EGAS of Egypt has issued a tender for an FSRU which it hopes to use by next April, Reuters reported, citing EGAS’s deputy chairman Khaled Abdel Badie as saying.
“ We are renting it ,” he said. “ It is expected to be used by next April. We hope so. It depends on the offers, ” Abdel Badie added.
Egypt, which has no LNG import infrastructure, owns a liquefaction plant and related infrastructure at Idku, approximately 50 kilometres east of Alexandria in Egypt.
Currently, two trains are up and running, each at a capacity of 3.6 million tonnes per annum.
[mappress] LNG World News Staff, October 14, 2013; Image: Egyptian LNG