THE role of technology in the LNG business both in the US and abroad is a bit of a paradox, writes Noah Brenner.

The industry has touted its significant innovations but buyers, and therefore developers, are not always comfortable being the first one to put the new designs into practice, and instead return time and again to decades-old technologies.

Erik Codrington, project finance managing director at the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, says he is seeing significant interest in smaller-scale technologies that can add incremental volumes without huge up-front investment.

“Buyers