Developers expanding a gas export terminal in Louisiana have five more years to finish the project, after federal regulators signed off on a request for more time.
In a two-page letter, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission said Cameron LNG now has until March 2033 to complete the expansion and make it available for service, having shown a “continued commitment” to the project in southwest Louisiana.
Cameron LNG, majority owned by Sempra Infrastructure, has also asked the Department of Energy to extend the deadline to begin shipments of liquefied natural gas from the project — from May 2026 out to March 2033 — to non-free-trade-agreement countries. The comment period on that request is still open.
The Cameron expansion project would have a maximum production capacity of roughly 6.75 million metric tons of LNG a year and would add to the three operational trains at the Cameron LNG site. Those units started up sequentially in 2019 and 2020.
