“As part of maintenance work, the floating LNG terminal Wilhelmshaven 2 was offline for a few days from November 27,” state-owned DET said on Tuesday.
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, according to DET.
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.
DET exceeds previous year’s figures
DET also announced in a separate statement tha it has already fed more energy into the German gas grid than in any previous year.
Peter Röttgen, managing director of DET, said that the company’s terminals are operating at “above-average utilization compared to the rest of Europe.”
“By the end of November, we had already fed more than 59 terawatt hours of energy into the German gas grid. This means that the final totals for 2023 and 2024 will already be exceeded by the end of November 2025,” he said.
“We also still have a little reserve capacity, which we offer to the market on a regular basis, but for competitive reasons we have to offer it at a minimum price. However, these residual quantities have not been in demand on the market recently, meaning they are not currently needed by shippers,” Röttgen said.
According to DET, the 59 terawatt hours of energy fed into the grid by DET in previous years corresponded to the total annual consumption of natural gas by just under 18 percent of all household and commercial customers, or 7 percent of total German consumption
