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Total SA, which is building out liquefied natural gas (LNG) stakes along the Gulf Coast, has entered a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to help Sempra Energy develop the Cameron, LA, facility, as well as the proposed Energia Costa Azul (ECA) project in Mexico.

Kevin Sagara, 57, has been named chairman and CEO of San Diego Gas and Electric Co., effective Aug. 26. Sagara is president of San Diego-based Sempra Energy renewable energy businesses, which are being sold. Sagara is a 22-year veteran of Sempra.

San Diego-based Sempra Energy senior executives on Monday expressed confidence the holding company’s more focused strategy emphasizing U.S. and Mexico natural gas infrastructure assets will win over skeptics and help ride out the impairments tied to the sale of renewable energy and Gulf Coast storage projects.

Australia-based Woodside Energy Ltd. has decided not to invest in Sempra Energy’s proposed Port Arthur, TX, liquefied natural gas (LNG) project, but plans are moving forward toward a final investment decision (FID) next year, a spokesperson said.

Under pressure from major shareholders, Sempra Energy plans to sell its U.S. renewable energy, midstream businesses and other assets not related to liquefied natural gas (LNG) export projects in the United States and Mexico.

Pushing back against allegations of recordkeeping violations for its connecting transmission pipeline in North San Diego County, Sempra Energy’s two California natural gas utilities are working with state regulators.

One of Central Europe’s leading utilities, Polish Oil & Gas Co. (PGNiG), on Tuesday agreed to take natural gas exports over 20 years from two separate proposed projects that would be sited in Louisiana and Texas.

Sempra Energy is looking to its newly expanded footprints in Texas and across the border in Mexico to drive much-needed future growth, as the California-based company saw some of its utilities struggle in the first quarter of 2018, CEO Jeff Martin said Monday.

Sempra Energy expects to receive regulatory approvals soon for its pending $9.45 billion purchase of 80% of the Texas utility giant Oncor Electric Delivery Co.’s holding company, CEO Debra Reed said Tuesday.