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Gaz-System announced the milestone delivery via its social media on Tuesday.
According to Gaz-System, the 63rd LNG shipment was unloaded on Monday, overtaking the 62 shipments that were received at the facility during the entire 2024.
Gaz-System did not provide futher deatils reagrding the newest shipment.
According to VesselsValue AIS data, the 174,000-cbm LNG carrier Lech Kaczynski, owned by Knutsen and chartered by Orlen, delivered the shipment to the Polish facility from Venture Global LNG’s Calcasieu Pass plant in Louisiana.
Poland’s Orlen is in charge of all of the supplies coming to Gaz System’s LNG import terminal in Swinoujscie, and the company has a long-term contract for Calcasieu Pass volumes.
Gaz-System noted that the increase in LNG deliveries is attributed to the expansion of the Swinoujście facility.
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.
This capacity equals almost 50 percent of the annual gas demand of domestic consumers
The expansion included the third 180,000-cbm tank and an additional jetty, which allows unloading, loading, and bunkering operations of small-scale vessels.
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.
Gdansk FSRU
In addition to this facility, 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.
Orlen also 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 officially started building MOL’s 170,000-cbm FSRU, which will serve Gaz-System’s Gdansk LNG project, in July this year.
In April last year, Japan’s shipping giant MOL signed a long-term FSRU charter deal with Gaz-System.
The deal with MOL’s unit White Eagle Energy is for 15 years with the possibility of further extension.
Gaz-System also recently revived its plan to add a second FSRU as part of the LNG import project in Gdansk Bay with a new non-binding call for interest.
