Before a marine terminal can be designed or built, it must first be shown to work in its intended context.
Our marine terminal studies focus on the early project phases, where site conditions, permitting boundaries, timelines and other requirements are still uncertain.
We listen to the industry, and continuously monitor the needs of project developers and terminal owners. Permitting, lead times, and cost have all been causing headaches for the past years. FSRU demand is way higher than the supply. That's why we developed the IQuay Regas Terminal, and recent studies demonstrate its strengths.
Market dynamics in LNG regasification and import caused an influx in interest for the IQuay Regas Terminal, our proprietary modular, floating terminal system. This resulted in two pre-FEED studies being awarded and carried out in 2025.
In these studies, ECOnnect’s engineers applied marine, process and safety engineering to assess terminal configuration, mooring and layout, system interfaces and early design maturity.
The two studies moved beyond concept screening and into concrete design decisions. Key outcomes included selecting and validating mooring locations, testing mooring patterns under site‑specific metocean conditions, and defining safe separation distances and transfer geometries between the storage unit and the regas platform.
Our engineers sized the main process routes, platform layout and utilities, established shutdown and safety philosophies, and confirmed operational windows for marine operations and continuous regas mode.
Cost, schedule and long‑lead constraints were mapped to real project timelines, showing whether a modular regas terminal could be executed without relying on an FSRU conversion slot or heavy civil works.
The studies were initiated where traditional LNG import paths faced hard limits.
One project was schedule‑driven and exposed to demanding metocean conditions, requiring a regas solution that could reach first gas without waiting for a scarce FSRU or major shoreline construction.
The other operated under strict permitting and spatial constraints, making a floating, low‑footprint configuration more feasible than permanent coastal infrastructure.
In both cases, the modular regas terminal was evaluated because it could be adapted to local constraints, phased, and integrated with available storage units, all while meeting operability and safety requirements.
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