It was already a tough road back in 2018 for Dallas-based Navigator Energy Services and project partner Tulsa-based Magellan Midstream when they launched, then extended, an open season to attract transportation commitments for their proposed Voyager pipeline. Call it bad timing....

Back in 2019 when it seemed everyone and their dog looked to partner up to build an LNG export facility on the Gulf Coast, Dallas-based Energy Transfer caught a meaty bone. A bone in the form of a framework agreement with Shell to share the estimated cost of $10.9 billion to $13.2 billion to build the 16.5 MTPA Lake Charles LNG terminal project where ET already owned the existing regasification facility in Lake Charles, La., originally built in 1982. ...