Port Arthur LNG Phase 2 Receives Non-FTA Export Authorization

Trump’s DOE Issues First Final Export Approval to Sempra’s Port Arthur LNG

After campaigning on a promise to accelerate the U.S. energy industry, the Trump administration issued its first final LNG export approval which went...

Sempra’s Port Arthur LNG facility gets final permit from federal government

A massive liquified natural gas facility that a subsidiary of San Diego-based energy giant Sempra is building on the Gulf Coast of Texas received a long-awaited permit from the federal government on Thursday. U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright announced that the second phase of the Port Arthur LNG project obtained approval to export liquified natural gas, or LNG, to countries without free trade agreements with the United States. The authoriza…

Sempra's Port Arthur Phase 2 approved to export LNG

Port Arthur LNG Phase 2 Receives Non-FTA Export Authorization

HOUSTON, May 29, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Sempra Infrastructure, a subsidiary of Sempra (NYSE: SRE), today announced that the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) issued a permit to the Port Arthur LNG Phase 2 development project to allow the export of…

Sempra gets non-FTA approval for Port Arthur LNG expansion

DOE noted in a statement on Thursday that the final authorization for LNG exports to non-free trade agreement (non-FTA) countries from Port Arthur LNG Phase II follows the recent response to comments on the 2024 LNG export study. “This is the first final LNG export approval under President Trump’s leadership and marks another step in restoring regular order to LNG export permitting–reversing the previous administration’s pause and delivering on …

Port Arthur LNG Phase 2 receives non-FTA export authorisation

The U.S. Department of Energy has issued a permit to Sempra Infrastructure for the Port Arthur LNG Phase 2 development project to allow the export of US-produced LNG to countries that do not have a free-trade agreement with the US.