According to a statement by Adriatic LNG, the LNG terminal has gradually resumed gas supplies to the gas grid on August 31.
Also, the facility received a liquefied natural gas carrier on Wednesday, its 1,182nd LNG carrier since the start of operations in 2009.
Adriatic LNG shut down the facility on August 1 for scheduled maintenance and to carry out plant modifications to further increase regasification capacity from 9.6 to 10.4 bcm.
During the shutdown, maintenance activities on the loading arms and vaporizers were successfully completed.
At the same time, preparatory work continued at the offshore terminal to increase the constant regasification capacity from 9 to 9.5 bcm.
The works required to increase the terminal’s capacity, which are currently underway at the Cavarzere (VE) metering station, are expected to be completed by the end of the year.
The new additional capacity, already allocated for the next 20 years, will be available starting in the first quarter of 2026, according to Adriatic LNG.
Italy’s largest LNG terminal
The world’s first offshore gravity-based LNG import terminal sits about 14 kilometers offshore of Porto Levante.
During January-June, Adriatic LNG sent 4.5 bcm of natural gas into the national pipeline network.
This equals about 14 percent of national gas consumption and confirms Adriatic LNG as the third entry source for Italian gas imports.
The volumes rose 2.2 percent compared to 4.4 bcm in the same period last year, when they reached a half-year record.
Adriatic LNG’s facility received 39 LNG carriers during the first half, mostly from Qatar and the US, covering about 44 percent of Italy’s LNG imports.
In December last year, Rotterdam-based storage terminal owner VTTI, co-owned by Vitol, IFM, and Adnoc, and Italian energy firm Snam completed their acquisition of Adriatic LNG.
Italy’s largest LNG terminal is now owned by VTTI and Snam with 70 percent and 30 percent ownership, respectively.
