October 24 (SeeNews) - Bulgarian public gas supplier Bulgargaz said on Tuesday that it selected France's TotalEnergies Gas and Power as the winner in a public tender for deliveries of liquefied natural gas (LNG) for the first two months of 2024.
The French company was ranked first out of nine global businesses which submitted offers in the tender launched earlier this month, with appraisals done according to pre-announced delivery price and method of payment criteria, Bulgargaz said in a press release. The other bidders were not named.
Bulgargaz plans deliveries during these months, in the amount of 1 million MWh per month, to be carried out at regasification terminals in Turkey," the state-owned company said.
At the start of October, Bulgargaz called a tender for the delivery of 4 million MWh of LNG, equivalent to some 375 million cubic metres of regasified natural gas, for January, February, June and July 2024, to be shipped to terminals in Turkey.
Deliveries to Bulgaria via the Turkish gas infrastructure became possible at the beginning of the year when Bulgargaz signed a long-term agreement with Turkish peer Botas, which enabled the shipment of an LNG tanker by Chevron in April.
Last week, Bulgargaz said that it received questions from EU competition authorities regarding supplier and partner contracts and supply details for the deliveries of natural gas to Bulgaria.
French energy major TotalEnergies has been active in the LNG market for 40 years, operating a full value chain from production to distribution.
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