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“SHANGHAI (Dow Jones)–China’s Cnooc Ltd. (CEO) is buying into several shale oil and gas leases in the U.S. owned by Chesapeake Energy Corp. (CHK) for US$570 million in cash, in the latest move by a Chinese oil company to learn a technology that has transformed the U.S. gas industry.
Also, Cnooc will fund two-thirds of Chesapeake’s share of drilling and other costs up to maximum of US$697 million, the two companies said in a statement Monday.
The deal follows a similar Cnooc-Chesapeake agreement in October 2010 under which the Chinese company bought one-third of Chesapeake’s 600,000-acre Eagle Ford, Texas, shale oil and gas project for US$1.08 billion–a pact which was the first major investment by a China state-run company in onshore energy reserves in the U.S.
Chinese companies had until then been reluctant to invest in U.S. energy reserves, following Cnooc’s 2005 bid to take over California-based Unocal Corp. being blocked by a nationalist political uproar.
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Posted by w_thames_the_d on January 31, 2011
Read it and weep…
exceprt:
“SHANGHAI (Dow Jones)–China’s Cnooc Ltd. (CEO) is buying into several shale oil and gas leases in the U.S. owned by Chesapeake Energy Corp. (CHK) for US$570 million in cash, in the latest move by a Chinese oil company to learn a technology that has transformed the U.S. gas industry.
Also, Cnooc will fund two-thirds of Chesapeake’s share of drilling and other costs up to maximum of US$697 million, the two companies said in a statement Monday.
The deal follows a similar Cnooc-Chesapeake agreement in October 2010 under which the Chinese company bought one-third of Chesapeake’s 600,000-acre Eagle Ford, Texas, shale oil and gas project for US$1.08 billion–a pact which was the first major investment by a China state-run company in onshore energy reserves in the U.S.
Chinese companies had until then been reluctant to invest in U.S. energy reserves, following Cnooc’s 2005 bid to take over California-based Unocal Corp. being blocked by a nationalist political uproar.
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