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Gruelling seven months in infra
Oil & Gas EuropeIt’s been a rough first half to the year, a gruelling seven months that’s taking a hefty toll on the IJGlobal team. The pressure of publishing our Funds Report and League Tables – hot on the heels of our Canada infrastructure conference – has put years on the editorial team
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International capital eyes Saudi infra plans
Oil & Gas MENASaudi Arabia, like many of its neighbouring countries in the Gulf region, is trying to reduce its economy’s reliance on oil exports
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Who’s afraid of the CLO?
Oil & Gas Asia PacificNot all financial instruments with three-letter acronyms are scary. CLOs for infrastructure debt are not only making a comeback but now being promoted as a solution to climate change
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Libor transition – buckle up for a rough ride
Oil & Gas EuropeThe infrastructure industry is bracing for a storm of monumental proportions as the market readies itself for the transition away from established inter-bank lending rates that underpin many billions of dollars of loans across this global sector
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Sitra refinery expansion, Bahrain
Oil & Gas MENABahrain Petroleum Company's Sitra refinery expansion drew together five international ECAs over seven tranches that yet could have been much bigger if not for the late – but great – role played by local lenders in the financing
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Taking US midstream & LNG to the next level
Oil & Gas North AmericaPresident Trump's executive orders to streamline federal permitting processes comes at a time when the US looks to develop its midstream infrastructure and position itself as a leading LNG exporter
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Freedom Gas – breaking new territory
Oil & Gas North AmericaIt’s an ill wind that blows a fresh nugget of jargon across our computer screens, and once again we have our cousins across The Pond to thank for it as they re-brand natural gas to “Freedom Gas”
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LNG-to-power in Brazil and GNA I
Oil & Gas Latin AmericaAn SPV comprising Prumo Logistics, BP and Siemens reached financial close at the end of March on the development, construction and operation of an LNG-to-power project located in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro, part of a trend in the country's power market where there has been a surge of these types of projects
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Fund focus switches from Asia Pacific to social infra
Oil & Gas Asia PacificAs eight unlisted, closed-ended infrastructure funds raised $20.6 billion at final close in the first quarter of 2019, some interesting trends have emerged from the IJInvestor Funds and Investors Q1 2019 report
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The great North American job hunt
Oil & Gas North AmericaFew things set tongues wagging faster in the infrastructure community than recruitment trends, bonuses and salaries. While most folk like to benchmark careers against their peer group – frequently sucking the wind out of many a sail – everyone wants to know who is going where
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Funding US wells, not walls
Oil & Gas North AmericaThe first couple of months of 2019 saw substantial deals for the oil and gas industry in North America
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Infra fundraising – oops we did it again
Oil & Gas EuropeIt’s unseemly to crow about one’s victories in the heavily-contested area of data gathering on fundraising by unlisted, global infrastructure funds… but sadly, it’s also irresistible. Over the course of 2018, IJInvestor logged final close on $104 billion raised by funds – closed- and open-ended, with equity and debt strategies – putting us a country mile ahead of our rivals
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AMLO's new Mexican infra reality
Oil & Gas Latin AmericaThe cancellation of major projects and a lack of clarity on government plans are making international investors nervous about Mexico though the country's infrastructure need is still significant
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Long Son petrochemicals plant, Vietnam
Oil & Gas Asia PacificThailand’s Siam Cement has been on a patient 10-year long mission to build a petrochemicals plant in Vietnam
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Investment in India gathers momentum
Oil & Gas Asia PacificIJInvestor data shows that international funds and institutional investors are already active in the market. There are 36 active funds focusing solely on India with a target of investing over $90 billion of capital
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Java 1 CCGT/FSRU, Indonesia
Oil & Gas Asia PacificThe procurement of the Java 1 combined gas-fired and FSRU was launched as an open tender, and was supposed to become the template for subsequent deals
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The 12 projects of Christmas
Oil & Gas Latin AmericaPick up the phone to anyone right now and the first thing you’ll be told is that they’re run off their feet and that the market’s “gangbusters” as everyone pulls together to get deals over the line before the end of the year… or Christmas, if you’re old school
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Infra funds – cards on the table again
Oil & Gas EuropeIn anticipation of publication of our quarterly funds and investors report, the temptation is too great to hold back our key findings, laying our cards on the table and smiling knowingly at rivals that our data wins the day again
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Shouting at credit committees
Oil & Gas Sub-Saharan AfricaAfter a lumpy year to date and a deathly-quiet August, the global infrastructure community is bracing for a rush to Christmas with many fearing that the first quarter of 2019 will be fairly sedate – particularly in Europe