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(回答先: 中国、キューバで原油採掘 共同 投稿者 倉田佳典 日時 2005 年 2 月 01 日 20:52:41)
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/3B9011F5-5889-4153-984E-7B39AE0FA877.htm
China, Venezuela sign energy deal
Friday 24 December 2004, 10:39 Makka Time, 7:39 GMT
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has offered China wide access to his country's vast energy resources, including oilfields and the possibility of increased direct crude supplies.
The offers were contained in a bilateral energy accord signed in Beijing late on Thursday following talks with Chinese President Hu Jintao, the presidential press office in Caracas said.
Under the deal, China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) will work with Venezuela's ministry of energy and mining, the Chinese foreign ministry said.
The oil agreements were among a series of deals signed with the aim of deepening cooperation in energy and mining resources.
Diversification drive
China is keen to secure a steady supply of raw materials to fuel its booming economy while Venezuela wants to diversity its markets.
Venezuela, the world's fifth largest oil exporter, ships more than half its daily oil output to the US, but since taking office the leftist Chavez has sought to reduce its economic dependence on the nearby US market.
"Venezuela is making a major energy offer to China because China has become the world's second biggest energy importer," the Venezuelan president said in Beijing on Thursday.
Change of policy
Energy-hungry China is also keen to diversify its energy imports away from the volatile Middle East by striking exploration and supply deals in Latin America, Africa and Southeast Asia.
China became a net importer of oil in the mid-1990s. Imports now account for more than one-third of the country's oil and gas consumption.
Under the deal signed in Beijing, Venezuela has authorised Chinese firms operating oilfields in the South American nation to start producing associated gas along with crude oil. This gas would be sold locally to power basic industries.
China National Petroleum Corporation already operates two Venezuelan fields, Intercampo Norte and Caracoles.
Orimulsion plant
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez
Venezuela also offered an agreement to supply 120,000 barrels of fuel oil a month to China.
According to Chavez, Chinese firms will be allowed to exploit 15 mature oil fields at Zumano in the east of the country, where he estimated reserves of more than a billion barrels.
"Most of that oil will go to China," the Venezuelan statement quoted him as saying.
The two nations were also continuing a venture to build a plant in Venezuela to produce orimulsion, Venezuela's trademark boiler fuel. It would be ready in September 2005 and would produce six million tonnes a year for China, Chavez said.
Reuters
Saturday 29 January 2005, 11:30 Makka Time, 8:30 GMT
Venezuela has hailed the visit of Chinese Vice President Zeng Qinghong as a productive trip that will yield several multi-billion trade deals, mainly in the oil and gas sectors.
"This is not a symbolic visit," Vice President Jose Vicente Rangel said on Friday after welcoming his Chinese counterpart, who arrived in Caracas for a three-day visit.
About 20 accords will be signed, including such areas as agriculture and high technology, Rangel said, adding that most deals will involve gas and oil.
The accords will be signed on Saturday after a meeting between the Chinese vice president and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who has officially visited China three times since 1999.
'Dealing with friends'
Chavez, who last visited China in December, said Chinese investments under the accords were worth "several billion dollars because we are dealing with friends".
Chavez and Zeng will also participate in a meeting of business leaders discussing possible Chinese investment in the Venezuelan oil and gas industry as well as the purchase of Chinese farm equipment.
"Venezuela is an energy country and China consumes a lot of energy so we are naturally compatible," Rangel said.
China's ambassador to Venezuela, Ju Yijie, said there had been discussions about the two countries collaborating on a satellite project.
Venezuela is the fifth largest oil exporter and the only Latin American member of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries.
In order to further develop exports to China without impacting its traditional trading partners such as the United States, Venezuela plans to increase production over the next five years to five million barrels per day from the current level of 2.9 bpd.
AFP
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