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May 3 (Reuters) - Cheniere Energy is the only company to have received full approval from U.S. federal energyregulators to export domestic supplies of natural gas and to construct a U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal. On Friday, Houston-based Cheniere said in a first-quarter earnings report that as of March 31 it had completed some 26percent of the construction of the first two trains of its Sabine Pass LNG export terminal in Louisiana. A "train" liquefiesnatural gas preparing it for export. In March, Centrica, which owns Britain's largest household energy supplier, British Gas, inked an agreement with Cheniere tobuy some 89 billion cubic feet of gas per year from the Sabine Pass facility to diversify its supplies. Domestic shale gas supplies have flattened U.S. gas prices and producers and terminal owners have lined up to build gasexport facilities to serve higher-priced European and Asian markets. In addition to the 12 projects proposed to U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), there are potentially anothersix U.S. projects that may go forward, and five potential and proposed sites in Canada. Potential sites are those which have been outlined by terminal developers and may have received a U.S. Department of Energypermit to export natural gas, but may not have begun the process with FERC to gain approval to site, construct and operate anLNG export terminal. Below is a table showing the proposed and potential LNG export plants according to FERC as of April 17. Capacity is inbillion cubic feet per day. Approved by FERC Project State Company Start Up Capacity Sabine Pass Louisiana Cheniere Energy 2015 2.6 Proposed to FERC Project State Company Capacity Elba Island Georgia Royal Dutch Shell/Kinder Morgan 0.35 Lake Charles Louisiana Southern Union-Trunkline LNG 2.4 Magnolia LNG Louisiana LNG Limited 1.07 Freeport LNG Texas Freeport LNG/FLNG Liquefaction 1.8 Cove Point Maryland Dominion 0.82 Jordan Cove Oregon Veresen Inc 0.9 Corpus Christi Texas Cheniere Energy 2.1 Cameron LNG Louisiana Sempra 1.7 Lavaca LNG Texas Excelerate Liquefaction 1.38 CE FLNG Louisiana CE FLNG 1.07 Sabine Pass Louisiana Sabine Pass Liquefaction 1.3 Astoria Oregon Oregon LNG 1.3 Potential U.S. Project Sites Gulf LNG Mississippi Gulf LNG Liquefaction 1.5 Cameron Parish Louisiana Gasfin Development 0.2 Gulf Coast LNG Export Texas Gulf Coast LNG 2.8 Sabine Pass Texas ExxonMobil 2.6 Cameron Parish Louisiana Waller LNG Services 0.16 Ingleside Texas Pangea LNG 1.09 Proposed Canadian Sites Kitimat British Columbia Apache Canada Ltd 0.7 Douglas Island British Columbia BC LNG Export Cooperative 0.25 Potential Canadian Project Sites Kitimat LNG British Columbia LNG Canada 2 Prince Rupert Island British Columbia Shell Canada 1 Goldboro LNG Nova Scotia Pieridae Energy Canada 0.67 (Reporting by Jeanine Prezioso and Edward McAllister; Editing by Diane Craft)