Croatia from January 1, 2021 began using the terminal for receiving liquefied natural gas from the United States, hitting Russia’s gas dominance in Europe. LNG Hrvatska announced the start of operation of the object
The terminal is located on the island of Krk. The first batch of LNG from the American plant in Cove Point was brought by the Tristar Ruby tanker. Already on January 1, he began transshipment of raw materials to the LNG Croatia regasifier vessel, which will last until January 3. The Gas Infrastructure Europe platform records the flow of gas from LNG Croatia into the European gas transportation system from January 1, writes Interfax a>. During the first day, 4 million cubic meters of gas entered the system.
Croatia consumed only about 2.9 billion cubic meters of gas in 2019, with almost the entire volume supplied by Gazprom . The technical capacity of the terminal on the island of Krk is 2.6 billion cubic meters per year. The project was seen as an opportunity for Croatia to become a gas hub for Central and Eastern Europe and provide fuel supplies to neighboring countries.
The Croatian Prime Minister Andrey Plenkovich at the beginning of 2020 said that gas from terminal can go, for example, to Hungary, wrote RIA Novosti . Kiev also expressed interest in the project – the head of the “Ukrainian GTS Operator” Sergey Makogon said that the LNG terminal on the island of Krk provides an additional opportunity for Ukrainian traders to purchase fuel.