The interested parties include Hoegh LNG, BW Group and Excelerate Energy, Reuters reported, citing an unidentified Egyptian official.

A spokeswoman at Hoegh told Upstream that the company does not comment on commercial activities of this nature, while nobody was available for comment at BW of US-based Excelerate.

Egypt's Natural Gas Holding Company (Egas) in late June launched a tender to rent a third FSRU with a capacity of 750 million cubic feet per day, with the tender due to close after two weeks of opening.

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