Worley scores German LNG gig

Under the contract, Worley will provide construction, installation, and commissioning services, according to a statement by Worley on Thursday.

These services will be provided through Worley’s offices in the United Kingdom and Germany.

Separately, Worley is also providing engineering and procurement services.

Worley did not provide the price tag of the deal.

The company’s Phase 2 scope includes the installation of a permanent jetty and associated gas
import facilities.

This Phase 2 of the FSRU-based terminal follows DET’s successful completion with Worley of Phase 1, which integrated LNG into Germany’s energy grid during the European winter of 2022–23, Worley said.

Brunsbüttel FSRU

The 170,000-cbm FSRU Hoegh Gannet, which serves the LNG import terminal 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. It received its first LNG tanker on February 14, 2023.

RWE developed the project with Hoegh LNG, now Hoegh Evi, Brunsbüttel Ports, and other partners on behalf of the German government.

Hoegh Gannet is currently located at the Brunsbüttel Port’s existing dangerous goods berth in Brunsbüttel’s Elbehafen port, but it will be relocated to a new dedicated jetty.

In April 2024, Brunsbüttel Ports officially started building the jetty, which will host the FSRU.

The new jetty is being built to the west of Hoegh Gannet’s current location.

German FSRUs

Besides the Brunsbüttel facility, DET also operates the Wilhelmshaven 1 FSRU-based terminal.

DET also recently terminated the contract related to the Stade FSRU-based facility with compatriot Hanseatic Energy Hub, the developer of the onshore LNG terminal in Stade.

In March 2024, the 2021-built 174,000-cbm FSRU, Energos Force, owned by Apollo’s Energos Infrastructure and chartered by Germany’s federal government, arrived at the AVG jetty in Stade.

However, DET’s third FSRU-based facility after the Brunsbüttel and Wilhelmshaven 1 terminals has not been commissioned since then.

In addition to these facilities, DET is also working on the second Wilhlemhsaven facility.

However, the launch of this facility has also been delayed.

DET told LNG Prime last month that it now expects Excelerate’s 138,000-cbm FSRU Excelsior to arrive in Wilhelmshaven “in the course of April.”

In 2023, the FSRU arrived at the Navantia yard in El Ferrol, Spain for a planned stopover before its job in Wilhelmshaven.

According to its AIS data, the FSRU is still located there.

DET’s second terminal in Wilhelmshaven will have a capacity of about 4 bcm per year and features a new jetty, which was completed last year.