The company is inviting bids for the provision of project management services for the completion of the LNG import terminal, according to tender documents.
The work includes architectural, construction, engineering, and inspection services.
Also, deadline for bids submissions is September 30, 2024.
Local media reports suggest that the project manager or technical consultant will guide ETYFA and monitor new contractors.
After awarding this contract, ETYFA aims to launch a tender for new LNG terminal contractors, the reports said.
CPP-Metron
Cyprus announced the start of construction of its first LNG import facility at Vassilikos in July 2020.
ETYFA previously signed an EPCOM (engineer, procure, construct, operate, and maintain) contract with a Chinese-led consortium, CPP-Metron, for the project.
The terminal includes a jetty and a converted FSRU.
The consortium comprises of state-owned China Petroleum Pipeline Engineering, a unit of CNPC, Metron Energy Applications, Hudong-Zhonghua, and Wilhelmsen Ship Management.
However, the consortium has withdrawn from the contract in July this year after a long dispute saying that it “has found itself with no alternative but to terminate its contract with ETYFA.”
The consortium said it “has still not received any payment whatsoever for its work in 2024.”
The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) said in a statement in July it has opened an investigation into the LNG import terminal in Cyprus, on “suspicion of procurement fraud, misappropriation of EU funds, and corruption.”
This project aims to create an entry point for natural gas to Cyprus, enabling the country to connect with the wider European gas market, and involves a cost of 542 million euros ($601 million) – of which approximately 101 million euros was financed by the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) program, EPPO said.
The construction, which should have been concluded in December 2019, has not yet been completed, it said.
Converted FSRU
In January this year, Cosco Shipping Heavy Industry in Shanghai said it had delivered ETYFA’s converted FSRU which will serve the first Cyprus LNG import terminal in Vasilikos.
CHI Shanghai, the unit of Cosco Shipping, said in a statement it handed over the 137,000-cbm FSRU, Etyfa Prometheas, during a ceremony.
The shipbuilder converted the 2002-built LNG carrier Galea.
Also, CHI Shanghai said this is the first time that a Moss-type LNG carrier was converted to an FSRU in China.
The FSRU is 296 meters long, 46 meters wide, and it has four regasification units each with a capacity of 105 mmscfd (million standard cubic feet per day).
According to its AIS data, the FSRU is still located in Shanghai.
