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The Brookings Institution has published a very interesting new article on the proposed acquisition by CNOOC (China National Offshore Oil Corporation) of Nexen in Canada, which discusses, among other things, some of the possible rationales for Chinese interest in unconventional oil assets in Alberta including increasing reserves and production (North America now being the “epicenter” of unconventional upstream oil and gas mergers), a desire to acquire technological and operational expertise to develop China’s own domestic shale gas reserves and to diversify political risk.  I thought this was a rather good commentary on the proposed CNOOC/Nexen deal (the Investment Canada Act review for which was recently extended by another 30 days for a national security review).  This recent Brookings article also discusses CNOOC’s failed bid for Unocal.  For a copy of this Brookings Institution note authored by Erica Downs see: China, Iran and the Nexen Deal.

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