Word: petroleum
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Meanwhile, PetroChina may dramatically expand its holdings in Sudan as part of a multibillion-dollar restructuring deal with its parent company, China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC...
Remarkably, the Senate and House of Representatives never turned the Western Arctic Reserve—an area the size of South Dakota—into a federally protected wilderness. Instead, it was set aside by Congress as a petroleum reserve, with the stipulation that drilling could occur only in times of dire national crisis. Fair enough, but our country has borne energy hardships for 80 years without harvesting the oil from this beautiful preserve. We survived the oil embargo of the 1970s without extracting oil from the Western Arctic Reserve. The fact that oil prices have risen in the last...
...Foreign investment capital in the oil sector is crucial to the regime’s ability to wage war with its own people,” Prendergast said. He added that the joint venture with China National Petroleum “has allowed Sudan to start repaying its debts, earn critical foreign exchange, and fund a massive weapons buying spree...
China National Petroleum garnered $2.9 billion in proceeds from the April 2000 initial public offering (IPO) of off-shoot PetroChina...
...There was no firewall,” Reeves said. He said that PetroChina’s investment banker, Goldman Sachs, filed disclosure papers with the SEC revealing that “a full 10 percent of the IPO proceeds went directly to China National Petroleum Company for use however, wherever they wanted...