Offers are due in next month for small-scale LNG import infrastructure proposals for a project in the French territory of New Caledonia in the South Pacific.

Those working on the business said about 40,000-cbm of LNG storage is needed to supply French multinational mining and metallurgy company Eramet’s heavy-fuel electric power plant in Doniambo,close to the territory’s capital Noumea on the island of Grande Terre.