According to a tender document posted on RPGCL’s website, the delivery windows for the spot LNG cargoes are November 12-13, November 16-17, and November 23-24.
RPGCL issued the tender to “23 organizations that we have signed the MSPA (master sale and purchase agreement) with Petrobangla.”
The tender will close on October 27.
Prior to this tender, RPGCL invited bids on October 7 for two spot LNG cargoes for delivery on November 3-4 and November 10-11.
RGPCL issued this same tender again on October 14.
This tender closed on October 20.
Bangladesh currently imports LNG via two FSRU-based facilities, both of which feature Excelerate Energy’s FSRUs.
The 138,000-cbm FSRU Excellence serves Bangladesh’s first LNG import facility, Moheshkhali Floating LNG or MLNG, operated by Petrobangla.
Launched in 2018, the FSRU-based terminal completed its 100th STS transfer offshore Bangladesh in 2021.
Excelerate’s 138,000-cbm FSRU Summit LNG serves as the second LNG import facility operated by Summit.
Last month, Summit said the FSRU was ready to resume sendout to the grid in Bangladesh after it sustained damage on May 27 during cyclone Remal.
LNG terminal cancelations
Summit said in a statement on October 9 that its unit Summit LNG Terminal II has urged the government of Bangladesh to reverse its decision to terminate the third FSRU project in the country.
SLNG II said it had received a notice from Petrobangla on October 7 notifying the termination of the project situated at Moheshkhali in Cox’s Bazar.
The Moheshkhali terminal in southeast Bangladesh is the second floating gas terminal project undertaken by Summit with a planned regasification capacity of 600 million standard cubic feet per day.
Last year, Summit received approval for the project.
In addition to this project, RPGCL said in a statement on October 19 that the government of Bangladesh had decided to cancel the shortlisting for the development of the land-based LNG terminal at Matabari, Cox’s Bazar.
The project was processed under “quick enhancement of electricity and energy supply act as revised on 2021,” RPGCL said.
