China Wants To Help Brazil Develop Deep Water Oil Fields
December 9th, 2008
Via The Associated Press, a report that China wants to loan Brazil’s state oil company $10 billion to help develop massive new oil fields in deep water off the coast of Rio de Janeiro. According to the article, Mines and Energy Minister Edison Lobao – Brazil’s top energy official – said: “… Chinese officials contacted […]
Read more »Gazprom’s Emergence As A Player in Latin America
December 9th, 2008
Via Energy Daily, a report noting that Russian President Dmitry Medvedev – while making his first visit to Brazil – made the first stop of his trip trip to the headquarters of state-run oil company Petrobras, reaffirming Gazprom’s emergence as a player in Latin America’s growing energy infrastructure. As the article states: “…Medvedev announced that […]
Read more »China & Nigeria: The Honeymoon is Over
December 6th, 2008
Via Africa-Asia Confidential, an interesting look at growing discord in the relationship between China and Africa, specifically Nigeria. As the article notes: “The catastrophic failure in November of Nigeria’s US$340 million, Chinese-built satellite NIGCOMSAT-1, launched only a year ago, is the latest, most visible indication of increasing difficulties between Beijing and its most sought-after and elusive […]
Read more »Disappearing Oil Market and Its Impact on The New Seven Sisters
November 30th, 2008
Via Robert Amsterdam, interesting analysis of the impact that falling oil prices may have upon financing for key production and transit projects, which could present a major strain on future supplies and in particular affect the new seven sisters & other national oil companies. As the article notes: “…With the credit tap still turned off […]
Read more »China To Build A New Oil & Gas Pipeline Across Myanmar
November 20th, 2008
Via Energy Daily, a report that China will build a new oil & gas pipeline across Myanmar. As the article notes: “…Work on the oil and gas line will begin in southwest China’s Yunnan province in the first half of 2009, the state-run China Daily reported, indicating a project that has been in the planning […]
Read more »Investing in Africa and Ecuador
November 19th, 2008
Via Portfolio, an article extolling the investment opportunities in Africa and Ecuador. As the report notes: “…His big idea, as glossed this speech, is that poor resource-rich countries, such as a lot of African states, are largely immune from the global financial crisis since they were never really part of the global financial system to […]
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