Venture Global

As the world scrambles for more LNG, Chart Industries Inc. CEO Jillian Evanko sees the way that projects are built is changing rapidly in a way that’s allowing developers to deliver the super-chilled fuel faster. Timelines on projects that once took years to build are shrinking as more equipment for smaller, modular projects is being…

Venture Global LNG Inc. has secured a 20-year sales and procurement agreement (SPA) for a combined 1.5 million metric tons/year (mmty) from its two Louisiana natural gas export facilities with one of Germany’s largest energy firms.The SPA clinched by the Arlington, VA-based liquefied natural gas (LNG) infrastructure company is with EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG. EnBW…

The American Petroleum Institute (API) has put forth a 10-point policy plan it wants the Biden administration to adopt to promote U.S. oil and natural gas production – and ease the global energy crisis. “As energy costs and geopolitical instability around the world continue to rise, API is calling on policymakers to confront the global…

Enbridge Inc. is moving forward with a pair of pipeline expansion projects that would deliver 1.5 Bcf/d of natural gas to the Plaquemines liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal recently sanctioned by Venture Global Inc. The Gator Express Meter (GEM) and Venice Extension projects would involve 36-inch diameter pipeline, metering and compressor station additions and…

Venture Global LNG Inc. has netted another sales and purchase agreement (SPA) for its proposed Plaquemines liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal with a major Asian buyer, pushing the project’s contracted offtake to the 80% mark. A 1 million metric ton/year (mmty) 20-year contract was announced Wednesday with a subsidiary of Malaysia’s state-owned Petroliam Nasional Berhad,…

Venture Global LNG Inc. is progressing its planned liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects in Louisiana after securing twin offtake agreements with an ExxonMobil affiliate. The Arlington, VA-based company inked two 20-year sale and purchase agreements (SPA) for a combined 2 million metric tons/year (mmty) with ExxonMobil Asia Pacific Pte Ltd. The affiliate may split the…

The first cargo of liquefied natural gas (LNG) has departed the Calcasieu Pass export terminal in Louisiana, providing additional American supplies to a tight market uneasy about war in Ukraine.  Venture Global LNG Inc., which owns Calcasieu Pass, said a subsidiary of Jera Co. Inc. chartered the Greece-flagged vessel Yiannis to load the first cargo.…

Repsol SA has agreed to purchase liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Venture Global LNG Inc.’s Plaquemines export project in Louisiana.  The Spanish-based energy major agreed to the deal in January. Repsol would take 18.25 Bcf of LNG over three years, according to a filing with the U.S. Department of Energy. Initial construction activities started in…

FERC has authorized Venture Global LNG Inc. to load its first liquefied natural gas (LNG) export cargo from its Calcasieu Pass terminal in Louisiana.  The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission cleared the terminal’s first commissioning cargo Friday, one week after the company requested authorization to load an LNG tanker on or after February 9.  The Greece-flagged…