TotalEnergies has announced the start-up of the Deutsche Ostsee LNG import terminal developed by Deutsche ReGas in Lubmin on the German Baltic Sea coast, for which TotalEnergies is supplying a 5.2 bcm/year floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) and LNG from its international portfolio. The group has also contracted a regasification capacity of 2.6 bcm/year.
Several LNG projects have been initiated in Germany since the since the start of the war in Ukraine, as Berlin is trying to avoid an energy crisis this winter amid dwindling supplies of Russian gas. In May 2022, Germany announced it would charter four FSRUs (two by Uniper and two by RWE) with a total added import capacity of 25 to 29 bcm/year. Still in May, RWE signed a preliminary deal with Sempra to import 2.25 Mt/year (3 bcm/y) of US LNG. In March 2022, Gasunie and RWE announced plans for an 8 bcm/year LNG import terminal in Brunsbüttel. In October 2022, Excelerate signed a five-year contract with Germany for the deployment of a 5 bcm/year FSRU in Wilhelmshaven. In December 2022, Höegh LNG delivered the 5 bcm/year Höegh Esperanza FSRU to the port of Wilhelmshaven in northern Germany, where it became the first LNG import terminal in Germany.
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