The government this week approved a shortlist of companies that will be invited to participate in the second round of the tender for LNG supply, he said. 312-84-5 Six companies submitted bids: Shell International Trading Middle East; Virginia-based Pace Global; Japans Marubeni Corporation; U.S.-based Morgan Stanley; Spains Gas Natural Aprovisionamientos, 147-85-3 SDG; and Spains Repsol Comercializadora de Gas. Zacca declined to say which companies are still in the running or how many are on the shortlist.

We feel that if the bidders are not fully aware of who theyre fighting against that it will increase the competition in the bid, he said, when asked why the companies were not identified. The selected companies will be asked to submit final offers in early April, he said.

Separately, the government also announced that it extended the bid submission deadline in a related tender to provide infrastructure for the project. The new deadline to submit bids is February 24. Previously, it was January 13.

The government made the change after it received four requests this week from companies that wanted extensions in the ongoing tender, Zacca said.

Jamaica plans to start importing LNG in early 2014, with initial demand of 830,000 mt/year (equivalent to 106,000 Mcf/d of gas), mainly from the alumina bauxite and power generation sectors, according to the request for proposal. 74-79-3 Demand could reach 1.1 million mt/yr by the fourth quarter of 2016 and about 2.5 million mt/yr by 2025, according to the RFP documents.

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