LNG Prime brings you the five most popular news stories on our platform during the week of June 1-7, 2026.
1) South Korea’s Samsung Heavy Industries has secured an order worth approximately $2.88 billion to build the first floating LNG production unit for Delfin Midstream, the US developer of a floating LNG export project offshore Louisiana.
2) Delfin Midstream has taken a final investment decision for the first 4.4 mtpa floating liquefied natural gas unit of its LNG project under development in Louisiana. Delfin says the FLNG is the first floating liquefaction facility in the United States and the world’s largest FLNG.
3) A unit of Canadian firm Frontera Energy has entered into a deal with a US-based FSRU player to charter one floating storage and regasification unit which will be installed in Cartagena, Colombia. The company also entered into a take-or-pay agreement with Colombia’s state-owned energy firm Ecopetrol to provide integrated logistics and LNG regasification services.
4) US energy giant ExxonMobil has appointed Johanna Boothey as lead country manager and chairperson of its unit in Mozambique.
5) A unit of Australia’s Macquarie has agreed to buy more LNG from Amigo LNG’s planned 7.8 mtpa LNG export plant in Mexico.