Thomas Berkes
Thomas Berkes
Speaker
Senior Manager - Structured and Project Finance

PetroChina International (Americas) Inc

United States

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Exile: Project & Export Finance

Extracting Value: Mining, Oil & Gas — and the Infrastructure Around Them

Thomas Berkes
Senior Manager - Structured and Project Finance,
PetroChina International (Americas) Inc
Jose Antonio Miranda
Director,
Macquarie
Maria Alevras-Chen
Partner,
Mayer Brown

As Latin America accelerates its renewables build-out, some of the region’s largest project finance tickets are still being written around extractive industries — oil, gas and mining — and the conventional power and infrastructure that keeps industrial production running. For lenders, the difference between a headline project and a bankable one still comes down to contract quality, risk allocation and sovereign wrinkles. This panel will compare what’s working across priority markets and where deals come unstuck, exploring:

  • Which countries are attracting capital — and why?

  • What financing structures are emerging to support these projects, and where do multilaterals move the needle? 

  • Potential pitfalls