Egypt 開始する，打ち上げるs 記録，記録的な／記録する LNG tender for 96 貨物s -貿易（する）
By Oleg Vukmanovic
MILAN, Oct 24 (Reuters) - Egypt 開始する，打ち上げるd the world's biggest tender for 液化するd natural gas (LNG) as 公式の／役人s from 最高の，を越す energy companies and 貿易（する）ing houses converged on Cairo undeterred by new 支配するs that could 軍隊 them to wait for as long as six months to get paid.
After months of 憶測 and 延期する, 明言する／公表する-run Egypt Natural Gas 持つ／拘留するing (EGAS) 解放（する）d tender 文書s on Sunday bidding to 安全な・保証する 96 LNG 出荷／船積みs in 2017 and 2018, 関係者s in the tender told Reuters.
An 付加 12 optional 貨物s were 含むd in the tender, which EGAS may decide not to award, they said.
At a price-tag of several billion dollars, it is the biggest 中央の-称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 LNG buy tender ever 問題／発行するd, 貿易（する） sources said.
Egypt, a major importer of 商品／必需品s from wheat to ディーゼル, helped ブイ，浮標 全世界の gas markets last year after 現れるing as the fastest-growing new LNG 消費者.
Once an LNG 輸出業者, Egypt turned into a 逮捕する gas importer just as 全世界の 位置／汚点／見つけ出す prices 急落（する），激減（する）d.
商品／必需品 貿易（する） houses, led by Switzerland-based Trafigura , have vied to 供給（する） Egypt as the country looks to buy until 巨大（な） new gas finds can be developed 沖合いの／海外の.
But Egypt's より悪くするing credit profile has tempered some enthusiasm as 供給者s fret over 支払い（額） difficulties given the country's 沈むing economy and 不足 of U.S. dollars.
Under the 最新の tender 条件, LNG 供給者s may have to wait as long as six months to get paid for 配達／演説／出産s arriving between January and June 2017, によれば two sources with knowledge of the 事柄.
Thereafter 支払い（額）s will take 120 days, the sources said. LNG shippers 以前 got paid 90 days after 配達／演説／出産.
EGAS was unavailable to comment にもかかわらず repeated 試みる／企てるs by Reuters to 接触する the company.
At a 会合 with energy 供給者s this month Egypt discussed 延長するing 支払い（額） 最終期限s to as much as 120 and 180 days after 配達／演説／出産 to give itself more breathing room, the sources said.
"The 180-day 支払い（額） 条件 were something agreed in Cairo a couple of weeks ago across all 製品s and is a 調印する of the 現在の 状況／情勢 in Egypt," one 貿易（する）ing source said.
Some 会社／堅いs may think twice about committing to large 供給（する） positions carrying credit 危険s, but the tender is still 推定する／予想するd to draw large （人が）群がるs given 一般に weak 需要・要求する for LNG.
"It's a big short in a long market - I 推定する／予想する 参加 to be 抱擁する," a 貿易（する） source said.
Some 会社／堅いs, though, were put off by EGAS' 必要物／必要条件 for tender 希望に満ちたs to を引き渡す $30,000 in cash in 交流 for the bidding 文書s, two sources said. A third source 確認するd the cash 料金.
At the same time 調印するs point to Egyptian gas 輸入する 需要・要求する 頂点（に達する）ing as one of the country's two long-idle LNG 輸出（する） 工場／植物s, at Idku, has 試験的に 再開するd 出荷／船積みs at 減ずるd levels.
EGAS also recently 延期するd a handful of LNG 出荷／船積みs 予定 to arrive in the fourth-４半期/4分の1 until 早期に next year, several 貿易（する） sources said. (付加 報告（する）／憶測ing by Eric Knecht, Editing by Susan F enton and Jason Neely)
