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USLNG Partnership Turns 10

Remarks from Fred H. Hutchison, LNG Allies Founder and CEO, at the associations celebration of the first decade of USLNG exports.

NextDecade
May 24, 2026

NextDecade’s Bet on Rio Grande

NextDecade’s Longshot Bet on Rio Grande LNG Is Finally Paying Off By Jordan Blum | Fortune | NextDecade, the once-dismissed developer now on the verge of becoming Texas’s top gas exporter from its 1,000-acre Rio Grande LNG complex on the Brownsville Ship Channel. First production is slated for early next year, ahead of schedule, with […]

Commonwealth LNG
May 15, 2026

Commonwealth Takes FID

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 15, 2026 Commonwealth LNG, an essential element of the wellhead-to-water natural gas export project being developed by Caturus, announced today that it had taken a final investment decision (FID) on the 9.5 million tons per annum USLNG export project in Cameron Parish, Louisiana. The FID includes successful closing of $9.75 billion […]

European Union
May 12, 2026

USLNG and EU Security

Ben Cahill and Jen Snyder, Center for Energy and Environmental Systems Analysis, University of Texas at Austin White Paper, May 2026 A white paper from CEESA at the University of Texas at Austin offers a timely and substantive case for USLNG’s indispensability to European energy security, and a direct rebuttal to claims that EU buyers […]

LNG Allies
February 23, 2026

USLNG Partnership Turns 10

USLNG Partners (left to right)… H.E. Jovita Neliupšienė, EU Ambassador to the United States H.E. Zygimantas Vaiciunas, Minister of Energy, Lithuania Fred H. Hutchison, President & CEO, LNG Allies H.E. Stavros Papastavrou, Minister for Environment and Energy, Greece H.E. Milosz Motyka, Minister of Energy, Poland Opening Remarks: Ten Years of US-European LNG Cooperation Fred H. […]

USLNG Industry
August 19, 2025

Podcast: What’s Ahead for USLNG

Jamison Cocklin, Managing Editor, LNG, NGI Hub & Flow Podcast, NGI, Aug. 19, 2025 NGI’s Jamison Cocklin, managing editor of LNG, is joined by LNG Allies CEO Fred Hutchison for a wide-ranging conversation on the historic buildout of natural gas export infrastructure along the Gulf Coast. Fifteen export terminals are operating, being commissioned or under […]

DOE
December 17, 2024

DOE Releases Study

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WASHINGTON, DC. December 17, 2024—Earlier today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) released an update to the economic and environmental studies that help guide decisions to authorize exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the United States to non-Free Trade Agreement nations. The DOE update takes the form of a summary document […]

USLNG Industry
May 22, 2024

USLNG Price Impacts (None)

Debunking the Myth: The Impact of USLNG Exports on Domestic Natural Gas Prices Dr. Dean Foreman, Chief Economist, TXOGA Amid global energy shifts and the rise of the United States to become the world’s top natural gas exporter, a pivotal question arises: Do USLNG exports influence domestic natural gas prices? A recent study I conducted […]

GHG Emissions
April 16, 2024

USLNG Emissions Intensity

Apples to Apples: Comparing the Greenhouse Gas Footprint of USLNG with Other Fuels The USLNG Association (LNG Allies) and the American Exploration and Production Council are working with Berkeley Research Group (BRG) on a framework comparing the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions intensity of U.S. liquefied natural gas (USLNG) and other fuels in top global markets. […]

Export Authorizations
March 17, 2022

DOE Action an Important Signal for Projects

Energy Approves New LNG Licenses Jeremy Beaman, Wash. Examiner (March 17): DOE announced March 16 that it has authorized LNG facilities on the GOM to export additional volumes in the midst of the strain on global energy markets… Fred Hutchison of LNG Allies: “We really view the rhetoric as having changed substantially in the last […]

GHG Emissions
March 16, 2022

USLNG has Lesser Climate Impacts

Which Gas Will Europe Import Now? The Choice Matters to the Climate (RMI) Sasha Bylsma, et. al. (March 16): A quarter of EU energy comes from natural gas, of which nearly 45% is sourced from Russia. While renewable energy is the ultimate goal, a new RMI analysis shows that gas imports into Europe have very […]