Floating storage and regasification units (FSRUs) will only make a marginal contribution to increasing the demand for LNG and may prove high-risk projects for shipowners, said Poten & Partners long-standing duo Michael Tusiani and Gordon Shearer this week.

Tusiani calculated that if three new FSRU projects consuming one million tonnes per annum (mtpa) were brought online each year until 2020 they would add only 3.5%