en.Wedoany.com Reported - South Korea's Samsung Heavy Industries has secured an order worth approximately $2.88 billion to build the first floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) production unit for Delfin Midstream, the developer of an offshore LNG export project in Louisiana, USA.

Samsung Heavy Industries announced in a stock exchange filing on Tuesday that it will build an offshore production facility for an undisclosed North American shipowner. The order is valued at approximately 4.33 trillion won (about $2.88 billion), and Samsung Heavy Industries is scheduled to deliver the unit by July 2030. The company stated that construction of the facility will begin upon receiving a notice to proceed (NTP) from the unnamed North American client. Sources told LNG Prime that Delfin Midstream is the client behind this order.

Delfin's brownfield deepwater port project requires only minimal additional infrastructure investment to support up to three FLNG vessels, with a maximum annual production capacity of 13.2 million tons of LNG. This is the first FLNG project in the United States. In October last year, Delfin Midstream signed a letter of award (LOA) with Samsung Heavy Industries for its first FLNG unit, formally notifying Samsung Heavy Industries that it had been selected as the exclusive EPCI contractor for the first FLNG of the Delfin LNG project, while Delfin secured exclusive use of Samsung Heavy Industries' shipyard. The parties agreed to initiate early intervention work scopes, form a project team, and mitigate overall project schedule risks. In January 2026, Delfin stated that after reaching an extension agreement on the LOA with Samsung Heavy Industries, it expected to make a final investment decision (FID) on its first FLNG unit in February this year. Concurrent with the extension, Delfin also signed an LOA with Black & Veatch to execute a procurement order with Siemens Energy. Prior to this, Delfin reached an agreement with Siemens Energy in July 2025 to reserve manufacturing capacity for SGT-750 gas turbine mechanical drive packages. Delfin has also recently signed a new offtake agreement with Geneva-based energy trader Gunvor.

Including this order, Samsung Heavy Industries has secured orders for 28 vessels worth a total of $8.3 billion this year, comprising 12 LNG carriers, one floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU), and one FLNG. Samsung Heavy Industries recently also received an order for one LNG carrier from interests related to JP Morgan. In January this year, JP Morgan placed orders for two additional LNG carriers with Samsung Heavy Industries. Last month, Stonepeak's Seapeak ordered three LNG carriers from Samsung Heavy Industries. Samsung Heavy Industries has also won orders for two LNG carriers from Greece's TMS Cardiff Gas, three LNG carriers from Celsius Shipping's Celsius Tankers (Denmark), one LNG carrier from London's Purus Marine, and one LNG floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) from Malaysia's MISC. Last year, Samsung Heavy Industries secured orders for 11 LNG carriers.

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