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Project Finance - July, 2012

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• Oil Group Pressures State Dept. To Wrap Up Keystone Review
• Anadarko Can't Strike Alaska Pipeline Testimony: FERC
• Judge Buries EPA Mountaintop Mining Guidance
• Sinopec, BASF Eye 2nd Chinese Petrochemical JV
• Total Follows Other Oil Giants Into Kurdistan, Spurning Iraq
• 2 Japanese Cos. Sign On To Freeport Liquefaction Project
• Exxon, BP, Noble Oil Dispute Gets 3 Arbitrators: 5th Circ.
• Feds Probe Top NY Construction Cos. In Billing Fraud Sting
• GIP Raises $7.5B For Second Infrastructure Fund
• Philippines, 3 Investors Launch $625M Infrastructure PE Fund
• JBIC Lends $2B For Japanese Group's Wheatstone LNG Buy-In
• Shell's Bid To Shield Arctic Drilling Approvals Survives
• KKR To Drop $233M On Share In Comstock Eagle Ford Shale
• Minor Oil Spill Could Mean Major Problems For Enbridge
• Morocco Closes Financing On $350M Wind Farm
• Exxon Unveils Drilling At $16B Papua New Guinea LNG Site
• Lloyds Puts Up $1.6B For Renewables, Infrastructure
• Texas OKs $198M For Austin Highway Toll Expansion
• 9th Circ. Lets Sierra Pacific Recover $20M For Dam Rebuild
• Chevron To Lead $2B Angola-Congo Offshore Oil Project
• Wachtell Aids Chicago Bridge With $2B-Plus Shaw Buy
• Tappan Zee Draws 3 Bids, Samsung-Dragados Drops Out
• Shell JV Commits $4B For Nigerian Gas Capture Projects
• Texas Court Throws Out Royalty Judgment Against El Paso
• BP Hit With $3B Penalty Over Russian Arctic Venture
• Midstream Energy Deals Eclipsed Shale Plays In 2Q: Report
• Keystone XL Pipeline Receives Key Permit For Southern Leg
• Partners In Gulf Well Venture Patch Up Upgrade Dispute
• How They Won It: DLA Piper Scores 2nd Circ. Pipeline Victory
• DOT Launches $17B Transportation Infrastructure Fund
• 9th Circ. Won't Vacate EPA Approval Of $1B Emissions Swap
• Senate Sends Sequestration Transparency Act To President
• NJ Dems Say Christie Gutted Port Authority Oversight Bill
• Shell Eyes 2013 Payoff As Arctic Drilling Progress Slows
• Construction Co. Sues Travelers For $16M In Lost Contracts
• Now A Fracking Opponent, NY Could Soon Be Defending It
• New Seattle Bridge Wins OK Despite Enviro Objections
• Critics Of $68B Calif. Rail Plan Drop Revote Effort During Suits
• Turkey's Enerjisa Lands $921M Loan For Thermal Plant
• London Appeals Court Says BAA Must Sell Stansted Airport
• Court Tosses Pa. Zoning Law Encouraging Marcellus Drilling
• Senate GOP Unveils Far-Reaching Domestic Energy Plan
• DOT Suit Over Pipeline Safety Must Be Filed Under APA: Judge
• DOE's Deal With Solyndra Investors Broke Law, GOP Says
• Dems Say 'No More Solyndras' Gives Pass To Nuclear Power
• Calif. Gov. Brown Floats $14B Water Tunnel Proposal
• FERC To Begin Enviro Review Of Freeport LNG Project
• Tullow Could Invest Up To $5B Into African Export Line
• Shell, CNPC Amend Pact To Increase Output Of Tight Gas
• EPA Mercury Rule Review To Benefit Select Few Coal Plants
• House GOP Passes Extensive Offshore Drilling Bill
• Army Corps Beats Challenge To $3B Ind. Highway Project
• Mich. Judge Blocks Club's Bid To Halt Mine Project
• Head Of NJ Economic Development Agency To Step Down
• Hong Kong Mogul-Led Group Ponies Up $1B For Gas Co.
• UK's Centrica Commits $2.2B To Gas Project After Tax Drop
• Total, Shell Launch $2B Italian Oil, Gas Project
• Seadrill Lands $4B Gulf Of Mexico Oil Rig Contract
• Dodd-Frank Whistleblower Issues In Leshinsky And Asadi
• PACE-ing The Regulation Of Renewable Energy Loans
• Lawmakers Trade Barbs As 'No More Solyndras' Debate Opens
• Natural Gas Cos. Want FERC To Rethink TransCanada Deal
• Calif. Sen. Wants $68B Rail Plan Delayed For Enviro Review
• SJG Asks NJ Utilities Board For $250M Upgrade Expansion
• EPA Delays Final Water Cooling Rules Until 2013
• House GOP Says Interior Is Stonewalling Drilling Ban Inquiry
• Insurers Tell Congress Dodd-Frank Will Hurt Industry
• Noble Energy Rakes In $320M For Texas Oil Properties
• DOI Picks 17 Hot Zones To Fast-Track Solar Power
• Pipeline Cos., Texas Landowners Seek Eminent Domain Clarity
• Feds Fire Back In NY Challenge To Fracking Regs
• House Panels Probe NRC Chair On Policy, Communication
• Talbot Sells Anglo $555M Share In Mozambique Coking Mine
• Central Crude Fights Typo Ruling In Enbridge Fee Dispute
• FERC May Up Merchant Transmission Developers' Leverage
• Land Lease Bill Unlocks Tribal Leasing Opportunities
• British Columbia Seeks 'Fair Share' For Support Of $5B Pipeline
• EPA Lacks Central Permit Compliance Database, GAO Says
• Texas Utility Signs Deal For $1B Solar Project
• PBF Puts Rail Project Ahead Of $1B Refinery Expansion
• Keystone XL's Biggest Supporter Tries Again With New Bill
• TransCanada Power Deal Must Be Honored, Panel Rules
• Pemex Cinches $547M Backing For Deepwater Oil Rig
• DOT To Dole Out $787M In Grants For Transit Projects
• BOEM To Lease 20M Acres In Gulf Under New Plan
• Abu Dhabi's Mubadala To Develop $246M Thai Oil Field
• Ohio's On Top Of Underground Injection Control Activity
• Rosneft, Eni Team Up To Explore Offshore Oil Wells
• Rep. Calls For Fair Play Amid Enbridge Pipeline Bias Feud
• GAO Reviewing Toll Hikes On NY, NJ, Pa. Bridges
• GOP Offshore Lease Bill Would Net Gov't $600M, CBO Says
• China's CNPC Considers Stake in $12B Ecuador Refinery
• SEC Sets Bar To Meet 'Mortgage-Related Security' Definition
• SEC's Broad Municipal Adviser Rule Risks Collateral Damage
• NJ's 1st Offshore Wind Farm Gets Green Light
• China Tightens Ties To Africa With $20B Loan Promise
• Norton Rose Bolsters New Arctic Team With McInnes Hire
• Enviros Won't End Fight Over Shell's Alaska Drilling Plans
• Calif. Gov. Signs Off On Initial Funding For $68B Rail Plan
• Unfinished Dodd-Frank Rules Leave Banks In The Dark
• Puerto Rico Chooses Airport Privatizer In $2.6B Deal
• GOP Bill Aims To Give Oil Lease Oversight To DOE
• Chevron Puts $2B Into Venezuelan Oil Field Joint Venture
• BOEM, FERC Revise Offshore Hydrokinetic Power Guidelines
• House GOPs Slam Obama For Slow Coal Rulemaking Process
• White House Expedites US Port Expansion Projects
• BP Weighs Turkish Pipeline Stake As Path To Europe
• Eni, Petronas To Build Rubber Plants At $19B Petro Complex
• Chevron Enters Kurdistan With Reliance Oil Block Stakes
• Winston & Strawn Helps Highstar Unit In $2B Waste Biz Buy
• PE Firm Panda Lands Financing For Texas Power Plant
• Feds' $5M Thompson River Claim May Quell Solyndra Furor
• Neb. Seeks Spill Risk, Other Info On Keystone Reroute
• NY Fracking Expansion Could Trigger 2013 Budget Fight
• Greenpeace Fights To Lift Ban On Shell Drilling Protests
• China To Hand $1.2B Loan To Ghana For Jubilee Projects
• Cuomo Bans Contracts With Cos. Investing In Iranian Energy
• Issa, Mica Say FAA Let Politics Cloud Wind Farm Approval
• UK's Carbon Storage Plans Advance With Shell, SSE Deal
• Linklaters Finance Ace Jumps To Katten's NY Office
• GOP Offshore Drilling Bill Moves Forward In House
• House Votes To Force OMB To Reveal Sequestration Plans
• Dems Blame Chinese Trade Tactics For Abound Solar's Woes
• Riverstone Injects $500M Into Meritage's Natural Gas Biz
• Mont. Power Co-Op Meddled With Contracts, City Says
• Public Projects Hang In Balance Of Toll-Tax Distinction
• Libya Taps Wintershall For New Oil Pipeline
• Czech Co. Gets Power Plant Stake In $173M NRG Unit Buy
• Senate Passes Bill To Expedite Tribal Land Leases
• Peabody Energy, Kinder Morgan Sign Coal Export Deal
• DLA Piper Adds Thompson & Knight Energy Partner
• Top 10 Corporate Environmental Concerns
• German Utility Gets €200M For British Waste Energy Plant
• GOP Bill Would Revive Pre-Deepwater Offshore Lease Plan
• Abu Dhabi's 1st Nuclear Power Plant Gets Environmental OK
• Shell Won't Answer Thai Rival's $1.9B Bid For Cove Energy
• TAQA Lands Funding For $400M Ghana Power Plant Expansion
• Greenberg Traurig Snags Former Dewey Global Energy Pro
• Easing Sanctions Against Burma — With Limits
• BACT: To The Future Of GHG Regulation
• $68B Rail Plan Defrauds Voters, Calif. County Suit Says
• US Mining Projects Face Dim Future Without Permit Reform
• Murkowski Wants Anti-Shell Drilling Protests Checked
• Shell To Build Pipeline Linking La. To Texas Gulf
• McDermott Caps Hiring Spree With Nixon Peabody Tax Pro
• Virginia Sued Over Tolls For $2.1B Norfolk Tunnel
• Testimony Challenging Blackstone Power Line Benefits Stands
• $13B Calif. Water Tunnel Plan Not Worth Price, Study Says
• GOP Probe Of Offshore Drilling Ban Reaches Interior IG
• CBO Says Not Enough Projects To Justify Infrastructure Bank
• Clarifying FERC's Reliability Penalty Guidance
• Capital Dynamics Raises $282M For US Solar Projects
• House Sends Senate Bill To Hasten Mineral Mine Permitting
• 10th Circ. Kills Oil Tycoon's Suit Over Tar Sands Rights
• Cheniere Secures $3.4B Loan For LNG Export Project
• World Bank OKs $684M In Loans For East Africa Power Line
• Premier Oil Strikes $1B Deal To Drill In Disputed Falklands
• Total Grabs Bigger Slice Of $34B Inpex LNG Venture
• Mass. Top Court OKs $440M Toll Diversion To Big Dig
• DOE Promises No More Solyndras
• High Court Asked To Weigh Juries' Role In Punitive Damages
• How SB 315 Changes Ohio's Oil, Gas Regulatory Process
• Shell's 4th Push Of $1.8B Cove Offer May Prompt Bid War End
• Australia Acquisition Inks $350M Asset Deal To Join Harbinger
• Shell Canada's Carbon-Capture Project Clears Enviro Hurdle
• India's Reliance Power Gets $1B In Project Loans From China
• Central Crude Can't Duck Enbridge Pipeline Fee Claims
• White House Throws Its Weight Behind Biomass Incentives
• House Sets Up Vote On Strategic Mineral Mining Bill
• DC Circ. Won't Halt $14B Southern Co. Nuclear Plant Expansion
• India State Oil Cos. Invest $3B In Venezuelan Projects
• El Paso Highway Project To Go Ahead Over Green Objections
• Pa.-To-NY Gas Pipeline Should Hug I-88, NY Lawmaker Says
• DOI Raises Enviro Concerns Over $1B Idaho Hydro Project
• Ohio Gov. Beefs Up Regs On Fracking Wells
• Unit Corp. To Pay $617M For Noble Energy Midstream Assets
• Streamlining NEPA, Renewable Energy Sustainability
• Williamson Act To Face Scrutiny In Solar Land Use Suit
• Norton Rose Canada Adds 6 Mining, China Experts
• Fracking Foes Gird For Legal Fight With NY Regulators
• Enviros Fight Shell's Arctic Oil Spill Response Plans
• NRC OKs Part of FPL's $3B Nuclear Expansion Project
• Power Group Renews Fight Against FERC Transmission Rule
• McDermott Adds Baker Botts Energy Atty As DC Partner
• GOP 'No More Solyndras' Bill Would Curb Clean Tech Loans
• Chesapeake-Encana: Antitrust Lessons For Energy Cos.
• Town Seeks Stay On Spectra Pipe Project Pending Enviro Studies
• With Highway Bill In Place, Larger Projects Can Get Rolling
• Amtrak Unveils $151B Fast-Track Plan For Northeast Corridor
• FERC's NY-NJ Pipeline Review Was Proper, Spectra Says
• New House Bill Would Replace Obama's Offshore Drilling Plan
• Army Corps Can't Ditch Suit Over $650M River Dredging Plan
• FERC Nixes Two LNG Import Projects
• Indian Gas Cos. Secure Financing For $2.5B Pipe Projects
• Honbridge To Build $600M Iron Ore Pipeline In Brazil
• Acwa Power Gets Prized 60-MW Plant In SunEdison Selloff
• $385M Deal For Offshore Unit Boosts Golar's LNG Operations
• China Investing $20B To Develop Iran Oil Fields: Report
• Cockatoo's $1.1B Coal Mine Ushered To Enviro Study Stage
• GE, Others To Construct $700M Power Plant In Argentina
• Public Lands Energy Projects Generated $275B, DOI Says
• Sunoco Shareholder Sues To Stop $5.3B ETP Takeover
• Federal Lands: To Develop Or Conserve?
• 'Gridlock' Can't Derail $5B Tappan Zee Rebuild, Cuomo Says
• Obama Signs Law Granting $120B In Highway Funding
• French Co. Areva Wins Opener In €2B Nuclear Costs Dispute
• BOEM Readies For New Gulf Lease Sales
• Energy Cuts In Farm Bill Leave Renewables Backers Worried
• Gov't OKs 2001 Impact Study For $8.2B NYC Rail Project
• African Bank Group Targets Corruption With New Rules
• Fla. Town Can't Delay $791M Airport Expansion Project
• ENN, Sinopec's $2.2B China Gas Bid Gets Shareholder Nod
• Laos Denies Breaking Ground On Controversial Dam
• UK Signs Off On 2 Massive North Sea Wind Farms
• As Calif. Passes High-Speed Rail Funding, Litigation Looms
• Calif. Lawmakers Push $11B Water Bond Ballot Vote To 2014
• Calif. Assembly OKs 1st Leg Of $68B Rail Project
• EU Backs €230M In Project Bonds To Woo Private Investors
• Lukoil Plans $500M Moscow Pipeline
• China's Massive Three Gorges Dam Reaches Full Capacity
• Spectra Pipe Could Lower NY Gas Transport Costs, DOE Says
• McGuireWoods Adds 2 Finance Partners In London
• Norway Oil Group Calls Lockout, Statoil To Shut Down Rigs
• Glencore-Xstrata Vote Delayed As Aussie Regulator OKs Deal
• China Power Giant Inks $1.3B Venezuela Transmission Deal
• ConocoPhillips, Origin Expand $20B Australian Gas Project
• Saudi Rail Project Nails Down $810M From Spanish Banks
• Argentine High Court Backs Glacier Protection Law
• FERC Wants JPMorgan Docs In Energy Market Bidding Probe
• Green Groups Settle With US Over Energy Corridor Plan
• Exxon Eyes Risky Afghanistan In Change Of Course
• Veto Of NC Fracking Bill Overridden By Accidental Vote
• Marathon Plans $365M IPO For Petroleum Pipeline Biz
• DOT Faces Challenge To $3B Columbia River Bridge Project
• House Panel Wants Loan Testimony From Abound Solar CEO
• Bird & Bird Adds Baker Botts Projects Pro In Hong Kong
• Preservationists Seek Review Of $35M Cruise Terminal
• Private-Public Venture Funds $1B Saudi Airport Project
• NJ Signs $3.2B Transportation Bond Bill Into Law
• GE, Rosneft Team Up For Efficiency, Equipment Projects
• Sunoco, Carlyle Avert Pa. Refinery Shutdown With JV Deal
• USDA, Navy, DOE Announce $30M Joint Biofuel Investment
• Heritage Acquires $850M Stake In Nigerian Oil Lease
• Don't Let US Lose Global LNG Race, Reps. Tell DOE
• Total Strikes Gas In Caspian Sea
• Anadarko Secures $556M For Gulf Of Mexico Project
• Petrobras Forks Over $820M To Settle Texas Refinery Fight
• Sierra Club Seeks To Block Keystone Pipeline Permit
• NC Gov. Vetoes Fracking Bill Over Lack Of Safeguards
• Dewey & LeBoeuf And The 'Unfinished Business' Doctrine