Cheniere Energy Partners LP retained 13 financial institutions as joint lead arrangers, mandated lead arrangers and others to aid the structuring and arranging of about $2.8 billion in senior secured credit facilities, the company said Jan 25.

Cheniere will use the proceeds to prepay the $400 million senior secured term loan at Cheniere Creole Trail Pipeline LP (CCTP), redeem or repay the roughly-$1.7 billion senior secured notes due 2016 and the $420 million senior secured notes due 2020 that were issued by Sabine Pass LNG LP (SPLNG), pay associated transaction fees and expenses and support general business purposes.

The 13 arrangers and other participants are The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ Ltd., ABN AMRO Capital USA LLC, Societe Generale, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd.-New York Branch, Intesa Sanpaolo SPA- New York Branch, JPMorgan Chase Bank NA, Mizuho Bank Ltd., Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp., Morgan Stanley Senior Funding Inc., Bank of America NA, Credit Suisse, HSBC Bank USA NA and Commonwealth Bank of Australia.

Neal Shear, chairman of the board and interim CEO of Cheniere Partners, said that when the transaction closes and the CCTP and SPLNG obligations are paid, Cheniere Partners’ earliest debt maturity will be in 2020.