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March 21, 2017
Chevron’s sale of its stakes in Chinese offshore oil fields operated by state-owned CNOOC has stalled.
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March 16, 2017
China’s in talks with Saudi Arabia for its wealth fund and largest energy company to invest in the public offering of the Middle East nation’s state oil producer.
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March 08, 2017
China’s imports surged in February from a year earlier with the nation posting a rare trade deficit as exports slipped. Analysts said seasonal factors mostly explain the swings.
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March 03, 2017
Gazprom deputy head Alexander Medvedev is taking solace in old sayings by the founding father of the People’s Republic of China as the natural gas giant pushes ahead with a plan to become its biggest supplier.
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February 19, 2017
China National Petroleum Corp. bought a stake in Abu Dhabi’s largest oil concession as the Middle Eastern emirate with 6% of global crude reserves looks increasingly to Asia, its biggest market, for investment to raise output capacity.
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February 14, 2017
Noble Group Ltd. surged the most in over a year after it said it’s in discussions with a strategic investor, which people familiar with the talks identified as China’s Sinochem Group.
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January 25, 2017
PetroChina, the country’s biggest listed oil and gas producer, said full-year net income in 2016 fell by as much as 80%, putting it on pace to report a record-low profit.
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January 23, 2017
Russia overtook Saudi Arabia as China’s top oil supplier last year for the first time ever amid the ongoing battle for market share in the world’s biggest energy market.
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January 20, 2017
Demand from some of the most coveted oil buyers may slow this year because they didn’t purchase all that they could in 2016.
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January 19, 2017
Cnooc Ltd. plans to raise capital spending for the first time since crude began its crash in 2014 as China’s biggest offshore oil and gas producer prepares for life after the slump and a second year of falling output.
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January 17, 2017
China National Offshore Oil Corporation Limited announced that the Enping 23-1 oilfield has commenced production. The new field, located in the Pearl River Mouth basin of the South China Sea, is in an average water depth of approximately 90 m.
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January 17, 2017
OPEC’s campaign to prop up oil prices is getting unlikely support from its biggest customer.
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January 11, 2017
Saudi Arabia was said to cut February crude sales to China and southern Asian nations, while largely sparing countries including Japan and South Korea, as it curbs supply as part of a deal between OPEC and other producers.
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December 08, 2016
One of the biggest engines soaking up the world’s oil is starting to sputter.
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December 06, 2016
Frigstad Deepwater Holding Ltd, a subsidiary of Frigstad Offshore Group, has decided to sell all of its shares in Frigstad Deepwater Ltd to a subsidiary of China International Maritime Containers Group (CIMC) with effect from Dec. 6, 2016.
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November 14, 2016
Vallourec has announced that it has closed on the acquisition of a majority stake (50.61%) in the Chinese company, Anhui Tianda Oil Pipe Company Limited (TOP) and thereby increased its total stake to 70.07%.
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October 31, 2016
China’s oil output slump shows no signs of abating as the country’s state-run energy giants hold back spending to cope with the crash in prices.
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October 27, 2016
Cnooc Ltd., China’s biggest offshore oil and gas producer, posted a 15% fall in third-quarter sales as output declined with capital spending.
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October 18, 2016
Saudi Arabia, which is marshaling a potential deal with global crude producers to limit output, is said to have lifted sales to the world’s second biggest oil consumer after cutting the pricing for its supply.
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October 13, 2016
China’s crude imports rose to a record as a new strategic reserve site became operational and refineries prepare to process more oil. Net oil product exports also rose near a record.
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October 10, 2016
Oil may need to rally further before China’s producers make enough money to reverse a drop in output to the lowest in more than six years.
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