U.S. liquefied pure gasoline (LNG) export undertaking developer Enterprise World has introduced a plan for a serious growth of its LNG facility south of New Orleans, Louisiana.

Enterprise World proposes to develop the lately inaugurated Plaquemines plant’s beforehand envisaged capability of 27 million tonnes each year (mtpa) by over 18 mtpa, bringing the anticipated complete to over 45 mtpa. The plan is to do that by including 24 trains, which requires a further $18 billion funding.

The U.S. participant shared the plan for the brownfield growth of its LNG facility on March 6, 2025. U.S. Secretary of Power Chris Wright, Secretary of the Inside Doug Burgum, Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry, and different federal, state, and native officers and stakeholders had been current through the announcement.

“Our deliberate growth of Plaquemines will make it the most important LNG export facility in-built North America, supplying LNG to our allies whereas making a considerable influence on the U.S. steadiness of commerce,” mentioned Enterprise World CEO, Mike Sabel. 

“We consider this versatile incremental capability will place us to reply quickly to market development indicators. In a capital-intensive commodity business, capital will at all times circulate to essentially the most aggressive initiatives, and we consider that an growth of Plaquemines is without doubt one of the most economically environment friendly alternatives out there to rapidly meet rising LNG demand.”

Accepted throughout President Trump’s first time period, Plaquemines LNG is claimed to be the most recent LNG export facility to return on-line in america. The primary manufacturing was achieved on December 14, 2024, with first cargo departing to Germany lower than two weeks later.

A last funding resolution on the Plaquemines growth is anticipated to observe the primary manufacturing on the agency’s CP2 LNG terminal. The US participant claims to be in an “superior stage” of engineering with main procurement work underway for the CP2 LNG Mission

The proposed terminal was lately discovered to have “no important” emission impacts in a draft supplemental environmental influence assertion (EIS) ready by the U.S. Federal Power Regulatory Fee (FERC).