(The Center Square) – Federal regulators have begun the review and permitting process for two large-scale liquified natural gas export projects on the Texas coast, one a proposed expansion of an existing plant located near the Louisiana border and the other a potential new build near Mexico.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission this week approved separate pre-filing review requests for the Port Arthur LNG North Project in Jefferson County and the Coastal Bend LNG Project in San Patricio County, recent government filings show.
The two proposed plants are engineered to add a combined 46.2 million tons per year of LNG export capacity along the Texas Gulf Coast. In 2025, U.S. LNG exports reached a record 111 million tons, according to the Department of Energy…