Uruguay’s Gas Sayago launched pre-qualification Thursday to build and operate the country’s maiden import terminal.

The joint venture of state-controlled energy outfits Ancap and UTE opened the bidding at an event held to give suitors first crack at buying bidding documentation.

The long-awaited tender calls for a floating import facility at Punta Sagayo in the port of Montevideo, Uruguay’s capital.

The offshore project contemplates either a floating storage and regasification unit or a combination of an offshore regasification platform with a floating storage unit.

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