VOL. XLV

No 41

14-October-2002

QATAR

HSBC Plans To Launch Requests For Financing Of Qatofin Project In Second Half 2003

HSBC Investment Bank, which signed an agreement on 13 September with Qatar Petrochemical Company Ltd (Qapco) and Atofina (the chemicals branch of Frances TotalFinaElf) to act as the financial advisor on the Qatofin project (MEES, 16 September) is expecting to send out a request for lead-arrangers for the project in the second half of 2003 and complete the financing in the first...