Croatian FSRU gets 100th cargo

Croatia’s Krk liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal has received its 100th cargo since the launch of operations in January 2021.

The 2020-built 173,400-cbm LNG carrier, BW Pavilion Aranthera, delivered the milestone cargo to the 140,000-cbm FSRU on Thursday, state-owned LNG Croatia said in a statement.

BW Pavilion Aranthera’s AIS data provided by VesselsValue shows the LNG carrier previously picked up the cargo at Sempra’s Cameron LNG terminal in Louisiana.

The Croatian FSRU mainly receives shipments from the US, but it also received cargoes from Qatar, Nigeria, Egypt, Trinidad, Indonesia, Algeria, and reloads from European terminals.

Switzerland-based trading firm MET, which has regasification capacity rights at the Croatian LNG terminal until October 2032, said in a separate statement it had supplied this LNG cargo to the FSRU.

Since the launch of operations in 2023, MET has delivered a “significant number” of LNG shipments to the FSRU, the firm said.

The Krk LNG terminal has shipped more than 8.3 billion cubic meters of natural gas into the Croatian system, according to LNG Croatia.

The LNG terminal regasified more than 13.7 million cubic meters of LNG and completed 398 truck loading operations.

Due to high demand, LNG Croatia is currently working to boost the capacity of its FSRU-based Krk LNG terminal.

Last year, a unit of Finland’s Wartsila won a contract to supply one regasification module for the FSRU.

Under the contract, Wartsila Gas Solutions is building the regas module with a maximum capacity of 250,000 m3/h. The firm awarded the module contract to China’s CIMC SOE.

The current three LNG regasification units have a maximum regasification rate of 451,840 m3/h.

Following the upgrade, the Krk LNG facility will have a capacity of about 6.1 bcm per year in 2025.

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