Aramco signs $15.5 billion gas pipeline deal with global consortium
RIYADH: Saudi Aramco signed a $15.5 billion lease and leaseback deal involving...
JEDDAH: The consortium for Saudi Aramco’s largest energy infrastructure deal, is looking to obtain a $14.7 billion loan.
The source revealed to CNBC Arabia that the consortium sought to take advantage of current low financing rates. The loan will last for seven years.
Saudi Aramco signed on December 6 a $15.5 billion leaseback deal involving its gas pipeline network with a consortium led by investment giant BlackRock and Hassana Investment Co.
Hassana sits within the General Organization for Social Insurance and is the Saudi government’s new fund established to invest in stock markets regionally, globally as well as leading real estate ventures, commercial and service projects.
Aramco will hold a 51 per cent majority stake in the new subsidiary for the project, Aramco Gas Pipeline Company, with the remaining 49 per cent stake held by investors led by BlackRock and Hassana.
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