BERLIN, July 29 (Reuters) – German state-controlled energy group Uniper on Wednesday finalised a 20-year liquefied natural \u200cgas purchase deal with Canada as the \u200ctwo nations deepen their partnership. <\/p>\n
In a preliminary deal in June, Uniper took \u200binitial steps to secure 2 million tons of gas per year from 2032 from Canada’s LNG project Ksi Lisims on British Columbia’s Pacific coast. <\/p>\n
That was after another German \u200cstate-owned gas importer, \u2060SEFE, secured some Ksi Lisims capacity in May. Uniper already agreed on long-term purchases with Canada’s \u2060Tourmaline a year ago. <\/p>\n
Those deals reflect European ambitions to bolster alternative gas routes after former main supplier, Russia’s \u200bGazprom, stopped \u200bdelivering in 2022, creating \u200breliance on U.S. supplies. <\/p>\n
Ksi \u200cLisims is backed by Western LNG, the Rockies LNG consortium and the Nisga’a First Nation. Gas liquefaction will be powered by hydroelectric dams. <\/p>\n
Reuters reported in March that Uniper was discussing more gas purchases with Canada, also \u200cto diversify away from U.S. \u200bsupplies that accounted for 96% \u200bof Germany’s LNG imports \u200blast year. <\/p>\n
Canada is keen to reduce \u200cdependency on U.S. buyers with \u200bexport deals involving \u200bJapan, India and Malaysia. <\/p>\n
Canada this month picked Germany’s TKMS to supply 12 submarines – seen as a \u200blikely trigger of \u200cfollow-up contracts including on rare earths, batteries or \u200benergy. <\/p>\n
(Reporting by Holger Hansen, writing by Ludwig \u200bBurger, editing by Thomas Seythal) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERLIN, July 29 (Reuters) – German state-controlled energy group Uniper on Wednesday finalised a 20-year liquefied natural \u200cgas…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17,48045,48044,31902],"class_list":["post-148210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-canada","tag-gas-purchases","tag-lng-project","tag-uniper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}