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Today, we published Vopak's results for the first half year of 2022. During this period, we set our strategic priorities and acted accordingly. Our 3 strategic priorities that we set out in our Capital Markets Day are, improve the performance of our portfolio; grow our base in industrial and gas terminals; and accelerate towards new energies and sustainable feedstocks.
We progressed on our strategic priorities during the first half of 2022. We improved our performance in a volatile energy market. Positive revenue developments were offset by higher costs, related to the surging energy and utility prices. At the same time, our growth projects contributed well. This paves the way for us to set an EBITDA expectation for 2022 in the range of €830 million to €850 million. On gas, our new joint venture, Aegis Vopak, positions us as the largest storage provider for LPG and chemicals in India with 11 terminals across the country. On LNG, our Gate terminal in Rotterdam is currently fulfilling a very important role on the energy security of Northwest Europe.
And looking at our industrial terminals, our global network gives us a leading position, and we expanded again in China. Our opportunities for developing hydrogen infrastructure are accelerating, like, for example, the liquid hydrogen study between Portugal and Rotterdam that we announced last week. We revised our assets value and booked an asset impairment for the charge of in total €468 million. This asset valuation has no impact on the execution of our strategy, as we are focused on executing and accelerating the energy transition by taking a proactive approach towards repurposing some of our existing assets. Michiel will guide you in more detail through individual assets.