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Project Finance - August, 2012

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• BP Pays $159M For North Sea Oil Assets From Total
• NYSPSC Rebuffs Enviro Report On $2B Blackstone Power Line
• 4 Firms Feared Most By In-House Counsel
• Canadian, Kuwaiti Energy Cos. In Talks Over $4B Oil Sands JV
• USDA Unit Says LNG Project Will Bisect Protected Wetlands
• NRC Won't License French Co.'s Md. Reactor Project
• Energy Cos. Ask FERC To Deny $32M Gulf Gas Facilities Sale
• Fund Wants Xstrata Board Shake-Up If Glencore Deal Fails
• Qatar Holding Poised To Block $31B Glencore-Xstrata Merger
• Russia Buys Foreign Expertise To Unlock Arctic, Shale Plays
• Shell Gets Permit For Preliminary Drilling Off Alaska Coast
• Judge Slams Forest Service Over Idaho Mining Project
• Chinese Cos. Pledge $8.6B To Indonesian Smelting Projects
• Obama Orders Agencies To Help Boost Energy Efficiency
• BP, Shell Say Pipeline Co. Tricked FERC In Gas Facilities Buy
• EPA Won't Be Fighting Interstate Pollution With CSAPR
• Probe Finds No Improprieties In DOE Law Firm Hires
• ND Regulators OK $360M In Energy Projects
• FERC Halts Review On TransCanada Alaska Pipeline
• Ins And Outs Of Islamic Project Finance
• Brazil Supreme Court Lets $12.6B Hydro Project Go Forward
• Australian State Toughens Fracking Disclosure Standards
• High Costs Force Gazprom To Shelve Arctic Gas Project
• Kuwait Wins Aussie Offshore Gas Exploration Rights
• Papua New Guinea Drops Fight Against $6B LNG Project
• Mitsubishi Heavy In Partnership Talks With Wind Turbine Co.
• JBIC Backs Sumitomo's $445M Aussie Coal Buy-In
• Pa. Man Challenges Zoning Under Disputed Pro-Fracking Law
• Germany OKs Law To Cost-Split Offshore Wind Development
• McDermott Snags Greenberg Traurig Energy Pro For DC Office
• Nostra Terra Buys Into Horizontal Drilling Play In Okla.
• The Importance Of Keystone To NWP 12
• Petronas' $6B Takeover Of Progress Gets Shareholders' OK
• FERC OKs Gas-To-NGL Pipeline Conversion Over Utility Protest
• Wind Project Condemnation Case Reaches Texas High Court
• Exelon Abandons Texas Nuclear Plant Over Market Concerns
• Calif. Lawmakers Exempt Bikeways From Enviro Requirements
• US Clears Path For Fracking In Ohio National Forest
• ND Regulator Intervenes In Enviros' Coal Mining Regulation Suit
• LA Council Bars Highway Project From Rising Over City
• CFTC Must Close Global Swaps Loopholes, Reformers Say
• Japan Buys Into Delhi-Mumbai Corridor Development Co.
• Chile High Court Stalls $5B Thermoelectric Project
• Statoil To Drill 9 New Arctic Wells In 2013
• Enviro Study For $930M NC Toll Project Insufficient, Groups Say
• Parsing FERC's Latest Policy Push
• FERC Can Reset Rates To Get Utility Refunds, 9th Circ. Says
• Cameco Puts Up $430M For BHP Uranium Mine
• 10th Circ. Axes Suit To Block $4B DOE Nuclear Facility In NM
• OPIC Puts Up $310M For Kenyan Geothermal Plant Expansion
• NRC Amends Reporting Rule On Plant Construction Alterations
• CFTC Adopts Swaps Record-Keeping, Registration Rules
• Sundance Board OKs Reduced $1.5B Bid From Hanlong
• Milbank To Add Linklaters Project Finance Vet In London
• Regulators Mull Delay In Stress Tests For Midsize Banks
• New Incentives For Southwestern Solar Projects
• Texas Landowners Take Hit In Suit Against Range Resources
• Romney's Energy Plan Unfairly Favors Oil, House Dems Say
• Keystone Win Belies Looming Land Use Showdown In Texas
• Bloomberg's Fracking Stance May Undercut Climate Reputation
• Energy Co. Seeks $465M From Shaw Group In Contract Suit
• Glencore Stands Firm On $25B Xstrata Bid As Deadline Passes
• Chevron To Drill 120 Wells In Argentina In Next 3 Years
• Jackson Walker Nets Energy, Finance Pro From Vinson
• Permit Delays, Violence Derail Xstrata's $6B Philippines Mine
• ConocoPhillips Loses $2.3M Trans-Alaska Pipeline Tax Refund
• Group Challenges 2nd FAA Approval For Cape Wind Project
• What's Making Attorneys Flee Their Firms?
• Ohio Eyes $300M Public-Private Deal For Bridge Project
• Case Study: Summit Petroleum V. EPA
• Vinson & Elkins Reps QEP In $1.4B Buy Of Shale Assets
• Calif. Assembly OKs Bill To Hasten Pipeline Maintenance
• CEQA Reform Will Have To Wait For Next Year, Lawmaker Says
• Romney Plan Puts States At Helm Of Oil, Gas Development
• Pa. Enviros Challenge Permit For WPX Energy Gas Well
• Vale Lands Financing For Half Of $4B Rail, Port Expansion
• Keystone XL Can Use Eminent Domain, Texas Judge Says
• Codelco Pays $2.8B For Copper Mine Stake To Settle Dispute
• Kinder Morgan To Build $90M Crude Pipeline Expansion
• Morgan Stanley Takes Control Of Pipeline Co. With GE Stake
• Owners Of $14B Ga. Nuclear Project Say Vendors Owe $29M
• Renewable Energy Investment: REITs And MLPs
• Denham Invests $200M In Oil Co. To Grow Permian Assets
• SEC's Conflict Minerals Rules: Strict, Onerous, Vague
• India's GVK Gets OK For $10B Aussie Mine, Rail Effort
• Norfolk Settles Marcellus Pipeline Eminent Domain Row
• SEC Adopts Disclosure Rule For Extraction Cos.
• Chesapeake Mishandling Well Interests, Royalty Owner Says
• Southern Co. Cleared To Advance $14B Reactor Project
• Thailand Gives Chevron, Apico OK For Oil, Gas Production
• GOP Govs. Call For Keystone Approval, Fewer Energy Regs
• High Costs, Low Prices Stunt Growth Of BHP's Metal Mine
• Enviros Urge NJ Gov. To Sign Fracking Wastewater Bill
• Statoil Invests $1.4B In North Sea To Lift Output
• Taxpayers Group Protests Tax Measures On Santa Clara Ballots
• Latest Bid To Rein In CEQA Faces Green Group Fight
• Treasury Aims To Promote Fair Hiring Among Contractors
• Kinder Morgan Defends Gas Pipeline Rate Hike To FERC
• US Cautions Oil Firms On Kurdish Investments
• Mass. Looks To Spark Development With New Muni Bond Law
• FERC Grants License For First Wave-Power Project In US
• Judge Won't Reinstate Atty's Airport Bond Antitrust Suit
• Heritage Raises $450M In Iraq Energy Deal With Genel
• Congressman Blasts LA Courthouse Plan As Unnecessary
• $151B NE Transport Proposal Faces Rail Skeptics In Philly
• White House Revs Up $3.5B Project Targeting I-5, Rail
• Shell Arctic Drilling Risks Run Too High, NRDC Says
• Oil, Gas Co. Accuses Partner Of Dodging Field Startup Costs
• Cuomo Signs Bill Package To Ease Solar Development Costs
• Ncondezi's 1,800-MW Mozambique Plant Moves Forward
• Franco-Nevada Pays Inmet $1B For Panama Mine's Metals
• Kinder Morgan Plans $2B Asset Sale To Quell Antitrust Worries
• BAA Consents To Sell Stansted Airport After Lengthy Appeals
• Total Snubs Iraqi Ultimatum With $48M Kurdish Oil Deal
• Chevron, Shell Swap Aussie Gas Stakes, $450M Cash
• Tappan Zee Replacement Plan Clears Key NY Council
• China Says US Is Illegally Subsidizing Clean Energy Projects
• Be As Green As You Can Be: Army Corps' RFP For Renewables
• Solar Could Win Big In Army's $7B Energy Buy
• Vinson & Elkins Guides Boardwalk In $625M Pipeline Co. Buy
• NRG Can't Stop Public Release Of NJ Energy Bid Prices
• Industry, Enviro Groups Back Calif. Carbon Offset Plan
• Offshore Regulators Assert Power To Punish Contractors
• EPA Rules' Effect On Grid, Costs Will Be Limited, GAO Says
• Dow's $20B Saudi Petrochem Plant Seeks $100M Ex-Im Loan
• $1.5B Bid Intensifies Battle For Aussie Pipeline Co.
• Ferrovial To Reap $750M In Sale Of BAA Stake
• Energizing Mass.'s Renewables Market With New Law
• Enviros Fail To Sink Shell's Suit Over Alaskan Drilling
• Interior Completes Post-Deepwater Offshore Safety Regs
• Brazil Drops Insurance Guarantee Tax To Spur Projects
• Open Range Trustee Targets Feds Over $267M Stimulus Loan
• India Feeds New Refinery With $1.2B In Colombian Crude
• Pa. Regulators Approve Noncoal Mining Fee Hike
• NJ Awards $330M In Road Improvement Contracts
• Daelim Wins $285M Contract For Vietnamese Coal Plant
• Shell, Anadarko Protest Kinder's Gas Pipeline Rate Hike
• Thai Power Co. Pays $197M For Indonesian Mine Stake
• Sheppard Mullin Hires Yuan Debt Specialist In Beijing
• A Roadmap To New Markets Tax Credit
• LSP Energy Takes In $286M From Auction Of Miss. Plant
• CEQA Exemptions Unlikely To Pass Amid Enviros' Outcries
• FAA Again Says Cape Wind Poses No Threat To Air Traffic
• PE-Backed Group Ups Offer To $1.3B For Aussie Pipeline Co.
• GOP Accuses DOE Of Deception On Renewable Energy
• Delays Could Add $300M To Ohio River Bridge Project: FHWA
• Exxon, Shell Win Rights To Potential $10B Black Sea Block
• A Coal Industry Victory Over The EPA
• How HR 1905 Further Hobbles Business With Iran
• Wind Installations Could Drop Despite Gains, DOE Says
• Faster Pa. Enviro Permit Process Could Haunt Projects Later
• Danish Energy Co. Plunks Down €157M For German Wind Farms
• Interior's Oil Reserve Plan Draws Heat From Alaska Sens.
• Chevron, Exxon Urge Pricing Overhaul On Kinder Gas Pipeline
• €8B Nabucco Gas Pipeline Plan Wins Hungary's Approval
• Arabtec-Led Team Secures Financing For Abu Dhabi Airport
• FERC Told Pa.-NY Gas Pipeline Enviro Analysis Is Lacking
• Energy Group Urges FERC To Rethink Utility Regulations
• Tullow Gets Stake In Statoil's Mozambique Exploration
• Lawmakers Rip US Plans For Arctic Oil, Gas Leases
• Cabot, Williams Defend Pa.-To-NY Pipeline Against LNG Fears
• 2 More Agencies Join $650M Challenge To Ga. River Project
• Inpex Picks Up 7% Stake In Anadarko-Led Gulf Energy Project
• Ex-Im Aims To Put $5B Into Aussie Mining, Energy Projects
• Streamlining Offshore Hydrokinetic Energy Development
• Metal Co. Chalco To Spend $318M On Ningxia Electric Stake
• LA Rail Case May Loosen Reins On Infrastructure Planning
• FERC Begins Cameron LNG Project's Enviro Review
• Romney's VP Choice Defines Clean Energy Battle Lines
• Ruling Expected On TransCanada's Right To Private Property
• Riverstone Backs Oil Co.'s Operations In Permian Basin
• JBIC Puts Up $650M For Mitsubishi Canadian Shale Venture
• NJ Proposes Rule Changes For Alternative Energy Developers
• Eagle Rock To Fund $228M BP Plant Buy With Share Sale
• Macquarie Funds Put $150M Into Indian Toll Road Operator
• Calif. Senate Panel Delays Vote On Fracking Ban Bill
• Kazakh Refinery Lands $298M In Financing From JBIC Group
• Longtime OCC Chief Counsel Williams To Step Down
• Pillsbury Steers Tesoro In $2.5B Purchase Of BP SoCal Units
• Iraq Gives Ultimatum To Total After Kurdish Oil Investment
• Exxon Mobil Permitting Delays Must End, Alaska Gov. Says
• $2B Mojave Solar Plant Ducks Enviro Challenge In 9th Circ.
• Beware A Surety's Declination Option In Performance Bonds
• A Step Back For Plaintiffs In Climate Change Litigation
• Army Corps Beats Challenge To Mountaintop Removal Permit
• NY Gov. Pledges $107M Boost For Small Solar Installations
• CORRECTED: Laurel Ducks Claims In $8M Pipeline Contract Dispute
• Feds Question Need For New Pa.-To-NY Gas Pipeline
• Thompson Hine Adds Structured Finance Pro From Reed Smith
• Continental Shareholders OK $340M Oil Asset Purchase
• Calif. High Court Takes Up LA Light Rail Project Dispute
• $4.5B Louisville Bridges Can Advance While Case Builds
• Royal Gold Pays $200M To Up Its Stake In Canadian Mine
• Mass. Gov. Signs $1.5B Transportation, Infrastructure Bill
• Cuomo Balks At Tripled Tolls For New $5B Tappan Zee Bridge
• Review Begins For AES Corp.'s $500M Calif. Energy Project
• Cheniere Greenlights Work On $5.6B LNG Export Project
• NM Officials Arrested For Luring Investors With Fake Audit
• 2nd Circ. Spurns Thai Appeal Of $37M Toll Project Award
• Expanded Oil, Gas Leasing Would Make $7B For US, CBO Says
• DOJ Antitrust Probe Eyes Chesapeake Over Oil, Gas Rights
• GOP Claims Obama Pushed Solyndra, Other Loan Guarantees
• Petroceltic Gives Go-Ahead To $1.5B Algeria Gas Project
• Sierra Club Loses Bid To Halt Keystone Work During Appeal
• TAP Pipeline Will Land €1.5B If Picked As Supply Route
• Rockefeller Renews Push For Clean Coal Technology
• Plan For RI Offshore Wind Line Advances Without Competitors
• Ecuador, Peru Ink Crude Oil Transportation Partnership
• Enviros Ask 9th Circ. To Halt $2B Calif. Solar Plant
• California State Agency Sues City To Block Oil Lease
• Greece, Italy Back €1.5B Trans-Adriatic Pipeline
• EnCap Flatrock Funnels $100M Into Texas Midstream Startup
• NRC Halts Reactor License Rulings To Revisit Waste Storage
• Army Seeks Proposals For $7B In Renewable Energy Projects
• White House To Speed Permits For 7 Green-Energy Projects
• UAE Seeks At Least $100M From Ex-Im Bank For Reactor Parts
• Genel's $240M Stake Buy Doubles Down On Kurdistan Oil
• NY Solar Cos. Feel The Burn As Subsidy Expansion Is Delayed
• Reps. Urge DOE To Speed Up LNG Export Plant Approvals
• Reid Says Wind Tax Credit Will Be Extended In 2012
• Brits Expect To Rake In £1.5B In Oil & Gas Investments
• Bank Groups Seek OCC Lending Limit Rule Delay
• Milwaukee Minority Groups Blast $1.7B Highway Project
• SNR Denton Nabs Project Finance Vet From DLA Piper In NY
• Noble Energy Buys Minority Stake In Falkland Oil Licenses
• Farm Group Can Join Enviro Suit Over Calif. Highway Project
• Truck Agency Extends Review Of Oil Field Work Hours Rule
• Abertis, Brookfield Partner In $1.7B Deal For Brazil Toll Roads
• New Texas Rules May Jump-Start Biodiesel Market
• Enel, GE Unit Team Up For $305M Minn. Wind Farm
• UK Allots £100M For Clean Energy Projects
• DLA Piper Adds SJ Berwin Energy Partner In Australia
• DOE Urges Fed. Circ. To Reinstate Unavoidable Delay Defense
• DOT Says Enbridge Can Restart Pipeline Closed By Oil Spill
• Ex-Im Bank Plans $2B Financing For S. African Renewables
• Review Of $3B Southwest Wind-Generated Power Line On Hold
• CNOOC, China United Ink $1.56B Methane Exploration Deal
• Ore. Landowners Move To Block LNG Export Project
• EPA's Mercury Rule Sets Impossible Goals, DC Circ. Told
• Sierra Club Loses Bid To Stop Keystone Pipeline Construction
• Emerging State Fracking Regulations
• Texas Agency Watchdog Urges Houston Port Authority Reform
• EPA Delays Key Part Of Sulfur Dioxide Rule
• Reach Of US Enviro Laws Key To Fight Over Ex-Im Gas Loans
• DC Circ. Says Order Forcing NRC Yucca Review Likely
• Fulbright & Jaworski Hires Construction Pro From SNR Denton
• Pa. AG Sues Ryco Over Use Of Foreign Steel In Public Projects
• Riverkeeper Ready For Fight Over Tappan Zee Enviro Plan
• Enbridge Oil Spill Prompts Demand For Far-Reaching Review
• Petrobras Drill Vessel Builder Gets $1B Construction Loan
• Brazilian Judge Halts Vale's Rail Expansion
• Miss. High Court Denies Rate Hike For $3B Plant Amid Appeal
• Pa. Gov. To Step Down From Delaware River Authority
• Tappan Zee Enviro Plan Leaves Doubts On Traffic, Pollution
• Blackout Puts Spotlight On India's Risky Infrastructure Sector
• Wind Tax Credit Extension Blows Through Senate Panel
• Wilkinson Barker Hires 2 Squire Sanders Energy Experts
• GOP Members Say Interior IG Was Biased On Drilling Ban
• DOT Doles Out $363M In Grants For Highway Upgrades
• GOP Report Slams White House Over $535M Solyndra Loan
• Hanlong's $1.8B Sundance Takeover On Verge Of Clearance
• 'No More Solyndras' Bill Clears GOP-Led House Panel
• Final Impact Report For $5.4B Tappan Zee Project Released
• Murray Energy Blames Ohio Mine Closure On Coal Regs
• TransCanada To Build $660M Oil Sands Pipeline In Alberta
• $4B Debt May Drive Calif. Edison Unit Into Bankruptcy
• 9th Circ. Says BLM's Approval Of $2B Power Line Stands
• Markey Presses IRS To Eliminate Tar Sands Tax Loophole
• Siemens Wins $462M Contract To Build Australia Wind Farm
• Fluor, Transurban Join Va. DOT On $925M Highway Project
• Maersk Unit, ICA To Build $900M Mexican Shipping Terminal
• Sumitomo To Pay $1.4B For Devon Energy's Texas Shale Stake