Dhaka, July 4 -- The government intends to buy two more spot LNG cargoes by mid-August to boost natural gas supplies to industries, power plants and other gas-guzzling consumers.

State-run Rupantarita Prakritik Gas Company Ltd (RPGCL) floated a tender to purchase two spot LNG cargoes for delivery on August 3-4 and August 14-15, a senior RPGCL official told The Financial Express on Thursday.

The bid winners will deliver the LNG cargoes -- each totaling 3.36 million MMBtu (million British thermal unit) -- to Moheshkhali Island in the Bay of Bengal, with the option to discharge at either one of the country's two floating storage and regasification units (FSRUs) located there.

The bid submission deadline is July 7.

The interim government ...