Flex LNG was one of a reported 37 companies invited to bid on Qatar Petroleum's charter tender, but its leadership seems unenthusiastic about the prospects.

"We've been invited, we'll look into it. It's a long process," the gas carrier owner's chief executive, Oystein Kalleklev, said during a Value Investor's Edge Live panel on Thursday.

"So maybe. Again, we need to get sufficient return on our capital if we're deploying capital."