Eight companies have expressed an initial interest in providing a floating import solution for Petronet’s planned Indian east coast terminal.

Greece’s Thenamaris and Awilco LNG of Norway have put in pre-qualification offers to provide either a floating regasification and storage unit or a floating storage unit, sources said.

Today Makes Tomorrow-controlled Bluesky LNG, which has developed an FSRU design dubbed ‘Turtle’, is also bidding.

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