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According to a tender document posted on HEP’s website last week, HEP is inviting bidders to submit bids from one up to six cargoes for the period between October 2025 and September 2026.
Nominal quantity per cargo shall be 3.41 TBtu for the first three LNG cargoes, and 3.12 TBtu for the remaining three cargoes.
The cargo delivery windows are November 25-28, 2025, January 19-22, 2026, March 3-7, April 27-30, June 22-25, and August 16-19.
The winning bidder will provide the cargo(es) on the DES (delivered ex-ship) basis to the 140,000-cbm FSRU LNG Croatia.
HEP said the initial bids must be submitted by June 17 at 12:00 CET.
Last year, HEP also launched a tender for up to six LNG cargoes for delivery to the Krk FSRU.
LNG Croatia is owned by HEP and Plinacro, the national gas transmission system operator (TSO), with 85 percent and 15 percent, respectively.
The terminal just received its 121st LNG cargo since the launch of operations in January 2021.
AIS data provided by VesselsValue shows that the 174,000-cbm Maran Gas Marseille delivered the shipment from Cheniere’s Corpus Christi LNG terminal in the US.
The Croatian FSRU mainly receives shipments from the US, but it also receives cargoes from Algeria, Qatar, Nigeria, Egypt, Trinidad, Indonesia, and reloads from European terminals.
The Krk LNG terminal has shipped more than 10.19 billion cubic meters of natural gas into the Croatian system, according to LNG Croatia.
The LNG terminal regasified more than 16.9 million cubic meters of LNG and completed 545 truck loading operations.
Additional regas capacity
Due to high demand, LNG Croatia is currently working to boost the capacity of its FSRU-based Krk LNG terminal.
In 2023, a unit of Finland’s Wartsila won a contract to supply one regasification module for the FSRU.
Under the contract, Wartsila Gas Solutions built the regas module with a maximum capacity of 250,000 m3/h.
The firm awarded the module contract to China’s CIMC SOE.
In March, CIMC SOE completed Wartsila’s regasification module.
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.