{"id":26695,"date":"2023-11-21T02:23:05","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T02:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/pakistan-floats-lng-tender-to-meet-winter-demand\/"},"modified":"2023-11-21T02:23:05","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T02:23:05","slug":"pakistan-floats-lng-tender-to-meet-winter-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/pakistan-floats-lng-tender-to-meet-winter-demand\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan floats LNG tender to meet winter demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Monday floated an urgent international tender for a Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) cargo in the first part of January to meet anticipated peak winter shortage in the residential sector.<\/p>\n<p>The tender, issued by the state-run Pakistan LNG Limited (PLL) with a four-day notice, asked bidders to submit technical and financial bids by Nov 24 for a standard LNG cargo with targeted delivery on Jan 8-9, and the bids would be opened the same day.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, after about a year-long gap, Pakistan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1713350\">received<\/a> three bids for two additional LNG cargoes for peak winter demand at a significantly higher premium over the prevailing spot market.<\/p>\n<p>The government accepted two lower-evaluated bids to minimise winter gas shortages following a decline in domestic gas production and to maintain load management at a level similar to that experienced in the winter of the previous year.<\/p>\n<p>LNG trader Trafigura Pte Ltd submitted two bids for the Dec 7-8 window and the Dec 13-14 window at $18.39 per million British thermal units (mmBtu) and $19.39 per mmBtu, respectively. On the other hand, Vitol Bahrain offered a bid price of $15.97 per mmBtu for the Dec 7-8 delivery window.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"blockquote-level-1\">\n<p>Bids due by Nov 24, targeted delivery on Jan 8-9<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The PLL then declared Vitol\u2019s $15.97 per mmBtu bid for Dec 7-8 and Trafigura\u2019s single bid of $19.39 per mmBtu for Dec 13-14 as the lowest evaluated bids.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media  sm:w-1\/2  w-full  media--right  media--embed  media--uneven\">\n<p>    <iframe class=\"nk-iframe\" onload=\"setInterval(()=&gt;{try{this.style.height=this.contentWindow.document.body.scrollHeight+'px';}catch{}}, 100)\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"height:400px;position:relative\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/card\/1785119\" sandbox=\"allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-popups allow-modals allow-forms\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>For reference, the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) set the basket RLNG transmission stage price for the current month at $11.86 per mmBtu for SNGPL and $11.47 for SSGCL based on the $9.76 per mmBtu average LNG price delivered ex-ship (DES) for nine cargoes.<\/p>\n<p>While Trafigura\u2019s bids are expensive; even Vitol\u2019s lowest evaluated bid of $15.97 per mmBtu is almost double Qatar Gas\u2019s second long-term contract price and over 60pc higher than the average basket price of the existing nine LNG cargoes supplying 900 million cubic feet per day (mmcfd).<\/p>\n<p>Qatar Gas supplies about five cargoes per month at 13.37pc of Brent ($10.7 per mmBtu in September) and three cargoes at 10.2pc of Brent ($8.17 per mmBtu), while ENI supplies one cargo at 12.14pc of Brent ($9.72 per mmBtu).<\/p>\n<p>An official said Vitol bid at a premium of more than $2 per mmBtu or almost 13pc higher than the prevailing spot rates in the international market, apparently because of the country\u2019s credit rating and risk factor.<\/p>\n<p>The bids, nevertheless, revive traders\u2019 interest in the Pakistan market after about 12 months, as they had shied away due to Pakistan\u2019s low credit rating and foreign exchange challenges.<\/p>\n<p>In July this year, PLL\u2019s attempt to test the international spot market for additional LNG supplies in peak winter went futile when only one bidder turned up with offers at a significant premium, making the price unviable for local consumers.<\/p>\n<p>It was said at the time that the tender had provided a price discovery that would help secure some distressed cargoes from Azerbaijan\u2019s Socar under a G2G agreement, but no such offer came through.<\/p>\n<p>In response to PLL\u2019s tender in June for two cargoes in Jan and one in Feb 2024, Trafigura Pte Ltd had submitted two bids \u2014 $23.47 per mmBtu for the Jan 3-4 delivery window and $22.47 per mmBtu for the Feb 23-24 window. Both bids were about 26-29pc higher than prevailing prices in the LNG spot market at the time.<\/p>\n<p><em>Published in Dawn, November 21st, 2023<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Monday floated an urgent international tender for a Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) cargo in the first part of January to meet anticipated peak winter shortage in the residential sector. The tender, issued by the state-run Pakistan LNG Limited (PLL) with a four-day notice, asked bidders to submit technical and financial bids by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.dawn.com\/large\/2023\/11\/210430154026286.jpg?r=043020","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[192],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}