Germany Plans Six FSRU’s In 2023

Germany is looking to import LNG using FSRU’s to replace missing Russian gas pipeline flows, with three terminals now working at Wilhelmshaven, Brunsbuettel and Lubmin, and a total of six FSRU’s planned for this year according to Reuters.

• Six FSRUs are due to be online spread over four sites by the end of 2023, followed by land-based terminal projects for the more distant future.
• Wilhemshaven: Uniper last December launched Germany's first FSRU operations. It plans to add a land-based ammonia reception terminal and cracker in the second half of this decade.
• Tree Energy Solutions will operate a second FSRU from later in 2023 for five years, and plans after to convert the operations to clean gases.
• Lubmin: The FSRU Neptune, chartered by Deutsche ReGas, early this year began LNG reception activities at Lubmin. The gas is delivered to another storage vessel, the Seapeak Hispania, further away and shuttled to Lubmin. ReGas has a long-term LNG supply deal with TotalEnergies and MET. Lubmin is also due to receive an FSRU leased by the government by the end of 2023.
• Brunsbuettel: The terminal, operated by RWE, received its first cargo in February and started regasification in March, before becoming operational in mid-April. It is the forerunner of a land-based LNG facility that could start operations at the end of 2026, when an adjacent ammonia terminal could also start up.
• Stade: The inland port on the river Elbe in January started work on a landing pier for an FSRU, which will be ready in the winter of 2023/24.
• Project firm Hanseatic Energy Hub is also planning a land-based terminal where it has allocated regasification capacity that could be operational in 2027. A final investment decision is expected in mid-2023.