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FEATURE: Small-scale LNG sets sail for Germany's inland waterways
Publication date: 04 August 2017
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Plans to build Germany’s first regas terminal at the mouth of the River Elbe and an LNG bunkering facility in Cologne on the River Rhine could turn western Europe’s busiest inland waterways into a major centre for small-scale LNG, according to industry experts.
On 18 July, the European Commission approved a joint venture comprising Gasunie and Vopak [1], which own the Gate LNG terminal in Rotterdam, and German tank operator Oiltanking, which will perform a feasibility study for a 2-3 mtpa regas terminal near Hamburg. A few weeks earlier, Dutch LNG provider PitPoint.LNG announced it planned to begin offering LNG bunkering services at the ...