LNG Canada to welcome new President & Chief Executive Officer in April 2025

Press Release

Dec 16, 2024

VANCOUVER, BC, December 16, 2025 — Chris Cooper, currently LNG Canada’s Senior Vice President for Phase 1 Pipeline and Expansion will succeed Jason Klein as President & Chief Executive Officer of LNG Canada, effective April 1st, 2025.

Chris brings over 35 years of experience in the energy sector. Since joining Shell in 1998, Chris has accrued extensive expertise from his leadership roles in Upstream, Downstream and LNG businesses around the world, spanning complex challenges in projects, assets, commercial and stakeholder relationship areas. Chris was seconded to LNG Canada from Shell plc in 2021, to lead the reset and completion of the Coastal GasLink pipeline in close cooperation with TC Energy. In tandem with this role, Chris led LNG Canada’s responsibilities to advance Cedar LNG’s Final Investment Decision (FID) in 2024, while also directing LNG Canada’s Phase 2 development. Prior to becoming the Senior Vice President, Phase 1 Pipeline & Expansions at LNG Canada, Chris was the Venture Director for Oman Gas and Development Director for Shell’s Nigeria LNG Train 7 where he successfully led the development of investment grade business solutions. “I’m pleased to continue the journey with all those involved in and around the LNG Canada investment. Together, we are setting the benchmark for economically, environmentally and socially responsible large scale LNG production in Canada and creating a positive and lasting legacy with First Nations, the local community and for British Columbia and Canada,” said Chris Cooper.

Jason Klein will continue to lead LNG Canada as President & CEO until April 1st. After that time, he will return to Shell in Houston, Texas with his family. Jason’s next assignment with Shell will be the subject of a future announcement. “It’s been an honour to lead LNG Canada for the past three years as we reached major construction milestones, participated in reconciliation and continued to steadily and safely advance towards delivering first cargoes of made-in-BC LNG,” said Jason Klein. “It’s an experience I’ll always cherish.”

LNG Canada remains on track to ship first cargoes by the middle of 2025.

One of the largest private investments in Canadian history, LNG Canada is a long-life asset with a 40-year export license that will initially produce 14 million tonnes per annum (mtpa) LNG for export with plans to double its capacity to 28 mtpa with a proposed Phase 2 expansion. A Phase 2 final investment decision will take into account several factors on behalf of all JVPs, which include over-all competitiveness, affordability, pace, future GHG emissions and stakeholder needs.

About LNG Canada
The LNG Canada joint venture is building a liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility in Kitimat, British Columbia, Canada, in the traditional territory of the Haisla Nation. It will initially consist of two LNG processing units, referred to as “trains.” LNG Canada is a joint venture comprised of Shell plc, through its affiliate Shell Canada Energy (40%); PETRONAS, through its wholly-owned entity, North Montney LNG Limited Partnership (25%); PetroChina Company Limited, through its subsidiary PetroChina Kitimat LNG Partnership (15%); Mitsubishi Corporation, through its subsidiary Diamond LNG Canada Partnership (15%); and Korea Gas Corporation, through its wholly-owned subsidiary Kogas Canada LNG Partnership (5%). It is operated through LNG Canada Development Inc.

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