LNG

Talos Energy, the US oil and gas company, has acquired the operator QuarterNorth Energy in a $1.29 billion cash and stock deal to boost its presence in the Gulf of Mexico in the latest of a long list of US energy industry mergers and acquisitions that included several mega-deals.

Australia’s largest natural gas infrastructure company, APA Group, has signed a preliminary agreement to identify a pipeline route to connect the Galilee Basin in Queensland to Australia’s East Coast domestic gas market and to LNG export plants.