“On December 9 and 10, 2025, the remaining reserve capacities totaling 27 slots were once again offered to the market. No slots were allocated in this round,” DET said in a statement.
Starting December 22, 2025, DET will once again offer remaining reserve capacities for the first and second quarters of 2026 at the Wilhelmshaven 01 and 02 terminals at a reserve price of €0.66 per MMBtu ($0.66/MMBtu), DET said.
The state-owned firm did not provide further details.
Last month, DET also received no offers for the slots.
Capacities were offered for the first time at a minimum price of 0.56 €/MMBtu for the LNG terminals Wilhelmshaven 01 and Wilhelmshaven 02.
DET said this involved remaining terminal capacities for December 2025, quarters 1, 2, and 4 of 2026, and the first quarter of 2027, for a total of 28 regasification slots.
Before this auction, DET allocated all of the offered January-May 2026 regasification slots at its FSRU-based facility in Brunsbüttel.
The firm said that a total of 58 million MMBtu – equivalent to 16 slots, each with a standard size of 3.6 million MMBtu – were successfully allocated.
Moreover, the auction, conducted via the digital PRISMA platform, achieved an average price of €0.66/MMBtu.
DET’s LNG terminals
DET’s second FSRU-based LNG terminal in Wilhelmshaven recently resumed operations following a brief maintenance period.
Excelerate’s 138,000-cbm FSRU Excelsior did not have to leave its berth at the island pier and resumed regular operations on December 2.
DET launched commercial operations at its second FSRU-based terminal in Wilhelmshaven in August.
In May, the 2024-built 174,000-cbm Energy Endurance delivered the commissioning cargo to 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 Wilhelmshaven 1 terminal.
It is moored at an island jetty, completed last year, and located about 1.5 km from the shore.
The 170,000-cbm FSRU Hoegh Gannet, which serves the Elbehafen LNG import terminal in Germany’s Brunsbüttel, also recently returned from the Danish Fayard shipyard.
During its planned two-month stay at the Fayard shipyard, the FSRU was fitted with catalytic converters to further reduce air pollutant emissions and comply with the requirements of the 44th Federal Immission Control Ordinance, according to DET.
