Germany’s first LNG terminal set to open after FSRU arrives in Wilhelmshaven

The Höegh Esperanza Floating Storage and Regasification Unit (FSRU) has arrived in Wilhelmshaven forward of the opening of Germany’s first liquefied pure gasoline (LNG) terminal on Saturday (December 17).

The FSRU was beforehand loaded with round 165,000cm of LNG in Spain – sufficient to produce round 50-80,000 German households for a yr.

In future, Höegh Esperanza will not carry the LNG to Wilhelmshaven and its process is to regasify delivered LNG and to feed a minimum of 5 bcm of pure gasoline into the German gasoline grid annually. That’s round 6% of Germany’s gasoline demand, and would exchange round 11% of Germany’s gasoline imports from Russia.

Holger Kreetz, Uniper’s COO Asset Administration, stated there’s nonetheless lots to do earlier than the primary gasoline can circulate in a couple of days.