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Qatargas 4: Qatar completes US$30bn LNG series
Oil & Gas MENAQatargas 4 is the last of the Qatar's massive Qatargas series of integrated gas and LNG development projects worth a total of US$30 billion. With the US$6 billion project, the tiny Arab state has reaches the conclusion of its highly-successful LNG program
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Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre project, Ontario
Social & Defence North AmericaFinancial close of the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre redevelopment project in Toronto stands testament to the ongoing success of the ReNew Ontario social infrastructure programme
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Peterborough Hospitals PFI Project
Social & Defence EuropeThe latest health project in the UK government's PFI programme to reach financial close is the Peterborough hospitals scheme - proving to be both complicated and significant to the PFI market
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Solaris - an event horizon
Renewables EuropeAs renewables projects go, the 20MW solar photovoltaic Solaris energy park serves as a pathfinder project, financed through the capital markets and benefiting from the highest tariff available for the technology in Spain
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Peru's Interoceanica 4 road: the Brazilian connection
Transport Asia PacificIn late April, Brazil's construction champions Camargo Correa, Andrade Gutierrez and Queiroz Galvao once again stormed the transport market in Peru with the financial close of the US$562 million Intersur toll road - writes Vander Caceres
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Refinancing of Daegu 4th Beltway
Transport Asia PacificThe Macquarie Korea Infrastructure Fund (MKIF) has closed the refinancing of its existing US$96 million loan facility in South Korea - the Daegu East Circulation Road Company (DECRC) - a concession company which operates the Daegu 4th Beltway
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Orissa's Dhamra Port
TransportThe eastern Indian state of Orissa reached financial close for a greenfield all-weather deep port at a location north of River Dhamra signing a loan agreement with a consortium of lenders who have agreed to part-finance the project cost of US$565 million
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QGTC/Nakilat - the largest LNG shipping deal ever
Oil & Gas MENANakilat Inc's US$4.3 billion LNG vessel financing is the latest big ticket deal to have reached financial close bolstering Qatar's impressive efforts to monetise gas from its giant North Field in the Persian Gulf. The transaction is the first of two insta
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Ostregion Vienna A5 Motorway
Transport EuropeA brand new financing model, a team of international players and a tense bidding process make up for a groundbreaking deal in Europe - the €978 million Ostregion PPP Package 1 road project, Austria's first pure PPP
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El Dorado: Peru's Cerro Corona Gold Mine
Oil & Gas Latin AmericaThe financial close of South African miner Gold Fields Limited's (GFL) US$340 million Cerro Corona gold and copper mining project sets down the latest milestone in the project financed metals mining boom
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Reliance Rail US$2.8 billion rolling stock PPP
Transport Asia PacificAfter a two-year bidding process Australian developers and financiers have closed the country's largest PPP deal so far - the Reliance Rail PPP
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Karur-Dindigul highway Project
TransportThe Karur-Dindigul highway project is part of major improvement works to India's national highways costing US$83.5 million (INR 373.32 crore) under a PPP model
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Seosuwon-Osan-Pyungtaek Expressway
Transport Asia PacificMacquarie Korea Infrastructure Fund has closed a US$130 million transport transaction in Korea - the north-Asian country is opening great investment possibilities for project finance in transport and other sectors, after going through an intense phase leg
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EDL's gas-to-energy refinancing
Renewables Asia PacificEnergy Developments Ltd (EDL) has closed the refinancing of its 10 operational English landfill gas-to-energy (GTE) sites, taking advantage of an improved power market and international hunger for such debt
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Ontario's Prince Wind I and II
Renewables North AmericaAfter getting off to a flying start in the mid-90s, Canada's wind energy industry hit a something of a trough coming into the new millennium. But the last three years or so have seen the sector rally
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£160 million refinancing of Swindon hospital
Social & Defence EuropeThe issue of refinancing hospitals last week has seen Bank of Scotland PFI experts breaking the ice after a two-year stalemate, with the £160 million (US$300m) refinancing of Swindon hospital
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Limerick road tunnel
Transport EuropeLimerick road tunnel is one of the largest infrastructure projects to close to date in Ireland and has set a benchmark for global transport projects for an interesting financing structure involving the first use of a conduit facility - writes Angus Leslie
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M6 Birmingham Expressway refinancing
Transport EuropeRunning the UK's first real toll road was always likely to require a delicate balance of private commercial nous and public tact - and so it has proved.
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Viridis landfill gas portfolio
Renewables EuropeSpring 2006 saw the Viridis Clean Energy Group - an Australian investment fund - secure ownership of a portfolio of power plants fueled with landfill gas in England, Scotland and Wales. By the end of the summer, Viridis had tied up project financing for t