China’s Beijing Gas seeks long-term LNG supplies

China’s Beijing Gas, the developer of the Tianjin Nangang LNG import project, is seeking liquefied natural gas supplies for delivery over a 10-year period.

The state-owned gas distributor has invited companies to submit bids via its unit Beijing Gas Singapore, according to a notice posted on the website of the Shanghai Petroleum and Natural Gas Exchange.

Moreover, interested firms can submit their bids for the “long-term LNG procurement project of 2023-2032” by July 21, the notice said.

Beijing Gas did not provide any additional information.

The Chinese firm is building a 5 mtpa LNG terminal in the Tianjin south port industrial zone but the construction of the facility includes three stages.

It plans to launch the first phase of the project in the fourth quarter of 2022. This phase includes the construction of four 220,000-cbm storage tanks.

Additionally, the terminal will also have four tanks in the second and two in the third phase, France’s GTT, which builds the tanks with China Huanqiu Contracting & Engineering, previously said.

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