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Tokyo Gas announced on Wendesday that it had subscribed a 20 percent stake in FGEN LNG, marking its first investment in a commercially operational overseas LNG terminal project.

However, the Japanese firm did not provide financial details.

Back in 2020, First Gen, controlled by the Lopez family, signed a joint cooperation deal with Tokyo Gas for the Batangas LNG import terminal in the Philippines, and this deal included Tokyo Gas buying a 20 percent stake in the project.

In May 2024, FGEN LNG and Tokyo Gas executed a shareholders’ agreement and share subscription agreement.

The agreement remained subject to a number of conditions precedent, including securing relevant government approvals.

“Tokyo Gas will leverage its extensive expertise in the optimal operation of LNG terminals, accumulated over many years in Japan, to support the operation and maintenance of the terminal,” Tokyo Gas said on Wednesday.

Last month, First Gen received a 25-year permit to operate and maintain its Batangas LNG import terminal.

Moreover, the FSRU-based LNG terminal received a new cargo of LNG in October last year.

The 162,000-cbm FSRU BW Batangas, owned by BW LNG and chartered by First Gen, received the cargo from the 174,000-cbm GasLog Greece, owned by GasLog and chartered by Shell, from Shell’s QCLNG plant in Australia.

Prior to the arrival of GasLog Greece, First Gen issued a tender in September 2024 seeking to procure a single cargo of LNG via its unit First Gen Singapore on a delivered ex-ship (DES) basis.

The firm awarded the tender to LNG giant Shell, and this was the seventh tender the company issued since 2023.

BW Batangas is berthed at the First Gen Clean Energy Complex (FGCEC) in Batangas City.

First Gen uses regasified LNG to fuel its gas-fired power plants located in the complex.

The company has a portfolio of four gas-fired power plants with a combined capacity of 2,017 MW that have been supplied for many years with gas from the Malampaya offshore gas field.

Source: Lngprime.com

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Hegseth eyes DOD climate programs for cuts, arguing the military should focus on warfighting, not solving the global thermostat.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth pinpointed climate change programs as a potential place for the Department of Government Efficiency to cut Department of Defense spending while traveling in Germany this week. [emphasis, links added]

Hegseth ultimately hopes the U.S. will increase its defense budget as he claims the Biden administration “underinvested” in the American military, but things like DOD climate change programs are ripe for cuts, according to the secretary.

“The Defense Department is not in the business of climate change, solving the global thermostat. We’re in the business of deterring and winning wars,” Hegseth told reporters Tuesday. “Things like that, we want to look for and find efficiencies.”

President Joe Biden ramped up efforts across the federal government to combat climate change.

He and his administration repeatedly framed climate change as, among other things, a military priority, considering it a threat to national security.

“The Department continues to respond to climate change in two ways: adaptation to enhance resilience and mitigation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions,” wrote former Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin In the department’s 2024-2027 Climate Adaptation Plan.

The military’s mitigation goals outlined in the plan include net-zero installations and leveraging technologies that reduce energy use.

Enhancing resilience includes using renewable energy and “installing microgrids to ensure power is available at all times,” Deputy Chief Sustainability Officer Rachel Ross said in 2024.

In 2023, the president’s proposed defense budget included $3.7 billion for “installation resiliency and adaptation” and $1.5 billion for research and development, operational energy, and contingency preparedness.

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As U.S. and Russian officials begin negotiating an end to the Ukraine war without them.

A group of European leaders convened in Paris for an emergency meeting on Monday, still reeling from a weekend during which their long-standing ability to rely on the United States for support was thrown into question and ahead of a meeting between U.S. and Russian representatives in Saudi Arabia that they were excluded from.

Monday’s emergency meeting, convened by French President Emmanuel Macron, included the leaders of the United Kingdom, Germany, Poland, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, and Denmark, as well as European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte. It came close on the heels of the Munich Security Conference, where U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance gave a speech accusing European countries of straying from “democratic values” over their opposition to far-right political parties and what Vance characterized as excessive censorship.

His remarks—coupled with U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s statement earlier that week that Ukraine’s membership in NATO was not a “realistic” outcome of a potential negotiated settlement to end the war and U.S. President Donald Trump’s unilateral decision to start direct negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the Ukraine war—left many European leaders feeling shocked and sidelined.

In Munich, senior European officials stuck to the central message they have been putting forward for months, despite Vance’s speech and the acknowledgment that Europe must contribute more to its own defense. “There will be no peace in Ukraine without Ukraine or Europe,” Estonian Defense Minister Hanno Pevkur told Foreign Policy on the sidelines of the conference.

But the Trump administration doesn’t seem to be heeding that message. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, met in the Saudi capital of Riyadh on Tuesday, where the two sides agreed to begin talks to achieve peace in Ukraine and more broadly improve U.S.-Russia relations. No Ukrainian or European representatives were included, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky postponed his own visit to Saudi Arabia scheduled for Wednesday.

“There is now a sort of ideological convergence between Moscow and Washington against Europeans,” said Thomas Gomart, director of the Paris-based think tank Institut Français des Relations Internationales, describing the Trump administration’s stance as a “strategic gift, which has been given to Putin for almost nothing at this stage.”

The problem, even for Europe’s most powerful nations, is that they cannot seem to agree on how to proceed.

Macron, who skipped the Munich Security Conference, has tried to play interlocutor, speaking to Trump before and after Monday’s emergency meeting, when he also spoke to Zelensky. “We will work on this together with all Europeans, Americans, and Ukrainians,” he wrote in a post on X. “This is the key.” France is reportedly planning to host a second meeting on Wednesday with other European nations that weren’t included in Monday’s meeting, as well as North American ally Canada.

U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer wrote in an op-ed in the Telegraph on Sunday that he would be willing to commit British peacekeeping troops to Ukraine if a peace deal is reached. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, on the other hand, told reporters categorically on Monday that Poland will not send troops to Ukraine, while German Chancellor Olaf Scholz—facing a snap election next week—said it was “inappropriate” to discuss peacekeeping troops before a peace deal is reached.

“For Europeans, there is this idea that if a cease-fire is really implemented, Ukraine should continue to be supported and maybe Europeans should be able to provide security guarantees,” Gomart said. “Having said that, there is deep division among them regarding the security guarantees, and there is also division in terms of what sort of military risk Europeans are ready to take by themselves.”

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Under Biden, Americans endured a radical net zero agenda. Trump’s executive actions are rolling it back and restoring energy freedom.

​Under Biden, Americans endured a radical net zero agenda. Trump’s executive actions are rolling it back and restoring energy freedom. 

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A DHS memo sent by Secretary Kristi Noem has ordered the elimination of all climate work, policies, and activities across all divisions.

​A DHS memo sent by Secretary Kristi Noem has ordered the elimination of all climate work, policies, and activities across all divisions. 

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Airbus scrapped its hydrogen aircraft plans, citing infrastructure and cost issues, as green energy dreams keep colliding with harsh economic realities.

​Airbus scrapped its hydrogen aircraft plans, citing infrastructure and cost issues, as green energy dreams keep colliding with harsh economic realities. 

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TotalEnergies has joined forces with Air Liquide to develop projects for the production of around 45,000 tons of green hydrogen a year.

The green hydrogen will be produced using renewable power mostly from the OranjeWind offshore wind farm, which will be developed by the two companies.

The projects will cut carbon emissions from TotalEnergies’ refineries in Belgium and the Netherlands by up to 450,000 tons a year.

TotalEnergies and Air Liquide have signed an agreement to set up a joint venture, equally held by TotalEnergies (50%) and Air Liquide (50%), which will build and operate a 250MW electrolyser near the Zeeland refinery.

The project will enable the production of up to 30,000 tons of green hydrogen a year, most of which will be delivered to Zeeland’s platlform. 

The electrolyser will be commissioned in 2029 and will cut the site’s carbon emissions by up to 300,000 tons a year.

In addition, TotalEnergies has signed an agreement for 130MW to be dedicated to the production of 15,000 tons per year of green hydrogen for its platform in Antwerp.

Under this agreement, the company will supply energy produced by the OranjeWind project to Air Liquide to be transformed into green hydrogen. It is expected to be operational by the end of 2027 and will reduce emissions at the Antwerp site by up to 150,000 tons per year.

Vincent Stoquart, President, Refining & Chemicals at TotalEnergies said: “Following the first partnership agreement with Air Liquide to supply the Normandy refinery with green hydrogen and the agreements to supply the Grandpuits and La Mède biorefineries with renewable hydrogen, the partnership with Air Liquide takes on a new dimension and marks a new step in TotalEnergies’ ambition to decarbonise the hydrogen consumed by its refineries in Europe by 2030.

“By supplying these two electrolysers with renewable electricity from our offshore wind project in the Netherlands, TotalEnergies is leveraging its positioning as an integrated electricity company.”

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With this, the small liquefaction plant with a capacity of about 600,000 cbm per year now entered full commercial operations, according to Eneva.

The first liquefaction unit with a capacity of about 300,000 cbm started operations in December last year.

Built in the vicinity of the Parnaíba natural gas treatment unit, the plant is supplied by gas from Eneva’s fields in the Parnaíba basin.

Eneva said it has signed deals for all of the plant’s capacity, with the latest deal announced on February 3.

This deal, which runs until the end of 2034, is with VirtuGNL to supply LNG fuel for heavy-duty trucks in Brazil.

“The new agreement more than quadruples Eneva’s supply of LNG, which increases from 35,000 to 150,000 Nm³/day, with the prospect of volume growth that could reach 750,000 Nm³/day,” Eneva said.

The company previously said it had signed three LNG supply contracts for the plant’s volumes, with supply terms between three and 10 years.

Back in May 2022, Eneva said it would supply LNG to compatriot pulp and paper maker Suzano under a 10-year deal.

Trucks will deliver LNG to a regasification unit at Suzano’s giant pulp mill in Imperatriz, Maranhao, as the firm looks to slash emissions further.

The company said at the time it plans to invest about 530 million reais ($84 million) to install one small liquefaction unit at its Parnaiba complex.

Last year, Eneva also announced in a press release it had signed its first small-scale natural gas supply contract with Copergas, a gas distributor in Pernambuco.

Eneva will supply Copergas for three years from the small-scale liquefaction plant to regasification units in Petrolina and Garanhuns, which Eneva will operate.

The company expects to deliver up to 35,000 cbm per day in Petrolina and up to 5,000 cbm per day in Garanhuns.

Besides this project, Eneva closed a deal in 2022 with US LNG firm New Fortress Energy and joint venture partner Ebrasil to buy the Sergipe LNG power plant for about $1.29 billion.

This LNG-to-power project started commercial operations in 2020 and includes a regasification terminal served by the 170,00O-cbm Energos Nanook, and the 1,593 MW plant in Porto de Sergipe.

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Mitsubishi Electric Corporation has signed an agreement with HD Renewable Energy to collaborate on initiatives to help the company achieve carbon neutrality.

They will establish a joint venture and Mitsubishi Electric will acquire a stake in HD Renewable Energy.

The joint venture, which will be established in Japan in April 2025, will help fund solar power and battery storage system development, investment and asset management as well as electricity retailing. 

It will aim to provide services that help achieve efficient power utilisation and carbon reductions for businesses and society at large.

Mitsubishi Electric is aiming to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions from its factories and offices by March 2031 – the latest move is expected to support its goal.

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