To see the digital version of this report, please click here. To purchase printed copies or a PDF of this report, please email gloria.balbastro@thomsonreuters.com. Hot on the heels of its hugely successful US$2bn sukuk issuance in April 2013, Sadara Chemical Company announced three months later the eagerly awaited closing of the roughly US$10.5bn main project financing for its approximately US$19bn integrated chemicals project. As one of the largest project financings ever arranged in the intern

To see the digital version of this report, please click here. To purchase printed copies or a PDF of this report, please email gloria.balbastro@thomsonreuters.com. This success promises to open up a significant new investor base for IPP/IWPP developers in Abu Dhabi and the wider Middle East region, which will have a significant impact on the financing and competitiveness of strategic domestic infrastructure. Before I explain the objectives behind the initiative that culminated in July’s successf

To see the digital version of this report, please click here. To purchase printed copies or a PDF of this report, please email gloria.balbastro@thomsonreuters.com. In 2010, with Phase I of Emirates Aluminium already in full operation, the Emal team, supported by shareholders Mubadala and Dubal, began writing the second chapter of the Emal story – a US$4.5bn Phase II expansion. One to start with Emal (a US$6bn company with just under 2,000 employees for Phase 1 alone), is already a major producer

To see the digital version of this report, please click here. To purchase printed copies or a PDF of this report, please email gloria.balbastro@thomsonreuters.com. After marathon negotiations session during the preceding weeks, a group of lenders led by IFC has once again confirmed its commitment to improving power supply in Côte d’Ivoire by signing the financing of the €250m expansion of Ciprel (Ciprel IV combined cycle), which will provide an additional 111MW of power to the country, with no a

To see the digital version of this report, please click here. To purchase printed copies or a PDF of this report, please email gloria.balbastro@thomsonreuters.com. After a seven-year wait to get his first African project over the line, Norland Suzor is sanguine about the next steps he and others must take on the continent. For a Mauritian-born developer with a head office in Sweden and a French accent not meant for crackly phone lines, he joins dots convincingly between topics as far afield as c

To see the digital version of this report, please click here. To purchase printed copies or a PDF of this report, please email gloria.balbastro@thomsonreuters.com. The Republic of Guinea, for example, is endowed with large, high-grade bauxite and iron ore resources, but has not benefited from a new greenfield mine in more than 40 years. This lack of progress has led to profound frustration on the part of many SSA governments seeking to achieve greater economic growth and prosperity for their peo

To see the digital version of this report, please click here. To purchase printed copies or a PDF of this report, please email gloria.balbastro@thomsonreuters.com. The financing of the US$200m Kwale sugar plantation, refinery and power plant reached financial close in July 2013. Kwale International Sugar Company Ltd (Kiscol) is the sponsor of the project – the first of its kind in Kenya. The purchaser of the power is Kenya Power & Lighting Company (KPLC), a quasi-government offtaker that run

To see the digital version of this report, please click here. To purchase printed copies or a PDF of this report, please email gloria.balbastro@thomsonreuters.com. At the same time, the project is a landmark in the Renewable Energy IPP programme with its economic empowerment funding structure, which potentially heralds a new era of private sector funding for the empowerment equity that hitherto had been the mainstay of public financial institutions of South Africa. Renewable Energy IPP procureme

To see the digital version of this report, please click here. To purchase printed copies or a PDF of this report, please email gloria.balbastro@thomsonreuters.com. This also marked the culmination of the development phase of the Peakers project; a development started in 2004 when the Department of Energy of the Government of South Africa initiated the procurement of the project through a request for qualification. When the project was awarded to AES after the bid was submitted in June 2007, the

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