THE DISRUPTIVE innovator of the worldwide gasoline business is stepping out of the shadows. On January thirteenth Enterprise World, a privately held exporter of liquefied pure gasoline (LNG) primarily based in Virginia, unveiled particulars of its deliberate flotation in New York. A few decade in the past it sprang from obscurity and shocked incumbents in America’s Texan oil patch by utilizing scalable, modular tools made in factories quite than expensive, bespoke strategies utilized by its rivals. In doing so, the upstart lowered the time required to construct an enormous LNG terminal by about half, to lower than three years. That helped it to undercut rivals on value and win early contracts with prestigious clients together with Shell, a British oil main.