LNG Prime brings you the five most popular news stories on our platform during the week of May 25-31, 2026.
1) A unit of Cheniere Energy Partners has entered into a lump sum, turnkey, engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contract with Bechtel for the first phase of the Sabine Pass LNG expansion project in Louisiana.
2) Switzerland-based energy trader Mercuria and Greece’s Motor Oil signed a memorandum of understanding to jointly work on the latter’s Dioriga Gas FSRU-based LNG import project in Greece’s Saronic Gulf.
3) South Korean shipbuilder Hanwha Ocean has laid the keel for MOL’s floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU), which will serve Singapore’s second LNG import terminal.
4) South Korean shipbuilding giant Samsung Heavy Industries has secured an order to build one liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier for approximately $252 million.
5) German gas and LNG importer Securing Energy for Europe (SEFE) has signed a preliminary deal with Ksi Lisims LNG to buy LNG from the latter’s planned export project in Canada.