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The expanded terminal now has a total regasification capacity of about 8.3 bcm per year, and the increased capacity has been available since January 1, 2025, Gaz-System said on Wendesday.
Also, this capacity equals almost 50 percent of the annual gas demand of domestic consumers, the firm said.
Last month, Gaz-System and Germany-based contractor TGE Gas Engineering announced the arrival of the first LNG cargo at the new jetty via separate social media posts.
The 2022-built 174,000-cbm, Lech Kaczynski, which is owned by Knutsen and chartered by Orlen, delivered the shipment from Cheniere’s Sabine Pass facility in Lousiana on November 29.
About 160,000 cbm of LNG was transferred via the newly built jetty to the third storage tank for commissioning purposes.
Back in June 2022, Gaz-System announced that its contractors had raised the roof on the third LNG storage tank at the Swinoujscie facility.
The new 180,000-cbm tank is part of the expansion project, while TGE Gas Engineering, part of China’s CIMC, and a Polish unit of Austrian PORR Group won the contract to build the facilities.
Two phases
The expansion project was built in two phases.
The first phase was completed at the beginning of 2022, and it included boosting the terminal’s regasification capacity from 5 bcm to 6.2 bcm per year.
The second phase included the third tank and the additional jetty.
Gaz-System says the new jetty is capable of unloading, loading, and bunkering operations.
Orlen is in charge of all of the supplies coming to Gaz System’s LNG import terminal in Swinoujscie via PGNiG.
Qatar and the US are the leading suppliers of LNG to Poland as part of long-term contracts, while the US has been the dominant supplier in the last couple of years.
Other suppliers include Norway, Nigeria, Trinidad and Tobago, Equatorial Guinea, and Egypt.
In addition to this facility, Orlen booked 6.1 bcm per year of regasification capacity at Gaz-System’s planned FSRU-based LNG import facility in Gdansk.
In April 2024, Japan’s shipping giant MOL signed a long-term FSRU charter deal with Gaz-System for the planned LNG import terminal in Gdansk.
This will be the second LNG import terminal in Poland and the first FSRU-based facility.