Natural Gas and LNG Decisions Meet in New Orleans

LDC Gas Forum Gulf Coast 2026 brings natural gas and LNG professionals together in New Orleans to discuss supply, demand, infrastructure, pricing, technology, and Gulf Coast LNG growth.

More LNG export capacity affects far more than the terminal gate. Feedgas demand changes regional flows, pipeline use, storage needs, basis, and supply planning across the Gulf Coast.

The eighth annual forum takes place October 14 to 16, 2026, at the Westin New Orleans Canal Place.

Event Details

Location

Why the Gulf Coast Matters

The U.S. Gulf Coast serves as a major center for LNG exports and natural gas demand.

New export terminals are entering service, while existing facilities continue to expand. Each project adds feedgas requirements and changes how supply moves into and across the region.

LNG represents one source of demand. Power generation, AI data centers, utilities, petrochemical facilities, manufacturing plants, and exports to Mexico also depend on regional gas supply.

This mix creates competition for gas and pressure on infrastructure. Buyers need reliable volumes and flexible contract terms. Sellers need access to growing markets. Pipelines and storage operators need to prepare for changing flow patterns.

The forum gives each group a place to compare plans and understand how decisions across the value chain affect their business.

What the 2026 Agenda Covers

The 2026 program focuses on the commercial issues shaping Gulf Coast natural gas and LNG activity.

Key topics include:

• Regional supply, demand, pricing, basis, volatility, and storage
• LNG terminal capacity, global demand, feedgas needs, and new projects
• Producing basins supplying Gulf Coast LNG facilities
• Pipeline, storage, distribution, and virtual pipeline development
• Power generation, AI data centers, industrial demand, and gas-electric coordination
• Policy, regulation, affordability, security, automation, and AI

These discussions connect market forecasts with the contracts, transportation plans, and operating decisions behind each transaction.

Market Fundamentals with Commercial Context

Market numbers matter, but business teams also need context behind those numbers.

The program examines supply balances by basin and demand by segment. Sessions also cover pricing forecasts, basis differentials, volatility, storage inventories, weather, geopolitics, policy, and regulation.

For buyers and sellers, this context supports better portfolio decisions. For operations teams, market changes influence nominations, transportation, storage, and customer requirements.

The forum places market analysis beside practical commercial discussion, helping attendees connect broad trends with daily work.

Infrastructure Must Keep Pace

New demand needs physical capacity.

The agenda examines pipeline, storage, distribution, and virtual pipeline development across the Gulf Coast. Speakers will address existing constraints, planned projects, changing transportation patterns, intraday balancing, and gas-electric coordination.

Storage plays an important role when weather, power load, and LNG feedgas demand change quickly. Available storage gives commercial and operations teams more flexibility when actual requirements move away from forecasts.

Virtual pipeline services also support customers and projects where fixed infrastructure does not meet timing or location needs.

These infrastructure decisions affect where gas moves, how much flexibility buyers receive, and which markets producers and marketers reach.

LNG Growth Reshapes Regional Gas Flows

Growth in LNG exports is drawing more supply toward the Gulf Coast.

Additional producing basins are connecting with the region, and historical transportation patterns are changing. The Gulf Coast also serves as an important route for gas moving toward the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic.

These changes affect more than pipeline operators. Producers need access to demand. Marketers need dependable transportation. LNG facilities need reliable feedgas. Buyers need supply arrangements suited to changing market conditions.

The forum brings these perspectives into the same discussion.

Scott Vogan Joins the Technology Panel

Scott Vogan, SVP Sales & Marketing at nGenue, will speak at Gulf Coast Energy Forum 2026.

The session will focus on practical technology choices across natural gas and LNG commercial workflows. The discussion will address automation, operating efficiency, security risk, AI use cases, deployment limits, workforce impact, and daily process improvement.

Scott’s participation brings nGenue’s perspective on aligning technology decisions with real operational needs and business outcomes.

Session Details

Date: Thursday, October 15, 2026

Time: 3:15 pm to 4:30 pm CDT

Panel: Technology, Not a Threat, an Opportunity: Leveraging Innovative Technology Solutions to Seize Opportunities and Overcome Challenges.

Built for Industry Conversations

The event draws LNG facility operators, transporters, shipping companies, traders, marketers, producers, pipelines, LDCs, utilities, end users, regulators, analysts, and service providers.

This mix supports conversations across the full commercial chain. A producer hears what buyers need. A pipeline team learns where demand is growing. An LNG operator gains perspectives from supply, transportation, and end-use markets.

The schedule also includes networking breakfasts, breaks, group activities, lunches, and receptions.

You gain market context during the sessions and time to discuss business needs directly with customers, suppliers, partners, and industry peers.

Connect with nGenue

The nGenue team attending Gulf Coast Energy Forum 2026 includes:

Commercial growth creates more operational work. Every new agreement adds contract terms, nominations, schedules, price calculations, invoices, settlements, and reporting requirements.

nGenue develops software specifically for natural gas companies. The platform connects wholesale and retail workflows across contracts, pricing, scheduling, nominations, billing, settlements, producer data, LDC delivery data, and reporting.

When information lives across spreadsheets and separate applications, teams spend more time checking records, tracing errors, and moving data between systems. Connected information gives commercial, operations, and finance teams a shared view of each transaction.

Meet Scott, Sean, Esti and Stephen in New Orleans to discuss your current gas management processes. Bring the workflows creating delays, repeated data entry, billing exceptions, manual handoffs, or limited visibility.

The nGenue team will discuss how a connected natural gas management system supports your operation from contract setup through billing and reporting.