Uniper To Build Germany’s First LNG Terminal– Aims To Diversify Natural Gas Supply Sources
At an interview in Wilhelmshaven, numerous crucial story for Germany’s power future were introduced: Federal Minister Robert Habeck as well as the Lower Saxony Ministers Olaf Lies as well as Bernd Althusmann established the “first pile-driving” for the building and construction of the initial terminal for melted gas (LNG) inGermany Uniper, as building contractor as well as driver of the incurable, will certainly spend around EUR65 million.
In enhancement, in a symbolic act as well as in the visibility of all legal companions, a letter of intent (LOI) was authorized for the chartering of 2 drifting storage space as well as regasification devices (FSRU). Uniper had actually optioned both FSRUs on the marketplace for the federal government.
In enhancement, a contract was authorized in between the federal government as well as the state of Lower Saxony on the growth of Wilhelmshaven right into an eco-friendly power center forGermany Uniper is sustaining this job with its on-site jobs– in the short-term in the type of the LNG terminal, as well as in the tool as well as long-term in the type of the Green Wilhelmshaven job.
Phase 1 up until winter season 2022/2023
Phase 1 of the LNG incurable design attends to the regasification of LNG by means of an FSRU that can be linked to the existing “Umschlagsanlage Voslapper Groden” (UVG) sea bridge. There, the LNG will certainly be exchanged aeriform gas. The gas will certainly after that be fed right into the German gas pipe system.
For this job stage, the existing UVG needs to be adjusted as well as a link in between the FSRU as well as the onshore centers needs to be developed (supposed ship-to-shore user interface). The adjustment of the UVG will certainly be accomplished by Niedersachsen Ports GmbH & &Co KG (NPorts) in close collaboration with Uniper.
The link to the gas pipe system 28 kilometers away as well as therefore additionally to the Etzel gas storage space center is presently being carried out by Open Grid Europe GmbH (OGE) as well as need to be finished immediately. With an ability of as much as 7.5 billion m ³ each year, around 8.5 percent of Germany’s gas demands are to be landed in Wilhelmshaven in the future.
Phase 2 up until 2025
In a 2nd job stage, an irreversible as well as enhanced port option for the FSRU is to be carried out in alongside the existing UVG. The strategy is to supply added
dumping as well as dealing with centers for environment-friendly gases, e.g. ammonia, in order to have the ability to use the complete capacity of this brand-new framework job in Wilhelmshaven (“Green Wilhelmshaven”). The environment-friendly ammonia is either moved away straight by rail or transformed back right into hydrogen on website by means of supposed biscuits. The port framework of NPorts as well as the
Uniper- possessed website allow the joint building and construction as well as procedure of both the LNG as well as ammonia terminals.
Klaus-Dieter Maubach, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER of Uniper: “Russia’s war against Ukraine has turned the world we live in upside down – this is especially true for the energy industry. We are doing our utmost to support the German government in its plan to diversify Germany’s sources of supply for natural gas and, in the long term, also for hydrogen. With our LNG terminal, we are taking an important step – in close cooperation with the German government – towards the desired energy independence. In doing so, we are relying on our expertise as a global LNG player and gas trader. In the medium and long term, we are developing Wilhelmshaven into the energy hub of the future, with a focus on hydrogen and green gases.”
Reference: uniper.energy
