"Due to an outage at RWE, we are temporarily unable to use the heat connection," the terminal said in a statement on its website.

"As a result, there will be no send-out between 13-30 January. The schedule may be changed depending on the progress of repairs."

The Netherlands built the Eemshaven terminal, which has a capacity of 8 billion cubic metres (bcm), last year to cut its dependence on Russian gas.

It complemented the larger Gate Terminal in Rotterdam, now operating at 16 bcm capacity and which is planning a further 4 bcm expansion by 2025.

(Reporting by Bart Meijer; Editing by Kirsten Donovan)