LNG Prime brings you the five most popular news stories on our platform during the week of March 30-April 5, 2026.
1) Washington-based Polar LNG is planning to build a nearshore modular liquefied natural gas (LNG) export project worth up to $8 billion at Prudhoe Bay on Alaska’s North Slope. The company appointed Joel Riddle as president and chief executive officer.
2) Golden Pass LNG, a joint venture owned by energy giants QatarEnergy and ExxonMobil, has received approval from the US FERC to export commissioning cargoes from its LNG plant in Texas.
3) Russian liquefied natural gas (LNG) production rose 6.2 percent in February this year compared to the same month in 2025, according to the Russian statistics agency Rosstat.
4) All three liquefaction trains at Chevron’s giant Gorgon LNG plant on Barrow Island are now operational following a powerful tropical cyclone in Western Australia. However, the restart of the Wheatstone LNG facility plant near Onslow is likely to take a “number of weeks” before production returns to full rates due to damaged equipment.
5) Japan’s JGC and South Korea’s Hyundai Engineering & Construction have been selected as the engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contractor for the TotalEnergies-led Papua LNG project in Papua New Guinea. The final EPC contract award is expected after the project’s final investment decision (FID) in 2026, according to JGC.