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DET recently offered short-term regasification capacity at its FSRU-based LNG terminals in Brunsbüttel and Wilhelmshaven.
The company offered slots in January, February, and March 2025 at each of the terminals via the PRISMA platform on December 23.
According to documents posted on the PRISMA platform, DET offered a bundle of 3 OTD (obligation to deliver) slots with a standard cargo size of 160,000 cbm of LNG for both terminals.
A DET spokesman told LNG Prime that all of the six slots were booked during the auctions.
The spokesman did not provide further information regarding the auctions.
This is the first of two steps in the current marketing process.
DET will also offer further capacity for 2025 and beyond to the international market via PRISMA in late January/early February 2025.
“We will provide information on the exact date shortly,” the spokesman said.
It is worth mentioning here that US LNG exporter Venture Global recently sent the first commissioning cargo from its Plaquemines plant in Louisiana to Germany.
Venture Global’s 174,000-cbm newbuild carrier, Venture Bayou, is expected to deliver the shipment to Germany’s Brunsbüttel around January 8, Venture Bayou’s AIS data provided by VesselsValue shows.
The LNG shipment will be delivered to Germany’s EnBW, which probably booked the Brunsbüttel slot during the auctions.
Hoegh Gannet and Hoegh Esperanza
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 more LNG terminals
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,” DET recently told LNG Prime.
“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.