Three companies developing liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects in Texas and Louisiana said they will move full speed ahead with their plans after U.S. President Donald Trump lifted the previous administration's freeze on export permits.

President Donald Trump has lifted a moratorium on new US licenses to export liquefied natural gas, making good on a campaign pledge to rescind the measure enacted by the Biden administration.

France's TotalEnergies has further delayed its $20 billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in Mozambique, citing ongoing security concerns, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.

TotalEnergies SE hired a Washington lobbyist to help approve key export financing in an effort to revive its Mozambique liquefied natural gas project, which has been on hold for years due to security threats.

TotalEnergies has further delayed its troubled $20bn liquefied natural gas project in Mozambique as security concerns and political uncertainty dog one of Africa’s biggest energy investments.

"Portugal to increase LNG purchases from US, Nigeria, reduce Russian imports" was originally created and published by Offshore Technology, a GlobalData owned brand.

Portugal imported 49,141 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of natural gas in 2024, of which around 96% was LNG, data from electricity and gas grids operator REN shows. Nigeria accounted for 51% of those LNG deliveries,

Portugal has listed Nigeria alongside the United States as one of the countries it aims to get its supply of liquified natural gas (LNG) from. ・Portugal aims to get LNG supply from Nigeria and the United States due to shortage from the Russian market.