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Gasunie secures Netherlands’

second FSRU

NETHERLANDS THE Netherlands’ Gasunie is to charter an FSRU can be stored and converted into natural gas for
from New Fortress Energy for five years as part the Dutch gas network. This allows us to import
The five-year charter of plans to develop up to 8bn cubic metres per extra gas from countries other than Russia,” Cli-
deal will begin in the year of LNG import capacity. mate and Energy Minister Rob Jetten said in a
third quarter of this The 5-year FSRU charter agreement will tweet at the end of April.
year. begin in Q3 2022 and provide storage and regas- This new terminal capacity will increase
ification capacity for Gasunie’s new LNG import energy security for The Netherlands and cre-
terminal in the port of Eemshaven, New Fortress ate sufficient LNG import capacity to meet the
Energy said in a statement. country’s gas needs without relying on pipeline
It will be the second vessel to be installed at imports, including gas from Russia.
the port after Gasunie sealed a similar tie-up “We are pleased to be working with Gasunie,
with Exmar. one of Europe’s leading energy infrastructure
The Eems Energy Terminal will feature two companies, to add LNG import capacity and
FSRUs and add 8 bcm per year of new regasifi- strengthen the energy security of the Nether-
cation capacity for NW Europe, with expected lands and surrounding European countries,”
start-up in Q3 2022. said Wes Edens, chairman and CEO of New
The FSRU will provide 170,000 cubic metres Fortress Energy.
of storage capacity gas, with a peak regasification “We look forward to a successful, long-term
capacity of 25mn cubic metres (900mn standard partnership with Gasunie and see other areas for
cubic feet) per day. collaboration to enhance energy security and
NFE’s FSRU will work in tandem with accelerate energy transition in Europe.”
Exmar’s FSRU to provide up to 8 bcm per year of The binding FSRU charter agreement is sub-
total regas capacity. ject to the execution of definitive documenta-
The vessel will provide a core component of tion, which is expected to be completed in the
Gasunie’s Eems Energy Terminal, which will coming weeks.
immediately address the urgent energy secu- Ulco Vermeulen, member of the executive
rity needs of the Netherlands and surround- board of Gasunie, is pleased with the co-oper-
ing region as the US-EU Task Force on Energy ation with New Fortress Energy: “This decisive
Security continues to implement the March 25 co-operation with NFE enables us to increase the
joint statement by Presidents Biden and von der security of supply of natural gas in the Nether-
Leyen. lands from Eemshaven (Northern Netherlands)
This is part of the Dutch government’s pol- as early as this autumn. This new terminal
icy of ending Russian gas imports by the end of capacity will increase energy security for the
2022. The Netherlands have refused to pay in Netherlands and North-West Europe and cre-
Russian gas in rubles, as the Russian government ate additional LNG import capacity to reduce
has insisted. dependence on Russian gas. With this expansion
“Today on a working visit to the Eemshaven of the terminal we will be able to facilitate the
in Groningen. A floating LNG terminal will be high demand for LNG supply in the market in
located here from August. This means that LNG the next five years,” said Vermeulen. ™

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