March 4, 2025--Written by Daniel Graeber for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--With shovels barely in the ground, liquefied natural gas (LNG) developer NextDecade Corporation (NASDAQ:NEXT) (Houston, Texas) said it's already planning for expansions at its emerging Rio Grande facility near the Brownsville shipping channel on the Texas Gulf Coast.

NextDecade planned for a five-train facility that would have a peak processing capacity of 3.73 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d). The company now says it's preparing for the permitting process for a sixth train and started development of trains 7 and 8.