Deutsche ReGas announced on Friday that it will offer mandatory short-term regasification capacity in Mukran.
Available short-term regasification capacity at the LNG terminal “Deutsche Ostsee” will be
auctioned on Tuesday, January 20, 2026.
Deutsche ReGas said that one unloading and regasification slot in July 2026 will be offered during the auction.
The LNG terminal operator is currently running a tender process to bring back a second floating storage and regasification unit at its LNG import facility in Mukran, a spokesman for Deutsche ReGas recently told LNG Prime.
The Mukran LNG terminal currently consists of the 2009-built 145,000-cbm, FSRU Neptune, after Deutsche ReGas terminated the charter contract for the 174,000-cbm FSRU Energos Power with the German government.
The FSRU Neptune is 50 percent owned by Hoegh Evi and sub-chartered by Deutsche ReGas from French energy giant TotalEnergies, who also holds capacity rights at the Mukran facility along with trader MET.
In June, Deutsche ReGas and Germany’s Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy reached a mutual agreement on resolving the sub-charter agreement for the FSRU Energos Power.
Pipeline cost and hydrogen project
Deutsche ReGas also announced in a separate statement last week that the Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf has rejected its appeal against the cost-sharing for connecting the island of Rügen to the gas network via the Ostsee Anbindungsleitung (OAL) pipeline.
The LNG terminal operator had objected to bearing the costs of around 70 million euros ($82.1 million) that the operator of the energy terminal would incur for the construction of the pipeline.
Deutsche ReGas said no comparable cost contributions for the expansion of downstream network capacities were imposed on the federally-owned terminals for the connection of the floating import infrastructure for LNG in western Germany.
The Higher Regional Court has allowed an appeal to the Federal Court of Justice against the decision.
Besides this move, Deutsche ReGas was selected by the state of Baden-Württemberg to receive funding for the “H₂ Hub Bruchsal” hydrogen project.
The funding, amounting to around ten million euros, will go towards the construction of a 15 MW electrolyzer in Bruchsal, which is expected to supply 1,200–2,250 tons of green hydrogen annually to companies and municipal customers in the region from 2028 onwards, according to Deutsche ReGas.
