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The Italian energy firm revealed the departure of the FSRU from Dubai in a social media post on Monday.
According to Kpler data, BW Singapore set from DP World Drydocks shipyard in Dubai on November 25 after undergoing extensive repairs and modifications.
The vessel had been in the yard since April this year.
Last year, the FSRU worked in Egypt under a charter with Egas which expired in November.
In December last year, Snam completed the purchase of BW LNG’s 2015-built FSRU BW Singapore for about $400 million.
Snam recently said that a new mooring platform off Italy’s Ravenna is almost ready to welcome the FSRU by the end of this year.
Snam expects the terminal to be operational within the first quarter of 2025.
Once in service, it will provide Italy with an additional regasification capacity of 5 billion cubic meters per year, thus reaching 40 percent of the nation’s total gas demand.
According to Snam, the Ravenna FSRU project is worth about 1 billion euros ($1.05 billion).
On the other hand, Snam’s FSRU-based LNG import terminal in the Italian port of Piombino has received more than 39 LNG cargoes since its launch last year.
The 170,000-cbm Italis LNG, previously known as Golar Tundra, received its first commercial shipment from Eni in July last year.
Eni booked regasification capacity at the FSRU-based facility as part of its strategy to diversify LNG supplies to Italy through its internationally produced equity gas.
In April, the unit received its first LNG cargo from Eni’s Congo FLNG project.
Snam said in its financial report that the unit regasified a total of 2.45 billion cubic meters with 27 unloads from LNG carriers in the first nine months of 2024.
Including its Panigaglia onshore terminal in Liguria, Snam regasified 3.42 bcm of LNG during the nine-month period, a rise of 44.3 percent year-on-year.
Overall, Italian volumes decreased 9.5 percent year-on-year to 10.89 bcm in the nine-month period.
Adriatic LNG volumes reached 6.76 bcm during the period, up 3.8 percent on year, while FSRU Toscana volumes dipped 78.5 percent year-on-year to 0.66 bcm due to scheduled maintenance.
Italy’s OLT Offshore recently received the first LNG carrier at its FSRU Toscana since the unit started maintenance earlier this year.
Snam holds a 49.07 percent stake in the LNG terminal, while Igneo Infrastructure Partners owns a 48.24 percent share.