Brazil's Petrobras signs 10-bln-dlr Chinese loan accord Rio De Janeiro (AFP) Nov 4, 2009 Brazil's state-run oil group Petrobras said Thursday it has signed a contract permitting the first payment from a 10-billion-dollar loan from China to help it finance upcoming investments. The credit, offered by the China Development Bank, will underwrite Petrobras' developments up to 2013. It is conditioned on Petrobras supplying oil to the Chinese refining company Sinopec over the next decade, starting with the first tranche of the loan. Under those terms, Petrobras will export 150,000 barrels of oil a day to the Unipac Asia subsidiary for the first year of the agreement and 200,000 barrels a day for the rest of the contract. Share This Article With Planet Earth
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Chinese giant to buy US oil assets: company Oslo (AFP) Nov 4, 2009 Norwegian energy group Statoil said Wednesday it was selling some of its US offshore oil assets to China's state-owned CNOOC, marking the first step by a Chinese energy major into the US market. The sale, announced along with Statoil's quarterly results, involves a limited stake for the China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) in four exploitation licences for deepwater blocks bought ... read more |
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