China to open bidding for LNG supply in the next few days

China will open a bidding in the next few days for liquefied natural gas (LNG) supplies into the country?s first LNG terminal in southern Guangdong province while it had stated Indonesia would be among the countries considered to supply it with that commodity.

?The information package and the invitation to bid will be issued, we are told, in the coming days,? chief executive officer of Shell Gas and Power International Linda Cook was quoted as saying by Reuters.

Indonesia was among a number of countries earlier considered by China National Offshore Oil Corp to supply LNG to the Guangdong?s three-million-ton-per-year-terminal. The other suppliers were Malaysia, Australia and the Middle East, it said.

Meanwhile, Shell said earlier that Northwest Shelf would be well placed to make the bid for the supply of some three million tons a year of LNG to China from 2006.

The oil major earlier said that Northwest Shelf would be well placed to make the bid for the supply of some three million tons a year of LNG to China from 2006.

China National Offshore Oil Corp is the leading shareholder in the $16 million LNG terminal with 33 percent, while BP owns a 30 percent stake and is vying to supply the gas. (*)