Analysis Archive
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Egypt LNG - Train 2 financing
Oil & Gas EuropeWhen Egypt LNG’s (ELNG) Train 2 comes onstream in 2006 it will bring total production at the site to 7.2mtpa – a figure that will make the North African country the world's seventh largest producer of...
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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...
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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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Incheon Airport Grand Toll Bridge
Transport Asia PacificAt over 12km in length and clearing the traffic in the Yellow Sea below by more than 70 metres, the ambitious Incheon second airport toll bridge has ...
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Brazil's PDET offshore development
Oil & Gas Asia PacificMention Brazil and many images come to mind, not least of which are football, samba, favelas and of course – carnivals, but with oil reserves of 8.3 billion barrels waiting to be fully developed, it...
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Mestre hospital, Italy
Social & Defence EuropeIn June 2002, an Astaldi-led consortium was named preferred bidder for the first UK-style hospital PPP project in Italy, the Ospedale di Mestre near Venice, writes Marc Roca.
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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...
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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...
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DLR - Woolwich Arsenal Rail Extension
Transport Asia PacificOn the face of it AMEC and the Royal Bank of Scotland’s extension to London's Dockland Light Rail...