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UK backs loans for very deep Brazilian offshore oil drilling
ECGD's assessment of Petrobras P-52 oil production platform

1 July 2010

A UK government department is underwriting loans taken out by the Brazilian state-run energy company, Petrobras, for an offshore oil production platform operating in the Atlantic Ocean in even deeper waters than those in the Gulf of Mexico where BP's exploration well is spewing forth oil after the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded and sank in April this year.

file iconPetrobras information request
file iconECGD response
file iconECGD assessment

ECGD support for Jindal Vijayanagar, Steel Ltd, India

ECGD's case impact screening

31 July 2007

ECGD released in July 2007, in response to a Freedom of Information Act request, its impact assessment of the Jindal Vijayanagar, Steel plant in India to which it had given support in 2005.

file iconVAI case impact screening
file iconVAI impact questionnaire

ECGD-held information on monitoring Sakhalin II
ECGD

20 May 2007

ECGD responded to a request under the Environmental Information Regulations for ECGD's information on monitoring the Sakhalin II oil and gas project.

file iconEIR information request
file iconFirst June ECGD response to EIR request
file iconSecond August ECGD response to EIR request

ECGD backing for 'low impact' nuclear power plants in South Korea

2 May 2007

In 2007, the UK's export credit agency, ECGD, released documents indicating that it had classified a nuclear power plant in South Korea (for which it gave support in 2005) as having "low potential impacts"; this classification meant that the project did not require ECGD to carry out a more detailed impact assessment before giving support.

Correspondence between ECGD and BP, BTC or contractors
Request to ECGD for information regarding BTC oil pipeline

13 December 2005

ECGD released some information related to the coating on the BTC oil pipeline in response to a Corner House information request. 

BTC oil pipeline loan agreement

21 November 2005

The Common Terms Agreement, signed between the public sector lenders to the BTC oil pipeline project and the BP-led consortium building it, includes the environmental and social conditions to which the consortium agreed to adhere.

file iconBTC Common Terms Agreement