German LNG announced that it has identified four internationally operating EPCs and encouraged them to proceed in the tender process, it said in a press release, adding that a related tender would close on 5th December 2019 and the EPC contract award was planned before the end of April 2020.
It has narrowed down to:
* Cobra Instalaciones y Servicios S.A. - Sener Ingeniería y Sistemas S.A.
* Hyundai Engineering Co., Ltd. - Korea Gas Corporation
Sacyr Fluor S.A. - Entrepose Contracting S.A.S. / VINCI Construction Grands Projets S.A.S. - Sacyr Somague S.A.
Tecnicas Reunidas S.A. - Heitkamp HIKB GmbH
The EPC scope contains a jetty with two berths for LNG carriers ranging from 1,000-CM up to 265,000-CM, both with LNG unloading and loading capabilities, LNG storage tanks, LNG vaporization and distribution facilities for a total capacity up to 8 BCM/Y.
“Serious commercial interest in the LNG terminal project is shown by Heads of Agreements (non-binding drafts), signed by major European and non-European LNG players,” German LNG has remarked.
RWE’s CFO Markus Krebber said that the German company expects a final investment decision on the German LNG terminal to be made no later than early next year as the project company has chosen four prequalified potential partners.

Updates:

On 25 Jun. 2020, German LNG Terminal announced that it has selected the Spanish-German partnership COBRA Instalaciones y Servicios, SENER Ingeniería y sistemas and TGE Gas Engineering as an exclusive candidate for the final phase of the tender procedure for its LNG imports project’s EPC contract.
“This final phase will consist of a comprehensive value-improvement exercise and a detailed price actualization to make the project more cost efficient and aims at concluding a binding EPC contract by the end of 2020.” It is expected that the detailed design and engineering work, necessary to develop purchase orders of long-lead products, can then be started soon after the finalization of the contract.
German LNG Terminal is also in the process of completing the permit application for the planning of the port infrastructure, including the waterside facilities.
On 18 Nov. 2020, RWE’s CFO Markus Krebber said that his company remains bullish on Brunsbuettel (German LNG) terminal project. “I can confirm that we expect the EPC contracts to be submitted by year-end.”
“We have a slight delay but we expect to take FID on the terminal in the first half of next year,” Krebber revealed, adding that the FID was initially due by the end of last year, with construction to begin this year ahead of startup in the fourth quarter of 2022.