{"id":163696,"date":"2013-10-06T22:32:41","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T05:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=163696"},"modified":"2013-10-06T22:33:39","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T05:33:39","slug":"education-chinas-oil-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2013\/10\/education-chinas-oil-company\/","title":{"rendered":"The Education of China&#8217;s Oil Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters has a lengthy and detailed account of &#8220;China&#8217;s largest foreign acquisition in modern Chinese history,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/ca.reuters.com\/article\/businessNews\/idCABRE99600720131007?pageNumber=1&#038;virtualBrandChannel=0\"><strong>state-owned oil giant CNNOC&#8217;s $15.1 billion purchase of Canadian Nexen Inc<\/strong><\/a>. The successful acquisition comes eight years after <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2005\/08\/chinese-company-ends-unocal-bid-citing-political-hurdles-david-barboza\/\">CNOOC&#8217;s failed bid to take over Unocal<\/a>, which was blocked following fierce political opposition in Washington. Yet now that the deal has been done, questions are being raised about possibilities for its long-term success:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But as deftly as it was done, it is now anything but clear that the Nexen acquisition was wise for CNOOC&#8217;s constituents &#8211; the Chinese government and shareholders in the publicly traded company.<\/p>\n<p>As one company insider told Reuters: &#8220;For CNOOC, the closing of the deal marked the end of euphoria, and the beginning of pain.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The central problem, analysts say, is that in a global energy industry transformed by the shale gas revolution in North America and elsewhere, CNOOC overpaid. And it underestimated the risks of monetizing the landlocked oil-sands and shale-gas assets in Canada that account for 75 percent of Nexen&#8217;s proven and probable reserves. <\/p>\n<p>The deal may be emblematic in a different way than its boosters think. Critics of China&#8217;s decade-long overseas resource-buying binge believe state-owned companies have wasted huge chunks of the money &#8211; because deals were done for political, not commercial, reasons. [<a href=\"http:\/\/ca.reuters.com\/article\/businessNews\/idCABRE99600720131007?pageNumber=1&#038;virtualBrandChannel=0\"><strong>Source<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read more about <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/china\/cnooc\/\">CNOOC<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/china\/overseas-investment\">China&#8217;s overseas investments<\/a>, via CDT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters has a lengthy and detailed account of &#8220;China&#8217;s largest foreign acquisition in modern Chinese history,&#8221; state-owned oil giant CNNOC&#8217;s $15.1 billion purchase of Canadian Nexen Inc. The successful acquisition comes eight years after CNOOC&#8217;s failed bid to take over Unocal, which was blocked following fierce political opposition in Washington. 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