Two fast-track Projects in Parallel

One of the awarded studies addresses a market facing mounting pressure to secure gas supply quickly. In this context, the IQuay Regas Terminal offers a decisive advantage: its ability to be deployed in under 20 months, bypassing the long lead times and availability constraints of traditional solutions. The design also accounts for demanding offshore conditions, incorporating advanced mooring and safety systems to ensure reliability in a challenging marine environment. This combination of speed, adaptability, and resilience makes it an ideal fit for a region where energy security cannot wait.

The second pre-FEED study focuses on a site with more benign marine conditions but strict permitting boundaries and an ambitious timeline for first gas. Here, the IQuay Regas Terminal’s floating, modular configuration minimizes onshore footprint and civil works, enabling compliance with existing concessions while accelerating project execution. Its compatibility with an FSU, without major modifications, further reduces capital costs and technical risk. Coupled with scalable regas capacity and established supplier partnerships, the solution positions the project to deliver reliable LNG imports on schedule and within regulatory constraints.

Fast-Tracking Floating Regasification

Global regasification capacity currently falls short of demand. Limited specialized shipyard availability leads to long lead times for new Floating Storage Regasification Units (FSRUs), while converting FSUs remains costly. Many projects also have gas supply requirements too small to justify conventional terminal solutions. As a result, project developers are turning to ECOnnect Energy for fast-track floating and modular regasification systems. The IQuay Regas Terminal offers two key advantages: rapid availability and economic viability for small to mid-scale projects. It enables facilities that would otherwise be unfeasible due to the time or cost associated with full-sized FSRUs or converted FSUs

A Holistic and Sustainable Approach

The IQuay Regas Terminal offers a complete floating regasification package, integrating a Floating Storage Unit (FSU), with low-impact and modular regasification and offshore transfer capabilities, based on ECOnnect’s proven and patented technology portfolio. Designed with a focus on sensitive marine environments, the system maintains an environmental footprint lower than its alternatives while ensuring robust performance and operational reliability.  

Its modularity allows for future reconfiguration to accommodate renewable energy integration or carbon capture and storage (CCS) capabilities. The system can also be scaled up to meet changing capacity needs over its lifetime.

Overview of a possible configuration of the IQuay Regas Terminal

Designed for Real-World Needs

The IQuay Regas Terminal is developed for regions where infrastructure must balance operational requirements with environmental responsibility. Unlike traditional facilities, the IQuay system is fully floating, which means most infrastructure remains offshore. This approach reduces the environmental footprint, even when seabed piping is required for gas transfer. The system is designed to operate reliably in sensitive marine environments, ensuring both stability and efficient transfer of gas to onshore facilities.  

Flexible Configurations

Our technology portfolio supports several configurations to meet different project needs. One possible configuration introduces the IQuay C-Class system between the LNG carrier and the FSU, which enables frequent ship-to-ship transfers and adds further flexibility.  

The IQuay C-Class system in operation, demonstrating proven semi-submersible technology.

Building on Proven Technology: C-Class and R-Class

Both the C-Class and R-Class platforms are semi-submersible and designed to withstand challenging marine conditions. The R-Class builds directly on the C-Class technology. In simple terms, the R-Class is created by adding regasification capabilities to the proven C-Class platform. This evolution ensures reliability and leverages technology that has already demonstrated its effectiveness in real-world operations.

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