Uzbekistan And China Start Gas Production In Bukhara Region
June 19th, 2017
Via Times of Central Asia, a report on joint Chinese-Uzbek gas production in Uzbekistan: Uzbekistan’s national oil and gas company Uzbekneftegaz and China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) have launched natural gas production at Dengizkul, Khodjadavlat and Sharkiy Alat gas condensate fields in the Bukhara region of Uzbekistan, the Jahon information agency reported. The new gas […]
Read more »From New York Heroin Dealer To Afghanistan’s Biggest Oil Man
July 8th, 2014
Via Reuters, an interesting story on Afghanistan’s nascent oil industry: One-eyed Rateb Popal’s debut as an Afghan businessman was not promising: he was caught smuggling heroin and locked up in a New York federal prison for almost a decade. Popal had better luck once back in Afghanistan, where he emerged from obscurity to make millions […]
Read more »Russia-China Gas Deal…Maybe Later
March 2nd, 2014
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a look at the possibility of a strategic gas deal between Gazprom and the China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC): As the global market for natural gas is transformed, Russia and its national champion Gazprom have found their long-term export strategy challenged. No longer able to rely on their core European […]
Read more »How China Took Control of Ecuador’s Oil
November 27th, 2013
Via Reuters, an interesting article on China’s control of Ecuador’s oil: China’s aggressive quest for foreign oil has reached a new milestone, according to records reviewed by Reuters: near monopoly control of crude exports from an OPEC nation, Ecuador. Last November, Marco Calvopiña, the general manager of Ecuador’s state oil company PetroEcuador, was dispatched to […]
Read more »China’s New Friends In Its Quest For Energy
September 24th, 2013
Courtesy of the New York Times, a look at China’s efforts to participate in petroleum projects around the world: On the northern reaches of the Caspian Sea, not far from this old Soviet town known for its oil and sturgeon, lies a vast new oil find, the biggest outside the Middle East. China was rebuffed […]
Read more »The Geopolitics Of China’s New Energy Route
July 2nd, 2013
Via Global Policy, an interesting commentary on China’s new energy route via Myanmar: China’s state-run China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) completed construction of a natural gas pipeline from Myanmar to China on 28 May 2013 and is close to finishing an oil pipeline. The pipeline will start delivering gas from Myanmar’s west coast in the […]
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