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December 2012
Brazil’s Agencia Nacional de Transporte Terrestre (ANTT) is planning an auction on 19 September 2013 for an operating concession of a high-speed train
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Hancock Prospecting and a group of Asian co-sponsors have launched the debt financing for the Roy Hill iron ore project to banks and export credit agencies
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GDF Suez has sold 30% stakes in a C$2 billion ($2.03 billion) portfolio of Canadian renewables projects to Mitsui and Fiera Axium Infrastructure
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Opain closed a financing for Bogota’s El Dorado International Airport six years after winning the concession, roping in China Development Bank as a lender.
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Braskem and Idesa have signed the $3.2 billion debt financing for the Etileno XXI petrochemical complex in Mexico.
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InterGen has closed on $335 million in debt for its 205MW San Luis de la Paz gas-fired project and Altamira compression station projects
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Summit Power is looking to close a financing for its $2.5 billion, 400MW integrated gasification combined-cycle/polygen project by mid-2013
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Corporación Andina de Fomento, the European Investment Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank have approved more than $700 million in loans
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An INPEX- and Total-led consortium has closed the $20 billion project financing for the $34 billion Ichthys liquefied natural gas project.
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The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Islamic Development Bank (IDB) have committed to provide $2.1 billion and $400 million in debt
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Brazil's Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social has approved a R1.2 billion ($577 million) bridge loan for the modernisation of Viracopos
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The ATAS consortium has signed the financing for the $1.22 billion Bosphorus tunnel project.
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Project leaders in the Middle East are prepared to experiment with mini-perm structures to widen the lending pool for power deals, but will the Mirfa IWPP be the sector’s guinea pig? Jon Whiteaker reports from Dubai.
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Braskem and Idesa are pushing to close a $3.1 billion financing for their $4.72 billion Etileno XXI project the week beginning 17 December.
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Australian satellite operator NewSat has asked for a halt in trading in its shares while it completes the fundraising for its Jabiru-1
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November 2012
Red Cap Investments reached financial close on its 80MW Kouga Wind project in South Africa on 21 November 2012.
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Saudi Aramco and Dow Chemical have cut the commercial debt tranche on their Sadara petrochemical project
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Cenpower Generation Company has signed a 20-year power purchase agreement with state-owned utility Electricity Company of Ghana
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BNDES has approved a record R22.5 billion ($10.8 billion) in debt financing for Norte Energia, the consortium building the 11,233MW Belo Monte hydroelectric project
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An Abengoa-led consortium reached financial close on the largest concentrating solar power project in sub-Saharan Africa on 16 November
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The $20 billion debt financing for the $30 billion Ichthys LNG project is expected to sign before the end of the year.
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A joint venture between Chint Solar (51%) and SunEdison (49%) has approached the International Finance Corporation (IFC) to provide debt to its solar photovoltaic project
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BG Group has received approval for a $37.5 million corporate loan from US Ex-Im to support the $150 million NCMA 4a compression project offshore Trinidad.
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A Sumitomo Corporation-led consortium has closed the financing for its 100MW Dorper Wind project in South Africa.
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Newly-established Singaporean export finance institution Clifford Capital plans to launch a $1 billion Euro medium-term note programme
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Formal signing of the debt backing the $20 billion 5600MW Barakah nuclear project is waiting on final approval
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The Asian Development Bank (ADB), has agreed to provide a $315 million 25-year loan to part-fund the $750 million 450MW Shongtong Karcham hydroelectric project
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Kuwait’s ambitious PPP programme has been slow in picking up pace, though financing is unlikely to be an obstacle. Its first project – the Az Zour IWPP – is nearing close as political unrest erupts in the country. Jon Whiteaker reports.
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The project company for the Australia Pacific Liquefied Natural Gas project has begun drawing on its $8.5 billion in project debt
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Morocco’s Office National de l’Electricite (ONE) has pre-qualified six bidders for the next phase of its wind power programme
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OPAIN has closed a $390 million financing for the expansion and operation of El Dorado International Airport in Bogotá
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EP Global Energy, Enercap and the Marguerite Fund have closed a Eu130 million ($165.5 million) financing for the 80MW Chironegi onshore wind farm
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Dawood Lawrencepur is looking for $96.5 million in debt for a $128.7 million 49.5MW wind project
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Conduit Capital and CAF have bought stakes in Solarpack and Gestamp Solar’s Tacna and Panamericana photovoltaic projects
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Egypt's National Authority for Tunnels and Central Bank have signed a first Eu200 million tranche of a Eu600 million European Investment Bank loan for the Cairo Metro
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ExxonMobil has increased its final cost estimate for the PNG LNG project from $15.7 billion to $19 billion
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The reality of the Philippines’ PPP programme is still taking time to catch up with the rhetoric. Cheap sovereign development loans keep testing government’s attachment to PPP. Tom Nelthorpe reports from Manila.
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Ormat-owned project company OrPower 4 has closed and made a first draw on the $310 million financing for the expansion of the Olkaria III
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Primeline Energy has agreed a revised memorandum of understanding with China Development Bank covering a loan for the development of its LS36-1 offshore gas field.
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The concession company for the Bahia Norte toll road concession plans to issue R38 million ($18.6 million) in seven-year bonds
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East Africa has started to rival the west of the continent as a hot-spot for drilling activity. LNG, with India as a possible destination, is the most promising source of deals. By Sarah Rundell.
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The Nicaraguan government has approved Ram Power’s request for an increase in the tariff on the power purchase agreement for its San Jacinto-Tizate geothermal
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Melec Powergen has closed the first of four Kenyan power projects that will benefit from $166 million in partial risk guarantees from the World Bank.
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Multilaterals and ECAs have been able to compensate for flagging bank interest in European offshore. But equity and transmission infrastructure shortfalls may hold back development. Thomas Blott reports from Hamburg.
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Brazilian paper producer Klabin plans to build a $3.5 billion, 1.5 million tonnes per year greenfield pulp mill near Ortigueira
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Russian fertiliser maker Acron plans to use a $1.1 billion loan from state lender Vnesheconombank to fund a first stage at its $2 billion Verkhnekamsk potash mine
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China Wind Power has closed a RMB300 million loan with China Development Bank to fund phase 3 of its Du Mon county wind
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Energie des Grand Lacs has named a consortium of Kenya’s Industrial Promotion Services (IPS) and Sithe Global preferred bidder on the 145MW Ruzizi 3
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Japanese export credit agency JBIC has signed a memorandum of understanding with Australian independent oil and gas producer Woodside Petroleum
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October 2012
Wendel Group is paying $125 million to buy a 25% stake in Africa focused telecoms tower operator IHS Holding.
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Aldwych International and IDC are discussing using a partial risk guarantee (PRG) from the African Development Bank (AfDB) on their delayed Lake Turkana wind