LNG Prime brings you the five most popular news stories on our platform during the week of September 28-October 4, 2026.
1) French energy giant TotalEnergies plans to expand its Mozambique LNG project, currently under construction in Cabo Delgado province, with a second phase, according to management.
2) UK-based LNG giant Shell and its LNG Canada partners have made a final investment decision on the project’s second phase, which will double production capacity at the facility in Kitimat, British Columbia.
3) US LNG developer NextDecade has secured a green light from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to increase approved capacity at its Rio Grande LNG terminal in the Port of Brownsville, Texas.
4) Kinetics, a unit of Turkiye’s Karpowership, confirmed on Wednesday that it will further expand its LNG infrastructure fleet by converting the LNG carrier Arctic Voyager into a floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU).
5) Dutch gas grid operator Gasunie and German energy firm RWE have completed raising the roof on the first LNG storage tank at the German government-backed onshore LNG import terminal in Brunsbuttel.