Brazilian state oil and gas company, Petroleo Brasileiro (Petrobras), has disqualified a tender from Excelerate Energy of the US after it was the only commercial proposal received in the bidding for the Salvador liquefied natural gas import terminal in Bahia state in northeast Brazil.
Petróleo Brasileiro, the Brazilian oil and gas company known as Petrobras, said it would review the participation of the Golar Power joint venture company in a tender process to lease the liquefied natural gas import terminal at Salvador in the northeast state of Bahia.
Petroleo Brasileiro, the state energy company of Brazil, said it had successfully concluded tests to allow a 50 percent capacity increase at its re-started floating liquefied natural gas import terminal at Guanabara Bay in the state of Rio de Janeiro.
The Brazilian lower house of the National Congress has approved a bill to further open up the natural gas and LNG terminal market to private competition and break the monopoly held by state-controlled energy company Petroleo Brasileiro, known as Petrobras.
Petrobras, the Brazilian state-run oil and natural gas company, has announced its largest natural gas discoveries in more than a decade in six deepwater wells in the Sergipe Basin offshore northeast Brazil.