GLNG

Golar LNG Ltd.

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Is GLNG Halal?

LNG shipping — the current debt and conservative income screens fail.

What You Should Know

Golar's 2025 Form 20-F reports debt/assets of 51.79%, liquidity/assets of 21.62%, receivables plus cash/assets of 22.72%, and a conservative investment-income ratio of 8.79%. LNG shipping and floating-liquefaction infrastructure can be permissible in principle, while charter contracts, hydrocarbon end uses, emissions and financing remain qualitative concerns.

⚠️ Concerns

  • Debt/assets is 51.79%, above the examined limits
  • Conservative investment-income ratio is 8.79% of revenue
  • LNG shipping and charter end uses require review
  • Environmental, emissions, safety and decommissioning risks

Current quantitative Sharia screen

Based on 20-F figures for the period ended 2025-12-31; calculated 2026-07-14.

USD · millions
Interest-bearing debt / assets
51.79%Above limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

2,758.024 / 5,325.601

Cash + interest-bearing securities / assets
21.62%Within limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

1,151.221 / 5,325.601

Receivables + cash / assets
22.72%Within limit
Below 50% under FTSE Yasaar

1,209.967 / 5,325.601

Non-compliant income / revenue (upper bound)
8.79%Above limit
No more than 5% under FTSE Yasaar

34.577 / 393.522

FTSE Yasaar
v4.6, February 2026
Financial
Fails
Overall
Fails

Debt/assets is 51.79%, liquidity/assets is 21.62%, receivables plus cash/assets is 22.72%, and the conservative income ratio is 8.79%; debt and income exceed the examined limits.

MSCI Islamic (total-assets series)
October 2024 methodology
Financial
Fails
Overall
Fails

Debt/assets is 51.79%, above the examined MSCI total-assets limit; the financial screen fails independently of the incomplete activity numerator.

Malaysia SAC financial ratios
single 5% activity benchmark adopted November 2025
Financial
Fails
Overall
Fails

Debt/assets is 51.79% and the conservative income ratio is 8.79%; this calculation is not an official SAC classification.

Market-cap denominator methods
MSCI M-Series, S&P and Dow Jones methods differ
Financial
Not calculated
Overall
Fails

A licensed historical market-cap series is not stored; the debt and income failures are independent of that denominator.

Business-activity disclosure

Golar owns and operates LNG carriers and floating-liquefied-natural-gas infrastructure. Shipping and energy logistics can be permissible in principle, while charter contracts, hydrocarbon end uses, environmental exposure and financing structures require qualitative review.

Limitation: The filing does not provide a school-neutral prohibited-revenue numerator for charter customers, commodity exposure, derivatives or environmental liabilities.

Purification

Golar discloses USD 34.577 million of investment/interest income, or approximately 8.79% of revenue. This is a conservative screen input and not a prescribed investor purification amount.

Inputs, assumptions and primary sources
  • Amounts are USD millions from Golar LNG's 2025 Form 20-F.
  • Debt uses reported current and non-current long-term debt of USD 2,758.024 million; operating lease liabilities are not added separately.
  • Cash and cash equivalents are USD 1,151.221 million; no separate interest-bearing securities balance is added in the selected inputs.
  • Accounts receivable and other current receivables total USD 58.746 million; 2025 revenue is USD 393.522 million.
  • Investment income/interest of USD 34.577 million is used as a conservative upper bound, not as a scholar-approved purification percentage.

This is a reproducible financial screen, not a fatwa. A failed total-assets screen can coexist with a pass under a market-cap methodology. ZakatInvest keeps the qualitative assessment separate so numerical thresholds do not erase material context.

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