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Freeport LNG - Texas import terminal
Oil & Gas North AmericaThe road to the realisation of Freeport LNG in the US is one with many twists and turns - but with construction advanced and financing secure, the project will become one of the first of a new wave of LNG import terminals for the power-hungry US market in
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M1/Westlink – Northern Ireland’s first PPP highway
Transport EuropeThe M1/Westlink DBFO project - won by a Bilfinger Berger-led consortium last year - is crucial to Northern Ireland's economy as the key access route into the Irish Republic.
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Cerro Verde copper mine expansion - Peru
Oil & Gas Latin AmericaCerro Verde’s US$850 million mine expansion financing included the largest project financing for a mining project in Latin America in 2005 – US$450 million. In doing so it brought together Japanese export credit agency JBIC commercial banks, kfW – with a
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Barcelona's pioneering justice PPP
Social & Defence EuropeThe €325m (US$385m) Barcelona Judicial Courts PPP project is the pioneer of non-road project finance in Spain. Even if it closed on at the end of last year, its path since it was awarded more than two years ago is that of a true pathfinder deal in the Ibe
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The UK MoD's Skynet 5 restructuring
Telecoms EuropeWhen the MoD closed the UK's Skynet 5 - the country's largest PFI project of all time - it was immediately apparent that it needed to be bigger yet. And that was what prompted its restructure. A value-for-money, cutting edge refinancing was exactly what t
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Israel’s Ashkelon desalination DBFO project
Water MENAThe question of water - where should it be obtained from, who should manage it, how much is really needed - has long got people hot under the collar in the Middle East and Israel is no exception. But with the start of operations at Ashkelon - the Israeli
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Rain-making Spanish irrigation project
Oil & Gas EuropeSpain’s €1.5 billion (US$1.9bn) Segarra-Garrigues irrigation project to breathe life into a large part of central Catalonia is one of those projects ...
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Bassetlaw grouped schools PFI, UK
Social & Defence EuropeTransform Schools – the PFI consortium made up of Balfour Beatty and Innisfree – has closed one of the UK’s largest grouped school projects to date, the ambitious £135m Bassetlaw in the English Midlands,
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Hamma time - Algeria's desal project
Oil & Gas MENAThe Hamma Water Desalination Project in Algeria stands out as ground-breaking initiative to solve the capital city’s water shortages, while at the sa...
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Sea-to-Sky Highway
Transport North AmericaThe US$498 million Sea to Sky highway improvement project stands out as a milestone for the Canadian province of British Columbia as one of its first motorway upgrade PPP projects, writes Edward Berry.
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Nam Theun 2, Laos
Power Asia PacificThe 1,070MW Nam Theun 2 hydro project in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic stands out as one of the most innovative pieces of project financing for a number of reasons, not least because it is one of the most completx examples of PPP in Asia
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Transform Schools North Lanarkshire
Social & Defence North AmericaLast week in North Lanarkshire, Transform Schools – a consortium of Balfour Beatty and Innisfree – closed one of the most significant PPP financing deals to have closed to date in the mature UK market
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Newcastle hospital
Social & Defence Asia PacificIn the spring of 2003 an Equion-led consortium won preferred bidder status on one of the biggest...
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Scottish Northern Ireland Pipeline
Oil & Gas EuropeThe downsides of Northern Ireland’s unique political set-up are well documented, but the existenc...
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Manchester super hospital
Social & Defence North AmericaThe Central Manchester and Manchester Children's hospitals PFI is an innovative and complex project that could give the industry a much-needed good n...
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Growth of Sharia financing in Middle East projects
Oil & Gas EuropeWith the single biggest Islamic financing signed, western banks jostling for position&n...
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Canada's Anthony Henday Drive SE road PPP
Social & Defence North AmericaAt the end of January the Government of the Canadian state of Alberta reached financial close on...
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Olivo wind portfolio
Power EuropeThe continuing growth of the renewable energy sector is best typified by the Spanish market where...
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Tynagh Power Plant
Power EuropeIn 2003, in response to Ireland’s growing power generation capacity requirements, the Irish power...