Chris Cooper, currently Senior Vice President for Phase 1 Pipeline and Expansion, will succeed Jason Klein as President and CEO effective April 1, 2025. Image by luchunyu via iStock
LNG Canada will have a change of leadership in April 2025. The company, a joint venture comprised of Shell plc, Petronas PetroChina Co. Ltd., Mitsubishi Corp., and Korea Gas Corp., said in a media release that Chris Cooper, currently LNG Canada's Senior Vice President for Phase 1 Pipeline and Expansion, will succeed Jason Klein as President and Chief Executive Officer effective April 1, 2025.
Cooper brings over 35 years of experience in the energy sector. Since joining Shell in 1998, Cooper has accrued expertise from his leadership roles in Upstream, Downstream, and LNG businesses around the world, spanning complex challenges in projects, assets, and commercial and stakeholder relationship areas, the company said.
Cooper was seconded to LNG Canada from Shell plc in 2021 to lead the Coastal GasLink pipeline's completion in collaboration with TC Energy. He also advanced Cedar LNG's Final Investment Decision in 2024 and directed LNG Canada's Phase 2 development.
"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", Cooper said.
According to LNG Canada, Klein will remain in position until April 1 as he prepares to take a new role within Shell.
"It's been an honor 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", Klein said.
LNG Canada said it remains on track to ship its first cargoes by the middle of 2025. It expects to initially produce 14 million tonnes per annum (MMtpa) of liquefied natural gas (LNG) for export with plans to double its capacity to 28 MMtpa of LNG with a proposed Phase 2 expansion.