Your LNG gateway into Northwestern Europe
The Zeebrugge LNG terminal serves as a gateway to supply LNG into Northwestern Europe. Any LNG unloaded at the terminal can be redelivered for consumption on the Belgian market, or traded on the Zeebrugge Hub or onward transmission to supply other end consumer markets in any direction: the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Germany, Luxemburg, France and Southern Europe.
About 1,200 LNG carriers received
The Zeebrugge terminal facilities provide for loading and unloading ships carrying liquefied natural gas (LNG). LNG is stored there temporarily as a buffer in storage tanks and can be regasified and injected into the grid for transmission or loaded back onto LNG ships. About 1,200 LNG carriers have docked at the terminal since commissioning of the facility in 1987.
> Overview of the LNG terminal
First capacity enhancement 2004-2008
Between the end of 2004 and the spring of 2008, a fourth storage tank and additional send-out capacity were built at the LNG terminal. This enhancement has doubled the facility's throughput capacity to 9 billion cubic metres of natural gas per year, allowing reception of 110 ships per year instead of 66 ships per year previously.
> Learn more about the capacity enhancement 2004-2008
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Possible second enhancement project
Considering the rising importance of LNG in Europe’s security of supply, Fluxys LNG launched in late 2007 an international market consultation to assess the level of demand for additional capacity at the Zeebrugge LNG terminal. The market consultation has highlighted market interest in services requiring the construction of a second jetty. If built, this jetty would among other things enable the mooring of regasification vessels and the loading of small LNG ships.
> Learn more about the possible second enhancement project
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