Anisul Islam Noor :
State-owned Rupantarita Prakritik Gas Company Ltd has floated the tender, seeking expression of interests (EoIs) from potential developers by May 22.
The country’s Energy Division has planned to bring diversification in energy supply. As part of the plan, the RPGCL has floated the tender.
The land-based LNG receiving terminal and associated facilities will help increase the use of LNG, Energy Division official said.
An evaluation committee will shortlist the EoIs and the request for proposals, said the officials.
It will be the country’s second onshore LNG terminal.Earlier on December 29 last, state-owned Petrobangla inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with India’s Petronet without a tender to build another facility at Kutubdia Island with a handling capacity of 1,000 million cubic feet per day (mmcfd).
This is overall the second instance of inviting international tender to build a LNG terminal in the country, after the first one in July 2016 through which US’s Excelerate
Energy got a contract to build a floating LNG terminal at Moheshkhali Island. The land-based LNG receiving terminal would be used for receiving, unloading, storage and re-gasification of LNG, and all marine facilities, gas pipelines, infrastructure, and interconnection facilities, the RPGCL managing director said.
The terminal would be constructed either at Moheshkhali under Cox’s Bazar district or Payra of Patuakhali district or any other suitable place in Bangladesh, said Quamruzzman, who is also the head of LNG cell chief of Petrobangla.
The investment should be made by the developer and the government of Bangladesh or its nominated company would pay the terminal fee, he added.
Bangladesh has planned to start importing LNG in 2018 through the country’s first import terminal currently being constructed by the US’s Excelerate at Moheshkhali Island in the Bay of Bengal. The terminal having the initial handling capacity of around 500 mmcfd could handle up to 700 mmcfd equivalent of LNG.
Presently, Petrobangla was holding negotiations with Qatar’s RasGas to import LNG.
The country’s overall natural gas supply is currently hovering around 2,700 mmcfd against the demand for over 3,300 mmcfd per day.
State-owned Rupantarita Prakritik Gas Company Ltd has floated the tender, seeking expression of interests (EoIs) from potential developers by May 22.
The country’s Energy Division has planned to bring diversification in energy supply. As part of the plan, the RPGCL has floated the tender.
The land-based LNG receiving terminal and associated facilities will help increase the use of LNG, Energy Division official said.
An evaluation committee will shortlist the EoIs and the request for proposals, said the officials.
It will be the country’s second onshore LNG terminal.Earlier on December 29 last, state-owned Petrobangla inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with India’s Petronet without a tender to build another facility at Kutubdia Island with a handling capacity of 1,000 million cubic feet per day (mmcfd).
This is overall the second instance of inviting international tender to build a LNG terminal in the country, after the first one in July 2016 through which US’s Excelerate
Energy got a contract to build a floating LNG terminal at Moheshkhali Island. The land-based LNG receiving terminal would be used for receiving, unloading, storage and re-gasification of LNG, and all marine facilities, gas pipelines, infrastructure, and interconnection facilities, the RPGCL managing director said.
The terminal would be constructed either at Moheshkhali under Cox’s Bazar district or Payra of Patuakhali district or any other suitable place in Bangladesh, said Quamruzzman, who is also the head of LNG cell chief of Petrobangla.
The investment should be made by the developer and the government of Bangladesh or its nominated company would pay the terminal fee, he added.
Bangladesh has planned to start importing LNG in 2018 through the country’s first import terminal currently being constructed by the US’s Excelerate at Moheshkhali Island in the Bay of Bengal. The terminal having the initial handling capacity of around 500 mmcfd could handle up to 700 mmcfd equivalent of LNG.
Presently, Petrobangla was holding negotiations with Qatar’s RasGas to import LNG.
The country’s overall natural gas supply is currently hovering around 2,700 mmcfd against the demand for over 3,300 mmcfd per day.
