Jacob Dick

TotalEnergies SE CEO Patrick Pouyanné said the firm is leaning on its already outsized role as a leader in U.S. LNG to expand its supply chain positions and grow its hub of natural gas projects centered in Texas. TotalEnergies is currently the largest trader of U.S. liquefied natural gas and is the second largest LNG…

Glenfarne Energy Transition LLC has placed a quarter of its Texas LNG export project under tentative contracts after the latest agreement with a unit of Gunvor Group Ltd. Under the heads of agreement (HOA) disclosed Monday, Gunvor could take 0.5 million metric tons/year (mmty) of liquefied natural gas from Texas LNG for 20 years on…

While political opposition and market uncertainty continue to mount around the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) pause of LNG export authorizations, Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm reassured energy leaders the action was a necessary, but temporary step to better policy making. During a keynote address Monday in Houston during CERAWeek by S&P Global, Granholm rolled…

As Tellurian Inc. continues to reorganize its management team, it’s expanding the purview of its financial consultant to include selling equity in its LNG export project, or the entire company. Houston-based Tellurian, which is developing the proposed Driftwood liquefied natural gas project in Louisiana, has undergone a series of major personnel and strategy changes since…

Federal regulators have found that Kinder Morgan Inc. (KMI) and its partners in Elba Island LNG could proceed with a 0.4 million metric tons/year (mmty) expansion project without significant environmental impact. Elba Liquefaction Co. LLC, a joint venture between KMI, Blackstone Credit and an undisclosed third party, filed a request with FERC last October to…

As NextDecade Corp. progresses construction on the first three trains for its Rio Grande LNG project in Texas, it is working to firm up contracts for its second phase by the middle of the year. Houston-based NextDecade last year broke ground in Brownsville, TX, on the first three trains of the facility, which could add…

Kinder Morgan Inc.’s (KMI) Texas-Louisiana Expansion project, aimed at bringing additional natural gas supply to the Gulf Coast, is now fully subscribed after two LNG exporters signed on as customers. Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America LLC (NGPL), a KMI subsidiary, told FERC in a recent filing it has inked agreements to supply the Golden…

Delfin Midstream Inc. is seeking an additional five years to complete its LNG export project offshore Louisiana, marking one of the first tests of the Department of Energy’s (DOE) stance on extensions since last year. For more than a decade, Houston-based Delfin has been developing a proposed export project offshore Louisiana that would use four…

Tellurian Inc. has made another executive leadership change, this time choosing to part ways with its CEO, as it tries to fast track development of its Driftwood LNG project. The Houston-based company has been awash in personnel and strategy shifts since December, when its board of directors moved to dismiss co-founder and executive chairman Charif…