The Trump administration’s capture of Nicolás Maduro was in part designed to create opportunities for US players in Venezuela’s oil sector. But both the short-term and long-term challenges to investing in the country’s heavy oil reserves are immense.

Seung-Hoon Lee is now head of Export-Import Bank of Korea (Kexim’s) investment finance team, having recently been director of the new development finance team in the agency’s economic development promotion department. He discusses the agency’s new emphasis on direct equity investment in companies and project funds. How will this affect its longer term finance offering, support export credit, and also its development finance strategy?

TXF spoke with Cenk Olcay Seran, director of international development at ECC, to outline the EPC contractor's global footprint, from structuring DFI and ECA-backed debt for renewable projects in the Middle East to working with Ukraine’s government to mobilise private investment to its energy sector.