LIVORNO – OLT Offshore LNG Toscana announces the success of the first auctions for the assignment of available capacity for the new Small Scale LNG (SSLNG) service, which concluded with the allocation of the auctioned product consisting of 12 slots of 7,500 liquid cubic meters each, distributed monthly from November 2025 to November 2026. FSRU Toscana is the first Terminal in Italy to offer this service.
This result confirms the growing interest in the new service and the strategic role of the FSRU Toscana regasification terminal in fostering the development of the LNG supply chain in Italy.
“We are extremely satisfied with the outcome of these first small scale auctions, which saw the complete assignment of the available capacity,” stated Giovanni Giorgi, Chief Executive Officer of OLT Offshore LNG Toscana. “This result confirms the strong interest of the LNG market for Italy, both as a lever for the security and diversification of energy supplies, and as a strategic solution for the decarbonization of maritime and heavy land transport.”
The SSLNG service provides for the possibility of loading LNG from the Terminal onto small-scale LNG carriers which can then supply, directly at sea, naval units powered by liquefied natural gas, or discharge the fuel into the coastal deposits of the main Mediterranean ports.
Furthermore, the plant’s characteristics will also allow it to receive LNG from small-scale LNG carriers to be then regasified and fed into the grid.
OLT Offshore LNG Toscana, a company controlled by Snam and Igneo Infrastructure Partners, owns and manages the commercial operations of the FSRU Toscana floating regasification terminal, moored about 22 kilometers off the coast between Livorno and Pisa. The plant is connected to the national grid through a 36.5 km pipeline built and managed by Snam, of which: approximately 29.5 km offshore, 5 km in the Scolmatore Canal and the remaining 2 km on land. The Terminal has an authorized maximum regasification capacity of 5 billion standard cubic meters per year.
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