Lake Charles LNG

Energy Transfer LP has sold about 25% of capacity for its proposed 1.5-2.0 Bcf/d Warrior Pipeline, which it expects the market will need to meet natural gas transportation needs along the Gulf Coast within the next few years, executives said. During a fourth quarter earnings call, Co-CEO Marshall McCrea said the Dallas-based midstream giant had…

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) said its temporary pause on new LNG export authorizations would not affect pending extension requests for projects’ existing export licenses. “To be clear, this pause does not affect that process,” DOE Deputy Secretary David M. Turk said during a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing on Thursday. The…

News that the Department of Energy (DOE) may pause authorizations for new LNG export projects has stirred reactions from industry groups and environmentalists alike, but what does it mean for domestic and global natural gas supply outlooks? The New York Times was the first to report Wednesday that the Biden administration has directed DOE to…

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved Venture Global LNG Inc.’s request to expand construction activities at its Plaquemines export project in Louisiana to 24 hours/day and build additional facilities for a large workforce. The 13.33 million metric tons/year (mmty) project is expected to enter service in 2025.

Chesapeake Energy Corp. executives said Wednesday they expect to announce more deals tied to the LNG market as the company aims to expose 15-20% of its natural gas production to international trade of the super-chilled fuel.  Earlier this year, Chesapeake clinched a tentative arrangement with global commodities trader Gunvor Group Ltd. to supply up to…

EQT Corp., the nation’s largest natural gas producer, has snagged an agreement to supply the proposed Lake Charles LNG project in Louisiana with 1 million metric tons/year (mmty), or 135 MMcf/d, advancing a strategy to supply overseas markets with Appalachia production. In the heads of agreement (HOA) with sponsor Energy Transfer LP (ET), EQT said…

A roundup of news and commentary from NGI’s LNG Insight Energy Transfer LP is looking to select an engineering, procurement and construction contractor by the end of June for its Trunkline Pipeline system project intended to feed Lake Charles LNG, the company reported in a recent filing to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. The project…

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…

Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said on Twitter Wednesday that Mexico Pacific Ltd. LLC (MPL) would build its 14.1 million metric tons/year Saguaro Energía LNG project on the country’s west coast and spend $14 billion on the project.