LNG

Chart Industries, the US LNG equipment-maker and industrial gases and clean energy company, has signed definitive agreements to acquire Howden, a leading UK-based global provider air and gas handling products and services, for a purchase price of $4.4 billion from affiliates of KPS Capital Partners LP.

Chevron Corp. has pulled out of the bidding battle for Anadarko Petroleum and its Mozambique liquefied natural gas stake and US assets, leaving the way clear for Occidental Petroleum to acquire Anadarko and for French major Total to own the African and LNG assets.