Matthew K. Schatzman will succeed Kathleen M. Eisbrenner as chief executive officer of NextDecade Corp., The Woodlands, Tex., effective Feb. 1. Schatzman currently serves as president of the LNG producer. Eisbrenner, who founded NextDecade in 2010, will remain chairman.
Schatzman has 30 years of experience in the industry. He was previously executive vice-president, global energy marketing and shipping, and a member of the group executive committee at BG Group.
The company is moving forward with LNG export projects and associated pipelines in Texas. In April 2017 the company let a contract to General Electric International Inc.’s oil and gas division to serve as exclusive equipment supplier for liquefaction trains and associated pipelines to be built as part of subsidiary Rio Grande LNG LLC’s proposed 27 million-tonne/year LNG export terminal in Brownsville, Tex. (OGJ Online, Apr. 25, 2017).
