• CERAWEEK 2025 | March 10-14, 2025
  • CERAWEEK
  • March 10 - 14, 2025

Jason Klein

LNG Canada

President & Chief Executive Officer

Jason Klein is Chief Executive Officer of LNG Canada, a Shell PETRONAS PetroChina Mitsubishi Corporation
KOGAS Joint Venture. Under Jason’s leadership, LNG Canada is poised to deliver Canada’s first large scale
liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility in Kitimat, British Columbia, on the traditional territory of the Haisla Nation.

Jason is passionate about the global energy transition and LNG Canada’s important role to deliver the world’s lowest
carbon intensive LNG by the middle of this decade, helping to address global climate change while providing
substantial economic benefits to First Nations, local communities, businesses, British Columbia and Canada.

Jason joined LNG Canada in early 2022 from Shell Canada, where he served as VP Canada Integrated Gas,
accountable for developing Shell’s Integrated Gas business, including oversight and governance of the LNG Canad a
project.  Jason began his career with Shell in 2016 following its global acquisition of BG Group Following the BG takeover,

Jason was appointed Vice President US LNG within Shell’s Integrated Gas business, responsible for leading its
development of the Elba Island LNG project near Savannah, Georgia He subsequently became U S Chief of Staff
and VP US Energy Transition Strategy

While working with BG Group, Jason held assignments in the Middle East, Europe, North America and Australia in
roles spanning the legal function, upstream operations and LNG developments over a period of 13 years (starting in
2003

Jason is a native Houstonian and earned a Bachelor of Science in Finance from Trinity University in San Antonio
and a Doctor of Jurisprudence from the University of Texas School of Law.

Jason lives in Calgary with his wife and son

Sessions With Jason Klein

Wednesday, 20 March

  • 07:15am - 08:20am (CST) / 20/mar/2024 12:15 pm - 20/mar/2024 01:20 pm

    Future of Canadian Oil and Gas: Carbon, costs, and exports

    Canada is the fourth largest producer of oil and gas globally, yet nearly all its production has remained landlocked.  Over the course of this year, Canada will see the completion of new major export infrastructure, some of which are over a decade in the making, come online and permit more meaningful volumes of Canadian oil and gas to reach global markets. At the same time governments and industry have committed to ambitious decarbonization targets. Can Canadian sector meet its emissions targets while growing export volume? What new infrastructure will be required, and can it be built in a timely manner? What is the role of government, and what are the key challenges facing the industry?