But that is just one country, one source. There already are other sources, Russia supplied ca. 55% of gas used to Germany, not 100%, and less to other European countries. And in the Middle East UAE is just one of the countries Germany is in talks with, and the UAE is not even a big producer of LNG thus far. According to recent headlines it's actually the US who is supposed the most important source of LNG (German article:
https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/usa-wohl-bald-wichtigster-...).
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/21/how-reliant-is...
Also, they did not buy gas alone, there also were agreements for thigs like Diesel. Then, the new approach is to have many sources instead of only some large suppliers. So, UAE is just one stop of many.
Those 137,000 m^3 are delivered this year - which is better than expected because thus far we were told we could get zero LNG from the Middle East this year because it's too soon. We are only just building the terminals too! And such things normally take decades in Germany... Great achievement to turn the positive surprise into a negative headline.
Also, German gas storage is over 90% full and still increasing. Yes, that came at great cost, and I think shutdown of some heavy industrial users.
However, given that German cities and industry had been completely bombed to ruins and came back after some disastrous war that also killed millions, not that many decades ago, having less fossil fuels available now - not "zero" as some headlines claim - for a relatively short amount of time of a year or two, so what? This little thing is supposed to be the end of German industry and lead to complete "German deindustrialization"? What a joke.
As a German, this is exactly the kind of shock this country needs to get its energy- and fossil-fuel act together. With continued stable cheap supplies nothing would have happened. And no, it's not the politicians. They just do what the majority of people want.
The goal for the future is to require much less fossil fuels, and this shock helps a lot to finally speed things along, for example, also from this very deal:
> The bilateral deal with the UAE, signed with UAE president Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, also covered other energy agreements, including a deal with Germany’s Steag and Aurubis for the supply of low-carbon ammonia to fuel hydrogen, with the aim of decarbonising industrial sectors. The first cargo arrived in Hamburg this month.
> Masdar, the UAE’s renewables vehicle, will explore offshore wind projects in the North Sea and the Baltic Sea off the German coast in an effort to generate 10GW of renewable energy output by 2030.
> Adnoc also delivered its first diesel delivery to Germany this month as part of an agreement to supply 250,000 tons of diesel a month next year to a German company.
https://www.ft.com/content/0065dfcc-4519-41b6-9883-92e7ff137...