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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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Energy policy and regulation, and energy sector reform in China

Past funded projects

1998: European Commission, 270,000 Euros, "Energy Policy and Structure in China".

Publications

Andrews-Speed, P. (2010), The Institutions of Energy Governance in China, Notes de IFRI (Paris: IFRI).

Meidan, M., P. Andrews-Speed, Ma X., (2009) 'Shaping China's Energy Security- Actors and processes', Journal of Contemporary China, 17, (61), 591-616.

Andrews-Speed, P. and Cao Zhenning, "Prospects for privatisation in China's energy sector" in S. Green (ed.) Exit the dragon? Privatization and State Ownership in China ( London : Royal Institute for International Affairs) January 2005.

Andrews-Speed, P., 'Regulation and deregulation of energy in the Asian market: a case study', in Asian Energy markets: Dynamics and Trends ( Abu Dhabi : Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research, 2004), pp.143-177.

Andrews-Speed, P. (2004) Energy Policy and Regulation in China ( The Hague : Kluwer Law International), 405 pp.

Andrews-Speed, P. and Dow, S. (2002) ' China 's developing gas industry: policy, institutional and regulatory requirements', Minerals and Energy 17 (2), pp.20-32

Andrews-Speed, P. (2001). ' China 's energy policy in transition: pressures and constraints', Journal of Energy Literature VII (2), pp.3-34.

Andrews-Speed, P., Dow, S. and Gao, Z., (2000) 'An evaluation of the ongoing reforms to China 's government and state sector: the case of the energy industry', Journal of Contemporary China , 9 (23), pp.5-20.

Andrews-Speed, P., Dow, S. and Yang.M., (2000), 'Regulating Energy in Federal Transition Economies: the Case of China ', in G. MacKerron and P. Pearson eds. , The International Energy Experience: Markets, Regulation and the Environment ( London , Imperial College Press), pp. 91-102.

Andrews-Speed, P., (2000) 'Reform of China's energy sector: slow progress to an uncertain goal'. In China's Economy in Transition, eds. J. Zhuang, S. Cook and S. Yao, Macmillan, London , pp.111-130.

Andrews-Speed, P. et al, (1999) Energy Policy and Structure in China, CEPMLP Paper No. CP3/99.

Gao, Z. (1997) 'A new star among state oil companies: China Star and its implications for the development of the industry', Oil and Gas Law and Taxation Review , 16 (4),   pp.131-139.