Russian Plans To Export Gas To Uzbekistan
June 10th, 2023
Courtesy of The Diplomat, an article on the latest status on plans to export Russian gas to Uzbekistan” Kazakhstan will be ready to provide infrastructure for the transit of Russian gas to Uzbekistan for the “autumn-winter 2024” once Tashkent and Moscow conclude negotiations over volume and price, Kazakhstan’s Energy Minister Almasadam Satkaliyev said this week. […]
Read more »Venezuela Has More Than Just Oil and China Knows It
June 10th, 2023
Via National Interest, a look at why Venezuela’s mineral wealth is of particular interest to Beijing, and why the CCP is willing to invest heavily to ensure its extraction: On May 17, Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro received a delegation group led by Lin Mingxiang, vice minister of the International Department of the Chinese Communist Party’s […]
Read more »Morocco, GOTION High-Tech Sign $6.4B Battery Production Deal
June 10th, 2023
Via Utilities Middle East, a report on Morocco and China’s GOTION High-Tech $6.4 billion battery production deal which also includes the construction of a “Giga Factory” in Rabat, with an annual production capacity of 100 gigawatt-hours: Morocco has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with GOTION High-Tech, a Chinese-European group specialising in electric mobility, to […]
Read more »Egypt and UAE Cooperate To Establish Africa’s Largest Wind Farm
June 10th, 2023
Via Egypt Independent, a report that Egypt and UAE are working together to establish Africa’s largest wind farm: Egypt and the UAE are cooperating to secure land for the biggest wind farm in Africa – and one of the largest globally – at an estimated value of $10 billion. Three UAE companies – Masdar, Hassan […]
Read more »China Edging Out Russia as Sanctions Redraw Kazakhstan Trade
June 10th, 2023
Courtesy of Bloomberg, an article on how China could soon eclipse Russia as Kazakhstan’s biggest trade partner and, by 2030, Kazakh trade with China could surpass such trade with the entire EU. An economic seesaw between China and Russia in Central Asia is moving toward a new equilibrium for Kazakhstan, which expects its eastern neighbor […]
Read more »DRC and Angola Finalize Oil Deal With Chevron
June 10th, 2023
Courtesy of Reuters, an article on a recent agreement between The Democratic Republic of the Congo and its southern neighbor Angola to split up an offshore oil block that they have been fighting over for 50 years. Under the proposed agreement, DRC and Angola would each take 30% of the block, and the US company […]
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