中国的海外石油之路

Drilling on a foreign shore

最近，中国海洋石油总公司（以下简称中海油）与美国Chesapeake能源公司签订了一份合作协议。根据该协议，中海油将购买Chesapeake位于德克萨斯州的Eagle Ford Shale项目33．3％的权益。中海油计划投资10亿美元，将该项目下一个十年的油气产量提高到500千桶石油当量每天（以下简称kboe／d）。该次收购被认为是中国石油巨头执行“走出去”战略的最新动态。

China National Offshore Oil Corporation(CNOOC) recently entered into an agreement with the US-based Chesapeake Energy through which CNOOC will purchase a 33.3% stake in the Eagle Ford Shale project in Texas.The $1 billion investment from CNOOC is expected to bring the daily production of the project to up to 500 thousand barrels of oil equivalent per day(kboe/d) in the next decade.The acquisition represents the latest move by Chinese oil majors in carrying out their 'Go Global' strategy.Overseas investment is one of China's most important energy strategies to satisfy the country's increasing petroleum demand.According to CNPC,expanding overseas petroleum production is expected to account for some 25% of China's domestic production in 2010,2.5% higher than a year earlier.To increase overseas production and take advantage of frontier technologies and experience,Chinese oil players can be expected to continue to push hard on this strategy of globalization in the coming years.