FSRU was also to be built in the port city of Hamburg

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The floating terminal is operated privately by the French energy group Totalenergies and the company Deutsche ReGas. In Lubmin, there is a special solution due to the low water levels: the terminal is supplied by smaller shuttle ships that collect the LNG from a larger tank storage ship on the Baltic Sea. This special ship is the "Neptune", which heats the liquefied natural gas and makes it gaseous again.
In a second project phase, Deutsche ReGas plans to install a second FSRU in Lubmin by December 2023, which will be connected to a newly planned offshore pipeline.
The floating LNG terminal "Höegh Gannet" was officially received in Brunsbüttel on January 20, 2023. The first gas quantities have been fed into the German gas network since February. The international specialist company Reganosa will take over the operation and maintenance of the new onshore infrastructure. The shipping company Höegh LNG will operate the ship. It is to be replaced when the permanent onshore terminal begins operations in 2026. According to the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection, the stationary plant in Brunsbüttel is intended primarily for green hydrogen in the future.
For Stade, the Ministry of Economic Affairs announced in July 2022 that germany consumer email list one of the floating terminals leased by the government is to start operations here. The ship is expected to be ready for the import of LNG in the port of the future Hanseatic Energy Hub (HEH) by the end of 2023. The HEH also plans to build an onshore facility by 2026 to replace the floating terminal.
However, the Federal Ministry of Economics has canceled these plans. An examination has shown that, among other things, another FSRU in the north would have been difficult to implement in terms of network technology.
Conclusion
As a result of the war in Ukraine, the German government has intensified its efforts to diversify gas supplies away from Russian supplies. To this end, it is supporting the development of its own infrastructure for liquefied natural gas (LNG), which is cooled to a liquid state for easier storage and transport. In general, the gas is first liquefied in the country of origin, then transported by ship and regasified at the destination before being fed into existing gas networks and pipelines. In addition to three long-term planned fixed LNG terminals in Wilhelmshaven, Brunsbüttel and Stade (commissioning in 2025/2026), the focus is currently on six floating units as an interim solution: Wilhelmshaven I + II, Lubmin I + II, Brunsbüttel and Stade.