The state-owned LNG terminal operator announced the upcoming auction for short-term regasification capacities for 2026 at its Brunsbüttel terminal in a statement on Friday.
According to DET, the auction will take place on October 23rd, 2025.
DET will offer terminal capacities for LNG storage, regasification, and sendout to the grid for the period January 2nd – May 26th, 2026.
“The capacity for the remainder of the year will be offered at a later stage for which a DET announcement will be made in due course,” it said.
DET recently said that the 170,000-cbm FSRU Hoegh Gannet, which serves the Elbehafen LNG import terminal in Germany’s Brunsbüttel, will be relocated to the Danish Fayard shipyard from September 18 until the middle of November.
Hoegh Gannet is currently working at the Brunsbüttel Port’s existing dangerous goods berth in Brunsbüttel’s Elbehafen port, while a new jetty is being built to the west of this location.
DET said that Höegh Gannet will resume operations in Brunsbüttel in mid-November, in “good time before winter.”
In 2025, the FSRU has so far been able to feed around 19 terawatt hours of energy in the form of natural gas into the German gas grid.
According to DET, this corresponds to the annual natural gas consumption for heating almost 1.4 million four-person households in 100-square-meter apartments in multi-family
buildings.”
In August, DET also launched commercial operations at its second FSRU-based terminal in Wilhelmshaven.
In May, 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.
