FSRU operations
High-capacity floating terminals with innovative systems to safely deliver LNG to the grid, fueling millions of homes while protecting marine ecosystems.
Service overview
With the commissioning of its third Floating Storage Regasification Unit (FSRU) to import liquefied natural gas (LNG), the state-owned Deutsche Energy Terminal GmbH (DET) successfully implemented another key project of the LNG Acceleration Act on May 26 2025.
The FSRU has helped turn Wilhelmshaven into a key entry point for LNG, at a time when energy security and transatlantic trade are high on Europe’s agenda. TES, together with ENGIE, DET, and BMWE, has delivered a result that strengthens Germany’s supply today and lays the foundation for TES’s onshore terminal, which will enable large-scale imports of both LNG and e-NG. We are proud of the outstanding work by the TES team in bringing this project to life.
The Wilhelmshaven FSRU Excelsior is unique in Germany and Europe in several respects: the island jetty is built around 1.5 kilometers from the mainland in one of the strongest currents in Europe. In addition, data, electricity and ultimately the natural gas pipelines are laid in the seabed for ecological reasons and connected to a head station on land. An innovative system from ECOnnect is used for this. FSRU Excelsior also has another unique feature: for the first time in Europe, DET is testing an ultrasound method to combat fouling pressure in the seawater pipeline system of an FSRU.
In 2025, Excelsior FSRU will feed up to 1.9 billion cubic meters of natural gas into the German gas grid. This corresponds to the annual natural gas consumption for heating 1.5 million four-person households in multi-family homes. In the two subsequent years, Excelsior's regasification and grid feed-in capacity will then reach up to 4.6 billion cubic meters each, equivalent to the annual heating energy required by up to 3.7 million four-person households.
