Total has floated an early enquiry for companies interested in providing a floating storage and ­regasification unit and associated services for a planned gas power plant in northern Cuba.

The Bahia de Matanzas project will comprise a 600 MW combined-­cycle power plant with a neighbouring regasification plant. It is being developed by state utility Union Electrica, or UNE, in an industrialised area at Matanzas Bay, east of the capital Havana.