Pakistan state-owned gas group Pakistan LNG has issued two separate tenders for the supply of 240 cargoes of LNG until 2032, which would represent a total volume of 33.6 mcm (based on a nominal cargo capacity of 140,000 m3). Pakistan LNG is seeking to import 60 cargoes over a five-year period and 180 cargoes over a 15-year period. Under both tenders, LNG deliveries would start in July 2017 and would be made on a DES (delivered ex-ship) basis to the future LNG import terminal operated by Pakistan GasPort Consortium at Port Qasim. The deadline for bids submissions in 20 December 2016. Winners will be announced in late January 2017.
Pakistan GasPort is developing the second LNG import terminal in Pakistan. The floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) is currently under construction at the Samsung Heavy Industries shipyard in South Korea and is expected to be delivered in the fourth quarter of 2016, which commissioning scheduled in early 2017. The FSRU will have a regasification capacity of 6.2 bcm/year and a storage capacity of 170,000 m3.
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