Golar LNG Announces Secondary Offering of its Common Stock by World Shipholding Ltd.

Hamilton, Bermuda - (September 4, 2014) - Golar LNG Limited (the "Company") (NASDAQ: GLNG) announced today the commencement of a secondary offering of 27,826,087 shares of its common stock by its principal shareholder, World Shipholding Ltd. ("World Shipholding").  World Shipholding expects to grant the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 4,173,913 common shares.  The Company will not receive any proceeds from the sale of common shares by World Shipholding.

BofA Merrill Lynch, Citigroup, Goldman, Sachs & Co., Morgan Stanley and RS Platou Markets AS are acting as joint book-running managers and Arctic Securities, BNP PARIBAS, DNB Markets 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 [e-mail]; Citigroup, c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, New York 11717, or by calling [phone]; Goldman, Sachs & Co., Attention: Prospectus Department, 200 West Street, New York, New York 10282, or by calling [phone] or by email at [e-mail]; Morgan Stanley, Attention: Prospectus Department, 180 Varick Street, 2^nd 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 [e-mail].

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.

Forward-Looking Statements

Matters discussed in this press release may constitute forward-looking statements. The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 provides safe harbor protections for forward-looking statements in order to encourage companies to provide prospective information about their business. Forward-looking statements include statements concerning plans, objectives, goals, strategies, future events or performance, and underlying assumptions and other statements, which are other than statements of historical facts. The Company desires to take advantage of the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and is including this cautionary statement in connection with this safe harbor legislation. The words "believe," "anticipate," "intends," "estimate," "forecast," "project," "plan," "potential," "may," "should," "expect," "pending" and similar expressions identify forward-looking statements.