Source: energate

The floating LNG terminal had arrived in Brunsbüttel on 20 January, but had to leave the port again immediately afterwards and has since been lying in the roads off Helgoland. This was done according to plan and was necessary to make room for the unloading of other ships, an RWE spokesperson told energate. This will no longer happen in the future, he said, as the port is currently being rebuilt. The ship is due to return to Brunsbüttel at the beginning of February. The exact date has not yet been set; the timing still has to be coordinated with the unloading dates of other ships. In addition, strong winds are forecast for the beginning of February, which could delay the return. When the ship is back in port, the trial and commissioning phase will continue.

Problems in Eemshaven

Not everything is going smoothly at other FSRUs either. The two ships that make up the Dutch terminal 'EemsEnergy' have problems with the heating of the LNG. The RWE power plant at the Eemshaven site has been supposed to provide the necessary heat since 25 December. The power plant has been out of operation since 13 January after a breakdown. Therefore, the terminal in Eemshaven has not been able to feed gas into the grid since then. This should be possible again from 30 January. The alternative of using North Sea water directly is no longer possible. According to market participants, this requires a water temperature of at least nine degrees Celsius.

Feeding in Wilhelmshaven and Lubmin

Operations in Wilhelmshaven are probably running according to plan. In the first half of January, the feeds into the grid were fluctuating as part of the test operation, but since 16 January the terminal there has been continuously feeding 120 to 140 GWh/day into the OGE grid. The technical maximum capacity is 167 GWh/day. The data is published on the European transparency platform ALSI.

The data of the second German FSRU terminal that has started operation, 'Deutsche Ostsee' in Lubmin, cannot yet be viewed on the ALSI platform. Test operations have been running since 10 January. The quantities are far below the technical maximum capacity of 144 GWh/day. The data are publicly available on the transparency platform of the transmission grid operator NEL Gastransport. This is probably annoying for the German capacity platform operator Prisma. Capacity bookings for the Baltic Energy Gate (Port) entry point are made on the Hungarian capacity platform RBP, which is also used by NEL for the currently unusable Nord Stream Greifswald entry point.

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