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This document envisions a multi-year supply – that signed an MoU with the German govern-
deal under which ADNOC will begin sending ment in August on future supplies of LNG to the
LNG to RWE in 2023, with the latter company country via FSRUs to be installed in Brunsbuet-
taking delivery of the cargoes either at onshore tel and Wilhelmshaven.
LNG terminals or at FSRUs as more marine ter- -Both of these units are due to begin operat-
minals become available. (Germany is building ing before the end of 2022.
several new FSRUs in order to expand its LNG The German company announced the deal
import capacity.) with ADNOC while German Chancellor Olaf
RWE is one of several German companies Scholz was in the UAE. Scholz paid a state visit to
– along with Verbundnetz Gas (VNG), Uniper three Middle Eastern countries – Saudi Arabia,
and Energie Baden-Wuerttemberg (EnBW) Qatar and the UAE – on September 24-25. ™

Zimbabweans used 56mn tonnes

of LPG in 2021, top official says

AFRICA ZIMBABWE used 56mn tonnes of LPG in manager of NOIC, said that the state entity
2021, as electricity shortages drove consumers could commission 500 tonnes of capacity by
to search for alternative fuel and energy sources, March 2023, ramping it up four times by the
an official has said. end of the year.
Andrew Gura, a senior petroleum engineer “We are studying both methods, whether
at Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority companies bring in their product or they can
(ZERA), said that interest in LPG was on the trust us to do it on their behalf,” she said.
rise. “Initially people were scared, but there is More Zimbabweans are resorting to using
general acceptance of the gas as a transition fuel LPG due to unreliable electricity supply. The
to close the gap from dirty fuel to clean energy country produces an average of 1,200MW. This
and we need strategic stocks,” he was quoted as is not enough to meet demand, which amounts
saying by the state-owned daily The Herald on to as much as 1,800MW.
September 22. “The demand is going up and last The Zambian delegation toured facilities
year we peaked at 56mn tonnes.” run by one of Zimbabwe’s largest LPG retailers,
In an attempt to to ensure sustainable Kensys Gas. In 2021, Zambia used about 8,000
supplies of LPG, he added, the National Oil tonnes of gas, just 3,000 tonnes more than what
Company of Zimbabwe (NOIC) is consider- Kensys Gas retails monthly.
ing establishing LPG storage capacity of 2,000 “Zimbabwe, [and] ZERA in particular, has
tonnes by December 2023. been our partner and we have a lot to learn,”
He said this while interacting with a Zambian commented Mafayo Ziva, the assistant director
mission to Harare, Zimbabwe’s capital, to learn of Zambia’s Ministry of Energy. “We need to
how to accelerate LPG uptake. learn and see how Zimbabwe has managed to
Tarisai Chigunha, the business development boost uptake.” ™

ZERA presentation on safe use of LPG on September 22 (Photo: Twitter/@zeraenergy)

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