Last month, the 2024-built 174,000-cbm Energy Endurance delivered the commissioning cargo to Excelerate’s 138,000-cbm FSRU Excelsior in Wilhelmshaven from Venture Global LNG’s Plaquemines LNG export plant in Louisiana.
The chartered FSRU is located two kilometers south of the already operational Wilhelmshaven 1 terminal. It is moored at an island jetty, completed last year, and located about 1.5 km from the shore.
Excelsior delivered the first gas supplies to the grid on May 23.
“Commissioning phase has been running smoothly ever since,” a spokesperson for DET told LNG Prime on Friday.
“Planned start of the commercial phase is the end of August,” he said.
In 2025, Excelsior will feed up to 1.9 billion cubic meters of natural gas into the German gas grid.
According to DET, this corresponds to the annual natural gas consumption for heating 1.5 million four-person households in multi-family homes.
In the two subsequent years, Excelsior’s regasification and grid feed-in capacity will then reach up to 4.6 billion cubic meters each, equivalent to the annual heating energy required by up to 3.7 million four-person households, the firm said.
Besides the Wilhelmshaven 1 FSRU-based terminal, DET operates the Brunsbüttel facility.
DET is also working on the Stade FSRU-based terminal.
However, in March, the company terminated the contract related to the Stade FSRU-based facility with compatriot Hanseatic Energy Hub, the developer of the onshore LNG terminal in Stade.
The 2021-built 174,000-cbm FSRU, Energos Force, was located offshore Denmark’s Skagen on Friday, according to its AIS data provided by VesselsValue.
Asked about the Stade FSRU, the DET spokesman said that the “Stade terminal project has been delayed and is currently being clarified.”
