The financing of infrastructures is a major topic in recent energy policy debates. Project finance, as a specialized form of debt finance, thereby has become a well-established financing tool. This paper contributes a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the determinants of the debt ratio in...

Financial leasing is prevalent in LNG projects. Actually, in many LNG infrastructure projects, leasing is the only option for oil companies. A common approach in such settings is to treat financial leasing costs as operating cost and discount with the firm's weighted average cost of capital...

This paper assesses the labour market impact of the Papua New Guinea (PNG) LNG project – the largest resource project ever completed in PNG. It discusses employment during the construction phase from 2010 to 2014 and the subsequent production phase. While national employment figures in the...