First gas load to Alexandroupoli FSRU

Two months after it was moored in the Thracian Sea, the floating natural gas storage and regasification unit (FSRU), named Alexandroupolis, will on Friday receive its first liquefied natural gas (LNG) cargo.

The American-origin LNG will be used for the trial operation of the FSRU, while the quantities that will be left over, according to what sources of the managing company Gastrade tell Kathimerini, will be available to users who have reserved capacity at the station's facilities - and there are more than 13 companies that are active in the wider region, Greek and foreign.

The start of the commercial operation of the new gas infrastructure will also depend on the duration of the trial operation, which, due to its purely export orientation, strengthens the role of Greece as a gateway for supplying the markets of the wider region, independent of Russian gas.