Trade sources told Reuters last month that Egypt was looking to import five cargoes of LNG at competitive pricing.

Two trade sources said the purchases were arranged through bilateral deals and not via a standard tender process.

Egypt plans to stop importing LNG by the end of the 2017/18 fiscal year ending in June as it speeds up oil rig flanges gulf coast production at recently discovered gas fields, the petroleum minister said in January.

(Reporting by Ehab Farouk; Writing by Nadine Awadalla; Editing by Susan Fenton)