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      <sch:amendmentNo>4</sch:amendmentNo>
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      <sch:dateOfEvent>09/11/2026</sch:dateOfEvent>
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        <sch:issuerName>New Fortress Energy Inc.</sch:issuerName>
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          <sch:personName>Randal A. Nardone</sch:personName>
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        <sch:reportingPersonName>Randal A. Nardone</sch:reportingPersonName>
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        <sch:commentContent>The aggregate percentage of Class A Shares is based upon a total of 16,321,555 Class A Shares outstanding as of September 11, 2026.

Effective as of September 11, 2026, the Issuer effected a reverse stock split at a ratio of 1-for-50 for each Class A Share, and the number of Class A Shares reported in this Amendment reflects such reverse stock split.</sch:commentContent>
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        <sch:securityTitle>Class A Common Stock</sch:securityTitle>
        <sch:issuerName>New Fortress Energy Inc.</sch:issuerName>
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          <com:street1>111 W. 19th Street, 8th Floor</com:street1>
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        <sch:commentText>This filing constitutes Amendment No. 4 (this "Amendment") to the Schedule 13D filed by Randal A. Nardone (the "Reporting Person") with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") on February 4, 2019 (the "Original Schedule 13D"), as amended by Amendment No. 1 filed with the SEC on March 28, 2019, by Amendment No. 2 filed with the SEC on June 3, 2020, by Amendment No. 3 filed with the SEC on May 22, 2023 (the Original Schedule 13D, as previously amended and as further amended and supplemented by this Amendment, the "Schedule 13D") with respect to the shares of Class A common stock ("Class A Shares") of New Fortress Energy Inc., a Delaware corporation (the "Issuer").

The Reporting Person is filing this Amendment to disclose, in connection with the Issuer's Restructuring Transaction (as defined and described in the Issuer's Definitive Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A filed with the SEC on May 27, 2026), a greater than 1% change in the percentage of shares beneficially owned by the Reporting Person.

Other than as set forth in this Amendment, all previous Items of the Original Schedule 13D, as previously amended, are unchanged. Capitalized terms used in this Amendment and not otherwise defined shall have the same meanings ascribed to them in the Original Schedule 13D, as previously amended.</sch:commentText>
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        <sch:percentageOfClassSecurities>The information contained in rows 11 and 13 of the cover page to this Amendment is incorporated herein by reference.</sch:percentageOfClassSecurities>
        <sch:numberOfShares>The information contained in rows 7 through 10 of the cover page to this Schedule 13D is incorporated herein by reference.</sch:numberOfShares>
        <sch:transactionDesc>The Reporting Person has not engaged in any transaction during the past 60 days involving Class A Shares.</sch:transactionDesc>
        <sch:listOfShareholders>The Reporting Person has the right to receive the proceeds from the sale of the Class A Shares reported on the cover page of this Amendment and in this Item 5. No other person is known by the Reporting Person to have the right to receive or the power to direct the receipt of the proceeds from the sale of the Class A Shares beneficially owned by the Reporting Person.</sch:listOfShareholders>
        <sch:date5PercentOwnership>As of September 11, 2026, the Reporting Person ceased to be the beneficial owner of more than five percent of the outstanding Class A Common Stock.</sch:date5PercentOwnership>
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        <sch:signatureReportingPerson>Randal A. Nardone</sch:signatureReportingPerson>
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          <sch:signature>/s/ Randal A. Nardone</sch:signature>
          <sch:title>Randal A. Nardone</sch:title>
          <sch:date>09/15/2026</sch:date>
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