The African Finance Corporation has signed a $25 million equity investment in InfraCredit, a Nigerian infrastructure-focused credit enhancement facility that provides guarantees for energy and infrastructure projects in Nigeria

Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank approved yesterday a $500 million fixed income portfolio, targeting opportunities in emerging Asia

A joint venture between Capricorn Senegal, Woodside, FAR and Senegal National Oil Company has awarded the subsea front-end engineering design contract to the Subsea Integration Alliance for the SNE Field Development-Phase 1 project located offshore Senegal

Natixis has announced a new initiative using SWIFT gpi technology – a new digital international transaction tracking service called My Tracked Transfer

The Inter-American Bank and the Caribbean Development Bank have launched a programme to fund sustainable energy in Eastern Caribbean countries

The EU has signed off on a €30 million ($34 million) grant to Jordan's Ministry of Water and Irrigation to co-finance the expansion of the As-Samra wastewater treatment plant

UK-based private equity firm Actis Capital has announced that the $300 million, 100MW Kipeto wind farm in Oldonyo Narok, Kenya, has reached financial close

Africa-focused energy developer Kibo Energy has signed a renewed and expanded memorandum of understanding with energy utility Electricidade de Mocambique for the development of a coal-fired power plant, additional energy projects, and power infrastructure across the Southern African state

Russian oil and gas company LUKOIL has launched a tender for the contract for the front end engineering and design of an oil export pipeline project connecting the Tuba tank farm and Fao tank farm in Iraq

Further details have emerged on the financing of Petróleos del Perú’s Talara refinery which reached financial close last week

The board of Snowy Hydro has approved the final investment decision for the so-called Snowy 2.0 expansion

Thailand’s PTT Exploration and Production (PTTEP) has secured two concessions for the Erawan and Bongkot blocks in the Gulf of Thailand, Energy Minister Siri Jirapongphan said yesterday (13 December 2018)

Dutch electric vehicle charging infrastructure company Allego, which is 100% owned by French fund manager Meridiam, has obtained €40 million in quasi-equity investment from the EIB

State-owned petroleum company Petróleos del Perú has reached financial close on the Talara refinery

Total has signed an agreement to sell a 4% interest in the Ichthys liquiefied natural gas project in Australia to operating partner INPEX for $1.6 billion, following cost overruns and delays

BHP and ExxonMobil have made the final investment decision to develop the West Barracouta gas field in Bass Strait, off the coast of Victoria in Australia

Pakistan’s Ministry of Energy has extended the financial close deadlines of two China-Pakistan Economic Corridor projects – the $1.66 billion Matiari-Lahore transmission line and $542 million Gwadar coal-fired power plant

InfraCo Africa has signed a $1.7 million convertible loan with the South African developers of the 50MW Élan solar PV in Garoua, Cameroon

Peru's government has once again postponed a final decision regarding the Gasoducto Sur Peruano (GSP) pipeline