With Lubmin, a floating terminal for liquefied gas deliveries is now also being built on the Baltic Sea: The "Seapeak Hispania" reaches the coast off Rügen with gas from Egypt on board. The ship will be converted into an interim storage facility at sea, but approval for trial operation is still pending.
A tanker with the first load of liquefied natural gas for the terminal in Lubmin has arrived off Rügen. According to Deutsche Regas, the Seapeak Hispania loaded 140,000 cubic meters of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Egypt. According to ship tracking services, the 280-meter-long tanker reached the Baltic Sea off Mukran on the island of Rügen on Wednesday night. According to earlier statements by a spokesman for Deutsche Regas, he should first go to the roadstead there.
Approvals for the commissioning of the LNG terminal in Lubmin are still missing. Deutsche Regas has now applied for trial operation. The Schwerin Environment Minister Till Backhaus said at the beginning of the week that the permit for this could be granted in a few days. The "Seapeak Hispania" is to be used as an interim storage facility on the Baltic Sea. Smaller tankers are to transport the LNG from there through the shallow Greifswalder Bodden to the actual terminal in Lubmin.
At the weekend, Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Economics Minister Robert Habeck, Finance Minister Christian Lindner and Lower Saxony's Prime Minister Stephan Weil opened Germany's first LNG terminal in Wilhelmshaven on the North Sea coast. "This is now the new pace in Germany, with which we are advancing infrastructure and it should be a role model, not only for this facility, but for many, many others," said Scholz.
In addition to Lubmin and Wilhelmshaven, a total of five floating terminal locations are to be built in Brunsbüttel and Stade - both located at the mouth of the Elbe in the North Sea. According to the Federal Ministry of Economics, the terminals together can then take in a third of the natural gas volume required to supply Germany.
