TotalEnergies starts regasification at Lubmin, Germany, terminal
Jan. 13, 2023
TotalEnergies SE and Deutsche ReGas GMBH & Co. KGaA have started regasification at the 5-billion cu m/year (bcmy) Deutsche Ostsee LNG terminal in Lubmin on the German Baltic Sea coast. TotalEnergies last month delivered the Neptune—one of its two floating storage and regasification units (FSRU)—to Deutsche ReGas for use in Lubmin.
In October 2022, TotalEnergies contracted 2.6 bcmy of Deutsche Ostsee’s capacity, bringing the total amount of gas it is importing into Europe as LNG to more than 20 bcmy.
TotalEnergies also last year entered into a heads of agreement for development of the Cameron Phase 2 LNG plant in Hackberry, La. (OGJ Online, Aug. 1, 2022), and began marketing LNG from a planned FSRU in Le Havre, France, starting September 2023 (OGJ Online, Dec. 21, 2022).
The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) last year forecast a 34% increase in European Union (EU) and UK import capacity by 2024 compared with 2021. Regasification terminals under construction in seven EU countries could add 3.5 bcfd (36.2 bcmy) of capacity by end 2023, EIA said (OGJ Online, Nov. 29, 2022).