Wilhelmshaven LNG Terminal

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Wilhelmshaven LNG Terminal is a proposed LNG terminal in Lower Saxony, Germany.

Location

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Project Details

• Owner:
• Parent: E.ON
• Location: Wilhelmshaven, Lower Saxony, Germany
• Coordinates: 53.516667, 8.133333 (approximate)
• Capacity: 8 mtpa, 1.15 bcfd
• Status: Proposed
• Type: Import
• Start Year: 2023

Note: mtpa = million tonnes per year; bcfd = billion cubic feet per day

Background

In 2005 E.ON proposed the Wilhelmshaven LNG Terminal in Lower Saxony, with capacity of 8 mtpa. It would be Germany's first import gas terminal.

E.ON decided against construction of the terminal in 2008 and instead signed an agreement to get gas from a LNG terminal in Rotterdam, the Gate LNG Terminal. Interest in the Wilhelmshaven terminal revived in 2014 due to Russia tensions with Ukraine, to reduce gas imports from Russia, which supplies 40 percent of German gas demand. Critics argue the terminal would require large state subsidies to be built, and that there is enough LNG import capacity in neighboring countries.

In January 2019 ExxonMobil and Uniper reached an agreement to purchase gas from a Wilhelmshaven terminal that would be developed as an FSRU.

In November of 2019, German utility Uniper announced that the planned Wilhelmshaven floating LNG terminal is expected to come on stream in the year 2023.