Botaş Dörtyol LNG Storage Facility () is a floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) for

liquefied natural gas Liquefied natural gas (LNG) is natural gas (predominantly methane, CH4, with some mixture of ethane, C2H6) that has been cooled to liquid form for ease and safety of non-pressurized storage or transport. It takes up about 1/600th the volume o ...

(LNG) in

Hatay Province Hatay Province (, ) is the southernmost province and metropolitan municipality of Turkey. Its area is , and its population is 1,686,043 (2022). It is situated mostly outside Anatolia, along the eastern coast of the Levantine Sea. The province ...

, southern Turkey. It is the country's second floating LNG storage facility after the

Egegaz Aliağa LNG Storage Facility Etki Liman LNG Facility is a floating production storage and offloading unit (FPSO) for liquefied natural gas (LNG) in İzmir Province, western Turkey. It is the country's first floating LNG storage facility. History The floating LNG storage faci ...

. The floating LNG storage facility is the world's largest vessel MT ''MOL FSRU Challenger'', which was chartered by the Turkish state-owned crude

oil An oil is any nonpolar chemical substance that is composed primarily of hydrocarbons and is hydrophobic (does not mix with water) and lipophilic (mixes with other oils). Oils are usually flammable and surface active. Most oils are unsaturate ...

and

natural gas Natural gas (also fossil gas, methane gas, and gas) is a naturally occurring compound of gaseous hydrocarbons, primarily methane (95%), small amounts of higher alkanes, and traces of carbon dioxide and nitrogen, hydrogen sulfide and helium ...

pipelines and trading company

BOTAŞ BOTAŞ Petroleum Pipeline Corporation (BOTAS) is the state-owned crude oil and natural gas pipelines and trading company in Turkey. The company was established in 1974 as a subsidiary of TPAO. Since 1995, BOTAS is a wholly state-owned company. ...

. The FSRU was delivered to its owner, the

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (; abbreviated MOL) is a Japanese transport company headquartered in Toranomon, Minato, Tokyo, Japan. It is one of the largest shipping companies in the world. Founded as a key part of the Mitsui ''zaibatsu'' (family-owned ...

(MOL) LNG Transport (Europe) Ltd. in October 2017, and then sailed to Turkey, arriving at its

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seaport

Dörtyol Dörtyol is a municipality and district of Hatay Province, Turkey. Its area is 342 km2, and its population is 128,941 (2022). It is a port city and oil terminus located 26 km north of the city of İskenderun, near the easternmost point of th ...

in November the same year. The FSRU terminal went into service on 7 February 2018. The special vessel has an LNG storage capacity of 2, and features a regas discharge capacity of . With the use of the FSRU as an import terminal, minimization of the investment costs for transmission and distribution lines as well as of the transportation costs is aimed. The chartered MT ''MOL FSRU Challenger'' was replaced by the new Turkish FSRU MT ''Botaş FSRU Ertuğrul Gazi'' commissioned on 25 June 2021.

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