Ruwais FSRU

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Ruwais FSRU is an operating LNG import terminal in the United Arab Emirates.

Location

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Project Details

• Operator: Excelerate Energy
• Owner: ADNOC
• Parent company: ADNOC
• Vessel: Express FSRU
• Vessel operator: Excelerate Energy
• Vessel owner: Excelerate Energy
• Vessel parent company: Excelerate Energy
• Location: Ruwais, United Arab Emirates
• Coordinates: 24.14836, 52.73879 (exact)
• Capacity: 3.8 mtpa
• Status: Operating
• Type: Import
• Start Year: 2016

Note: mtpa = million tonnes per year; bcfd = billion cubic feet per day

Background

Ruwais FSRU is an LNG terminal in the United Arab Emirates. The first FSRU charted from Excelerate Energy to operate at Ruwais, the FSRU Excelerate, was docked at the port on 4 August 2016. This vessel had been mainly used as an LNG carrier since 2006, and it became the first facility to allow Abu Dhabi to import LNG. The terminal received LNG from Das Island's ADGAS LNG export facility. In June 2018, the Excelerate FSRU left Abu Dhabi, after loading a cargo from Das Island LNG Terminal that was delivered in India. In 2019, the Excelerate FSRU was replaced by another one of Excelerate Energy's vessels, the Express FSRU.

The Ruwais FSRU import terminal adds enough gas to the grid to power a city the size of Fujairah for a day.

In 2012, the United Arab Emirates's natural gas reserves were 212 trillion cubic feet. This made United Arab Emirates the fifth largest gas reserve in the world.

Middle East and LNG imports

The United Arab Emirates is not the only country rich with gas reserves in the Middle East to import gas. Countries in one the most gas rich regions import LNG by tanker. They include Mina Al-Ahmadi LNG Terminal in Kuwait in 2009, Jebel Ali FLNG Terminal in Dubai in 2010, Hadera LNG Terminal in Israel in 2013, Jordan through Aqaba Jordan LNG Terminal in 2015, Ruwais FSRU in Abu Dhabi in 2016. The city of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates plan to import LNG in 2018. Bahrain plans to import LNG through its Bahrain Hidd FLNG Terminal in 2019. It was reported in 2017 that even Saudi Arabia is considering LNG imports.

According to the International Gas Union’s World LNG 2017 report, UAE was the 12th largest LNG exporter by share between 2015 and 2016. The country exports about 5.6 million tons a year.

In July 2017 Al Jazeera reported that the United Arab Emirates receives about two billion cubic feet of gas daily from Qatar. In 2022, the United Arab Emirates experienced a decline in LNG imports compared to previous years.