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IJInvestor Awards 2020 – Acquisitions Shortlist
Oil & Gas EuropeIJInvestor – the IJGlobal sister title focused on infrastructure fund activity and global infra/energy M&A – is delighted to announce the shortlist for the Acquisitions category in our annual awards
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IJInvestor Awards 2020 – Company Shortlist
Oil & Gas EuropeIJInvestor – the IJGlobal sister title focused on infrastructure fund activity and global M&A – is delighted to announce the shortlist for the Company category in our annual awards
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Lifting the veil on Vietnam LNG
Oil & Gas Asia PacificInternational investors are increasingly turning their eyes towards the emerging LNG sector in Vietnam. However, with the government's vision to boost renewables and LNG, is Vietnam capable of achieving its ambitious goals? What should developers, financiers and advisers be looking out for?
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IJGlobal Magazine – Autumn 2020 issue
Oil & Gas Asia PacificIJGlobal is delighted today to publish the autumn edition of the IJGlobal Magazine – including the Power & Renewables Report – once again in digital format, due to the coronavirus pandemic
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IJGlobal Awards 2019 – The Allen & Overy Interview
Oil & Gas MENAWinner of the IJGlobal Law Firm of the Year 2019 for the MENA region, Allen & Overy has an enviable heritage in the this sector – a law firm with infrastructure and energy truly in its DNA
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IJGlobal Magazine – The Awards Special
Oil & Gas Asia PacificThe summer issue of the IJGlobal Magazine is published today in digital format only. IJGlobal took the decision in the interests of safety not to publish the hard copy due to the coronavirus pandemic
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Ichthys LNG refinancing, Australia
Oil & Gas Asia PacificLead sponsors Inpex Corporation and Total in June 2020 refinanced all Ichthys LNG's project debt, which sized at $8.29 billion and is said to be the largest refinancing of a PF facility. Liquidity from commercial banks was surprisingly strong, given the timing amidst the Covid-19 pandemic and an oil price crash, with debt pricing significantly reduced
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M&A in the Covid-19 epoch: APAC perspective
Oil & Gas Asia PacificCovid-19's impact appeared first in listed markets. Investors in late January were slowly pricing in the disruptions. Today, however, a popular Asia Pacific infrastructure index shows not a prolonged bloodbath but glimmers of a V-shaped recovery. IJGlobal reports on the pandemic's influence on origination, structuring and execution in the region's private market
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Falling off a cliff – infra style
Oil & Gas EuropeAs you look out there – virtually, of course, as you shouldn’t be going further than the end of your road unless it’s to load up with a couple of hundred-weight of bog roll – it’s a curiously vibrant market… for now. But dark clouds are massing...
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Covid-19: Coping strategies for APAC
Oil & Gas Asia PacificDuring the first half of April (2020) IJGlobal has been asking 10 project finance lenders and advisers across Asia Pacific financial hubs Sydney and Singapore, Beijing and Hong Kong about the impacts of Covid-19
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Central Penn Gas Pipeline, Pennyslvania
Oil & Gas North AmericaOne the last remaining publicly-listed renewable energy yield companies in the US, NextEra Energy Partners, made a major fossil fuel investment last year when it acquired a stake in the 185-mile Central Penn gas pipeline in Pennsylvania for $1.37 billion. The financing included tightly-priced term debt and a complex convertible equity deal
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Living in unprecedented times
Oil & Gas EuropeAt times like these – and there haven’t been any of those – it’s hard not to peer into the rear-view mirror to draw comparisons with yesteryear. However, that’s not possible in these unprecedented times… a term that’s already ageing badly… as coronavirus sweeps the planet
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Fundraising in the time of Covid-19
Oil & Gas EuropeThe novel Coronavirus is posing some challenges to the managers in raising mode. But the market is strong and resilient enough to face them
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Pipeline cyberattack highlights risk to energy infra
Oil & Gas North AmericaA hacking attack recently shut down an entire US gas pipeline asset for two days, underscoring concerns raised by experts and advocacy groups about the growing threat of cyberattacks in energy and other infrastructure sectors
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2020: Year of the debt fund?
Oil & Gas North AmericaWhile the gap between equity and debt fundraising was still wide in 2019, Q4 figures highlight a potentially new trend
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Banks eye "boring" construction loans for Mexican CCGTs
Oil & Gas Latin AmericaA flurry of tenders for gas-fired projects in Mexico may be good news for construction contractors, but the prevailing state-ownership model means project finance bankers will be left to scrap over "boring" construction loans rather than meaty project finance mandates
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Asia's first infra loan securitisation platform
Oil & Gas Asia PacificClifford Capital and Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank announced last month the establishment of Bayfront Infrastructure Management – a platform to mobilise institutional capital for infrastructure debt in Asia. IJGlobal spoke with both equity holders to learn more
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IJInvestor Awards 2019 Rising Star – Mounir Corm
Oil & Gas EuropeTalking to Mounir Corm, one immediately realises that you are dealing with someone whose interests and skills reach far beyond the financial universe
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Institutional investors bid high on LatAm infra
Oil & Gas Latin AmericaIn search of greater returns, institutional investors from all around the globe seem to be increasingly prepared to take on greater risk. One example of this is a rising appetite for direct investment in Latin American infrastructure, with 2019 figures being three times higher than the full previous year