A GasLog-owned LNG carrier is shipping a first cargo into Greece’s new floating storage and regasification unit-based LNG import terminal.
The 174,000-cbm Gaslog Hong Kong (built 2018) has signalled its estimated arrival at the recently installed 155,000-cbm Alexandroupolis FSRU (built 2010) as 15 February.
The vessel, which loaded at Sempra LNG’s Cameron LNG plant in the US, is on time charter to French energy major TotalEnergies.
Greece has been waiting years to see its first FSRU put into operation under at project that kicked off over 14 years ago.
The FSRU —a conversion of GasLog’s 155,000-cbm LNG carrier GasLog Chelsea (built 2010) — finally arrived on location from Singapore in December 2023.
The regas unit is sited 17km to the south-west of the Port of Alexandroupolis in northern Greece and is connected to the shore by a 28km pipeline, 24km of which is subsea.
The FSRU has an overall delivery capacity of about 5.5bn cbm per year, with a peak send out of 22m cbm per day.
Owner and manager Gastrade has said the FSRU will be used to supply markets in south-eastern Europe.
GasLog owns a 20% stake in Gastrade. The shipowner sold the GasLog Chelsea to Gastrade for $265.1m in February 2023.
Several FSRU-based terminals have been proposed and are under development for Greece. Among these, a second unit is planned for the Port of Alexandroupolis.
Greece’s first FSRU joins incoming floating regas units in Brazil and Germany as other planned projects approach start-up.
