RE: ECA notifications25 Oct 2018 17:13
Guys, IMHO there is no way on God's earth that PMO would give permission for the details of any Sealion related export guarantee information to be in the public domain.
It is Premier's call as to whether information is kept private and indeed states on the site that 'We publish certain information about Category A projects that we are asked to support, in line with the requirements of the OECD Common Approaches, as long as we have the consent of the applicant'.
If (as is rumoured) other parties have approached Premier to potentially farm in, then the Export Credit Guarantee is a dream come true for negotiations for Premier. In other words, we have funding secured through the government so if you want to farm in you had better come up with some pretty excellent terms. If ECG information was published then it could give a farm-in partner information that could help their position.
A much better situation than someone dictating to us because they are the only way the project will get off the ground! I'm therefore not surprised at al that a Commercially sensitive project like Sealion isn't on there.