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RWE signs documents

with ADNOC on LNG

supplies

IMPORTS GERMANY’S RWE revealed on September 25 signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU)
that it had signed documents with Abu Dhabi concerning future shipments of LNG from the
National Oil Co. (ADNOC) of the UAE on LNG UAE to Germany. This document envisions a
supplies. multi-year supply deal under which ADNOC
In a statement, RWE explained that one of will begin sending LNG to RWE in 2023, with
the documents was an agreement under which the latter company taking delivery of the cargoes
ADNOC would make its first commercial deliv- either at onshore LNG terminals or at FSRUs as
ery of LNG to Germany. This shipment will more marine terminals become available. (Ger-
consist of 137,000 cubic metres of LNG and will many is building several new FSRUs in order to
arrive at the Elbehafen LNG terminal in late expand its LNG import capacity.)
December, it said. ADNOC will load the fuel RWE is one of several German companies –
at its 6mn tonne per year (tpy) Das Island LNG along with Verbundnetz Gas (VNG), Uniper and
plant offshore Abu Dhabi and ship it by tanker Energie Baden-Wuerttemberg (EnBW) – that
to the Brunsbuettel floating storage and regasi- signed an MoU with the German government
fication unit (FSRU) near Hamburg, it reported. in August on future supplies of LNG to the coun-
RWE stressed that this shipment would mark try via FSRUs to be installed in Brunsbuettel and
ADNOC’s entry into the German LNG mar- Wilhelmshaven. Both of these units are due to
ket at a time when the country was working to begin operating before the end of 2022.
expand the range of its suppliers. “This marks The German company announced the deal
an important milestone in building up an LNG with ADNOC while German Chancellor Olaf
supply infrastructure in Germany and setting Scholz was in the UAE. Scholz paid a state visit
up a more diversified gas supply,” it said in its to three Middle Eastern countries – Saudi Ara-
statement. bia, Qatar and the UAE – on September 24-25.™
It also noted that the two companies had

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