Ophir Energy's Fortuna FLNG project taps Chinese banks for $1.2 B
5/8/2017
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -- British oil and gas explorer Ophir Energy will tap Chinese banks for $1.2 B in loans to underpin development of its Fortuna floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) export project in Equatorial Guinea, its CEO Nick Cooper said on Monday.
The project is set to be cleared at the end of June, while the buyer of the LNG and the financial structure underpinning the scheme should be announced by the end of this month, Cooper said at an industry conference in Amsterdam.
The choice of Chinese banks reflected the unwillingness of Western institutions to back the project, Cooper said.
"We're close to closing that out," he said in reference to the loan deals.
Reporting by Oleg Vukmanovic, editing by Louise Heavens
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