Last month over 35,000 participants attended the Gastech 2019
Conference, the world’s largest gas and LNG conference, in
Houston, Texas. Members of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
LLP’s global energy and transactions team attended Gastech
and wanted to share the following observations:
What message resonated most from Gastech 2019?
There is one general theme heard throughout Gastech: Worldwide
the economy and its influences, such as energy needs, societal
considerations, and transportation fuels, are in
transition—and liquefied natural gas (LNG) is the key to that
transition. This message focused on two central tenants: (1) LNG is
vital to the energy demands in both the U.S. and the rest of the
world and (2) LNG companies are increasingly focused on evaluating
and addressing the environmental impacts on their operations. We
heard these themes repeatedly from representatives of major
publicly traded companies, private-equity backed developers and
government
