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Trader Information

The state-owned terminal operating company Deutsche Energy Terminal GmbH (DET) regularly offers regasification capacities – including storage and send-out. The digital offers can be used to acquire usage rights at the state-operated terminals. On this website, we provide interested market participants with all necessary documents for current offers. You will also find a general guide to our award procedure (e.g. auction), background information and collected Q&As.

Wilhelmshaven I

No Auction Planned

Brunsbüttel

No Auction Planned

Stade

No Auction Planned

Wilhelmshaven II

No Auction Planned

Secondary Trade

Information on Secondary Trade offers

Offers and further information on Secondary Trade are available here on the Prisma platform.

General Questions & Answers on Capacity Marketing

With the announcement of the auction, shippers will be informed about the process and the prerequisites for the assignment to the capacity offering. In general the following steps must be taken:

Step 1: Although not mandatory, we recommend to sign the Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) to protect your information, or to make reference to an existing NDA. The template is provided by DET.

Step 2: The Auction will take place on the PRISMA platform. Make sure you are registered and request assignment to DET.

Step 3: You will receive approval as an „Approved Bidder“ upon submission of required documents to 'capacities@energy-terminal.de' (described in the announcement of an individual capacity offering). We generally request financial securities in from of a minimum credit rating (S&P BBB-) or a SLBC as a replacement, and a Letter of Agreement to the TUA/GTCs.

Step 4: When entering a specific digital offering, shippers will explicitly accept the terms and conditions of the PRISMA auction platform and of DET. Acceptance of these Terms & Conditions will be a condition to bid. The Terms & Conditions will be published beforehand.

PRISMA is the platfrom where capacity offerings are held. Please follow the instruction under this link to register at PRISMA.

Bidders that do not meet the “Minimum credit Rating” may submit a “Replacement Credit Support” instead. As set out in the Terminal Use Agreement a Letter of Credit of € 6 million issued in advance of the auction will be accepted. Capacity holder in any of the DET’s terminals do fulfill the requirement of the Replacement Credit support, too.

Short-term capacities to be offered/auctioned will be announced on the DET website. Updates are also sent by e-mail to shippers. To be included on to the distribution list, please send your contact details to DET.

DET publishes which capacities have been sold and the respective price. The identity of the bidder/shipper is not disclosed publically. For alignment between shippers, DET may disclose the identy to slot holders in the same terminal in accordance with the respective Non-Disclosure-Agreement.

The LNGV obliges the terminal operator to offer at least 10% of the terminal's annual capacity on short-term basis. Long-term capacity holders (contracts exceeding one year) have to be excluded from the auctioning of these “mandatory” capacities.

In an ascending clock auction the final pay as bid round (FPAB) is applied in any round after the first if the demand is lower than the offered volume. Each bidder is then asked to set a price and volume. The reserve price is the price of the preceding round. Bidders with the highest price and highest volume win. Please check the PRISMA website for details.

To incentivize deliveries of LNG to the market, the Terminal Use Agreement (TUA) may stipulate a penalty of 30% on the standard cargo value in OTD capacities.

As per LNGV, long-term capacities - i.e. contracts exceeding one year - are offered to the market at the regulated price. Capacities are allocated pro-rata to all bidders that request a capacity above a predefined minimum. The minimum capacity will be communicated before the open season. Shippers will also be informed how unsold capacities will be offered to the market.

In slot-based products, the offering includes regasification of LNG, the storage at the FSRU, and send-out of the gas.

Among others, the slot-based products do not offer gas in kind, bunkering fuels, harbor fees, tug boats, emission allowances.

The auction starting prices do not include grid entry costs.

The conditions of transfer of grid entry capacity to the User will be set out either in the TUA or in a separate transfer agreement. The actual transfer is processed via PRISMA close to the slot start date (generally several working days before) to avoid capacity transfers being affected by any delivery date changes for whatever reason.

DET books grid entry capacity for all slots on long-term base and will offer these "at cost" to all shippers during their respectice slot. The capacity will be sufficent to send out the maximum cargo size at average GCV during the slot duration.

See TUA which is shared before the offering is held.

The TSO connecting WHV is OGE, and the one connecting BBÜ is Gasunie.

Unfortunately not, we would require either the LOC or minimum rating.

Yes, any shipper acquiring capacity from 2025 onwards will be obliged to pay for the regas capacity and grid entry regardless whether it’s used or not (take or pay).

Do you as a shipper have questions about marketing?

If you have questions about marketing as a shipper, especially regarding DET's capacities, digital auctions and offerings, please send an email to:

A comprehensive overview of FAQs, which may already answer some of your questions, can be found further up on this page.