VOL. XXXVII

NO. 40

4-JULY-1994

Financial and Banking News

Regional Financing

Qatar And Japan Sign $2Bn Qatargas Loan Qatar's

Minister of Energy, Mr. Abdullah bin Hamad al-Attiyah, announced on 25 Junethat his country has finalized the terms of a $2bn loan with a consortium ofJapanese banks that will part finance Qatar's huge LNG project, the QatarLiquefied Gas Company (Qatargas). The deal was arranged through the JapaneseExport-Import Bank and will fund about two-thirds of the downstream sector...