Two Flex LNG executives sold $3m-worth of shares in their company at near-record prices, after exercising their options to acquire the stock.

Flex LNG Management chief executive Oystein Kalleklev exercised options to buy 62,500 shares in the New York and Oslo-listed LNG carrier owner.

He sold all of those shares, leaving him with 50,000 Flex LNG shares and options to buy 187,500 more, Flex LNG said.