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DET announced on Thursday the marketing of short-term regasification capacities at its FSRU-based LNG terminals in Brunsbüttel and Wilhelmshaven for 2025.
The company intends to offer terminal capacity products for regasification, LNG storage, and sendout to the grid.
A limited number of slots in January, February, and March 2025 will be offered via the PRISMA platform on December 23, 2024, in a descending clock auction.
DET said the slots include an “obligation to deliver.”
According to documents posted on the PRISMA platform, DET will offer a bundle of 3 OTD slots with a standard cargo size of 160,000 cbm of LNG for both terminals.
“Variable charges to shippers will generally be unchanged from previous marketings. e.g., grid entry costs will be guaranteed with an LNG discount,” DET said.
Also, the terminal use agreements will be essentially unchanged from the capacity auctions earlier in 2024, the company said.
DET also said in a separate statement later on Friday that this is the first of two steps in the current marketing process.
The company will also offer further capacity for 2025 and beyond to the international market via PRISMA in late January/early February 2025.
“DET will provide information on the exact date shortly,” it said.
Hoegh FSRUs
DET said in July this year it will launch new capacity auctions for its FSRU-based facilities in Brunsbüttel and Wilhelmshaven after it did not receive any bids in the prior marketing round.
In the three marketing rounds issued in May, which took place between June 13 and July 3, DET offered short-term products for 2025, as well as long-term products for the years 2025-2029 for regasification capacities at the Brunsbüttel and Wilhelmshaven 1 LNG terminals.
The 170,000-cbm FSRU Hoegh Gannet, which serves the Elbehafen LNG import terminal in Brunsbüttel, started supplying regasified LNG to the German grid on March 22, 2023, as part of the commissioning phase.
Hoegh Gannet can regasify up to 750 mmscfd.
In addition, the Wilhelmshaven 1 terminal also features a Hoegh Evi FSRU. The unit in question is the 170,000-cbm FSRU Hoegh Esperanza.
DET said in a recent note posted on the Gas Infrastructure Europe (GIE) website that the Wilhelmshaven 1 terminal will not be available from January 5, 2025, until April 1, 2025.
However, “capacity is intended to be marketed, and terminal usage depends on marketing result,” the note said.
Two LNG terminals delayed
Besides these terminals, DET is working to launch its next two FSRU-based LNG import terminals in Stade and Wilhelmshaven.
DET recently said it expects to launch its next two FSRU-based LNG import terminals in January 2025.
The company previously expected to commission the two facilities before the winter.
However, the launch of the two terminals will be further postponed.
“Despite many challenges during the course of the project and against the backdrop of a tight schedule, the construction works for the new terminals Wilhelmshaven 02 and Stade are almost complete,” a spokesperson for DET told LNG Prime on Friday.
“We anticipate commencing operations at the earliest possible opportunity within the first quarter,” the spokesperson said.
DET’s third LNG import facility in Stade features the 174,000-cbm FSRU Energos Force.
In March this year, the 2021-built FSRU, owned by Apollo’s Energos Infrastructure, arrived at the AVG jetty in Stade.
Once operational, the almost 300-meter-long ship will feed up to 5 bcm of gas per year into the German gas network.
DET’s second terminal in Wilhelmshaven will have a capacity of about 4 bcm per year.
Excelerate’s 138,000-cbm FSRU Excelsior arrived at the Navantia yard in El Ferrol, Spain last year for a planned stopover before its job in Wilhelmshaven. According to its AIS data, the FSRU is still located there.
(Updated with a statement by DET.)
