ADNOC has recently officially launched its new global LNG marketing and trading platform, Abu Dhabi Global Market, with shipping capability clearly positioned as a core pillar of the platform's strategic design. The move is not only a key step for ADNOC to integrate upstream and downstream resources and enhance its competitiveness in global LNG trade, but also further confirms the increasingly important leverage that shipping capacity plays in contemporary energy trading.

The new platform achieves deep synergy among three internal business units in its architecture: the long-term LNG marketing function of ADNOC Gas, the global portfolio management of the investment arm XRG, and the spot and derivatives trading capabilities of ADNOC Trading are unified under a single commercial system. Long-term marketing is centrally coordinated by the new platform, while ADNOC Trading continues to act as the legal counterparty for trading activities, with its offices in Abu Dhabi, Singapore, and Geneva continuing to operate independently. This integration is not a simple consolidation of functions but, through the centralised allocation of resources, enhances the scheduling flexibility of a diversified LNG asset portfolio and paves the market route in advance for future additional production capacity, such as the planned Ruwais LNG project.

In the shipping dimension, ADNOC has explicitly stated that "shipping is a core enabler of the platform's capability." The group's maritime services subsidiary, ADNOC Logistics & Services, has continuously expanded its LNG carrier fleet in recent years, with the total number of owned LNG carriers now reaching 20, including 14 high-efficiency vessels equipped with modern two-stroke engines. This fleet not only provides ample capacity assurance for long-term contract deliveries but also grants the trading teams greater freedom in space allocation within the spot market, enabling marketing strategies to be dynamically linked with ship and cargo movements in real time and flexibly respond to regional price spread fluctuations and sudden changes in demand. The organic expansion of shipping assets has established a unique competitive advantage for the new platform in an international LNG market where capacity remains tight.

ADNOC anticipates that the integrated ADGM platform will rank among the leading global LNG market participants and will play a positive role in the future global energy transition process. This platform launch represents both an important milestone in the company's internal resource optimisation and a substantive leap from a traditional oil and gas producer to an integrated international energy trader.