Location: Home > News > All 3 qualified consortia submit offers in tender to construct LNG terminal

All 3 qualified consortia submit offers in tender to construct LNG terminal

  • Description

Date: 2010-02-05 12:31

All three consortiums, qualified to the final stage of the tender concerning the construction of the liquefied natural gas terminal (LNG) in Swinoujscie, submitted their preliminary offers, Polish LNG's spokeswoman Justyna Bracha-Rutkowska announced on Friday.


"The offers were submitted by the following consortia: Saipem (Italy) - Saipem (France) - Techint Compagnia Tecnica Internazionale (Italy) - Snamprogetti Canada Inc. (Canada) - PBG (Poland) - PBG Export (Poland); Tecnimont (Italy) - Polimex Mostostal (Poland) - Sofregaz (France) - Vinci Construction Grands Projets Sas (France) - Entrepose Contracting (France); Daewoo Engeneering & Construction Co Ltd. (Korea) - Korea Gas Corporation (Korea) - Daewoo Engineering Company (Korea)," Polskie LNG's release reads.

The next stage of the tender process will be negotiations with bidders, and afterwards, in April, they could submit the final offers.

"In May, we want to sign the agreement with consortium, which is to build LNG terminal in Swinoujscie. The construction will start in H2/2010, and the terminal will be completed and handed over to use on Jun,30,2014", LNG's CEO Zbigniew Rapciak said, cited in the communiqué.

The company earlier estimated the costs of the project at EUR 600mn.

The LNG terminal, earlier estimated at around EUR 600mn, is expected to be launched by the end of 2013 at the earliest. Its capacity is projected at 5bn cubic metres annually and depending on the demand - the facility could be developed to PLN 7.5bn cu.m, without necessity to enlarge the area, where the terminal is to be built. Currently, Poland uses about 14bn cu.m per year.

sg/tom/ren/tom