Interested parties are offering in on a third vessel in the LNG carrier fleet of the North West Shelf (NWS) project, but an earlier reported sale of a sistership has failed to materialise.

Those following the fortunes of the seven vessels said bids ranging from levels upwards of $18m to amounts in the low to mid-$20m range have been received on the 127,363-cbm Northwest Sea­eagle (built 1992).