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Top 5 news of the week September 8-14

By LNG Prime Staff
Image: NextDecade

LNG Prime brings you the five most popular news stories on our platform during the week of September 8-14, 2025.

1) US LNG firm NextDecade has made a final investment decision on the fourth train at its Rio Grande LNG facility in Texas.

NextDecade takes FID on fourth Rio Grande LNG train

2) Houston-based Monkey Island LNG, the developer of a 26 mtpa liquefaction and export facility in Cameron Parish, Louisiana, said it had signed a memorandum of understanding with an unidentified international oil company for the offtake of LNG.

Monkey Island LNG pens offtake MoU

3) US energy firm Glenfarne and Posco International, a unit of South Korean steel producer Posco, have signed a deal to advance a strategic partnership for the development of the Alaska LNG project. This includes initial terms for a long-term heads of agreement for LNG supply.

Posco International, Glenfarne ink Alaska LNG pact

4) Chinese shipbuilder Hudong-Zhonghua has received approvals from five classification societies for a 25,000-cbm LNG bunkering vessel design it jointly developed with French LNG containment specialist GTT.

Hudong-Zhonghua gets approvals for new LNG bunkering vessel

5) UK-based LNG giant Shell has signed a long-term deal to supply US LNG to Italian energy firm Edison, a unit of EDF.

Shell pens US LNG supply deal with Edison

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