The three groups that submitted bids on 5 January were:

¿ Technip with Samsung Heavy Industries; ¿ JGC Corporation with Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering; ¿ Chiyoda with Hyundai Heavy Industries.

Each party has been invited by Shell for face-to-face meetings between mid-February and early March, said sources.

There was a suggestion by some in the market that all three bids to Shell had been non-compliant and declined to accept the level of risk the operator was seeking.

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