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Tellurian Inc. Chairman Martin Houston said the firm is exploring ways to secure contracts and partnerships for the proposed Driftwood LNG project with the help of a global financial adviser, pushing back on reports it may be looking to sell after an organizational shakeup. In a letter to investors Monday, Houston confirmed reports that Tellurian…

The Biden administration on Friday did as rumored and said it would temporarily pause new federal export authorizations for LNG projects while the Department of Energy (DOE) reviews policies to determine whether more capacity is in the public interest. The White House and DOE ended days of speculation after a New York Times report earlier…

The Department of Energy (DOE) could be delaying authorization for Venture Global LNG Inc.’s CP2 project after a directive from the Biden administration to study its climate impacts, according to the New York Times. Citing three unnamed sources, the newspaper first reported Wednesday that DOE’s additional analysis could stall an authorization decision for the 24…

Growing environmental opposition and political headwinds could combine to be one of this year’s biggest challenges for U.S. LNG projects working to advance. International environmental organizations, along with grassroots groups, social media influencers and some Democrats, are stepping up their efforts to stop the expansion of U.S. gas exports that’s accelerated in recent years.  The…

Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Co., the nation’s largest natural gas interstate pipeline system, is partnering with Duke Energy Corp. on a methane monitoring project in North Carolina with about $1 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy.  Duke’s Methane Monitoring Platform Extension project would expand on the company’s established monitoring system to work…

Conservation groups are again challenging Alaska LNG’s export approval from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), arguing the agency’s latest environmental assessment should have measured the project’s potential contribution to climate change. The Sierra Club and the Center for Biological Diversity submitted a petition to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia…

Click here to listen to the latest episode of NGI’s Hub & Flow. Rapidan Energy Group’s Alex Munton, director of global gas service, joins NGI’s Senior LNG Editor Jamison Cocklin to discuss how U.S. regulators are stepping up efforts to more closely scrutinize liquefied natural gas export authorizations as global trading booms.  They analyze the…

Energy Transfer LP has filed a request for rehearing with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) after the agency denied an export authorization extension last month for the company’s proposed Lake Charles LNG project in Louisiana. In the filing, officially published by the DOE Monday, Energy Transfer’s lawyers asked that the agency reconsider its April…

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has denied an Energy Transfer LP affiliate’s request to again extend the deadline for starting exports from its proposed Lake Charles LNG facility in Louisiana.  In an order denying the application for an “unprecedented second extension,” DOE said Friday that the project had failed to show good cause for…