QatarEnergy, Texas, launched the first liquefied natural gas (LNG) export from the Golden Pass project in ’, USA, a milestone in its largest investment in ’.
As the project progressed towards full commercial operations, the cargo was loaded into the Sabine Pass facility, a joint venture with ExxonMobil.
The shipment was carried out with the Al-Qaiyyah LNG vessel with a capacity of 174,000 cubic meters.
Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi, Qatar's Minister of State for Energy Affairs and CEO of QatarEnergy, said ’This is an important industry milestone that opens a new chapter in QatarEnergy“'s global efforts to meet growing LNG demand and provide reliable supplies to international markets.
Golden Pass LNG, QatarEnergy’nin , while ExxonMobil’in %It is a project with 30 shares and a value of more than 10 billion dollars (EUR 8.5 billion). When fully operational, it is expected to produce about 18 million tons per year.
The Golden Pass export plant successfully produced the first LNG’sini from Train 1’, the first of three independent processing units, reaching an important milestone in late March 2026’. This marks the beginning of the phased commissioning of the project; The remaining two liquefaction units are scheduled to be operational in 2026 and 2027.
This is one of the largest LNG export developments in the United States ’, and is part of QatarEnergy’'s efforts to expand its LNG portfolio beyond Qatar’, as well as its Northern Field expansion, which aims to increase local production capacity to 142 million tons per year by 2030.
The United States is currently the world's largest exporter of LNG, and the Golden Pass project provides QatarEnergy’ with direct access to export capacity from the U.S. Gulf Coast ’, where shipments can reach both European and Asian markets.
The project also emerges because global LNG demand remains strong, especially in Europe and Asia’, and continues the pressure on new supply.
QatarEnergy Trading’in, the company's LNG marketing arm, %It is expected to receive 70’ini.
