In today's round-up of export, trade and commodity finance news, TXF's senior reporter Max Thompson covers the latest stories and trends across the market:

Carbon Holdings will provide an equity update to prospective ECAs and lenders on the $10.9 billion Tahrir Petrochemicals Corp (TPC) project at a meeting in London tomorrow (11 December)

Banks mandates for the €13 billion ($15.6 billion) financing of the Amur gas processing plant (GPP) in Russia are expected in Q1 2019, with ECAs and lenders due to meet in Munich tomorrow (11 December) to finalise commitments

Venezuela's Oil Minister Manuel Quevedo will take the helm of the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) from the beginning of next month

And, the First Abu Dhabi Bank has gone live on the Temenos' T24 core banking system