In June 2018, it was chartered for three years by CNOOC Gas & Power Trading and Marketing and was used starting in November 2018 at the Port of Tianjin.

[2] In 2019, plans were made for the ship to be used for ten years by the Australian energy company AGL Energy in the planned Crib Point liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal at the Mornington Peninsula south of Melbourne.

[4] On 5 May 2022, Höegh LNG Holdings announced that it signed binding implementation contracts with the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action for the chartering of two FSRUs from the Höegh fleet for operation in Germany for ten years.

The detailed FSRU contracts were expected to be finalized by September/October 2022[needs update] and by November 2022, FSRU operations were expected to start at the end of the year[needs update] at the Wilhelmshaven LNG terminal by use of the Höegh Esperanza.

[citation needed] The vessel was designed for combined open and closed regasification operation and the GTT Mark III membrane tanks have a storage capacity of 170,000 cubic metres (6.0 million cubic feet) of liquefied natural gas.