OREANDA-NEWS.   Golar LNG Limited (the "Company") (NASDAQ: GLNG) announced today the pricing of its registered offering of 11,000,000 shares of its common stock, par value USD 1.00 per share, at a price to the public of USD 54.00 per share.  The Company granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 1,650,000 common shares The proceeds of the offering are expected to be used to (i) fully fund initial milestone payments under a conditional agreement (the "Conversion Agreement") with Singapore's Keppel Shipyard Limited in connection with the conversion of an LNG carrier, the Hilli, to a floating liquefaction natural gas vessel and (ii) partly fund other future scheduled payments under the Conversion Agreement.  Depending on the timing of these future scheduled payments, the Company may temporarily invest the remaining funds on a short-term basis or use the funds for other general corporate purposes. The offering is scheduled to close on June 30, 2014, subject to customary closing conditions.

BofA Merrill Lynch, Goldman, Sachs & Co., Morgan Stanley and RS Platou Markets AS are acting as joint book-running managers and Arctic Securities, DNB Markets, Fearnley Securities and Pareto Securities are acting as co-managers in the offering.  

The Company has filed an effective shelf registration statement (including a base prospectus) with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") related to the offering. Before you invest, you should read the base prospectus in that registration statement, the prospectus supplement related to the offering and the other documents incorporated by reference therein, which the Company has filed with the SEC, for more complete information about the Company and the offering. You may get these documents for free by visiting EDGAR on the SEC website at www.sec.gov. Alternatively, copies may be obtained from BofA Merrill Lynch, 222 Broadway, New York, NY 10038, Attn: Prospectus Department, or by e-mail at dg.prospectus_requests@baml.com; Goldman, Sachs & Co., Attention: Prospectus Department, 200 West Street, New York, New York 10282, or by calling (866) 471-2526 or by email at prospectus-ny@ny.email.gs.com; Morgan Stanley, Attention: Prospectus Department, 180 Varick Street, 2nd Floor, New York, New York 10014;  or RS Platou Markets AS, Haakon VII's gate 10, P.O. Box 1474 Vika, 0116, Oslo, Norway, (47 22 01 63 00), or by email at office@platou.com.

This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy securities and shall not constitute an offer, solicitation or sale in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale is unlawful.  This offering may only be made by means of a prospectus supplement and related base prospectus.