NextDecade Corporation

NextDecade develops liquefied natural gas export infrastructure on the Texas Gulf Coast. The Houston-based, Nasdaq-listed company (NEXT) was founded in 2010 and is building Rio Grande LNG at the Port of Brownsville, a terminal permitted for up to 48 million tonnes a year of liquefaction capacity. Bechtel holds the engineering, procurement, and construction contract, and the first phase carries an estimated $18 billion price tag. Beyond liquefaction, NextDecade is pursuing carbon capture and storage tied to the facility. As the project’s developer and owner, the company sits at the center of one of the largest energy construction jobs underway in the United States, shaping a stretch of the South Texas coast.

NextDecade Corporation is a Houston-based energy developer whose work sits at the construction-and-infrastructure end of the natural gas business rather than the residential trades. Its predecessor, NextDecade LLC, was founded in 2010 to develop LNG export projects and associated pipelines; the current public company took shape in 2017 and trades on the Nasdaq under the ticker NEXT.

The company’s defining project is Rio Grande LNG, a natural gas liquefaction and export facility on the Gulf Coast near Brownsville in the Rio Grande Valley. The first five liquefaction trains and their supporting infrastructure are under construction, a multi-year build that has drawn thousands of construction jobs to South Texas.

For an audience of contractors and suppliers, NextDecade is most relevant as a project owner and developer: it advances liquefaction and export infrastructure, associated pipeline capacity, and has publicly pursued carbon capture and storage tied to the Rio Grande site. That places it upstream of the general contractors, mechanical firms and site-works crews that a large LNG build depends on.

Anyone using this directory to reach NextDecade should treat the Houston office as the corporate contact point and the Rio Grande Valley as the active construction footprint. This is an infrastructure developer at industrial scale, not a service company taking individual project calls.