(Business Standard, New Delhi, 17 June 2016) A US-based think tank today said the Bangladesh-India Maitree project could effectively end up in a financial mess. The coal-based power plant proposed to be built near the city of Khulna, close to the Sundarbans mangrove forest, is a joint venture...
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2016/06/28
Country: India, USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: BRIC countries, Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
2016/05/31
Issue: OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Natural Resources Defense Council, New York, 24 May 2016) Co-written by the NRDC, World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), Oil Change International (OCI), Kiko Network, Japan Center for a Sustainable Environment and Society (JACSES), and Friends of the Earth Japan,...
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2016/05/31
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
(Business Day Live, Capetown, 9 May 2016) A greater focus on the use of gas as a pillar of industrialisation is one of the new elements in the latest industrial policy action plan (Ipap), launched on Monday by Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies. The minister said the Ipap 2016 continued the...
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2016/05/31
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
(Offshore Suport Journal, London, 27 May 2016) The Norwegian Export Credit Agency (GIEK) has said that the sharp downturn in the offshore industry means that a massive 50 per cent of its NKr102 billion (US$12.3 billion) loan guarantee portfolio has been placed under what it describes as “close...
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2016/05/31
Country: Australia, Germany
ECAs: Euler Hermes Deutschland AG
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
(The Australian, Canberra, 5 May 2016) The Germans missed out on the Australian submarines contract to the French. But it looks as if they are about to get deeply involved in the $970 million Mount Peake vanadium-titanium-iron project in the Northern Territory, owned by ASX-listed TNG.TNG went...
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2016/05/31
Issue: OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Azernews, Baku, 16 May 2016) The Trans Adriatic Pipeline's (TAP) project financing continues to progress according to the schedule, said Ian Bradshaw, Managing Director at TAP AG. "TAP expects to secure funding from a number of multilateral institutions, such as the European Bank for...
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2016/05/31
Country: China, Malaysia
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Stockhouse Publishing, Vancouver, 6 May 2016) China's Yudean Group joins Attarat Power Company as a strategic investor in the Attarat Power Company (APCO) a subsidiary of Eesti Energia of Estonia, the world's biggest oil shale to energy company. Yudean has agreed to purchase 45% of the shares...
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Briefings & reports from ECA watch members
2016/05/02
Issue: Climate Change, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining
(WWF, Brussels, 8 March 2016) A WWF short brief to the OECD's Export Credit Working Group (ECG) highlights scientific research showing that new coal plants are not compatible with 1.5/2°C climate change scenarios, and what this should mean in terms of implementation of the OECD sector...
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2016/04/30
Issue: Climate Change, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining
(WWF, Brussels, 8 March 2016) A WWF short brief to the OECD's Export Credit Working Group (ECG) highlights scientific research showing that new coal plants are not compatible with 1.5/2°C climate change scenarios, and what this should mean in terms of implementation of the...
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2016/04/30
Country: Turkey
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Sabanci University, Istanbul, Novermber 2015) A November 2015 report from the Sabancı University Istanbul Policy Center recently translated to English addresses the current status of coal in Turkey as an energy and greenhouse gas source, its impacts on health, the association between...
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2016/04/30
Issue: Debt, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Gulf Times, Doha, 24 April 2016) The fall in crude oil prices has had a significant impact on the fiscal positions of states in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), and a number of infrastructure projects in the region have been delayed for the indefinite future. While GCC economies will...
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2016/02/28
Country: India, USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
(Srijan Lokhit Samiti, 9 February 2016) The Export Import Bank of the United States, a financer of Reliance’s Sasan Power Project in Madhya Pradesh, confirmed serious labour rights violations at the project, including 19 deaths. In the report “...
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2016/02/26
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Trade & Export Finance, London, 8 February 2016) Low prices and dwindling sources of finance are forcing coal producers to turn increasingly to export credit agencies (ECAs) to support their capital needs. But ECAs and their governments, increasingly driven by environmental concerns, show...
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2016/02/26
Country: Germany, India
ECAs: Euler Hermes Deutschland AG
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
(Trade & Export Finance, London, 9 February 2016) Reliance Industries’ latest €950 million ($1.04 billion) export credit agency (ECA)-backed deal is expected to push its capital expenditure spree in refinery and petrochemical expansion projects to approximately $17 billion. The Mumbai-based...
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2016/01/27
Country: Brazil, United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
(Global Trade Review, London, 21 January 2016) Petrobras has received a US$500mn buyer’s credit facility from JP Morgan for the purchase of equipment manufactured by a UK subsidiary of GE Oil & Gas. Subsea and surface oil gas pipelines will be exported by Newcastle-based Wellstream...
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