(Vietnam Net, Hanoi, 18 January 2018) Vietnam is expected to receive loans in the billions of US dollars from some G20 nations for its many coal-fired power projects, helping the capital-thirsty country further ensure its growing demand for power. The US-based Natural Resources Defense Council...
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2018/01/31
Country: Japan, United Kingdom, USA
ECAs: Japan Bank for International Cooperation, UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Bloomberg, London, 9 January 2018) Saudi Arabian Oil Co. is seeking a $2 billion loan from Japan’s export-credit agency, three people with knowledge of the matter said, as competition for a role in potentially the world’s largest initial share offering heats up. A deal would make the Japanese...
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2017/12/31
Country: China, Indonesia, Japan
ECAs: EXIM Bank China, Japan Bank for International Cooperation
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining
(The Nation, Bangkok, 30 December 2017) Already the world’s fifth-biggest greenhouse gas emitter, Indonesia is leading Southeast Asia’s boom in coal-fired power. Already one of the world’s biggest carbon polluters because of deforestation, Indonesia has back-pedalled on a pledge to cap coal...
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2017/12/31
ECAs: Japan Bank for International Cooperation, Nippon Export and Investment Insurance, SACE S.p.A., UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
(Bonds & Loans, London, 5 December 2017) Kuwait National Petroleum Company’s (KNPC) US$6.245bn ECA-backed loan was a triumph for the company’s Clean Fuel Project and the region’s credit markets, setting a new record for the largest ECA-backed corporate loan to date. The Project involves...
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2017/12/31
ECAs: SACE S.p.A., Sinosure
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(LNG Worldshipping News, London, 4 December 2017)) Floating LNG (FLNG) is opening new offshore gas basins for LNG development in Africa. The ownership structure of Africa’s new LNG production and the willingness of international oil companies to deploy new technologies will drive the...
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2017/12/31
Country: Australia
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Australian Financial Review, Sydney, 5 December 2017) Key project debt lenders have been giving their passports and travel insurers a workout as they troop up to Papua New Guinea to get to grips with what could be the region's biggest financing since the record US$20 billion deal for Ichthys...
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2017/12/31
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables
Member: Bank Track, Les Amis de la Terre, Re:Common, urgewald
(ECA Watch, Ottawa, 31 December 2017) At the One Planet Summit in Paris in December 2017 a number of NGO, environmental and social movement organizations released briefings and research reports highlighting fossil fuel projects that are being funded by multilateral and national development...
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2017/12/31
Country: USA
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Bank Track
(Kallanish Energy News, Greensburg, 18 December 2017) Dakota Access Pipeline developer Energy Transfer Partners (ETP) and Florida-based environmental publication Earth First Journal are arguing in federal court whether something called a “social movement” can be sued. ETP in August filed a...
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2017/12/31
Country: China, Iran
ECAs: Sinosure
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
(Financial Tribune, Tehran, 30 December 2017) China's Sinopec Engineering Company has signed a deal worth $1 billion to develop Abadan Oil Refinery, Iran's oldest crude processing facility in the southern oil-rich Khuzestan Province, the Chinese oil and gas group announced. According to Iranian...
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2017/11/30
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Friends of the Earth USA
(Friends of the Earth US, Washington, 14 November 2017) Precisely as the world’s attention is focused on addressing climate devastation at the 23rd United Nations Climate Conference (COP23) in Bonn, Germany, the largest public drivers of fossil fuel financing are meeting a mere 320 miles away...
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2017/11/30
Country: United Kingdom, USA
ECAs: Export-Import bank of the United States, UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
(Bloomberg, London, 29 November 2017) U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May said London is “extremely well-placed’’ to win a planned stock exchange listing by Saudi Arabia Oil Co., as she competes against U.S. President Donald Trump for the coveted initial share sale by the world’s largest crude...
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2017/11/30
Country: Australia, India
ECAs: EXIM Bank China
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining
(ABC, Sydney, 22 November 2017) As the world grapples with the fossil fuel’s role in the future energy mix, Indian bilionaire Guatam Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine became a defining issue in Australia's Queensland election. An unnamed Adani Mining director was quoted as saying the...
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2017/10/31
Country: China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, Sweden
ECAs: COFACE, Euler Hermes Deutschland AG, EXIM Bank China, Japan Bank for International Cooperation, SACE S.p.A.
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining, Transparency
(ECA Watch, Ottawa, 30 October 2017) French ECA BPI has announced a €350 million guarantee contract with TechnipFMC for the development of the controversial $27 billion Yamal LNG project in Russia's far north. German Japanese,...
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2017/10/29
Country: Italy
ECAs: SACE S.p.A.
Issue: Activists demand end of massive OECD support for fossil fuels, Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Global Trade Review, London, 11 October 2017) Italian engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor Sicilsaldo has secured an €80mn contract for a gas pipeline project in Mexico, with the backing of Italian export credit agency Sace. “Sace has backed 80% of the €80mn”, a...
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2017/10/29
Country: Canada, France, USA
Issue: Nuclear, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Mining Technology, London, 3 October 2017) GoviEx Uranium has received expressions of interest from export credit agencies and project finance banks to arrange $220m of senior debt financing for the construction of the Madaouela uranium project in Niger. Conditions for the debt financing...
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