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According to a statement by Gaz-System, the company signed a deal with a consortium led by Turkiye’s Gap Insaat Yatirim ve Dis Ticaret on April 2.
The other two consortium partners include Turkiye’s Unitek Insaat Sanayi ve Ticaret and Poland’s Fabe Polska.
Gaz-System said the consortium will be responsible for the preparation of the detailed design, supply of machinery and equipment, and construction of the marine part of the FSRU-based project.
These activities include the construction of a jetty together with the infrastructure necessary to operate the regasification unit, as well as the construction of an offshore gas pipeline that will connect the terminal to the national transmission system.
Gaz-System did not provide the price tag of the deal.
The firm noted that the offshore part of the project has been previously awarded EU funds of up to 19.6 million euros ($21.5 million).
With the award of this contract, the Gdansk project has now entered the implementation phase in all three areas: offshore, onshore, and the acquisition of a regasification unit, Gaz-System said.
In December 2024, Gaz-System secured a building permit from the local authorities for the offshore part of the FSRU-based LNG import project.
The FSRU will be located in the southern part of the Gulf of Gdansk, at a distance of about 3 km from the shore.
Gaz-System said the offshore gas pipeline will be about 3 km long.
In addition, 250 km of onshore pipelines will be built between Gdansk and Gustorzyn to transport LNG regasified onboard the FSRU deeper into the country.
According to Gaz-System, the FSRU terminal in the Gulf of Gdańsk, with its annual capacity of 6.1 bcm, will guarantee diversification of gas supply directions and sources for Poland and the CEE region.
Its commissioning is planned for late 2027/early 2028.
MOL’s FSRU
In April last year, Japan’s shipping giant MOL signed a long-term FSRU charter deal with Gaz-System for the planned LNG import terminal in Gdansk.
The deal with MOL’s unit White Eagle Energy is for 15 years with the possibility of further extension.
Based on the charter agreement, Gaz-System also has the right to purchase the FSRU.
HD Hyundai Heavy will build the 170,000-cbm FSRU and deliver it in 2027.
It will be 294 meters long and 46 meters wide.
Hyundai Heavy’s parent KSOE said in March 2024 that the shipbuilder won an order from an owner in Europe.
The contract has a price tag of 483.9 billion won or about $364 million.
This is Poland’s first FSRU and will add to the onshore Swinoujscie LNG terminal.
Poland’s Orlen previously booked the entire 6.1 bcm per year of regasification capacity at Gaz-System’s planned FSRU-based LNG import facility.
Orlen is already in charge of all of the supplies coming to Gaz System’s LNG import terminal in Swinoujscie, Poland’s first such facility, via PGNiG.