The 2020-built 173,400-cbm, Flex Artemis, docked at the FSRU on April 3 and left the unit on Saturday, according to its AIS data provided by VesselsValue.
As previously reported by LNG Prime, the vessel, owned by Flex LNG and chartered by trader Gunvor, delivered the shipment from Venture Global LNG’s Calcasieu Pass plant in Louisiana.
Snam’s FSRU operations director, Carlo Mangia, also confirmed the STS LNG transfer between FSRU BW Singapore and Flex Artemis in a social media post on Friday.
At the same time, the first volumes of natural gas were injected into the national grid from the FSRU, Mangia said.
Last month, the 2015-built FSRU completed its mooring manoeuvre about 8 kilometres offshore Ravenna.
Prior to arriving in Ravenna, the FSRU completed gassing and cooling operations at the Enagas-operated LNG terminal in Cartagena, Spain.
The vessel is moored at the former Petra offshore platform. The platform’s existing infrastructure – formerly used to dock oil tankers – has recently been repurposed in order to accommodate the regasification vessel.
After the commissioning phase, the Ravenna FSRU-based terminal with a capacity of 5 bcm will enter into service by April, Snam previously said.
Italian LNG terminals
With the commissioning of BW Singapore, Italy’s total regasification capacity will rise to 28 billion cubic meters, equivalent to the volumes imported by pipeline from Russia in 2021, before the Russian-Ukrainian war, according to Snam.
Snam’s other FSRU-based LNG import terminal in the Italian port of Piombino received its 50th cargo in December since its launch in 2023.
The 170,000-cbm FSRU, Italis LNG, previously known as Golar Tundra, received its first commercial shipment from Eni in July 2023.
In addition to these two FSRU-based terminals, Snam holds significant stakes in all the regulated LNG regasification terminals currently operating in Italy, including the Panigaglia terminal, the Adriatic LNG terminal, and the OLT FSRU Toscana terminal.
