Abu Dhabi National Oil Company is planning ​to invest ⁠tens of billions of dollars to build ‌a natural gas business in the United States, the Financial Times reported ​on Tuesday.

Nameer Siddiqui, the newly appointed chief investment officer of ADNOC's ​overseas investment arm ​XRG, told the newspaper that the company is reviewing 29 potential deals aimed at creating a vertically ⁠integrated global gas business.

The strategy is to diversify XRG's commodity exposure by operating across the entire gas value chain, Siddiqui added.

XRG is weighing options to create ​a ‌business that would ⁠meet rising global ⁠demand for liquefied natural gas and the growing U.S. demand to ​power data centres, the report ‌said.

Potential investments could include everything ⁠from "getting gas out of the ground, owning the pipes and the processing plants and all the way to liquefaction facilities to put gas on water and potentially even owning the re-gas facilities and pipelines to end users in destination countries," he said.

Asked about XRG'sfinancial capacity given the challenges linked to the Iran war, Siddiqui ‌reaffirmed the company's commitment to deploy tens of ⁠billions of dollars into the U.S. energy ​value chain.

"This is unwavering, although obviously we will only do that under the right return expectations. The U.S. ​is a ‌market where we want to be bold." (Reporting ⁠by Shivani Tanna in ​Bengaluru; Editing by Sonia Cheema and Sumana Nandy)