The first African upstream oil and gas development loan to feature a European export credit agency supporting a project finance/reserves-based lending hybrid, Vitol’s OCTP...

Despite a sovereign downgrade to junk, Bahrain LNG closed an over-subscribed LNG regas project financing backed by availability payments from Bahrain’s National Oil and...

80bp saved on the margin and minimal costs compared to a new money refinancing, the restructuring of the Gemini offshore wind deal vindicates Northland Power’s original...

DFI loans and a rare untied UFK covered loan enabled commercial banks to push the tenor on CBG’s Sangaredi mine expansion financing to 15 years - a record for Guinean...

Petroleum Development Oman (PDO) debuted in the pre-export finance market last year with a $4 billion five-year facility – the biggest financing into Oman to date and the...

Oman Oil Company is sounding out banks for both the refinancing of part of the $1.85 billion three- to five-year unsecured revolver it closed in August 2014, and - in...

Christopher Lovgren has been appointed global head of high yield corporate distribution and trading at Natixis's Corporate and Investment Banking. He was formerly...

Kernel improved pricing on its annual PXF in 2016 but did not find appetite for upping the tenor. Having done the groundwork in 2016, and following a successful five-year...

Last month Spanish mining company, Minas De Aguas Teñidas (MATSA), jointly owned by commodity trader Trafigura and Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala, signed a 5-year...

In September 2016, despite a BB- rating Russo-Swiss agrochemical producer EuroChem closed a tightly priced $800 million pre-export finance (PXF) facility, slicing 50bp...

US-based Freepoint Commodities has closed its annual refinancing – upping the volume this year from $1.45 billion in 2016 to $ $2.1 billion. The debt provides...

Commodity trader Gunvor’s first foray into the US trading market - Gunvor USA raised a $500 million borrowing base loan without any parental guarantees.

Despite junk status at group level, Noble Americas tapped the structured debt market for a $2 billion borrowing base facility in May 2016 – the first large-scale...

Gunvor Singapore has launched general syndication for its $800 million refinancing announced last week. Tranche sizes have yet to be finalised but the deal comprises a...

Gunvor Singapore is testing the appetite of its relationship banks for an $800 million refinancing of the one-year tranche on its 2016 $1.041 billion...

Natixis has bought a majority interest in PayPlug, reinforcing its development ambitions for the payment business line in France and Europe. The deal is coupled with a...

Cocobod’s 2017 pre-export refinancing will have two bank bidding groups - one down on the deal last year. Bookrunners on the 2016 facility, Deutsche Bank...

Ratio Oil Exploration has reached full financial close on a $250 million two-year loan to back its stake in phase 1A of the Leviathan gas field project - a 21.9...

Acwa Power is expected to sign and reach financial close on its $300 million Shuaibah reverse osmosis phase two expansion project in July. The...

Kuwait National Petroleum Co (KNPC) has signed documentation for a $1 billion loan to add to the multiple debt-raisings for its Clean Fuels project – an expansion...