2025-22816: Plaquemines Expansion, LLC; Application for Long-Term Authorization To Export Liquefied Natural Gas to Non-Free Trade Agreement Nations

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Summary

The Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) of the Department of Energy (DOE) gives notice (Notice) of receipt of an application (Application), filed by Plaquemines Expansion, LLC (Plaquemines Expansion) on November 17, 2025. Plaquemines Expansion requests long-term, multi-contract authorization to export domestically produced liquefied natural gas (LNG) in a volume equivalent to approximately 1,624.25 billion cubic feet (Bcf) of natural gas per year (Bcf/yr). Plaquemines Expansion seeks to export this LNG from the Plaquemines LNG Terminal (Plaquemines Terminal), constructed and operated by its affiliate Venture Global Plaquemines LNG, LLC (Plaquemines LNG) in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, including the LNG loading berth to be constructed as part of the proposed Plaquemines Expansion Project (Expansion Project). Plaquemines Expansion filed the Application under the Natural Gas Act (NGA).

The agency’s own summary, as published.

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