has submitted an application to the U.S. Department of Energy seeking long-term, multi-contract authorisation to export domestically-produced LNG to both free trade agreement (FTA) and non-FTA countries.

Glenfarne’s Texas LNG Brownsville LLC and Kiewit Energy Group Inc. have announced the execution of an EPC agreement under a lump-sum turnkey contract structure.

ICIS has outlined several disruption scenarios to examine the potential implications of the ongoing Strait of Hormuz disruption for European gas prices, LNG availability, and storage levels.

Venture Global, Inc. and Trafigura have announced the execution of an agreement for the purchase of approximately 0.5 million tpy of US LNG for five years commencing in 2026.

Cheniere Energy, Inc. has celebrated the 10th anniversary of its first export cargo of LNG.

The Export-Import Bank of the United States Board of have approved a US$400 million export insurance deal supporting US LNG exports to Türkiye.

Today, the US is the world’s largest LNG exporter, ahead of both Australia and Qatar, with LNG exports surged from 0.5 billion ft3/d in 2016 to 15 billion ft3/d in 2025, reports the U.S. Energy Information Administration.