{"id":182762,"date":"2026-02-27T10:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T10:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/182762\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T10:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T10:02:08","slug":"corpus-christi-becomes-second-largest-us-lng-export-project-thanks-to-export-expansion-approval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/182762\/","title":{"rendered":"Corpus Christi becomes second-largest US LNG export project thanks to export expansion approval"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Energy Department has approved a 12% expansion in exports at Cheniere Energy\u2019s Corpus Christi liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal, located on the La Quinta Ship Channel in South Texas.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Corpus_Christi_LNG-768x432.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large\" alt=\"\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Corpus Christi LNG; Source: Bechtel<\/p>\n<p>The authorization, signed by U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright, allows additional exports of up to 0.47 billion cubic feet per day (bcf\/d) of U.S. natural gas as LNG to non-free trade agreement (non-FTA) countries from Trains 8 and 9 of the Corpus Christi\u00a0Stage 3 project\u00a0(CCL Stage 3), known as the Midscale Trains 8 &amp; 9 Project.<\/p>\n<p>\u202fWith this, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.offshore-energy.biz\/tag\/corpus-christi-lng\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Corpus Christi LNG<\/a> is authorized to export a total of 4.45 bcf\/d, making it the second-largest LNG export project in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the last ten years, American innovation and President Trump\u2019s leadership transformed the United States into the world\u2019s largest exporter of LNG,\u201d Wright said. \u201cThis order helps further strengthen America\u2019s LNG export capacity, delivering peace abroad and prosperity for Americans at home. I could not be prouder to be here today in Corpus Christi, standing alongside the American workers responsible for unleashing American energy dominance.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Corpus Christi LNG has been operating as an export terminal since 2018. Cheniere Energy\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.offshore-energy.biz\/two-train-expansion-of-chenieres-south-texas-lng-terminal-is-a-go\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">announced a positive final investment decision (FID)<\/a> for Trains 8 and 9 in June 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/admin-ajax.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"OE logo\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Power Your Brand With Offshore Energy \u2935\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>Take the spotlight and anchor your brand in the heart of the offshore world! <\/p>\n<p>Join us for a bigger impact and amplify your presence at the core hub of the offshore energy community!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The U.S. Energy Department has approved a 12% expansion in exports at Cheniere Energy\u2019s Corpus Christi liquefied natural&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,19865,156,19866],"class_list":["post-182762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-lng","tag-corpus-christi-news","tag-corpus-christi-stage-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}