Noticed this article in the Wall Street Journal a few weeks back detailing China’s growing energy-related relationship with Sudan. Interestingly, Sudan is identified as being among Beijing’s major oil suppliers (having sent China 4.7 million metric tons of crude in the first five months of this year, a fivefold increase over the same period of […]
Read more »Given Turkmenistan’s tendency to “revisit†agreements (especially when other potential customers such as Turkey, Pakistan, Europe, and Russia are also knocking on the door re: buying gas), it may be prudent to wait and see how this deal shakes out, but certainly another good example of China’s (via CNPC) efforts to lock up alternatives to […]
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