Why the UAE Is Taking a Bigger Piece of America’s LNG Crown Jewel

As might be expected in the zero-sum game of global energy, there is much more than meets the eye to the acquisition by Abu Dhabi-headquartered international investment company XRG of an additional equity interest in Trains (self-contained production facilities) 4 and 5 of the U.S.’s flagship Rio Grande liquefied natural gas (LNG) project at the Port of Brownsville, Texas.

In practical terms, this gives the firm that is wholly owned by the UAE’s oil and gas giant Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) much deeper exposure to one of…