It brought 210,000 cubic metres of LNG, the equivalent of approx. 130m cubic metres of natural gas. The LNG will be used in the further stages of the commissioning of the terminal units. Unloading of the vessel will take three days.

The LNG was delivered by Qatargas Operating Company Limited. Polskie Górnictwo Naftowe i Gazownictwo S.A. acted as an intermediary in the process, under an agreement with Polskie LNG S.A., the recipient. After regasification, the gas will be entered in the Polish transmission system, to reach end users across the country.

The first supply of LNG for the terminal commissioning was delivered on December 11th 2015. It took eight days to unload the ship.

On January 7th 2016, tests of the regasification system started and the first volumes of gas from that delivery were fed to the transmission system from the LNG terminal in Świnoujście. The delivery volumes are in line with the schedule provided by the general contractor of the terminal. On January 8th 2016, in parallel with the process of pumping the gas into the network, adjustments and tests of the LNG terminal settings started, including optimisation and stabilisation of the regasification process.

When all the operational tests are completed, the permit to operate the terminal is obtained and the terminal is officially accepted from the general contractor, the infrastructure will be ready to handle commercial deliveries.

The terminal in Świnoujście was designed to accept and re-gasify LNG and deliver up to 5 billion cubic metres of gas to the Polish transmission system annually. As part of the project, a new 3 km-long breakwater was built and the wharf was developed to have a mooring system able to handle LNG tankers with a capacity from 120,000 cubic metres (conventional vessels) to 217,000 cubic metres (Q-flex vessels). Moreover, two cryogenic storage facilities (with a capacity of 160,000 cubic metres each) were built, together with regasification units and an 85 km-long Świnoujście-Szczecin pipeline which links the LNG terminal with the transmission system. The LNG terminal in Świnoujście is the only facility of this size in Northern and Central and Eastern Europe.

PGNiG S.A. Communications Department