Eight pre-qualified consortia have put in bids to build one or more of a three floating storage and regasification units for the Lebanon.
The Ministry of Energy and Water, which is handling the tender, named individual bidders Gas Natural Fenosa of Spain, French energy major Total and Malaysia’s Petronas.
Consortia putting in offers comprise groupings of BW LNG, Vitol, Butec, Almabani and Rosneft; Excelerate Energy, Shell and BB Energy; ENI and Qatar Petroleum; Golar Power and CCC; plus Gunvor, Exmar, EGC Egypt, Petrojet, Maridive and Primesouth.
The Ministry plans to complete its evaluation of the bids by mid-February before making its recommendations on its preferred selections.
The winning bidders will have to negotiate a build, own and operate agreement with the government.
They will also need to control the associated infrastructure and procure the LNG.
Thirteen outfits responded to a request for expressions of interest after the Ministry asked for proposals on three FSRUs late last year.
Their names were unveiled in June.
Lebanon wants to install FSRUs at Beddawi in the north near Tripoli; Selaata further to the south; and Zahrani, near Tyre, in the south of the country.
In its original tender the Ministry gave a range of regas requirements for the units ranging from 200,000 tonnes per annum to one million tonnes per annum, with expansion phases for all three.
Lebanon, which has been trying to put an FSRU in place for years, wants to boost its generating capacity by securing gas imports.
