21 July 2026 Key facts: Commercial LNG trade began with CAMEL/Arzew in 1964. Global LNG liquefaction capacity reached approximately 525 MTPA by the end of 2025—more than 500× its initial scale. Around 300 bcm/y of additional LNG export capacity is expected by 2030, led primarily by the United States and Qatar. The chart highlights ten projects and expansion waves that fundamentally changed LNG trade routes, production scale and the geography of global supply. 10 LNG industry

26 July 2026 Operating today: ~17 MTPA • New capacity pipeline: ~61 MTPA Evolution: Purpose-built → Barge-based → LNG Carrier Conversion → Deepwater Expansion → Standardised Multi-FLNG Export Hubs Generation I – Purpose-built FLNG 🇲🇾 PFLNG Satu (Malaysia, 2017) — 1.2 MTPA First commercial FLNG. Generation II – Barge-based FLNG 🇦🇷🇨🇬 Tango FLNG (Argentina, 2019 → Republic of Congo, 2023) — 0.5–0.6 MTPA First commercial deployment in Argentina (2019). First commercially re

26 July 2026 Key facts: Under construction: 18 MTPA (6 projects) Advanced pre-FID: 34 MTPA (5 projects) Early-stage concepts: 10 MTPA (3 projects) Total identified pipeline: ~63 MTPA (14 projects) Evolution: Purpose-built FLNG → Barge-based FLNG → LNG Carrier Conversion → Deepwater FLNG → Standardised Designs → Multi-FLNG Export Hubs Innovations: Single FLNG → Multi-FLNG export hubs with shared infrastructure Bespoke designs → Standardised platforms Dedicated infrastructure →

23 July 2026 Low-cost pioneers → Scale-up → CAPEX inflation → A new optimisation phase Over six decades, LNG plant CAPEX has traced an inverted U-curve. $140/tpa (1964) — small, simple first-generation LNG plants. $2,500/tpa (2016) — Australian megaprojects set the CAPEX record. $610/tpa (2026/27) — North Field East sets today's lowest publicly comparable benchmark for world-scale LNG plants. CAPEX evolution 🔹 1964–1983 | Low-cost pioneers Smaller trains, mature locations an