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Gaz-System revealed this in a statement on Monday.
The company recently revived its plan to add a second Gdansk FSRU with a new non-binding call for interest.
In November 2023, Gaz-System announced it had not received binding capacity orders at a “sufficient level” to proceed with the implementation of the second Gdansk FSRU.
Gaz-System is currently building an FSRU-based terminal in the Gdansk area, designed to allow the supply of up to 6.1 bcm per year of natural gas from LNG regasification.
Poland’s Orlen previously booked the entire 6.1 bcm per year of regasification capacity at the FSRU-based facility.
Moreover, South Korean shipbuilder HD Hyundai Heavy Industries recently officially started building MOL’s 170,000-cbm FSRU, which will serve Gaz-System’s Gdansk LNG project.
In April last year, Japan’s shipping giant MOL signed a long-term FSRU charter deal with Gaz-System.
Fourteen firms
Gaz-System said in the new statement that fourteen domestic and foreign companies took part in the non-binding call for interest.
The reported demand for 2031-2032 exceeded the planned capacity of the second FSRU, which would be capable of regasifying 4.5 billion cbm of gas per year, by almost four times, according to Gaz-System.
Almost half of the regasified LNG would be exported to Ukraine, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, and Lithuania.
Gaz-System said the estimated export volume ranges from 6.9 to 8.9 billion cbm, and in the coming decades it may fall to approximately 2.6 billion cbm/year.
The survey lasted from September 1 to September 30, 2025.
Participants could express their interest in booking regasification services that will be available after the FSRU-based terminal is launched.
Gaz-System noted they could also specify whether they plan to re-export gas via connections with Lithuania, Ukraine, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, and Germany.
Market participants were also asked to indicate the terms and conditions that would help prepare the next, this time binding, open season procedure.
2028 – 2048
Gaz-System said most participants were interested in long-term use of regasification services – from 2028 to 2048.
According to the firm, many of them indicated the early 2030s as a key moment for the start of LNG supplies.
In addition, potential users had the opportunity to indicate their preferred service delivery model.
The vast majority of them chose a package service including call, unloading, and regasification, with the possibility of sharing the allocated contractual capacity between users on the basis of an agreement concluded between them within a single slot or within different slots throughout the year, it said.
Binding open season
The declarations of market participants provide the basis for conducting a binding open season procedure for the second FSRU terminal.
GAZ-System noted that it is currently consulting with companies that have expressed preliminary interest and is working on preparing an optimal service provision model that will take market suggestions into account.
The aim of the FSRU 2 open season procedure is to confirm actual demand by submitting binding orders for regasification services, the firm added.