In October, 4.1 TWh of natural gas were fed into the German transmission grid via the Deutsche Ostsee terminal, according to a statement by Deutsche ReGas.
Deutsche ReGas claims this represents the highest monthly volume ever recorded for an LNG terminal in the German Baltic Sea region.
The delivered quantity is roughly equivalent to the average monthly gas consumption of six million two-person households.
Data from the GIE platform for LNG deliveries show that, with the onset of the winter season in October, almost the same volume of natural gas was supplied to Germany via Deutsche ReGas’s LNG terminal as through all three western German LNG terminals combined (4.2 TWh), the company said.
Considered individually, the Mukran facility was “by far the most heavily utilized floating LNG import terminal in Germany during the first month of the heating season.”
Ingo Wagner, CEO of Deutsche ReGas, said the Mukran facility is connected to the largest available transmission capacity in Germany.
“This makes gas feed-in into the transmission network via Mukran particularly beneficial for the grid. By combining high grid efficiency with record-level feed-in, we are making a significant contribution to the security of supply for Germany and Europe from the very start of the current heating season – especially against the backdrop of historically low gas storage levels,” Wagner said.
Capacity bookings
Deutsche ReGas recently said that companies have booked 80 percent of available regasification capacity at its FSRU-based facility in 2026.
In addition, German chemicals giant BASF and Norwegian energy firm Equinor booked long-term regasification capacity at the facility.
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.
Deutsche Regas also revealed plans in March this year to reinstall a second FSRU at the Mukran facility.
The Mukran facility is the only FSRU-based terminal in Germany operated by a private firm.
