(Reuters, Moscow, 30 November 2021) Russian gas producer Novatek (NVTK.MM) said on Tuesday its Arctic LNG 2 plant has signed loan agreements with foreign and Russian banks worth 9.5 billion euros ($10.8 billion), securing necessary external financing for the project. Earlier this year, Novatek...
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2021/12/31
Country: China, Italy, Japan, Russia
ECAs: EXIM Bank China, Japan Bank for International Cooperation, SACE S.p.A.
Issue: Climate Change, European Union, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining
2021/10/31
Country: Canada, Japan
ECAs: Japan Bank for International Cooperation
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Friends of the Earth Japan
(Friends of the Earth Japan, Tokyo, 29 October 2021) The Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC), a public financial institution fully owned by the Government of Japan, announced in a press release today that it has decided to provide up to US $850 million for the LNG Canada Project....
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2021/10/30
Country: China, Italy, Japan, Russia
ECAs: SACE S.p.A.
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Offshore Enginer, New York, 22 October 2021)Italy's biggest banking group Intesa Sanpaolo could help fund Novatek's Arctic LNG 2 project even as some European governments show lukewarm support for the giant Russian gas project. Antonio Fallico, chairman of group unit Banca Intesa Russia, told...
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2021/09/29
Country: Brazil, China, Italy, Japan, Netherlands
ECAs: Nippon Export and Investment Insurance, SACE S.p.A.
Issue: BRIC countries, Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Offshore Technology, London, 16 September 2021) Dutch floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) operator SBM Offshore has completed the largest project financing in its history, of the vessel FPSO Sepetiba, for a total of $1.6bn. SBM Offshore was established in 1862 and its main...
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2021/06/29
Country: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, United Kingdom, USA
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining, Transparency
(Global Trade Review, London, 16 June 2021) Environmental campaign groups are switching their aim to public and private financing for natural gas projects as they get closer to winning the battle over thermal coal. But the only firm commitments on financing have been on thermal coal, where the...
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2021/03/31
Country: China, France, India, Japan, Korea, United Kingdom, USA
ECAs: COFACE, Export Import Bank of Korea, Export-Import Bank of the United States, Japan Bank for International Cooperation, UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Climate Change, Human Rights, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Global Trade Review, London, 31 March 2021) French energy major Total has been forced to suspend operations at its liquified natural gas (LNG) project in northern Mozambique for the second time this year, after a fresh attack by insurgents which killed dozens of local and foreign citizens,...
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2021/03/29
Country: China, France, Japan, South Africa, United Kingdom
Issue: Climate Change, Human Rights, Oil, Gas and Mining, Transparency
(Construction and Civil Engineering News, Nairobi, 2 March 2021) More than 260 organisations have urged banks not to finance the $3.5 billion project, saying the project could lead to the loss of community land and livelihoods, environmental destruction and surging carbon emissions. Nearly a...
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2020/12/30
Country: Italy, Japan, Korea, USA
ECAs: Export Import Bank of Korea, Export-Import Bank of the United States, Japan Bank for International Cooperation, SACE S.p.A.
Issue: Climate Change, Corruption, Debt, Human Rights, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Korea Times, Seoul, 14 December 2020) The Export-Import Bank of Korea (Eximbank) said Monday it will provide $500 million (545 billion won) in financial support for a major integrated liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in Mozambique. The project financing by the state-run lender is aimed at...
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2020/09/29
Country: China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia
ECAs: COFACE, Euler Hermes Deutschland AG, Japan Bank for International Cooperation, SACE S.p.A.
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables
(Reuters, London, 18 September 2020) International lenders have lined up about $9.5 billion in financial support for a Russian Arctic liquefied natural gas (LNG) project, a document seen by Reuters showed, even as such projects come under greater scrutiny over climate concerns. The $21 billion...
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2020/07/30
Country: Japan
ECAs: Japan Bank for International Cooperation, Nippon Export and Investment Insurance
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables
(Global Trade Review, London, 15 July 2020) The Japanese government has tightened its lending criteria for overseas coal-fired power plants, including that it will not provide financial support for any host country that does not have a decarbonisation policy. However, it will continue...
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2020/07/29
Country: France, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, South Africa, United Kingdom, USA
ECAs: Atradius, Export-Import Bank of the United States, Japan Bank for International Cooperation, Nippon Export and Investment Insurance, SACE S.p.A., UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Climate Change News, London, 10 July 2020) A decade after prospectors struck gas off Cabo Delgado, northern Mozambique, a consortium led by Total is signing contracts worth $16 billion to exploit it. One of the biggest investments in Africa, the project to extract, liquefy and export gas...
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2020/06/29
Country: Australia, Japan
Issue: Climate Change, Debt, Oil, Gas and Mining
(ICLG, London, 23 June 2020) A syndicate of company bank lenders and ECAs have enlisted Latham & Watkins to act as legal counsel in refinancing approximately USD 8.3 billion for one of the world’s largest oil and gas projects, in Australia. The development, named the Ichthys liquefied...
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2020/03/29
Country: Australia, China, Indonesia, Japan
ECAs: EXIM Bank China, Japan Bank for International Cooperation
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Bloomberg, 8 March 2020) Moves by some of the world’s biggest banks to end coal financing for the sake of the planet was supposed to create major headaches for companies like Whitehaven Coal Ltd. Yet there was the Australian miner on a conference call last month announcing the refinancing and...
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2019/11/29
Country: France, India, Japan, United Kingdom, USA
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Hydrocarbons Technology, London, 27 November 2019) The African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a $400m loan to support construction of the integrated liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant and liquefaction facility in Mozambique. The Mozambique LNG Area 1 Project is led by the French...
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2018/03/30
Country: China, Japan
ECAs: EXIM Bank China, Japan Bank for International Cooperation
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Global Development Policy Cente, Boston, 28 February 2018) ABSTRACT In a very short period, Export-Import Bank of China (CHEXIM) and China Development Bank (CDB) have become some of the largest Export Credit Agencies in the world. This paper examines the extent to which CHEXIM and CDB behave...
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