OLT Offshore LNG Toscana has announced the success of the first auctions for the allocation 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 regasification terminal FSRU Toscana 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 allocation of available capacity,” said Giovanni Giorgi, CEO of OLT Offshore LNG Toscana. “This result confirms the strong interest of the LNG market in Italy, both as a driver for energy security and diversification and as a strategic solution for the decarbonisation of maritime and heavy land transport.”
The SSLNG service provides for the loading of LNG from the Terminal onto small LNG carriers which will then be able to refuel, directly at sea, liquefied natural gas-fueled naval units, or discharge the fuel at coastal storage facilities in major Mediterranean ports. Furthermore, the plant’s features will also allow it to receive LNG from small LNG carriers, which will then be regasified and fed into the grid.
OLT Offshore LNG Toscana, a company controlled by Snam and Igneo Infrastructure Partners, owns and manages the floating regasification Terminal FSRU Toscana. The Terminal, moored about 22 km off the coast between Livorno and Pisa, is connected to the national grid through a 36.5 km long pipeline, operated and managed by Snam, of which: about 29.5 km is at sea, 5 km is in the floodway and the remaining 2 km is on dry land. FSRU Toscana has a maximum authorised regasification capacity of 5 billion Sm3 a year.
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