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Project Finance - October, 2012

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• Occidental Skirts $10.5M Award In Texas Royalties Row
• Developer Scales Back Contested Maine Wind Farm Plan
• Energy Cos. Pay $12M To End Suit Over Mineral Purchase Pact
• W.Va. Democrats Blast EPA Over Mining Permit Delay
• FERC Agrees To Reconsider Kinder Request For Rate Hike
• Enviros Lose Bid To Block Coal Mine Near Bryce Canyon
• FERC To Revisit Ruling In Exelon, Xcel Tariff Row
• Neb. Unveils TransCanada XL Pipeline Reroute Assessment
• Barnes & Thornburg Nabs Ex-Stoel Rives Financing Partner
• Glencore Offers Fixes To Win EU's OK Of $36B Xstrata Deal
• Raising The Bar On Operator Enforcement Action Dismissals
• Block On Mont. Silver Mine Upheld Over Threat To Trout
• TransCanada Defends Seizure Of Private Land For XL Pipeline
• NY Infrastructure Can't Handle New Climate Reality: Cuomo
• Australia's AMP Lands Major Stake In UK Airport
• Indian Tribe Says Cape Wind Project Flouts Conservation Law
• Woodside, JBIC Sign Deal To Explore New Gas Projects
• Australian Mining Tycoon Can't Regain Iron Ore Stake
• Aussie State To Restart Uranium Mining After 30-Year Ban
• Hitachi Takes Over UK Nuclear Projects In $1B Deal
• Gazprom Pledges $38B For Gas Field, Asia-Pacific Pipeline
• Obama Has Authority To Halt Chinese Co. Wind Farm Buy: DOJ
• FERC Approves Calif. Operator's Power Market Proposal
• Army Corps OKs Construction For $65B Alaska LNG Project
• CFIUS Shows New Aggressiveness In Ordering Divestiture
• Spotlight On ADR In Construction Contracts
• TransCanada, Phoenix Launch $3B Alberta Pipeline Venture
• PTT Shareholders OK $3B Share Sale To Cover $2B Cove Buy
• Apollo $100M Debt Buy To Fund Colo. Potash Project
• MidAmerican, TransAlta Ink 50-50 Power Development Deal
• Bankrupt Solar Co. That Got DOE Loan Faces Criminal Probe
• Dodd-Frank May Survive Romney, But Not In One Piece
• Conoco's Complaint Over $500M Pipeline Premature, FERC Says
• Texas Agency Sinks Bid For Solar, Geothermal Energy Rules
• Maine LNG Project Not Needed, Enviro Group Tells FERC
• Benefits Of Conn.'s Ambitious Energy Strategy
• BrightSource Solar Wins Approval For Some Power Contracts
• Ferrovial Puts Madrid Toll Road Into Bankruptcy
• Northeast Utilities' Faulty Power Tubing Claims Survive
• Chevron, BG Greenlight New Trinidad Offshore Gas Project
• Texas PUC Votes To Double Wholesale Electricity Price Cap
• Rushed Volcker Rule Could Mean Compliance Chaos, Attys Say
• DOI Prepares For Sale Of 20M-Acre Offshore Oil Lease
• Solid Contracts Could Give LNG Export Hopefuls A Leg Up
• Struggling Whitehaven Notches Go-Ahead For $675M Coal Mine
• Vale Delays $1.3B Zogota Iron Mining Project In Guinea
• Lewis Brisbois Lands Former Calif. Enviro Watchdog Chief
• Ore. County Can Block LNG Pipeline, Court Says
• Shell Pays $525M For Hess' Stake In 12 North Sea Fields
• Xstrata Plans Nov. 20 Investor Vote On $36B Glencore Deal
• Chesapeake Seeks Arbitration In $130M Botched Venture Suit
• China Funds $7B Rail Link To Import Raw Minerals From Laos
• Shackelford Adds Ex-Patton Boggs Aviation Pro In Dallas
• DOE Takes Up Another LNG Export Review For Cheniere
• New Bill Pushes Waterways Modernization For Trade Expansion
• Talisman's $2.6B North Sea Project Gets UK Approval
• EIB Lends $214M For 2 Polish Rail Upgrade Projects
• Energy Game Changer: Electric Storage Systems
• Mediation Delayed In $650M Challenge To Ga. River Project
• NRG Gets Lease For 450-MW Del. Offshore Wind Project
• NRC Tightens Uranium, Thorium Usage Rules
• Sen. Asks DOE To Detail Criteria For Approving LNG Exports
• Sempra To Build $1B Ariz.-Mexico Gas Pipe Network
• Ex-Im Bank Extends Reinsurance Backstop To Grow US Exports
• After Snub, Cathay's $850M Bid For Aussie Miner Goes Hostile
• Embattled $210M San Fran Subway Station Gets Green Light
• Idaho Utility Asks FERC To Rethink Wind Power Ruling
• Updated Clean Air Standards May Mean Higher Costs
• Enviros Ask Pa. Gov. To End Delays On Fracking Water Notices
• Exxon Eyes New Gas Source To Expand $15.8B PNG Project
• NY Orders Utility To Triple Solar Power Purchases
• Petronas, Progress To Seek Canada's OK In Blocked $6B Merger
• $36B Glencore-Xstrata Deal Gets Initial OK From South Africa
• 9th Circ. Tells Interior To Rethink Ruby Pipeline Approval
• Biz Groups Target SEC's Conflict Minerals Rule In DC Circ.
• UK Government Backs Shell-Exxon Venture In North Sea
• Mining Co. Signs $2B Potash Deal With Sichuan Chemical
• $55B Deal Gives Rosneft Full Control Of BP Russian Oil JV
• TransCanada Appeals Keystone Land-Access Ruling In Texas
• Blocking Ore. Wind Farms: Overstepping Authority?
• Legal Industry Trends: Lawyer Salaries And Job Growth
• Powerful House, Senate Panels Set For Election Year Shake-Up
• Navy's Green Energy Resolve Brings Chances For Contractors
• SEC Counts 1,500 Fund Advisers Registered Under Dodd-Frank
• Meridiam Eyes US, Canadian Infrastructure With New $1B Fund
• USDA Doors Still Open To Cleantech After DOE Loan Firestorm
• Solyndra Investigator Returns To Patton Boggs
• Shaw Investor Challenges $2B Sale To Chicago Bridge
• Exxon Adds Romanian Site To Growing Black Sea Portfolio
• Chevron, Conoco Ask FERC To Block Pipeline Co.'s Rates Plan
• Enviros Say Army Corps' W.Va. Mine Permit Violates CWA
• Enviros Lose Bid To Block 15-MW Cogeneration Project
• A View From Inside The Litigation Finance Market
• Exxon, Shell Win Colombia Blocks, But Shy Away From Shale
• FERC Seeks New Rules To Avoid Grid Disturbances
• Enbridge Wins New Trial In Texas Pipeline Property Fight
• World Bank Pullout Won't Halt $877M Kenyan Wind Farm
• Freeborn & Peters Launches Transportation Team
• FERC Denies Enviros' Bias Claims Over $1.2B NJ-NY Pipeline
• Hunton & Williams Adds Ex-Constellation Counsel In DC
• Trans-Alaska Users Blast Carriers' Deal In $786M Pipeline Row
• Grain Co. Sues EPA Over Permits For $3.4B Iron Plant
• Shell Starts Building Floating LNG Export Plant In Korea
• Pa. Passes Bill To Create Mine Reclamation Fund
• Carlyle Drops Out Of Bidding For Port Of Va.
• First Solar Wins 1st Phase Of Dubai's 1,000-MW Solar Debut
• SEC's Pricey Swaps Rule Sets Up Wall Street Showdown
• Blackstone Project Row Hinges On Possible NYC Power Crunch
• Texas Landowners Contest Keystone Pipeline Construction
• IDB Taps PE Managers For China-Latin America Funds
• Kinder Morgan Unit Joins List Of LNG Export Hopefuls
• Charlotte Gets $580M Fed Grant For Light-Rail Expansion
• SEC Floats Dodd-Frank Capital Rules For $650T Swaps Market
• EU Approves Creation Of UK's Green Investment Bank
• Pa. Senate OKs Use Of Mining Wastewater For Fracking
• Exxon Boosts Gas Holdings In $3.1B Celtic Exploration Buy
• InterOil Offers PNG Gas Stakes To Ease Gov't Impasse: Report
• 9th Circ. Upholds BPA, Alcoa Power Rate Contract
• Town Trash Import Ban Exposes Limits Of NY Power-Siting Law
• Indiana, Kentucky Reach Deal On $2.6B Bridge Financing
• Drillers Face Harder Times If Pa. Pro-Fracking Law Falls
• Sierra Club, Others Sue Calif. In Bid To Halt Fracking
• Texas Energy Co. Loses Bid To Condemn Land For Wind Project
• BP Upgrades Stretch North Sea Platform's Life By 10 Years
• Hyundai Heavy Wins $3.2B Saudi Power Plant Bid
• Obama, Romney Throw Blows Over Energy, Health Care, Trade
• Entergy Underestimates Indian Point Corrosion Risk, Judges Told
• Sinopec, ENN Eye China Gas Venture After Failed $2B Buy
• Chicago To Audit $1.2B Morgan Stanley Parking Concession
• Marathon Considers Selling Portions Of Eagle Ford Play
• Green Groups Target US Over $1.2B PPL, PSE&G Power Line
• Calif. Court Nixes Challenge To $120M Car-Charging Deal
• Spectra's $500M Pipeline Plan Rips Off Shippers, Conoco Says
• The Treasury's Harder Look At Developer Fees
• Tullow Oil Buys Into Arctic With Maersk Greenland Block
• African States Flex Muscles In Natural Resource Dealings
• Shell Seeks Commerce Department OK For Export Of US Oil
• Oil Cos. Reach Deal On Trans-Alaska Pipeline's Life Span
• NY Agency Urges FERC To Rethink 'Harmful' Astoria Order
• $1B Wind Farm Package Blends Commercial, Development Debt
• FTA Gives $942M For San Francisco Light Rail Extension
• DOI Approves Solar Development Fast-Track Plan
• Latham, Bennett Rep Gibson In $445M Energy Services Co. Buy
• Origin Raises $500M To Fund Aussie LNG Export Project
• An Activist Framework For Cybersecurity Oversight
• McGuireWoods Adds Energy Pros To Houston Office
• New EPA Report Again Ties Wyo. Water Pollution To Fracking
• Azeri Prez Slams BP For 'False Promises' On Caspian Sea Oil
• Dodd-Frank Foes View SEC Strife As Courtroom Ammo
• SF Panel's Nod Keeps $4.2B Transit Center Plan On Track
• Vale Seeks IADB Loan For $6B Potash Mine In Argentina
• Enviros Continue Bid To Nix Cape Wind Project Approvals
• San Fran Entities Sued Over $210M Park-Area Subway Station
• Extra-Heavy Oil: Potential For More Int'l Disputes
• Turquoise Hill Nears Financing For $13B Mongolia Project
• Toro's $280M Aussie Uranium Project Gets Green Light
• Apache's $1B Egypt Gas Plans Get Political Security Boost
• Aussie Official OKs Coal Terminal In GVK's $10B Project
• 1st US Fuel Refinery In 30 Years OK'd For Bakken Tribal Lands
• SEC Sued Over Dodd-Frank Disclosure Rule
• 1st All-Gas Power Plant In Pa. Wins DEP Approval
• Treasury IG Probes Solar Firms Over $14B Grant Program
• Enbridge Says Post-Spill Pipeline Rebuild Suit Lacks Proof
• What You Should Know About Prepaid Power Contracts
• Wal-Mart Project Dispute May Spur Call For CEQA Reform
• BHP Issues $1B In Aussie Bonds As Mine Costs Grow
• EU Panel Votes To Raise Bar For Oil, Gas Drilling Permits
• Russian Oil Consortium Follows BP In Selling TNK-BP Stakes
• Regulators Handcuffed In Fracking Oversight, GAO Says
• Interior Advances Anschutz Unit's Wyo. Wind Energy Project
• BP Sells Texas Refinery, But $598M Price Disappoints
• Army Corps Faces Suit Over Railway Project Discharge
• NY Town's Trash Import Ban Could Halt Waste-To-Energy Plant
• LNG Exporters Queue Up
• Japanese Bank Leads $1.1B Backing For Sumitomo Shale Buys
• NJ Sens.' Bid To Override Veto Of Port Authority Bill Fizzles
• GOP Urges Geithner To Clarify Looming Dodd-Frank Rules
• In Canada's Far North, Roads First, Then Projects
• Utica Shale Has 38 Trillion Cubic Feet Of Gas, US Says
• Shell Gets FERC Green Light For $1B La.-Texas Pipeline
• Pa. Utility Regulation Would Cap Collection For Lost Gas
• ConocoPhillips Calls Off Exploration In 2 Peruvian Blocks
• DOE Approves LNG Exports For Qatar, Exxon Venture
• Occidental Wins $2B Award Against Ecuador In Contract Row
• Calif. Cap-And-Trade Laws Still Hazy On Project Funding
• Texas Landowners Seek To Block Keystone's Eminent Domain
• Ill. Vote Will Delay $2.6B Smart Grid Upgrade, ComEd Says
• BWI Credit Tussle Puts Fee-Backed Bond Risks On Display
• Exxon, BP, Others Estimate $65B Cost For Alaska LNG Project
• Sabine Pass LNG Plans $420M Debt Raise
• ATC Wants Half Of Xcel's Span Of $900M Midwest Power Line
• Suit Over $35M Charleston Pier, Cruise Liners Shipped To SC
• Will Dodd-Frank End Up In Supreme Court?
• Conn. Judge Backs State's 1st $12M Wind Farm
• Renewables Obligation — Is UK Solar On The ROCs?
• Calpine Shells Out $432M For 800-MW Power Plant In Texas
• Obama, Romney Clash Over Tax Plans, Deficit In 1st Debate
• Rocklands Seeks To Start Coal Mine In Australian Basin
• Dominion Withholding Pipeline Info From FERC, Enviros Say
• NY Judge Cans Binghamton's Ban On Gas Drilling, Fracking
• Anadarko Asks Pa. Regulators To Clarify Fracking Fee Rules
• EPA Rips FERC Analysis Of 224-MW Calif. Hydro Project
• NY Enviro Regulators OK $1.4B Upstate Natural Gas Plant
• GIP Closes On $8.25B Largest-Ever Infrastructure Fund
• Calif. Gov. Signs Bills Divvying Up Cap-And-Trade Funds
• Lucas Joins Forces With Milestone To Develop Texas Wells
• 9th Circ. Halts $272M Alaska Rail Extension Project
• Park Service Gives $1.2B Power Line Final Approval
• DC Airports Can't Mask Taxes As Tolls, Fed. Circ. Hears
• Kirkland Helps Sumitomo Gain Stake In $2B Solar Park
• Texas Pipeline Group Rips New Barnett Shale Setback Regs
• Exxon Swings Shallow Water Gulf Assets To Energy XXI
• Conn. High-Speed Rail Gets $120M Boost From DOT
• Petrobras Venezuela Ex-GC Joins Hogan Lovells In Caracas
• Chinese-Owned Co. Adds Obama To Blocked Wind Farm Suit
• FERC Approves $141M Alliance Gas Pipeline To Cut Flaring
• Biomass Suffers A Setback
• Chesapeake Launches $130M Suit Over Failed Oil, Gas Venture
• Shell's $8B Transocean Deal Reveals Growing Rig Squeeze
• DOT Issues $546M Loan For $1.75B LA Light Rail Project
• Texas Awards $1B Contract For Houston Beltway Expansion
• Triangle To Launch $180M Pipeline JV With First Reserve
• Gardere Picks Up Tax Specialist From Locke Lord
• Brazil Court Eases Drilling Ban On Transocean, Not Chevron
• White House Speeds Review Of $1.4B Minneapolis Rail Plan
• Brown Nixes Calif. Sustainable Redevelopment Bills
• Supreme Court Won't Hear Mining Industry's Forest Rule Appeal
• Enviros, Union Lose Bid To Halt Work On Calif. Wind Project
• Berkshire Hathaway Unit Snags 2 Wind Farms Totaling 300 MW
• What You Should Know About Investing In Public Utilities
• Xstrata's Board OKs $36B Glencore Takeover Bid