Bulgargaz launched on Tuesday a tender seeking LNG cargoes for delivery to Gastrade’s Alexandroupolis FSRU-based facility.
According to the agreed annual program with the terminal operator Gastrade, during the autumn-winter period, Bulgargaz will deliver four cargoes of LNG in the amount of 1,000,000 MWh each, the company said.
The deliveries are scheduled for October 2025, December 2025, January 2026, and March 2026.
Bulgargaz said that 37 international companies (LNG traders and producers) that have expressed interest in previous tenders conducted by the company and have successfully passed the approval procedure have been invited to participate in the tender procedure.
Offers for the cargoes scheduled for delivery in October and December this year have to be submitted on September 23, 2025, and for those in January and March 2026 – on October 3, 2025.
Bulgargaz said the offers received will be evaluated according to a methodology based on the criteria of lowest delivery price, delivery deadline, and payment method.
In June this year, Bulgaraz selected Germany’s RWE Supply & Trading as the supplier of LNG for the month, following a tender procedure.
Priro to that, UK-based energy giant BP supplied an LNG cargo to Bulgargaz via the Alexandroupolis FSRU in January.
The 2021-built 174,000-cbm BW Lesmes delivered the shipment from the Freeport LNG terminal in Texas to the 153,500-cbm FSRU Alexandroupolis on January 19.
However, Gastrade closed the FSRU-based facility after that due to a technical issue.
It restarted the unit last month at a maximum regasification capacity of 45.4 GWh/day, including redundancy with respect to its booster pumps.
According to Gastrade, the above capacity will remain available until September 30, 2025, under “specific operational and commercial conditions.”
