• Freedom Gas – breaking new territory

    Angus Leslie Melville Oil & Gas North America

    It’s an ill wind that blows a fresh nugget of jargon across our computer screens, and once again we have our cousins across The Pond to thank for it as they re-brand natural gas to “Freedom Gas”

  • LNG-to-power in Brazil and GNA I

    Juliana Ennes Oil & Gas Latin America

    An SPV comprising Prumo Logistics, BP and Siemens reached financial close at the end of March on the development, construction and operation of an LNG-to-power project located in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro, part of a trend in the country's power market where there has been a surge of these types of projects

  • Fund focus switches from Asia Pacific to social infra

    Viola Caon Oil & Gas Asia Pacific

    As eight unlisted, closed-ended infrastructure funds raised $20.6 billion at final close in the first quarter of 2019, some interesting trends have emerged from the IJInvestor Funds and Investors Q1 2019 report

  • The great North American job hunt

    Angus Leslie Melville Oil & Gas North America

    Few things set tongues wagging faster in the infrastructure community than recruitment trends, bonuses and salaries. While most folk like to benchmark careers against their peer group – frequently sucking the wind out of many a sail – everyone wants to know who is going where

  • Funding US wells, not walls

    Aleksandar Arsov Oil & Gas North America

    The first couple of months of 2019 saw substantial deals for the oil and gas industry in North America

  • Infra fundraising – oops we did it again

    Angus Leslie Melville Oil & Gas Europe

    It’s unseemly to crow about one’s victories in the heavily-contested area of data gathering on fundraising by unlisted, global infrastructure funds… but sadly, it’s also irresistible. Over the course of 2018, IJInvestor logged final close on $104 billion raised by funds – closed- and open-ended, with equity and debt strategies – putting us a country mile ahead of our rivals

  • AMLO's new Mexican infra reality

    Juliana Ennes Oil & Gas Latin America

    The cancellation of major projects and a lack of clarity on government plans are making international investors nervous about Mexico though the country's infrastructure need is still significant

  • Long Son petrochemicals plant, Vietnam

    Mia Tahara-Stubbs Oil & Gas Asia Pacific

    Thailand’s Siam Cement has been on a patient 10-year long mission to build a petrochemicals plant in Vietnam

  • Investment in India gathers momentum

    Iliyan Videnov Oil & Gas Asia Pacific

    IJInvestor data shows that international funds and institutional investors are already active in the market. There are 36 active funds focusing solely on India with a target of investing over $90 billion of capital

  • Java 1 CCGT/FSRU, Indonesia

    Mia Tahara-Stubbs Oil & Gas Asia Pacific

    The procurement of the Java 1 combined gas-fired and FSRU was launched as an open tender, and was supposed to become the template for subsequent deals

  • The 12 projects of Christmas

    Angus Leslie Melville Oil & Gas Latin America

    Pick up the phone to anyone right now and the first thing you’ll be told is that they’re run off their feet and that the market’s “gangbusters” as everyone pulls together to get deals over the line before the end of the year… or Christmas, if you’re old school

  • Infra funds – cards on the table again

    Angus Leslie Melville Oil & Gas Europe

    In anticipation of publication of our quarterly funds and investors report, the temptation is too great to hold back our key findings, laying our cards on the table and smiling knowingly at rivals that our data wins the day again

  • Shouting at credit committees

    Angus Leslie Melville Oil & Gas Sub-Saharan Africa

    After a lumpy year to date and a deathly-quiet August, the global infrastructure community is bracing for a rush to Christmas with many fearing that the first quarter of 2019 will be fairly sedate – particularly in Europe

  • Acquisition of North Sea Midstream Partners, UK

    Alexandra Dockreay Oil & Gas Europe

    The acquisition of North Sea Midstream Partners was a major win for Kuwait sovereign international investor Wren House Infrastructure Management, and followed a competitive auction process in which bidders leapt to pre-empt the binding offer deadline by around a week

  • The earth moved: Castor gas storage

    Jon Whiteaker Oil & Gas Europe

    WHAT WE SAID THEN: “Construction and geological risk, particularly in the latter part when the cushion gas is being inserted, is difficult to quantify”

  • Pipe dreams: BTC pipeline

    Jon Whiteaker Oil & Gas Europe

    WHAT WE SAID THEN: “In addition to breaking into a virgin market, the financing was closed successfully in less than three months in what could only be described as a turbulent political climate”

  • Perfect chemistry: Sadara petrochemicals

    Jon Whiteaker Oil & Gas MENA

    WHAT WE SAID THEN: “Among this mammoth financings’ ground-breaking features was the largest ever (and second only) Middle Eastern sukuk bond, the largest ever direct loan from US Exim, and the participation of Spanish ECA FIEM on a project financing for the first time”

  • Gas glut: PNG LNG

    Jon Whiteaker Oil & Gas Asia Pacific

    WHAT WE SAID THEN: “In terms of sheer scale and complexity PNG LNG represents not only the largest PF deal ever but also a true pathfinder that has profound implications for the regional energy finance market”

  • Pushing the boat out

    Jordan Bintcliffe Oil & Gas Sub-Saharan Africa

    Floating LNG promises lower costs and flexibility to developers. But it also dredges up questions about the reliability of LNG delivery