The UAE and Germany, during a visit to Abu Dhabi by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, signed an agreement to supply the energy-rich Persian Gulf country with liquefied natural gas and diesel fuel in 2022 and 2023, the report said. UAE State News Agency.

Berlin is rushing with time to find new suppliers to make up for Russian gas supplies that will soon run out as Europe prepares for a tough winter due to supply shortages.

The agreement provides for the export of a batch of liquefied natural gas to Germany at the end of 2022, then the supply of additional batches in 2023. up to 250 thousand tons of diesel fuel per month during 2023.

As part of the agreement, the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) has signed a contract for the supply of liquefied natural gas to the German company RWEAG, according to which the Emirati company will export the first batch of liquefied natural gas to Germany and deliver it at the end of 2022. for use in trial operation of the floating gas receiving terminal Natural in the German city of Brunsbüttel.

Under the agreement, ADNOC allocated additional LNG to its customers in Germany to be delivered in 2023.

The agency reported that ADNOC carried out the first direct delivery of a batch of diesel fuel from its production to Germany in September 2022, and that an agreement was reached with Wilhelm Heuer GmbH on the terms of delivery of up to 250 thousand tons per month of diesel fuel. diesel fuel during 2023.