A years-long effort by developer Energy Transfer to convert a natural gas import regasification plant in Lake Charles, La., to a liquefied gas export terminal progressed this month with the firm naming an EPC joint venture and pressing the U.S. Energy Dept. for an export license for the project, despite a Biden administration pause in granting them.  

In a Sept. 19 release, Energy Transfer says it selected Houston-based engineer KBR and France-based Technip Energies for engineering, procurement, fabrication and construction of the Lake Charles LNG project.