LNG terminalling

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.

 

2009 and 2010 activities

2009 was a particularly busy year for the LNG Terminal: 78 LNG ships were unloaded as compared with 37 in 2008. These vessels imported a total of 4.83 million tonnes of LNG, which is equivalent to 6.3 million cubic metres of natural gas. The majority of these 78 LNG ships were loaded at Ras Laffan in Qatar while others also arrived delivering LNG from Norway, Egypt, Nigeria and Trinidad & Tobago.

The first three months of the year 2010 saw 13 LNG carriers unloading at the terminal and two LNG carriers making use of the loading services. Four of the ships docking at the terminal were so-called ‘Q-Flex’ carriers (capacity of up to 217,000 cubic metres of LNG), with the Al Aamriya even docking twice.

Three long term terminalling contracts

In 2004, Fluxys LNG concluded long-term contracts with three terminal users: Qatar Petroleum/ExxonMobil, Distrigas and SUEZ LNG Trading. These contracts represent a jointly booked annual throughput of 9 billion cubic meters of natural gas.

 

Versatile infrastructure

  • Q-Flex ships (with a capacity up to 217,000 cubic metres of LNG) can dock at the terminal.
  • Smaller ships can also be received: e.g. in May 2010 the Coral Methane (with a capacity of 7,500 cubic metres LNG) moored at the terminal.
  • LNG ships can be both unloaded and loaded at the LNG terminal.


> More about the LNG terminal

 

Development of new LNG terminalling capacity: market consultation

Bearing in mind the growing importance of LNG in Europe’s gas supply, Fluxys launched an international market consultation in late 2007 to assess the level of interest in additional capacity at the 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.

> More about the possible second capacity enhancement at the Zeebrugge LNG terminal

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