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Cheniere Energy Inc.

  April 14, 2012

The natural gas importer is poised to become the sole US exporter of fuel from the shale bonanza that’s turned the nation into the world’s biggest gas producer. The government may decide soon on Cheniere’s request to build a $10 billion Louisiana plant to liquefy gas and load it onto tankers. As the only firm with a 20-year Energy Department license to export continental LNG gas to nations without US free-trade pacts, Cheniere will have a near-monopoly.

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