Customers
Five major energy suppliers as customers
Long-term Offtake contracts have been signed with five major European energy suppliers, Dong Energy, EconGas, RWE Supply & Trading, E.ON Ruhrgas and Eneco, for a combined throughput of 12 billion m3 of natural gas per annum. This represents the terminal's initial capacity and will be enough to provide natural gas to all 7,000,000 households in the Netherlands.
Dong Energy, OMV Gas International and E.ON Ruhrgas have each taken a 5% interest in Gate terminal in such a way that the terminal's independence is fully guaranteed.
Econgas. Six Austrian natural gas suppliers – BEGAS, EVN, Linz AG, OÖ. Ferngas AG, OMV Gas International and WIEN ENERGIE – have pooled their trading and distribution activities in a common venture, EconGas, so as to build a position of strength in the fiercely contested national and international distribution and business-to-business markets. EconGas’s core business is the direct marketing of natural gas to European distributors and consumers with an annual consumption of over 500,000 cubic metres as well as natural gas trading on international markets. EconGas has subsidiaries in Germany, Italy and Hungary.
E.ON Ruhrgas AG (E.ON Ruhrgas) from Germany is one of Europe’s leading energy companies. It offers a wide range of services and products for the transportation, storage, marketing and use of natural gas. E.ON Ruhrgas AG has a distribution system of more than 11,000 km of natural gas pipelines, 12 natural gas underground storage facilities and 26 compressor stations. Hence, one of the core tasks is also the monitoring and maintenance of all the technical installations as well as rectification and repairs for restoring the availability and maintenance of the gas supply.
DONG Energy of Denmark is one of the leading energy companies in Scandinavia. It is engaged in the exploration, production, distribution, trade and sale of energy and energy related products in northern Europe. The company has annual revenues of €4.9 billion and more than 4,500 employees.
OMV Aktiengesellschaft is the largest listed industrial company in Austria. As the biggest oil and gas company in central Europe, it is engaged in refinery and marketing in 13 countries. In the field of exploration and production OMV is active in 20 countries on five continents. OMV sells more than 14 bcm of gas per annum. Its gas distribution centre in Baumgarten, Austria, distributes some 47 bcm of gas per annum. This Central European Gas Hub is one of the three largest gas distribution operations in Europe.
RWE Supply & Trading is a leading European energy trading house. With an annual gas procurement volume of roughly 50 billion cubic metres, we are also one of the strongest competitors in the European gas industry.
RWE Supply & Trading is the interface between the RWE Group and global wholesale markets for energy and energy-related raw materials. Based in Essen, Germany, we are the hub for all tradable commodities, in both their physical and/or derivative forms, including power, gas, coal, freight, oil, weather, emissions certificates and renewable energies.
Eneco is an integrated energy company specialised in the production, trading, transmission and supply of gas, electricity and heat and related services. Eneco serves more than two million business and domestic customers. That makes Eneco one of the top three energy companies in the Netherlands.
