U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright signs an extension for Delfin LNG’s non-FTA export permit at the 2025 CERAWeek conference on March 10, 2025. (Source: Sergio Chapa)
U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright said March 10 that he has approved an extension for exports of LNG by Delfin LNG.
Wright announced the extension to Delfin LNG’s non-FTA export permit while speaking onstage during the 2025 CERAWeek by S&P Global Conference in Houston.
Delfin LNG, a proposed floating LNG (FLNG) offshore export project in the Gulf of Mexico, is authorized to export up to 1.8 Bcf/d of LNG, Wright said.
“This is in addition to previous actions on the Commonwealth and Golden Pass LNG projects,” Wright said, “and our actions to enable the bunkering of LNG for powering tanker ships.”
Delfin LNG had been seeking a five-year extension for its non-FTA export license through June 1, 2029, according to Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) filings.
The DOE had construed the extension request as an application to amend its long-term export orders, Delfin said. However, Delfin was already authorized to export from FLNG vessels in the GoM off Cameron Parish, Louisiana to “any country which has, or in the future develops, the capacity to import LNG via ocean-going carriers,” according to a filing with FERC.
Delfin also said that “much of the infrastructure for Delfin’s project has already been constructed and is in existence, namely the large offshore natural gas pipelines that will transport feed gas to the [offshore liquefaction facilities].” The existing pipelines were “originally constructed to bring offshore production to land but [are] no longer needed for that purpose, avoid[ing] the need to construct new infrastructure,” according to the filing.
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