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  • Java 1 CCGT/FSRU, Indonesia

    Mia Tahara-Stubbs Oil & Gas Asia Pacific

    The 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

  • The 12 projects of Christmas

    Angus Leslie Melville Oil & Gas Latin America

    Pick 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

  • Infra funds – cards on the table again

    Angus Leslie Melville Oil & Gas Europe

    In 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

  • Shouting at credit committees

    Angus Leslie Melville Oil & Gas Sub-Saharan Africa

    After 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

  • Acquisition of North Sea Midstream Partners, UK

    Alexandra Dockreay Oil & Gas Europe

    The acquisition of North Sea Midstream Partners was a major win for Kuwait sovereign international investor Wren House Infrastructure Management, and followed a competitive auction process in which bidders leapt to pre-empt the binding offer deadline by around a week

  • The earth moved: Castor gas storage

    Jon Whiteaker Oil & Gas Europe

    WHAT WE SAID THEN: “Construction and geological risk, particularly in the latter part when the cushion gas is being inserted, is difficult to quantify”

  • Pipe dreams: BTC pipeline

    Jon Whiteaker Oil & Gas Europe

    WHAT WE SAID THEN: “In addition to breaking into a virgin market, the financing was closed successfully in less than three months in what could only be described as a turbulent political climate”

  • Perfect chemistry: Sadara petrochemicals

    Jon Whiteaker Oil & Gas MENA

    WHAT WE SAID THEN: “Among this mammoth financings’ ground-breaking features was the largest ever (and second only) Middle Eastern sukuk bond, the largest ever direct loan from US Exim, and the participation of Spanish ECA FIEM on a project financing for the first time”

  • Gas glut: PNG LNG

    Jon Whiteaker Oil & Gas Asia Pacific

    WHAT WE SAID THEN: “In terms of sheer scale and complexity PNG LNG represents not only the largest PF deal ever but also a true pathfinder that has profound implications for the regional energy finance market”

  • Pushing the boat out

    Jordan Bintcliffe Oil & Gas Sub-Saharan Africa

    Floating LNG promises lower costs and flexibility to developers. But it also dredges up questions about the reliability of LNG delivery

  • Unstoppable rise of the mega fund

    Angus Leslie Melville Oil & Gas North America

    As we stare down the barrels of the summer lull having published IJGlobal’s league tables and the IJInvestor funds report for H1 2018, this infra hack is currently horsing up the M6 to Edinburgh to celebrate a rather significant birthday in the motherland

  • League tables & funds – a game of one half

    Angus Leslie Melville Oil & Gas Sub-Saharan Africa

    It’s been a busy time for IJ with our half-yearly league tables for global infrastructure and project finance and the H1 2018 funds and investor report – the finishing touches to which have been put on today

  • 1MDB: the reckoning

    Mia Tahara-Stubbs Oil & Gas Asia Pacific

    The 1Malaysia Development scandal that swept the opposition into power is turning into a reckoning for $22 billion worth of China-backed infrastructure projects

  • The Mexican infra revolution

    Angus Leslie Melville Oil & Gas Latin America

    Few things throw a cat among the pigeons more effectively for a national infrastructure programme than a change in political leadership – and that’s precisely what’s happened in Mexico

  • Acquisition of HES International, The Netherlands

    Alexandra Dockreay Oil & Gas Europe

    Funds managed by Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets and Goldman Sachs investment bank signed a $1.6 billion deal on 3 April to acquire one of Europe's largest dry and liquid bulk terminals operators – HES International. The acquisition is pending final completion

  • Corpus Christi 3 LNG, US

    Juliana Ennes Oil & Gas North America

    This is the type of transaction that made everyone involved happy. IJGlobal understands that the only frustration on this deal came from the banks – they wanted more. Cheniere Energy awarded only 14% of what each bank had offered on the first new liquefied natural gas development in the US to move forward since 2015

  • Rosy outlook for Indian oil refineries

    Sophia Radeva Oil & Gas Asia Pacific

    India recently unveiled plans to set up the world’s largest refinery at Babulwadi, Taluka Rajpur in Ratnagiri district. The project is expected to cost around $40 billion and have a refining capacity of 60 million tonnes per annum

  • Oil majors – shuffling along the Road to Damascus

    Angus Leslie Melville Oil & Gas Asia Pacific

    In a volte-face that’s enough to make a North Korean dictator blush, the oil majors are continuing to trip over their feet in a bid to reinvent themselves as good guys, having spent the last century-plus playing the black-hat cowboy

  • Infra funds – it’s hammer time

    Angus Leslie Melville Oil & Gas Europe

    Infrastructure’s full of surprises. Hardly a week goes by that the eyebrows don’t shoot up to the hairline (still got one) over some development or another. And this last week has seen more than its fair share of surprises

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