On Monday, OSG and Euronav jointly announced a $500 million senior secured loan to finance the acquisition of TI Asia and TI Africa, both built in 2002, by joint venture companies equally owned by Euronav and OSG and the conversion of the ships into FSO service vessels. The vessels are scheduled to deliver to Maersk Oil Qatar on the Al Shaheen field offshore Qatar and start operations respectively in July and September 2009.
The credit facility is provided by ING, Fokus Bank, Fortis Bank (Belgium), Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, BNP Paribas and Nordea, acting as lead arrangers and ING as global coordinator and facility agent, and Danish Ship Finance, Deutsche Schiffsbank, Dexia Bank, Scotia Bank and Heleba Landesbank Hessen-Thuringen acting as co-arrangers.
The facility has an eight year term
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Tags: · BNP Paribas, Danish Ship Finance, Deutsche Schiffsbank, Dexia Bank, Euronav, Fokus Bank, Fortis Bank (Belgium), Heleba Landesbank Hessen-Thuringen, ING, Maersk Oil Qatar, Nordea, OSG, Scotia Bank, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
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