{"id":16809,"date":"2026-02-08T06:14:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T06:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/?p=16809"},"modified":"2026-02-08T06:14:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T06:14:02","slug":"german-energy-giant-signs-deals-with-uaes-adnoc-masdar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/16809\/","title":{"rendered":"German energy giant signs deals with UAE\u2019s ADNOC, Masdar"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\" itemprop=\"description\"><p><span class=\"pre-content-text\"><a style=\"color: #0038a8;\" href=\"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/\">RoydadNaft &#8211; <\/a><\/span>\u00a0German energy giant RWE on Friday agreed to explore sourcing liquefied natural gas from the United Arab Emirates\u2019 ADNOC, as Europe looks to diversify its energy supply away from the United States.<\/p>\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"4\">The two companies signed a memorandum of understanding to look at importing up to one million tonnes of LNG per year for ten years, RWE said, equivalent to about 1.7 percent of Germany\u2019s gas consumption in 2025.<\/p>\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"5\">\u201cBy establishing new LNG supply agreements, we are strengthening the security of supply for Germany and across Europe,\u201d said RWE CEO Markus Krebber.<\/p>\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"6\">Germany stepped up imports of LNG from the Middle East and particularly the United States after cutting itself off from Russian natural gas following Moscow\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.<\/p>\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"7\">But fears have grown that it might have swapped one dependency for another as US President Donald Trump has rocked traditional allies with suggestions the United States could annex Greenland, an autonomous territory of NATO ally and EU member Denmark.<\/p>\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"8\">Before heading on a trip to the Gulf on Wednesday, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said the region could help \u201cdiversify our oil and gas supply chains\u201d.<\/p>\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"9\">RWE signed a separate memorandum of understanding with Emirati renewables company Masdar to explore building up to one gigawatt of battery energy storage systems at the German firm\u2019s existing sites by 2030, with the possibility of an additional gigawatt by 2035.<\/p>\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"10\">Battery storage systems are needed for the green transition, since they store power from intermittent renewable sources that depend on the wind blowing or the sun shining.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-date no-social-btn post-updated\">Updated on<time class=\"updated dt-updated\" itemprop=\"dateModified\" datetime=\"2026-02-08T06:14:02+00:00\"> 8 February 2026<\/time><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"German energy giant RWE on Friday agreed to explore sourcing liquefied natural gas from the United Arab Emirates\u2019 ADNOC, as Europe looks to diversify its energy supply away from the United States.\r\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[47,20,46,36,19,35],"tags":[],"services":[],"class_list":["post-16809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-gas","category-international","category-lastnews","category-news","category-topnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16809"},{"taxonomy":"services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/services?post=16809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}