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“Our development project, designed to assess the possibility of LNG reloading and market demand for this service, has fully met our expectations and continues progressing,” LNG Croatia said in a statement on Friday.
The LNG terminal operator did not provide further information.
In April 2022, LNG Croatia started offering these services, and it completed the 100th ship-to-truck LNG operation in July the same year.
On a monthly basis, terminal users can book about 40 slots to fill their trucks with LNG.
Croatia’s FSRU-based LNG terminal on the island of Krk received 114 cargoes since the launch of operations in January 2021, while work on expanding the unit with an additional regasification module continues to progress.
The Croatian FSRU mainly receives shipments from the US, but it also received cargoes from Algeria, Qatar, Nigeria, Egypt, Trinidad, Indonesia, and reloads from European terminals.
According to LNG Croatia’s website, the Krk LNG terminal has shipped more than 9.55 billion cubic meters of natural gas into the Croatian system.
The LNG terminal regasified more than 15.8 million cubic meters of LNG.
LNG Croatia is owned by Croatian state-owned power utility HEP and Plinacro, the national gas transmission system operator (TSO), with 85 percent and 15 percent, respectively.
Hungary’s MFGK and a unit of Switzerland-based trading firm MET are some of the users of the facility.
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 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.