Germany's EnBW signs 15-year LNG supply deal with ADNOC from Ruwais project
Abu Dhabi National Oil Company has signed an agreement to supply German utility company EnBW with 600,000 tons per annum of liquefied natural gas from its Ruwais project for 15 years, ADNOC said on Monday.
The sales and purchase agreement, which will see the United Arab Emirates state oil giant ship LNG starting in 2028, finalises an agreement reached in May.
More than eight million tons per annum (mtpa) of Ruwais' total 9.6 mtpa expected production has been committed through long-term agreements, ADNOC said.
ADNOC sees LNG and natural gas, alongside petrochemicals and renewables, as pillars of its future growth. The Ruwais project will more than double the UAE's existing LNG production capacity to 15 million mtpa.
The deal is ADNOC's third binding LNG supply deal from Ruwais, and the second to Germany following one signed with Germany's state-owned Securing Energy for Europe (SEFE) last month for one mtpa.
ADNOC also signed a binding deal to supply one mtpa to Malaysian state energy firm Petronas this month. In July, ADNOC awarded Shell, BP, TotalEnergies and Japan's Mitsui each a 10 per cent stake in the Ruwais LNG project, for which $5.5 billion worth of engineering, procurement and construction contracts were signed in June.
(Reporting by Yousef Saba, Editing by Franklin Paul)