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Cheniere Energy Inc. continues to dominate the U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) export market, completing the first commissioning cargo from the second train at the Corpus Christi LNG terminal in South Texas.

Additional infrastructure is critical to balancing the U.S. natural gas market as the country is already awash in supplies, with more on the way, but selling that story to investors is difficult, developers of second-wave liquefied natural gas (LNG) export projects said at a recent conference in Houston.

State-owned Saudi Arabia Oil Co., aka Aramco, on Wednesday said it has signed a heads of agreement (HOA) to negotiate buying a 25% stake in Phase 1 of Sempra Energy’s natural gas export project in Port Arthur, near Houston.

Global liquefied natural gas exports from the Gulf Coast are set to expand as the first of three trains at the Cameron liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility in Louisiana achieved first production Tuesday, developer Sempra Energy said.

The first of three production trains at Sempra Energy’s natural gas export project is on the verge of beginning commercial operations, but completion of the other two trains has been pushed to the first half of 2020, executives said Tuesday during a 1Q2019 earnings conference call.

Sempra Energy has secured two approvals from the Department of Energy (DOE) for global exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) via the Energía Costa Azul (ECA) liquefaction project under development on Mexico’s Pacific coast.

San Diego-based Sempra Energy executives on Tuesday assured analysts during a 4Q2018 conference call that the Cameron, LA, liquefied natural gas (LNG) export project should begin operations this year.

Sempra Energy on Thursday said it has reached an agreement to sell some U.S. natural gas storage facilities to private equity investor ArcLight Capital Partners LLC for $332 million.

Sempra Energy’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) export project in development on the upper Texas coast has finalized a supply and purchase (SPA) agreement to provide Polish Oil & Gas Co. (PGNiG) with 2 million metric tons/year (mmty) over 20 years.