RE:1.5 billion will come soonRead carefully.
They said (again) they have that guarantee "in principle". And they said they will be able to leverage it (some day and some way).
They desperately need that money now. But the Germans have made it clear they want to see some equity (ie, the FID) before they commit. They are using and have been using the fact the Germans will be there (eventually) to help leverage equity investors to come forward.
RaniQuebec wrote: Pieridae said the Shell deal allows it to begin to leverage a $1.5 billion of the German government guarantee for the upstream gas production part of its project. The rest of the guarantee applies to the construction of the terminal itself.