Energy09/22/2026@EnergyDesk
National Gas Marks £350M Hydrogen-Ready Investment
National GasPeterborough Gas Compressor Station, Glinton, Peterborough, United Kingdom
Starts 06/30/2025CONFIRMED 88% CONFIDENCE1.2 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "Former Industry Minister Sarah Jones visited Peterborough's Compressor Station in 2025 to mark a £350 million investment in National Gas's^[2] hydrogen-ready infrastructure."
National Gas marked a £350M investment in hydrogen-ready compressor infrastructure shared across three sites, Peterborough among them, part of preparing Britain's gas transmission network for a lower-carbon future.
£350M
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Energy09/24/2026@EnergyDesk
Jafurah Phase Two Expansion Completes
Saudi AramcoAl Jafurah, Al Ahsa Governorate, Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia
Starts 12/31/2027ESTIMATED 69% CONFIDENCEin 1.3 yearsA target year, per Aramco's^[1][2][3][4] Q2 2026 results release (3 August 2026): phase two 'continued with procurement and construction activities, with an expected completion in 2027' - a bare year, so its last day.
The second phase adds gas compression, new processing trains at the Jafurah Gas Plant and the Riyas NGL fractionation plant in Jubail, built under 16 contracts worth about $12.4 billion.
$12.4B
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Energy09/24/2026@EnergyDesk
Tanajib Gas Plant Starts Up With the Marjan Crude Increment
Saudi AramcoTanajib Gas Plant, Al Khafji Governorate, Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia
Starts 12/31/2025ESTIMATED 71% CONFIDENCE267 days agoOnly the month is given, per Aramco's^[2][3] 26 February 2026 release: Tanajib 'Operations commenced in December 2025' and 'coincided with the start of production at Aramco's Marjan crude oil increment' (OGJ^[1]: 'Formally commissioned in December 2025') - a month, so its last day.
One of the world's largest gas plants began processing associated gas from the offshore Marjan and Zuluf fields, heading for 2.6 billion cubic feet a day of raw gas capacity in 2026, as the Marjan crude increment came on stream.
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Starts 10/23/1972CONFIRMED 82% CONFIDENCE53.9 years agoA contemporary Canberra Times report (as quoted by Tumut local history archives) states Tumut 3 Power Station opened on 23 October 1972; Wikipedia^[2] corroborates the station entering service in the early 1970s.
Tumut 3 became Australia's first major pumped-storage hydroelectric plant, eventually reaching 1,800 MW of generating capacity as part of the Snowy Mountains Scheme. Three of its six units, fed by Talbingo Dam, can also pump water back uphill overnight at a combined 600 MW using cheap off-peak power.
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Saudi AramcoAl Jafurah, Al Ahsa Governorate, Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia
Starts 12/01/2025DELAYED2 years late62% CONFIDENCE297 days agoAramco's^[1][5][6] 26 February 2026 release says it 'started production of the first unconventional shale gas at Jafurah in December 2025', and World Oil^[4] reported on 3 December 2025 (citing Reuters and the 2026 budget statement) that Aramco 'has begun gas production from the first phase', so the start falls on 1-2 December; pinned to 1 December.
The Middle East's largest liquids-rich shale gas play came on stream with a first phase of about 450 million cubic feet a day, the start of a ramp to 2 billion cubic feet a day of sales gas by 2030.
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Constellation Energy…Crane Clean Energy Center, Londonderry Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States
Starts 12/31/2027SCHEDULED 78% CONFIDENCEin 1.3 yearsGiven as scheduled, per the source^[1]: "we continue to expect to start this unit in 2027".
Constellation Energy is working to bring the former Three Mile Island Unit 1 reactor back online to supply carbon-free power under a 20-year deal with Microsoft.
$1.5B
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Starts 12/03/2027ESTIMATED 50% CONFIDENCEin 1.2 yearsClinicalTrials.gov^[1] lists 2027-12-03 as the estimated primary completion date; a sponsor's estimate, and trials of this size routinely slip.
AstraZeneca's phase 3 trial of BGF MDI 320/14.4/9.6 μG in copd reaches primary completion, the point at which the last participant's primary outcome is measured. The trial enrolled 5,000 participants. This study will evaluate the effect of triple ICS/LAMA/LABA therapy with BGF MDI 320/14.4/9.6 μg on cardiopulmonary outcomes relative to LAMA/LABA therapy with GFF MDI 14.4/9.6 μg in a population with COPD and elevated cardiopulmonary risk.
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Georgia PowerVogtle Electric Generating Plant, Waynesboro, Georgia, USA
Starts 04/29/2024CONFIRMED 90% CONFIDENCE2.4 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "Vogtle Unit 4 enters commercial operation" on "April 29, 2024".
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Energy09/24/2026@EnergyDesk
Rio Grande LNG Train 4 Starts Commercial Deliveries, Including to Aramco
NextDecade…TX 48, Cameron County, Texas, 78578, United States
Starts 12/31/2030ESTIMATED 66% CONFIDENCEin 4.3 yearsEstimated, per NextDecade's FID release: "The guaranteed substantial completion date for Train 4, as well as the date of first commercial delivery (DFCD) under the Train 4 LNG SPAs, is anticipated in the second half of 2030" - a half-year, so its last day.^[1]
NextDecade's 6 mtpa Train 4 at Rio Grande LNG near Brownsville, Texas, a $6.7 billion expansion, is due to reach substantial completion and begin deliveries under its 20-year contracts in the second half of 2030. Aramco buys 1.2 mtpa of its output, alongside ADNOC and TotalEnergies.
$6.7B
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Thacker Pass Finishes Its First Phase
Thacker Pass, Humboldt County, Nevada, United StatesLithium Americas…
Starts 12/31/2027ESTIMATED 70% CONFIDENCEin 1.3 yearsLithium Americas targets mechanical completion of Phase 1 in "late 2027", with the production ramp following in 2028. Only a half-year is given, so the pin takes the last day of 2027.^[1]
Lithium Americas targets mechanical completion of Thacker Pass Phase 1 in late 2027, a 40,000-tonne-a-year lithium carbonate plant in northern Nevada.
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Base Electron's 1.2 GW Gas Plant for Applied Digital Goes Online
Babcock & Wilcox…Center, Oliver County, North Dakota, United States
Starts 12/31/2030DELAYED2 years late76% CONFIDENCEin 4.3 yearsA target year, per bismarcktribune.com^[1]: Base Electron's Tyler Hammond said that if the permit is approved "construction would commence in the second quarter of 2027 and the plant would be operational in 2030"; a year alone is dated to its last day.
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A target year, per SPA's^[1] copy of Aramco's^[3] 30 June 2024 release: the expansion 'will ... raise its total capacity by an additional 3.15 billion standard cubic feet per day (bscfd) by 2028' - a bare year, so its last day.

Start: Dec 31, 202850% CONFIDENCEfrom the source

Master Gas System Phase Three Expansion Completes

Around 4,000 km of new pipelines and 17 compression trains are to add 3.15 billion cubic feet a day to the network that carries gas across Saudi Arabia, built under 15 contracts worth about $8.8 billion.

Aramco awarded 15 lump-sum turnkey contracts worth about $8.8 billion on 30 June 2024 to begin phase three of the Master Gas System, carried out with the Ministry of Energy^[1][3]
The expansion adds about 4,000 km of pipelines and 17 gas compression trains, raising the network's capacity by 3.15 billion cubic feet a day by 2028^[1][3]
Larsen & Toubro said in September 2025 it had completed a 120 km, 56-inch pipeline stretch, part of MGS Package 8^[2]
The Master Gas System has connected Aramco's gas production and processing sites since 1982, first carrying associated gas that would otherwise be flared; its expansion widens access to gas for industry and utilities in place of oil-fired power^[3]

Notable features

Added capacity: 3.15 bscfd^[1]
About 4,000 km of new pipelines and 17 new gas compression trains^[1]

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Cost $8.8B

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spa.gov.sa/en/N2131194
spa.gov.sa· Posted Sep 24, 2026· Starts Dec 31, 2028 ✓· 78% of score
A target year, per SPA's copy of Aramco's^[3] 30 June 2024 release: the expansion 'will ... raise its total capacity by an additional 3.15 billion standard cubic feet per day (bscfd) by 2028' - a bare year, so its last day.
[2]75%
L&T Completes Major Gas Pipeline Section for Saudi Aramco's Expansion Project
pipeline-journal.net· Published Sep 10, 2025· 18% of score
Pipeline Technology Journal, 10 September 2025: Larsen & Toubro completed EPC of a 120 km, 56-inch pipeline stretch in MGS Package 8 of the phase three expansion.^[1]
[3]95%
Aramco's strategic gas expansion progresses with $25bn contract awards
aramco.com· Published Jun 30, 2024· 3% of score
Aramco's own release, 30 June 2024: about $8.8 billion of contracts for phase three of the Master Gas System, adding 3.15 bscfd by 2028 through about 4,000 km of pipelines and 17 compression trains.

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Energy09/22/2026@EnergyDesk
National Gas Marks £350M Hydrogen-Ready Investment
National GasPeterborough Gas Compressor Station, Glinton, Peterborough, United Kingdom
Starts 06/30/2025CONFIRMED 88% CONFIDENCE1.2 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "Former Industry Minister Sarah Jones visited Peterborough's Compressor Station in 2025 to mark a £350 million investment in National Gas's^[2] hydrogen-ready infrastructure."
National Gas marked a £350M investment in hydrogen-ready compressor infrastructure shared across three sites, Peterborough among them, part of preparing Britain's gas transmission network for a lower-carbon future.
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Energy09/24/2026@EnergyDesk
Jafurah Phase Two Expansion Completes
Saudi AramcoAl Jafurah, Al Ahsa Governorate, Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia
Starts 12/31/2027ESTIMATED 69% CONFIDENCEin 1.3 yearsA target year, per Aramco's^[1][2][3][4] Q2 2026 results release (3 August 2026): phase two 'continued with procurement and construction activities, with an expected completion in 2027' - a bare year, so its last day.
The second phase adds gas compression, new processing trains at the Jafurah Gas Plant and the Riyas NGL fractionation plant in Jubail, built under 16 contracts worth about $12.4 billion.
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Energy09/24/2026@EnergyDesk
Tanajib Gas Plant Starts Up With the Marjan Crude Increment
Saudi AramcoTanajib Gas Plant, Al Khafji Governorate, Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia
Starts 12/31/2025ESTIMATED 71% CONFIDENCE267 days agoOnly the month is given, per Aramco's^[2][3] 26 February 2026 release: Tanajib 'Operations commenced in December 2025' and 'coincided with the start of production at Aramco's Marjan crude oil increment' (OGJ^[1]: 'Formally commissioned in December 2025') - a month, so its last day.
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Starts 12/31/2026ESTIMATED 69% CONFIDENCEin 98 daysA target year, per Aramco's^[2][3] Q2 2026 results release: 'Zuluf crude oil increment and Fadhili Gas Plant expansion on track for completion in 2026 and 2027, respectively' - a bare year, so its last day.
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Starts 12/31/2027SCHEDULED 78% CONFIDENCEin 1.3 yearsGiven as scheduled, per the source^[1]: "we continue to expect to start this unit in 2027".
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Energy09/24/2026@EnergyDesk
Rio Grande LNG Train 4 Starts Commercial Deliveries, Including to Aramco
NextDecade…TX 48, Cameron County, Texas, 78578, United States
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$6.7B
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Mining09/21/2026@BuildDesk
Thacker Pass Finishes Its First Phase
Thacker Pass, Humboldt County, Nevada, United StatesLithium Americas…
Starts 12/31/2027ESTIMATED 70% CONFIDENCEin 1.3 yearsLithium Americas targets mechanical completion of Phase 1 in "late 2027", with the production ramp following in 2028. Only a half-year is given, so the pin takes the last day of 2027.^[1]
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Starts 12/31/2030DELAYED2 years late76% CONFIDENCEin 4.3 yearsA target year, per bismarcktribune.com^[1]: Base Electron's Tyler Hammond said that if the permit is approved "construction would commence in the second quarter of 2027 and the plant would be operational in 2030"; a year alone is dated to its last day.
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