The terminal on Ruegen island in the Baltic Sea supplies onshore grids with LNG via pipeline firm Gascade’s new OAL pipeline.
On April 4, private operator Deutsche ReGas launched a three-month bidding round for expanding Mukran’s long-term regasification capacity by offering an additional five bcm per year from 2027 to 2043.
Currently, ReGas only employs Norwegian operator Hoegh’s FSRU Neptune at Mukran, after ReGas cancelled a second FSRU, the Energos Power, in February, due to low utilisation.
ReGas has said it struggles to compete with fees offered by state-owned Deutsche Energy Terminal GmbH (DET) to attract cargoes at DET-supervised, more western lying, North Sea terminals while German LNG business is generally slow.
But it also said it was sticking to plans for restarting a second FSRU and restoring Mukran’s full capacity of 13.5 bcm annually by 2027.