New Fortress Energy Brand Guidelines: Wes Edens’ 2014 LNG Firm, Fast LNG & a 2026 Reset

A conversion project that went overseas.

New Fortress Energy, often shortened to NFE, is a New York–based natural gas and LNG infrastructure company. English Wikipedia says it was founded in 2014 by Wes Edens, the co-founder of the investment firm Fortress Investment Group. The company tells its origin as a conversion project: its founder, it says, set out to run a freight railway on liquefied natural gas, and in doing so built what the company calls Florida’s first LNG production facility.

From there the business turned to islands and coasts that relied on oil for power. In 2019, English Wikipedia says, citing the Jamaica Gleaner, NFE built a floating LNG terminal at Old Harbour Bay in Jamaica; the company describes its Jamaican investment as delivering the island’s first LNG. Its Puerto Rico facility at the Port of San Juan, which supplies the San Juan combined-cycle power plant and has truck-loading bays, was commissioned in April 2020, the company says, and an onshore import terminal at the Port of Pichilingue in Baja California Sur, Mexico, followed in 2021, with a power plant beside it.

The company’s shares listed on Nasdaq under the ticker NFE. In January 2021, English Wikipedia says, citing Natural Gas Intelligence, NFE announced that it would buy Hygo Energy Transition and Golar LNG Partners, the shipping arm of Golar LNG, to expand its presence in Brazil. Its website describes the result as an integrated chain: liquefaction, onshore and offshore regasification terminals, pipelines, power plants and small-scale supply, run end to end.

Fast LNG, Altamira and a sale in Jamaica.

NFE’s most distinctive project was offshore liquefaction. The company says it began developing floating LNG in 2021 under the name Fast LNG, a modular design of its own. Its first unit, FLNG 1, is moored off Altamira on Mexico’s Gulf coast in partnership with CFE, Mexico’s state-owned electricity utility, and takes gas from the Sur de Texas–Tuxpan pipeline. The company’s milestone log records the gas-treatment rig Pioneer I, the liquefaction rig Pioneer II and a third rig, Pioneer III, all on site by October 2023; first gas in November 2023; first LNG in July 2024; and a first full cargo loaded onto the Energos Princess for Europe in September 2024.

Elsewhere the company lists projects in development rather than in service. On the Shannon Estuary in County Kerry, Ireland, it describes a planned LNG terminal and combined-cycle power plant to be called the Shannon Technology and Energy Park. Near Puerto Sandino in Nicaragua it describes a gas-fired power plant fed by an offshore receiving and regasification facility. In Puerto Rico its news pages report an extension of its island-wide gas supply contract and the approval of a long-term supply agreement with the government.

Some assets changed hands. Excelerate Energy completed its previously announced purchase of NFE’s business in Jamaica, LNG Prime reported on 15 May 2025, closing the chapter that had begun at Old Harbour Bay six years earlier.

How gas companies present themselves.

LNG and natural-gas companies sell something few customers ever see. Gas is cooled to a liquid, carried across oceans and warmed back into gas before it reaches a power station, a factory or a kitchen, so the companies in this guide tend to present themselves through the places and machines that do that work rather than through the product itself.

For exporters, the plant is the picture. Websites and press releases show liquefaction trains, storage tanks and loading docks, often lit at dusk or photographed from the air, and describe each site by its location, acreage and capacity in million tonnes a year. Shipping and floating-terminal companies lean on their vessels instead: membrane tankers, floating storage and regasification units and floating liquefaction ships, each with its own name. Utilities and gas distributors tend to come closer to home, with blue flames, kitchen hobs and heating, and with tariffs and service pages.

The other common thread is time. Projects are told as sequences of milestones: permits, sales agreements, a final investment decision, first cargo and the start of commercial operations, each with a date. Investor presentations add capacity charts, contract tables and maps of buyers in Europe and Asia, while safety, environment and community pages, along with grievance and regulatory notices, sit alongside them, often written for the neighbours of a plant as much as for its customers.

This guide sets out what can be checked about each company: who founded it, who owns it, where its plants and ships operate, and what has happened to them, including outages, disputes and changes of ownership, stated with dates. It marks clearly what rests only on the company’s own word, and the colours and typefaces shown are our own unofficial interpretation, not any company’s brand standard.

A restructuring and a “New NFE.”

By 2026 the company was restructuring its debt through a UK restructuring plan between its subsidiaries and certain of their creditors. According to NFE’s release of 11 September 2026, published on Business Wire, the plan was approved on 18 June 2026, the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York recognised it on 26 June 2026, and the restructuring took effect on 11 September 2026.

The outcome reshaped the company. The Brazilian business was separated into a standalone company, BrazilCo, whose equity went to the plan creditors; the rest became what the company calls “New NFE,” in which those creditors received preferred equity and 65 percent of the common equity, the release says. TipRanks reported on 12 September 2026 that the company also carried out a one-for-fifty reverse stock split and refreshed its board, and Seeking Alpha reported that trading in the shares was halted on the day the restructuring completed. Edens stayed on as chief executive and called it “a new beginning for our company”; he described New NFE as owning LNG and power assets, terminal operations and logistics in Mexico and Puerto Rico.

Through all of this the brand has kept an upbeat voice. Its website line is “We believe in the power of positive energy,” its stated vision is “We want to light the world,” and its stories pages profile engineers, plant staff and parents among its employees under the same positive-energy banner, alongside explainers on how LNG is produced. Its operations page presents the business as running totals, counting throughput capacity, truck-loading operations, ship-transfer operations, customers served and ships across several geographies.

For a design guide, New Fortress Energy shows how an infrastructure company can carry a warm, people-first voice across terminals, rigs and ships while its balance sheet is rebuilt. Compare Excelerate Energy, which bought its Jamaica business, and Golar LNG, whose former shipping partnership it agreed to buy in 2021. For this guide we use a harbour navy, an island amber and sea-mist greys with a sans, an unofficial interpretation; no product or logo is reproduced.

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