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China's national oil companies build their presence in North and South America
Although CNPC’s first overseas investments in the early 1990s were in North and South America (Canada and Peru), these continents have not been prime targets for China’s national oil companies (NOCs).  Rather, the companies have been directing their attention to Central Asia, the Middle East and Africa. The period since ...

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Scope of the Chcina Programme

Research and Consultancy

Current and recent themes for research and consultancy:

• Energy policy and regulation in China;
• International dimensions of China's energy policy;
• Energy and political relations in East Asia;
• Oil and gas sector structure and reform in China;
• Power sector reform in China;
• China's climate change and energy efficiency strategies;
• Small-scale coal mining in China;
• The social dimensions of China's energy policy;
• Foreign investment in China's energy sector.

Doctoral Theses

Dr Chen Ji: "Considerations in introducing emissions trading in China's power sector: learning form international experience" 2009

Dr Ma Xin: "National oil company reform from the perspective of its relationship with government", 2008

Dr Cao Zhenning: "The economics of natural gas utilisation in China": the case of Shanghai"

Dr Sidney Dodd "What are the legal and institutional constraints to China's power sector reform?", 2005

Dr Sun Xiansheng "The development of China's petroleum policy: from import-dependency to sustainability", 1999

Dr David Peng Dezhi, "Offshore Oil Insurance - Law and Practice - A Study of the UK and PRC Regimes", 1997