The Polish gas infrastructure operator Gaz-System plans to increase the regasification capacity of its planned floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) LNG import project, located in Gdansk Bay (northern Poland), by 4.5 bcm/year.
The project already has a planned capacity of 6.1 bcm/year, bringing the new expected total regasification capacity to 10.6 bcm/year. Gaz-System expects the additional capacity to be available by January 2028. The final decision on regasification capacity for the new FSRU terminal will however depend on the market demand declared under the pending procedure.
The Gdansk project will be the second LNG import terminal in Poland and the first FSRU-based facility in the country. Gaz-System already operates the Świnoujście LNG terminal, whose imports rose by 57% in 2022 to reach 4.4 Mt (about 5.8 bcm) due to a drop in gas supply from Russia and the growing imports of LNG from the US. Since 2022, the Świnoujście terminal has had a commercial regasification capacity of 6.2 bcm/year (5 bcm/year originally), and the facility is being expanded to increase the capacity to 8.3 bcm/year.