On Thursday, the 100th LNG carrier arrived at the Wilhelmshaven LNG terminal 01 at Voslapper Groden, according to a DET statement.
DET said the arrival of Venture Gator marks another “significant” milestone since the commissioning of Germany’s first floating LNG terminal at the end of 2022.
The total cargo delivered by all 100 LNG tankers corresponds to approximately 100 TWh or 8.6 billion cubic meters of natural gas after regasification, the company said.
Venture Gator’s AIS data provided by VesselsVlue shows that the vessel previously picked up a cargo of LNG at Venture Global’s Plaquemines LNG terminal in Louisiana.
In January 2023, the 170,000-cbm FSRU Hoegh Esperanza, owned by Norway’s Hoegh Evi and chartered by the German government, received its first LNG cargo in Wilhelmshaven from the US.
The FSRU received in total 45 LNG carriers with a total of 6.9 million cbm of LNG in 2023, 39 LNG carriers with 5.9 million cbm of LNG in 2024, and 16 LNG carriers with 2.3 million cbm of LNG in the first half of this year.
DET expects 17 additional deliveries of LNG at the first Wilhelmshaven facility in the second half of this year.
The state-owned LNG terminal operator noted that the FSRU-based terminal is fully booked until the end of the year.
Additionally, the market has taken up all regasification capacities for Wilhelmshaven 01 offered by DET in the associated marketing round at the beginning of July for 2026.
Since operations began in December 2022, there have been no unplanned shutdowns or unavailability of the facility, aside from two scheduled five-day maintenance windows each year, DET added.
Besides this FSRU, DET prevously told LNG Prime that it plans to launch 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 Excelerate’s 138,000-cbm FSRU Excelsior in Wilhelmshaven from Venture Global LNG’s Plaquemines LNG export plant.
The chartered FSRU is located two kilometers south of the already operational Wilhelmshaven 1 terminal.
