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Emerging Chinese Energy Challenge in Africa

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Publication date: February 2007
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A definitive report on the massive Chinese challenge in the African oil and gas sector

Emerging Chinese Energy Challenge in Africa This report tracks the reasons behind China's successful rise in Africa's energy sector, once almost the exclusive preserve of Western oil companies. In the short space of six years the Chinese oil presence in Africa has gone from one isolated outpost to a spread that covers nearly half the continent.

The People's Republic of China (PRC) has embarked on an aggressive campaign to capture large parts of the African oil and gas sector. Facing accelerated oil imports by the turn of the 21st century, Chinese policymakers made a strategic decision to diversify and secure energy supplies across the globe, accentuated by the 9-11 crisis which starkly highlighted China's mismatched reliance on unstable Middle East oil supplies.

A "go out and buy" strategy has seen Chinese oil companies move into Africa, Central Asia and South America to secure new energy oil supplies.

The report takes an in-depth look at their modus operandi, the role of the Chinese government in guiding the actions of Chinese oil companies, the institutional support provided to Chinese oil investments in Africa, the role of other governments in facilitating China's entry into African oil sectors, political and strategic reasons underpinning China's entry into specific African countries, and why Chinese oil companies are able to compete so successfully against their Western counterparts.

The report makes the case that Western observers of the Chinese phenomenon fail to take into account the logic underpinning the thinking of Chinese investment decisions which do not reflect market-related criteria.

Those players in the African and international oil and gas sector cannot afford to ignore the Chinese expansion in Africa, and even less to assume that open market forces will determine who will access Africa's energy fields.

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