LNG Croatia to Double its Capacities

October the 22nd, 2025 – LNG Croatia is set to double its capacities, further ensuring the country’s gas supply, as well as that of other countries in the immediate region.

As Sinisa Malus/Poslovni Dnevnik writes, The LNG Croatia floating storage and re-gasification unit (FSRU) returned to its Omišalj terminal home on Sunday. It had been away installing a new re-gasification module and undergoing a five-year refurbishment at the Kuzey Star shipyard down in Turkey.

According to the announcements being made by LNG Croatia, which operates the liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in Omišalj on the island of Krk, preparations are currently underway for the commissioning of this brand new module, including final testing of the FSRU system and the onshore part of the terminal. This is all being carried out with the primary aim of a safe and reliable start of commercial operations scheduled for October the 26th.

The LNG Croatia FSRU set sail back at the end of August for the installation of an additional re-gasification module at the Turkish Kuzey Star shipyard, increasing its maximum capacity from 3.1 to 6.1 billion cubic metres of gas per year. The additional module will increase the reliability and security of natural gas supply to Croatia and other countries across Central and Southeastern Europe from the LNG terminal, which began commercial operation back in January 2021.

The tender for the installation of the new module was worth a staggering 16.6 million euros and divided into two groups. The first, main part of the tender worth 14.61 million euros was won by the aforementioned Kuzey Star shipyard down in Turkey. They offered a minimum one-year warranty. The second part of the tender was the procurement and installation of electrical equipment for the integration of the FSRU ship with the new gasification module and the facility. It was won by Zagreb-based S.C.A.N., which requested 1.99 million euros excluding VAT for the job, which is just a little less than the estimated two million.

The terminal, or FSRU ship LNG Croatia, was built back in 2005 in South Korea. LNG Croatia acquired it from Golar through a tender in 2018. The previous module on the LNG Croatia ship had a capacity of 450 thousand cubic metres of gasification per hour. After the modifications, it was increased by an additional 250 thousand cubic metres of gasification per hour. The aforementioned new gasification module weighs in at a massive 470 tonnes and was manufactured by the Norwegian company WGS over in China.

Prior to this promising expansion, all of LNG Croatia’s terminal capacities were fully leased for the next 12 years, which is sufficient evidence of the growing interest. The expansion of the Krk terminal’s capacity is otherwise part of the European Union’s wider plan to diversify energy sources across the bloc and in this case is aimed, in addition to Croatia, at other EU Member States across Central Europe.

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