How Eacop sponsors finally got $5bn financing sewn up

A section of the East African Crude Pipeline project.

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A mix of shareholders’ equity, commercial loans and sponsor debt facilities, which were finalised earlier this year, has secured financing for the regional oil pipeline project.

This concludes a complex deal that comes despite sustained opposition from environmental campaigners who had sought to halt the construction of what will be the world’s longest heated crude oil pipeline, running from oilfields in western Uganda to the Port of Tanga in Tanzania.