Höegh LNG has signed the USD 250 million Senior Secured Credit Facility for the financing of the FSRU for Lithuania.
Reference is made to the stock exchange notice dated 17 August 2012 where Höegh LNG Holdings Ltd. announced that the Company had received commitment letters from four banks for a USD 250 million corporate facility for the financing of the FSRU to be delivered for the Klaipedos Nafta FSRU project in Lithuania.
The four banks are DNB Bank ASA, Nordea Bank Norge ASA, Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB (publ) and Swedbank AB. Höegh LNG has now entered into a firm agreement for the Facility. The Facility is 75% guaranteed by the Korean credit agency K-sure and the Norwegian credit agency GIEK. It has a tenor of 7 years and an overall profile of 16 years. The interest rate will be swapped from floating to fixed for the length of the underlying commercial agreement and the Company expects the total fixed interest rate to come in at around 5%.
Höegh LNG’s President and Chief Executive Officer, Sveinung J. S. Støhle , said in a comment: “We are very pleased to have closed the financing of the Klaipedos Nafta FSRU with four of our Scandinavian core banks and having both Korean and Norwegian export credit agencies guaranteeing the Facility. This confirms and underlines Höegh LNG’s ability to raise long-term debt financing for its FSRU projects at competitive terms. We are also very pleased with the Klaipedos Nafta FSRU project being on schedule in all aspects for a planned start-up in Q3 2014”.
Höegh LNG is a provider of floating LNG infrastructure services, offering regasification, transportation and production services under long-term contracts.
The company operates a fleet of six LNG transportation vessels and two floating storage and regasification units (FSRUs). In addition, Höegh LNG has four new FSRUs on order and has developed a solution for floating LNG production (FLNG).
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November 29, 2012