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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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