Ecuador made its first export of 22,000 tonnes of copper concentrate from the Chinese-owned Mirador mine, marking a new milestone in the country’s effort to develop a large-scale mining industry. The shipment of copper concentrate has a value of about $25 million and was transported to...
Fragmented Gulf procurement, tighter local liquidity, strained country limits and Saudi-scale ambition are forcing ECAs beyond the classic tied facility. Shopping lines,...
Delfin Midstream has assembled more than $5bn of strategic equity, bank debt, private credit and secured notes for the first offshore floating LNG export facility in the US....
TXF spoke with Andreas Back, Product Security Development Manager at Wartsila to outline the major challenges and opportunities for major EPCs tapping ECA support, as well as the need for ECA to take on more risk in emerging markets.
Fragmented Gulf procurement, tighter local liquidity, strained country limits and Saudi-scale ambition are forcing ECAs beyond the classic tied facility. Shopping lines, untied lending, framework deals and regional agencies are filling the gap — but flexibility brings its own distortions.
Delfin Midstream has assembled more than $5bn of strategic equity, bank debt, private credit and secured notes for the first offshore floating LNG export facility in the US. The emergence of a bankable deal followed a decade of regulatory uncertainty, and Delfin’s second vessel will test whether it is repeatable.
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