Diseta, a Lithuanian company that is 100-percent owned by KS Energy, and Perkūno Nafta, a local company wholly owned by Vincentas Zabulis, on Monday submitted bids to explore for gas and oil resources in the Kudirka-Kybartai field.
Juozas Mockevičius, the director of the Lithuanian Geological Service, told BNS on Tuesday that Perkūno Nafta leads a consortium. He did not name other members of the consortium.
Zabulis told BNS on the same day that he cannot name his partners at the moment. He only said that one of them is a British investor in raw materials.
"This is a joint affair. Several private individuals are taking part in it. A team of professionals has been put together. One of the people is a Briton, a prominent investor in raw materials," Zabulis said.
"We chose the Kudirka-Kybartai field because it is smaller. The Šilutė-Tauragė field is large. (...) Chevron will take part in the latter tender - they are very serious players and it would probably be very difficult to compete with them," he told BNS.
The winning bidder will have to invest at least 16.5 million litas (EUR 4.8m) in exploration of the Kudirka-Kybartai field.
KS Energy says that it is a leading one-stop energy services provider to the global oil and gas, marine and petrochemical industries. The company's shares are traded on Singapore stock exchange.
