http://www.projectfinancemagazine.com/RSS.aspx?FeedID=1223©2013 Project Finance Magazine60Multilateral/PRI/ECAThe board of US Ex-Im has approved a $500 million direct loan to the Oyu Tolgoi copper and gold mine expansion.http://www.projectfinancemagazine.com/Article/3208527/US-Ex-Im-approves-Oyu-Tolgoi.htmlTue, 21 May 2013 13:40:12 GMTRegional interest in newly-rehabilitated Myanmar is intense, especially from potential advisers. Despite recent reforms, government will need to overcome decades of turmoil and underinvestment. By Antony Collinshttp://www.projectfinancemagazine.com/Article/3204078/Structural-obstacles-remain-with-Myanmars-emergence.htmlFri, 10 May 2013 00:00:00 GMTThe financing for the first phase of the Gebze-Izmir toll concession closed with an all-domestic lending group. It highlights Turkish sponsors’ difficulties with the complexities of international bank deals.http://www.projectfinancemagazine.com/Article/3203306/DEAL-ANALYSIS-Gebze-Izmir.htmlThu, 09 May 2013 00:00:00 GMTAfter a decade of delays, the financing for the Italian BreBeMi toll concession has closed. It gets around banks’ tenor constraints in a way that will be hard to replicate.http://www.projectfinancemagazine.com/Article/3202833/DEAL-ANALYSIS-BreBeMi.htmlWed, 08 May 2013 00:00:00 GMTAn influx of foreign project debt and equity would help reverse Egypt’s downward economic spiral. But political infighting and constrained local debt markets mean that Egypt’s project finance market is going nowhere fast. By Emma Lindsay.http://www.projectfinancemagazine.com/Article/3202772/Egypts-painfully-slow-PPP-recovery.htmlWed, 08 May 2013 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.projectfinancemagazine.com/Article/3201119/8th-Annual-Mexican-Energy-and-Infrastructure-Finance-Forum-25-26-June-Mexico-City.htmlFri, 03 May 2013 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.projectfinancemagazine.com/Article/3193307/3rd-Annual-Project-Finance-Colombian-Energy-and-Infrastructure-Finance-Forum-11-June-Bogota.htmlThu, 18 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMTAPLNG is the first limited-recourse financing to close for a coal-seam-to-LNG projecthttp://www.projectfinancemagazine.com/Article/3174352/Asia-Pacic-Oil-and-Gas-Deal-of-the-Year-2012-Australia-Pacic-LNG.htmlFri, 22 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMTThe consortium building the Wampu hydroelectric power plant in North Sumatra, Indonesia, pulled off a significant coup with its $130 million financing.http://www.projectfinancemagazine.com/Article/3174339/Asia-Pacific-Hydro-Deal-of-the-Year-2012-Wampu-Electric-Power.htmlFri, 22 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMTA joint venture between state-run Indonesian metals company Krakatau Steel and South Korean developer POSCO closed a $1.729 billion steel mill financing in February 2012.http://www.projectfinancemagazine.com/Article/3174272/Asia-Pacific-Mining-and-Metals-Deal-of-the-Year-2012-POSCO-Krakatau.htmlFri, 22 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMTThe sponsors of the $34 billion Ichthys LNG project closed its $20 billion debt financing without any post-completion support http://www.projectfinancemagazine.com/Article/3174354/Asia-Pacific-Multisourced-and-Global-Deal-of-the-Year-2012-Ichthys-LNG.htmlFri, 22 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMTThe $122 million Salkhit wind farm is the first independent power project of any kind in Mongolia http://www.projectfinancemagazine.com/Article/3174341/Asia-Pacific-Renewables-Deal-of-the-Year-2012-Salkhit.htmlFri, 22 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMTReliance Power closed the $308 million financing for the Rajasthan Sun project in India last year using a mixture of local bank, development finance institution and export credit debt. http://www.projectfinancemagazine.com/Article/3174346/Asia-Pacific-Solar-Deal-of-the-Year-2012-Rajasthan-Sun.htmlFri, 22 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMTCould cheap North American shale gas upset the financing plans of Asia-Pacific LNG sponsors? By Sarah Rundell.http://www.projectfinancemagazine.com/Article/3174417/Asia-Pacific-LNG-copes-with-the-US-shale-shock.htmlMon, 18 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMTA Kepco-led consortium has closed the $607 million financing for its 573MW IPP3 gas-fired power plant located in Jordanhttp://www.projectfinancemagazine.com/Article/3171418/Kepco-closes-on-IPP3.htmlFri, 15 Mar 2013 16:09:39 GMTThai banks are writing big tickets to support portfolios of smaller power projects and renewables, with international lenders confined to large CCGTs. But both sets of lenders still have firm limits to their risk tolerances. By Jessica King.http://www.projectfinancemagazine.com/Article/3171520/A-big-ticket-breakthrough-for-Thai-powers-foreign-banks.htmlFri, 15 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMTAsian upstream oil and gas independent Salamander Energy has attracted five additional lenders into its $300 million reserves-based loanhttp://www.projectfinancemagazine.com/Article/3170230/Salamander-Energy-RBL-syndicates.htmlThu, 14 Mar 2013 21:28:07 GMTJunior explorer Largo Resources closed a R311 million ($156 million) debt financing with four Brazilian lenders for its majority-owned Maracas vanadium projecthttp://www.projectfinancemagazine.com/Article/3162581/Latin-American-Mining-and-Metals-Deal-of-the-Year-2012-Maracas-vanadium.htmlFri, 08 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMTProject sponsors can often lean on standardised templates based on precedent, sector and geography, but exceptions like Braskem and Idesa’s $4.5 billion Etileno XXI petrochemical complex in Mexico exist http://www.projectfinancemagazine.com/Article/3162610/Latin-American-Petrochemicals-Deal-of-the-Year-2012-Etileno-XXI.htmlFri, 08 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMTWith its 527MW Cerro del Águila run-of-river hydro project, IC Power and Quimpac provided a template for amassing more than $500 million in debt http://www.projectfinancemagazine.com/Article/3162629/Latin-American-Power-Deal-of-the-Year-2012Cerro-del-guila.htmlFri, 08 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMTSociedad Concesionaria Operadora Aeroportuaria Internacional (Opain) began construction on its El Dorado International Airport concession in Bogota in early 2007 http://www.projectfinancemagazine.com/Article/3162582/Latin-American-Transport-Deal-of-the-Year-2012-El-Dorado.htmlFri, 08 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMTThe Ps8.9 billion ($684 million) debt financing for 396MW Mareña Renovables wind project was one of the year’s largest power financings in Mexico. http://www.projectfinancemagazine.com/Article/3162616/Latin-American-Wind-Deal-of-the-Year-2012-Marea.htmlFri, 08 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMTState owned-Ukrainian Railways has approached the European Investment Bank (EIB) to provide Eu140 million ($182 million) in debt for the Beskyd railway tunnelhttp://www.projectfinancemagazine.com/Article/3164195/EIB-mulls-Beskyd-railway-tunnel-loan.htmlTue, 05 Mar 2013 12:26:44 GMTThe government of Uganda has approached credit export agencies, development finance institutions and commercial banks about the financing for its 140MW Isimba hydroelectric power http://www.projectfinancemagazine.com/Article/3163641/Uganda-seeks-debt-for-Isimba-hydro.htmlMon, 04 Mar 2013 14:57:39 GMTInpex Corporation has closed a $1 billion loan to acquire a stake in the block covering the Prelude and Concerto gas field.http://www.projectfinancemagazine.com/Article/3163870/Inpex-closes-on-floating-LNG-acquisition.htmlMon, 04 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMTAn ACWA Power-led consortium is nearing financial close on the $1 billion first stage of the Ouarzazate concentrating solar powerhttp://www.projectfinancemagazine.com/Article/3162990/ACWA-to-close-on-Ouarzazate-CSP-in-March.htmlFri, 01 Mar 2013 13:56:45 GMTAkuo Energy has closed the $88.5 million debt financing for its $128 million Florida wind project in Uruguay.http://www.projectfinancemagazine.com/Article/3162984/Akuo-closes-on-Florida-wind.htmlFri, 01 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMTWpd’s Butendiek had a harder time finding equity investors than willing bank lenders. By relying less on sponsor support than its precursors it could be the model to follow in German offshore.http://www.projectfinancemagazine.com/Article/3162031/DEAL-ANALYSIS-Butendiek.htmlThu, 28 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMTDEAL ANALYSIS: Jordan’s neighbours are some of the most unstable countries on earth, but the IPP3 financing in Amman has reached signing. The diesel-fired project’s financing relied heavily on Asian banks and ECAs.http://www.projectfinancemagazine.com/Article/3161212/DEAL-ANALYSIS-IPP3.htmlWed, 27 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMTSeveral of the large project finance deals in the Middle East region have been held up in recent months, with bond issues and ECA debt approvals producing recurring delays. By Jon Whiteaker.http://www.projectfinancemagazine.com/Article/3161211/Brakes-on-GCC-mega-projects-from-non-bank-lenders.htmlWed, 27 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT