Port works completed to accommodate FSRU

The works began last August, and as well as the pier and mooring structures and systems needed by the floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU), a 2.2km gas pipeline had to be built. 

The 291-metre long Exemplar is being fastened to steel bollards attached to dolphins anchored to the bedrock by more than 100 30m long bored piles.

”The structural strengths and tensile strengths are many times those used for normal shipping operations,” said Esa Hallivuori, head of the LNG Floating Terminal Project at Gasgrid Finland. ”Building the port structures for the LNG floating terminal vessel employed an average of around 100 construction and design professionals.

”The work was carried out in excellent cooperation with professionals from our able and reliable partnership network such as Boskalis Terramare and Ramboll,” says  “We have actively communicated the progress of the project also to local residents.”

”Our goal the whole time has been to be able to start using the liquefied natural gas aboard the LNG terminal vessel already this winter. We are now very close to reaching this goal,” said Olli Sipilä, Gasgrid Finland’s CEO.

The LNG floating terminal will ensure the availability of gas in Finland far into the future and replaces gas supplies that Finland earlier imported from Russia.

When fully laden, Exemplar holds around 68,000 tonnes of LNG. The project will also enable gas deliveries to the Baltic states and even to Poland through the Baltic connector pipeline.