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North American Upstream Oil & Gas Deal of the Year 2006
North American Upstream Oil & Gas Deal of the Year 2006
North American Mid-stream Oil & Gas Deal of the Year 2006
North American Mid-stream Oil & Gas Deal of the Year 2006
Ionia Odos toll road, Greece
Transport EuropeThe €1.157 billion Ionia Odos PPP project - the pathfinder deal in a programme of five toll road transactions tendered by the Greek government - has reached commercial close
AndaSol: the return of parabolic thermal solar
Renewables EuropeIn 1913 an American entrepreneur named Frank Shuman brought online the world’s first parabolic trough thermal solar facility – a 55 horsepower project built for the British at Meadi in Egypt
Netherlands Minstry of Finance Redevelopment PPP
Social & Defence EuropeThe government of the Netherlands reached financial close with the Safire consortium on the Netherlands first of its kind, and largest ever €175 million (US$230m) PPP scheme to renovate and operate the ministry of finance main building at The Hague on 11
SOCAR Shah Deniz Oil Field Blueprint Refinancing II
Oil & Gas EuropeOn 29 December 2006 a Cayman Islands company called Blueprint Trading closed a US$440 million refinancing with ABN AMRO and Société Générale replacing and extending a previous deal agreed in September that refinanced an EBRD project loan to Azerbaijan's s
T-Rex Colorado Multi-Modal transport project
Transport North AmericaIn November 2006 one of the most innovative transportation projects in the Americas was completed at Denver, Colorado. A US$1.75bn combined public light-rail and highway construction project, developed to avoid increasing congestion, the T-REX project is
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
EastLink Melbourne tollway refinancing
Transport Asia PacificThe past year has seen dynamic activity in the Australian transport market with a number of deals encouraging in both their scale and geographical spread
Marchwood UK new build IPP financing
Power EuropeConfidence is back in the UK power market with fierce competition among lenders leading to tight pricing on the first project financed IPP since the American companies pulled out of the country at the beginning of the decade
Burg PPP Prison - Germany
Social & Defence EuropeGermany's first PPP prison at Burg in eastern Germay was closed by the Projektgesellschaft Justizvollzug Burg consortium and the federal state of Saxony-Anhalt on 19 December 2005
Germany's Herkules military IT PPP
Social & Defence EuropeGermany has traditionally been wary of involving the private sector in large concessions of public sector assets but a €7 billion military IT concession could signal a changing attitude.