{"id":380296,"date":"2020-10-24T09:15:52","date_gmt":"2020-10-24T03:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=380296"},"modified":"2020-10-24T09:47:31","modified_gmt":"2020-10-24T04:17:31","slug":"bangladesh-scraps-another-lng-import-tender-over-high-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/bangladesh-scraps-another-lng-import-tender-over-high-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh scraps another LNG import tender over high prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bangladesh is cancelling another tender to import liquefied natural gas (LNG) in December, as it received one offer to supply the shipments that were too expensive, a senior energy ministry official said on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>The offer from the Asian unit of Vitol to supply 138,000 cubic metres of LNG for Dec. 9-10 delivery was more than $2 per unit higher than the prices that Bangladesh pays under long-term contracts, said Anisur Rahman, senior secretary to the Energy and Mineral Resources Division.<\/p>\n<p>State-run Rupantarita Prakritik Gas Company, which is in charge of LNG imports into the country, cancelled a tender for November delivery, citing the same reason.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;From December, we have a plan to import two cargoes of LNG from the spot markets each month,&#8221; Rahman said, adding that both the tenders would be reissued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bangladesh is cancelling another tender to import liquefied natural gas (LNG) in December, as it received one offer to supply the shipments that were too expensive, a senior energy ministry official said on Friday. The offer from the Asian unit of Vitol to supply 138,000 cubic metres of LNG for Dec. 9-10 delivery was more than $2 per unit higher than the prices that Bangladesh pays under long-term contracts, said Anisur Rahman, senior secretary to the Energy and Mineral Resources Division. State-run Rupantarita Prakritik Gas Company, which is in charge of LNG imports into the country, cancelled a tender for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,130,177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-380296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}