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       Brunsbuettel Terminal receives first



       LNG cargo from ADNOC





        GERMANY          GERMANY’S  Brunsbuettel LNG terminal  away from Russian gas following the invasion
                         received its first liquefied natural gas (LNG)  of Ukraine. Three more FLNG terminal are
       The deal marks the first   cargo on February 15. The cargo shipped by  expected to be built in the country before next
       agreement between   ADNOC from Das Island, Abu Dhabi marks  winter.
       Oman and a Chinese   the first cargo the terminal has received since   For Germany, this is the first ever LNG cargo
       firm. Unipec is the   the Hoegh Gannet floating storage and regasifi-  to be delivered from the Middle East. In Sep-
       trading arm of China’s   cation unit (FSRU) arrived on January 20 at the  tember, RWE and the UAE’s ADNOC reached
       largest refiner Sinopec.  Brunsbuettel Elbehafen port near Hamburg.  agreement on a memorandum of understanding
                           According to RWE, the developer of the gov-  (MoU) on several years of LNG supplies to be
                         ernment-backed floating LNG terminal, 137,000  delivered to Germany.
                         cubic metres of LNG were delivered, which   QatarEnergy has also signed two sales and
                         equals over 82mn cubic metres of regasified  purchase agreements (SPAs) with ConocoPhil-
                         natural gas and approximately 900mn kWh of  lips to send up to 2mn tonnes per year (tpy) of
                         energy, enough to supply roughly 250,000 Ger-  LNG to Germany.
                         man homes for a year. The LNG will be fed into   Built in 1995, the 170,000 cubic metre Hoegh
                         the grid beginning at the end of the month.  Gannet FSRU was converted to a floating storage
                           The delivery to the Hoegh Gannet FSRU  unit in 2018 and has been chartered by Germany
                         comes just weeks after the floating vessel arrived  from Hoegh LNG. In the near term it will oper-
                         at Brunsbuettel, marking the third floating LNG  ate at Brunsbuettel’s existing dangerous goods
                         (FLNG) terminal to recently commence opera-  berth before being moved to a new jetty west of
                         tions in Germany as part of the country’s shift   the port at the end of the year. ™



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