Midstream
Despite a 2.8% drop in liquefied natural gas exports in 2025 because of lost market share in China, Australia anticipates a 2026 rebound as new North West Shelf capacity comes online. Meanwhile, East Coast operators brace for a tsunami of wells entering the decommissioning pipeline and potential energy shortfalls necessitating LNG imports.
Engineering, procurement, construction, and installation awards made at the end of 2025 are expanding Saipem’s role in Turkey’s two largest offshore gas fields, plus Saudi Arabia’s Berri, Abu Safah, and Marjan oil fields and Qatar’s North Field gas giant in the Persian Gulf.
Project financing raised by JP Morgan will enable YPF and its partners Eni and ADNOC’s XRG to launch Phase 2 of Argentina LNG, boosting production to 18 mtpa by 2030–2031.
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Uganda’s Lake Albert appears on track to first oil by 2025. The oil is expected to be exported via the 1443-km East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline. -
The new 42-in. ADCC pipeline will tie the Whistler Pipeline to Cheniere’s Corpus Christi liquefaction facility.
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New liquefaction facility planned for Squamish, British Columbia, is expected online in 2027.
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QatarEnergy has selected Shell as its fifth and final international partner on the expansion project.
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Tellurian awarded a contract that will result in the first application of the service provider's integrated compressor line technology in North America.
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Eni and ConocoPhillips will join TotalEnergies as international partners with QatarEnergy on the North Field East Expansion, the world’s single largest LNG project ever.
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The acquisition expands Targa’s midstream natural gas processing footprint in the active Delaware Basin of New Mexico.
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QatarEnergy has tapped TotalEnergies as its first international joint venture partner for the North Field East expansion—the world’s largest LNG project ever.
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Tanzania has signed an LNG framework agreement to reboot a plan to build an LNG export terminal on the Indian Ocean.
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Bidding is open for a 563-km natural gas pipeline that will expand the country’s natural gas transport capacity by 25%.
