Delimara FSRU

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Delimara FSRU, also known as Armada LNG Mediterrana, is an operating LNG import terminal in Malta.

Location

Table 1: Location details

Name	Location	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Delimara FSRU	Marsaxlokk, South Eastern Region, Malta	35.8277, 14.5542 (exact)

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Project Details

Table 2: Infrastructure details

mtpa = million tonnes per year

Name	Facility type	Status	Capacity	Total terminal capacity	Offshore	Associated infrastructure
Delimara FSRU	import	operating	0.5 mtpa	0.5 mtpa	True	Delimara power station

Table 3: Cost

Name	Facility type	Cost	Total known terminal costs
Delimara FSRU	import	–	–

Financing

No financing data available.

Table 4: Project timeline

FID = Final Investment Decision, used by some developers to indicate a project will move forward

Name	Facility type	Status	Proposal year	FID year	Construction year	Operating year	Inactive year
Delimara FSRU	import	operating	2013	–	2014	2017	–

Ownership

Table 5: Ownership

Name	Facility type	Status	Owners	Parent companies	Operator
Delimara FSRU	import	operating	Electrogas Malta Ltd	GEM Holding Ltd; Siemens AG; State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic	Reganosa

Table 6: Vessel ownership

Name	Facility type	Status	Vessel	Vessel owners	Vessel operator
Delimara FSRU	import	operating	Armada LNG Mediterrana	Bumi Armada	Reganosa

Background

Delimara FSRU is a floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) regasification terminal in South Eastern Region, Malta. The FLNG consists of Armada LNG's Mediterrana, a conversion of the former LNG carrier Wakabu Maru, converted by Armada in Singapore under a $300 million contract and delivered in October 2016. The FLNG supplies natural gas to the 200-MW Delimara power station, which has been converted from oil to natural gas. The FSRU was proposed in tandem with the power station in September 2013. This is also presumed to be the approximate final investment decision date, since this contract was driven by the state-owned power utility company Enemalta in Malta. It went into service January 2017.

A Malaysian company, Bumi Armada, was contracted to build the LNG tanker, and after initial delays the delivery date was scheduled for Q3 2016. Bumi Armada reportedly did not build the LNG terminal anew, but converted an existing LNG tanker. The FLNG is chartered in equal parts by German firm Siemens, Azerbaijani state oil firm SOCAR, and GEM Holdings (a consortium of 3 Maltese companies). However, Bumi Armada owns the FSRU.

Potential Relocation

In May 2026, the Nationalist Party proposed the creation of a “Mediterranean Maritime Fuel Hub,” which would consist of building bunkering infrastructure near Hurd’s Bank. The Delimara FSRU that supplies the Delimara power station will be removed from Marsaxlokk harbour within five years of the Nationalist Party taking office. The party also plans to settle the project's studies and procurement by the second year of the new legislature. The fuel hub will be set up around 23 km off Marsaxlokk. Hurd's Bank lies outside Maltese territorial waters, but forms part of Malta's Exclusive Economic Zone. According to the party, the fuel hub would be a new economic niche, replenishing tens of cargo ships which ply the Mediterranean, and it would also be used to feed LNG to the Delimara power station via a subsea pipeline. The FSRU that the Nationalist Party is proposing will be a multi-fuel tanker which, apart from storing LNG, may also store other fuels, such as hydrogen.

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