Mapping the Overseas Expansion of China's Three Oil Giants
Interactive Map: China Oil Goes Global
Note:
With Sinopec's recent $7.2 billion acquisition of oil explorer Addax Petroleum and rumors flying that China National Petroleum Corp is about to acquire a large stake in Argentinian drilling company YPF SA, it's obvious that China's oil companies really are starting to "Go Global."
The Chinese oil giants have adopted an increasingly flexible and pragmatic strategy, expanding both the scope of the regions that they're targeting and also utilising more varied methods when acquiring foreign companies and resources.
By aiming at companies whose business are complementary to their own, the oil companies are attempting to become fully-integrated, internationally-competitive global players.
Potential Risks
However, China's oil giants global expansion is a risky business.
First of all, by purchasing low-return shares at a very high premium, they've opened themselves up to liquidity risk in the future.
Also, the recent jump in global oil prices is likely to lift transaction costs and cause problems for future negotiations.
Moreover, most of the already acquired assets are located in politically sensitive and unstable regions, such as Iraq and North Africa.
Finally, if during the process of this overseas expansion, China’s oil companies fail to coordinate with each other, there is the risk that they may end up competing against each other for resources.
Correction: When originally published the map contained two errors - we've since reacquainted ourselves with the true location of Ghana and have also scaled down Addax's daily outout from 1,365,000 barrels a day to the correct 136,500 barrels a day.
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