LNG

US energy infrastructure company ONEOK Inc. has signed a definitive merger agreement with Magellan Midstream Partners in a cash-and-stock transaction valued at around $18.8 billion to combine the two Oklahoma-based energy groups.

Japan Petroleum Exploration (Japex), which operates the main LNG import terminal in Japan’s Fukushima Prefecture and has a stake in an LNG receiving terminal in the Vietnamese port city of Haiphong, said it was also planning to expand its shale oil and gas interests in the US.