NV Nederlandse Gasunie has agreed to charter a 170,000-cu m, 900-MMscfd floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) from New Fortress Energy Inc. for 5 years beginning in third-quarter 2022, providing additional storage and regasification for Gasunie’s new LNG terminal in Eemshaven, the Netherlands.
New Fortress says the Eems Energy Terminal—featuring the newly chartered vessel working in tandem with Exmar Groups’s S188 FSRU—will be able to import 8 billion cu m/year (bcmy), enough LNG to meet the country’s gas needs without relying on pipeline imports.
Gasunie chartered the 4.5-bcmy S188 in March 2022 for 5 years. The vessel is scheduled to leave Singapore this month and arrive in Eemshaven in early August 2022.
Ulco Vermeulen, member of the executive board of Gasunie, said “this new terminal capacity will increase energy security for the Netherlands and Northwest Europe and create additional LNG import capacity to reduce dependence on Russian gas.”
Gasunie plans to build a permanent shore-based terminal, also capable of storing green hydrogen, at Eemshaven in the future.
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