TotalEnergies announced the start-up of the Deutsche Ostsee LNG import terminal in Lubmin on the German Baltic Sea coast.
TotalEnergies announced the start-up of the Deutsche Ostsee LNG import terminal in Lubmin on the German Baltic Sea coast, as the facility's official inauguration will take place Saturday, attended by Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
The French major has provided FSRU and supplying LNG for the terminal.
According to the
Global LNG Database®, the Deutsche ReGas’ Lubmin FSRU project which has a regasification capacity of 5 BCM/Y, enough to cover about 5% of German demand, was slated to start commercial operations in the first quarter of 2023.
TotalEnergies will supply, install and operate 170,000-CM Neptune FSRU for the project. A pipeline connected the FSRU to the landing station near Lubmin with a feed-in capacity of approximately 6 GWh/h” [about 13.66 MMCM/D]. The regasified LNG would be transported from the Greifswald landing station via the OPAL and NEL gas pipelines and EUGAL to Germany and Europe.
TotalEnergies has also contracted regasification capacity of 2.6 BCM/Y of gas and began to deliver LNG from its global integrated portfolio to the Lubmin terminal.
TotalEnergies has remarked that Europe is facing a historic gas supply crisis caused by the sharp drop in flows from Russia. "Since the beginning of this crisis, TotalEnergies has mobilized its LNG portfolio, which is broad and flexible, to send available LNG to Europe” and to use its 18 MMT/Y regasification capacity.
With reserving regasification capacity at the Lubmin terminal, the French group will be able to add to this effort and increase its imports to Europe to over 20 MMT/Y or about 15% of the continent's regasification capacity.
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