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First ADNOC LNG cargo
arrives at Brunsbuettel
UAE 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
cargo on February 15. The cargo shipped by expected to be built in the country before next
ADNOC from Das Island, Abu Dhabi marks winter.
the first cargo the terminal has received since For Germany, this is the first ever LNG cargo
the Hoegh Gannet floating storage and regasifi- to be delivered from the Middle East. In Sep-
cation unit (FSRU) arrived on January 20 at the tember, RWE and the UAE’s ADNOC reached
Brunsbuettel Elbehafen port near Hamburg. agreement on a memorandum of understanding
According to RWE, the developer of the (MoU) on several years of LNG supplies to be
government-backed floating LNG terminal, delivered to Germany.
137,000 cubic metres of LNG were delivered, QatarEnergy has also signed two sales and
which equals over 82mn cubic metres of regasi- purchase agreements (SPAs) with ConocoPhil-
fied natural gas and approximately 900mn kWh lips to send up to 2mn tonnes per year (tpy) of
of energy, enough to supply roughly 250,000 LNG to Germany.
German homes for a year. The LNG will be fed Built in 1995, the 170,000 cubic metre Hoegh
into 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.
Iran to build more
tankers for Venezuela
IRAN VENEZUELA’S state-run energy firm, PdVSA, to rebuild its fleet, but its partnership with Iran
is set to order two more Aframax tankers from – like Venezuela burdened by heavy US sanc-
Iran Marine Industrial Co. (SADRA), with the tions – enable the Venezuelans to bypass the
vessels to cost $33.77mn each, according to an restrictions.
internal PDVSA document cited by Reuters and SADRA has also signed a €460mn contract
Tasnim News Agency. with PDVSA to revamp the 955,000-barrels/day
The vessels, to be named India Urquia and Paraguana refinery complex. The deal marks a
India Mara, will be built at SADRA’s Bushehr step towards ending Venezuela’s reliance on US
shipyard on the Persian Gulf under an existing refinery technology.
shipbuilding agreement. It is unknown if Cara- According to tanker monitoring firm Tank-
cas will pay for the vessels directly or via a bar- erTrackers.com, two vessels chartered by Iran’s
ter agreement. Iran has already delivered two Naftiran Intertrade Co. (NICO), namely the
Aframax tankers, the Arita and Anita, built by supertankers Wen Yao and Sea Cliff, are expected
SADRA, to PDVSA. to deliver Iranian condensate to Venezuela this
US sanctions make it difficult for PDVSA month as part of an oil swap with PDVSA.
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