The FSRU Excelsior reached on April 28 its purpose-built island pier in the Jade River near Wilhelmshaven, Germany.
The 277-meter-long floating storage and regasification unit, owned by the shipping company Excelerate Energy, will be operated by the federally owned Deutsche Energy Terminal GmbH (DET).
In the coming weeks, the floating regasification vessel will be connected to the long-distance gas grid and prepared for commissioning under strict safety requirements.
Wilhelmshaven02 will be DET’s second terminal in Wilhelmshaven and together with Brunsbüttel its third. The core of the facility, the FSRU Excelsior, has a storage capacity of 138,000 cubic meters of LNG.
During 2025 the regasification vessel will feed up to 1.9 billion cubic meters of natural gas into the German gas grid, which corresponds to the natural gas consumption required to heat 1.5 million four-person households in multi-family homes.
In the two following years, the Excelsior’s regasification and grid feed-in capacity will reach up to 4.6 billion cubic meters each year, equivalent to the heating energy required for up to 3.7 million four-person households.
The ship, built in 2005 and owned by the shipping company Excelerate Energy, will be connected to the German natural gas grid via the second Wilhelmshaven connecting pipeline (WAL II) of Open Grid Europe (OGE).
The LNG terminal has a specially constructed island pier, built on behalf of DET by the companies Engie and Tree Energy Solutions (TES).
