Rostock LNG Terminal

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Rostock LNG Terminal is a shelved (inferred 2 y) LNG import terminal in Germany.

Location

Table 1: Location details

Name	Location	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Rostock LNG Terminal	Rostock, Germany	54.181909, 12.088052 (approximate)

The map below shows the approximate location of the terminal:

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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
Rostock LNG Terminal	import	shelved (inferred 2 y)	0.8 mtpa	0.8 mtpa	False	–

Table 3: Cost

Name	Facility type	Cost	Total known terminal costs
Rostock LNG Terminal	import	–	–

Table 4: Financing

Name	Facility type	Financing
Rostock LNG Terminal	import	In July of 2020, the European Union provided €19.4 million (US$22.8 million) worth of grants to help fund construction and operation of the project.

Table 5: 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
Rostock LNG Terminal	import	shelved (inferred 2 y)	2019	–	–	2026	2025 (shelved)

Ownership

Table 6: Ownership

Name	Facility type	Status	Owners	Parent companies	Operator
Rostock LNG Terminal	import	shelved (inferred 2 y)	BarMalGas [100%]	BarMalGas [100.0%]	–

Background

A joint venture between Russia's Novatek and Belgium's Fluxys plans to build a small-scale LNG terminal along the Baltic Sea in Rostock. A final investment decision is expected in 2019, and it is expected to be completed in 2023. The German government has called its efforts to import LNG "a gesture to our American friends" and a way to diversify its energy supply as it phases out coal. The proposal would have a capacity of 0.3 mtpa, and a cost of US$100 million.

There is no regasification capacity and pipeline connection planned for the Rostock LNG terminal. The LNG supplies will be entirely used either as a transport fuel for ships and trucks at the local harbor at Rostock, or for distribution as a liquid by trucks and rail. Novatek is expected to be the main supplier of LNG to the terminal via its Vysotsk LNG Terminal near St. Petersburg.

In September 2021, the project promoters Novatek and Fluxys announced that they had abandoned plans to build the Rostock terminal. Constantin Zerger of the German environment group Die Deutsche Umwelthilfe (DUH) welcomed the news, commenting, "The decision shows that LNG also has no future as a fuel for trucks and ships." The managing director of the port of Rostock said he hopes that hydrogen-based products can be imported there instead in the future. Fluxys acknowledged that the decision to cancel the project was due to unfavourable market conditions.

As part of the boom in new LNG terminal proposals in Germany since February 2022, and amidst heightened speculation about new projects, there have been unconfirmed reports that a new terminal proposal could emerge in the German state of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania where the cancelled Rostock LNG Terminal site is situated. As of late March 2022, there were no confirmed details on any plans. In May 2022, there was continued speculation that Rostock could be chosen as the site for an FSRU as part of German government plans to commission four new FSRUs along the country's north coast.

Project Revival

As of October 2022, projects in connection with the planned Rostock LNG Terminal were listed in ENTSOG's Ten-Year Network Development Plan. In May 2023, it was reported that BarMalGas had taken over the project and that the company was planning to begin construction in 2023. The new plan for the LNG terminal is that it will output around 800,000 tons of LNG, bio-LNG, and synthetic LNG annually. The facility will target bunkering vessels and LNG-powered trucks. As of July 2025, the project was on the most recent TYNDP, but there was no other evidence that BarMalGas's new proposal has advanced. The project was last mentioned in the media in March 2025.

Financing

In July of 2020, the European Union provided €19.4 million (US$22.8 million) worth of grants to help fund construction and operation of the project.

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