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ECGD: 100% dynamite

01 November 2002

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Despite the sluggish market conditions of the last 12 months, the project finance team at UK export credit agency ECGD has been keeping itself busy. ?We have been busier this year than in the last couple of years,? observes Nick George, head of project finance at ECGD in London. That focus has been predominantly on the oil and gas market and on three large deals: Nigeria LNG, Sakhalin 2 and the BTC pipeline.

George is optimistic that Nigeria LNG should be completed next year. The $1 billion project involves the expansion of the existing LNG plant at Bonny Island to incorporate three fully operational gas liquefication trains at a cost of $5.5 billion. Shareholders in the project at Nigeria National Petroleum Corp (NNPC), Shell, TotalFinaElf and Agip. A second deal, LNG Plus, will add two further trains at a cost of $1.9 billion. Shell's share of the gas supply project for the first three trains is...


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