Thursday, November 30, 2017
NNPC, Nigeria’s state oil firm, plans to set up a cash-for-crude prepayment with commodity traders. The prepayments, between $3.5 and $5 billion, will be used to fund oil and gas projects as well as related infrastructure, sources were cited in a Reuters report.
Standard Chartered has been hired to advise on the oil prepayment and a request-for-proposal was issued a few weeks ago for a loan of up to $5 billion, to be repaid with crude over five to seven years, the sources said.
A decision on this is expected before the end of this year.