In December it was announced that the NDRC had drafted a plan to rapidly expand the scale and scope of the programme to convert coal into liquids which can be used for transport fuels and petro-chemicals. A number of pilot plants are already under construction … Continue Reading ››
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China’s energy sector: review for the year 2006
The year 2006 has been challenging for consumers of energy around the world, whether they be nations, companies or individuals, as well as for investors in energy. Prices have remained high, governments of energy producing countries have been flexing their political and fiscal muscles, and … Continue Reading ››
China’s energy and environmental policies and their implications for OPEC
As China’s economy continues to expand and modernise, its impact on world energy markets is set to continue growing, especially in the case of oil. The rapid growth of demand for oil, mainly for the transport sector, combined with the limited extent of remaining oil reserves, underpins this seemingly exorable rise in oil imports. China’s … Continue Reading ››
China's oil import strategies.
Centre for Global Energy Studies, 24th Executive Retreat, 30th June - 1st July, 2004, Surrey.
Keywords: China oil strategies energy economic
China’s Oil Import Strategies
China is the world's second largest consumer of primary commercial energy, accounting for 12% of the global total. Its demand in 2003 was equivalent to that of Japan, South Korea, India and Indonesia combined, or some 80% of the EU-15 states, and it increased by 14% in that year. In 2002 China overtook Japan … Continue Reading ››
Energy security in East Asia: a European view.
Tokyo, Symposium on Pacific Energy Cooperation, 2003.
Keywords: Energy East Asia security Europe
Energy security policy: domestic inputs, international impacts – the case of oil in Northeast Asia.
Oxford, The 2003 BIEE Academic conference, 25th & 26th September, 2003.
Keywords: energy security oil Asia
China’s Developing Gas Industry: Policy, Institutional and Regulatory Requirements
The years 2001 and 2002 have been momentous for China's gas industry. In March 2001 the government announced that BP had been selected to participate in the construction and operation of China's first LNG terminal. In June of the same year four consortia were chosen to tender for partnership with PetroChina in the construction … Continue Reading ››
Energy Security in East Asia: a European View
Presented at the Symposium on Pacific Energy Cooperation 2003 - 12-13 February 2003, Tokyo
Why is energy security still on the agenda?
The concept of energy security as an international issue first came to prominence in the 1970s as a result of the disruptions to global oil supplies. During the 1990s most … Continue Reading ››
The importance of policy, institutional and legal frameworks for sustainable land use in China
Technological, management, economic and social considerations rightly form the starting point for the development of strategies for sustainable land use. But unless appropriate political, institutional and legal frameworks are developed, any strategies for sustainable land use are likely to be implemented with little long-term or widespread impact. This paper examines a number of critical … Continue Reading ››