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Author Patey, Luke

Title New Kings of Crude : China, India, and the Global Struggle for Oil in Sudan and South Sudan
Published London : Hurst, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (581 pages)
Contents Cover ; Half-title ; Title ; Copyright ; Dedication; Contents ; Acknowledgments ; Abbreviations ; Introduction: Three Minutes in February ; Asia's oil giants and Sudan; Oil and war in Sudan; PART I: SUDAN ; 1. American Dreaming ; The African frontier; Into the Sudd; Grand plans; Uncle Sam; Forging ahead; 2. The Long Goodbye ; Petro-politik; The road to rebellion; Hunkering down; Downfall; An executive decision; 3. Boardrooms and Battlefields ; Wheeling, dealing, and destroying; Seeking partners; Targeting Talisman; Losing the battle; The limits of global activism; The Asian replacements
PART II: CHINA 4. Oil for the Party ; The rise of the petroleum faction; Enduring Party politics; The oil boss; Getting the timing right; Serve the servant; 5. A Chinese Miracle ; Rediscovery; Learning under fire; Training ground; A promotional tool; The pearl of Africa; PART III: INDIA ; 6. Keeping the Lights On ; High and dry; Reassembling the machine; A new man in charge; All hands on deck; 7. An Oil Titan Reincarnated ; The China threat; The real power behind giants; The rewards of oil; Company before country; PART IV: DARFUR ; 8. The Rise and Fall of an Activist Campaign
Sudan seen from CaliforniaThe battle on the Home Front; Missing the target; Challenging China; Collateral damage; 9. War in Peace ; The oil curse; Old greed, new grievances; Protectors become predators; 10.18; Losing trust; PART V: TWO SUDANS ; 10. New Country, Old Problems ; Oil games; Stagnation; The state to come; Getting acquainted; Shutdown; Mistakes of the past; 11. The Reform Years ; Life without oil; The devil in the pipeline; Portfolio management; Friends and enemies; Losing Nirvana; Conclusion: The Sudanese Factor ; The business and politics of oil in China and India
The global impact of Sudan and South Sudan on Asia's oil giantsA fragmented future; Notes ; Index
Summary In the past decade, the need for oil in Asia's new industrial powers, China and India, has grown dramatically. The New Kings of Crude takes the reader from the dusty streets of an African capital to Asia's glistening corporate towers to provide a first look at how the world's rising economies established new international oil empires in Sudan, amid one of Africa's longest-running and deadliest civil wars. For over a decade, Sudan fuelled the international rise of Chinese and Indian national oil companies. But the political turmoil surrounding the historic division of Africa's largest country,
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Subject Petroleum industry and trade -- Sudan
Petroleum industry and trade -- South Sudan
International business enterprises -- Africa
International business enterprises
International economic relations
Petroleum industry and trade
SUBJECT Sudan -- Foreign economic relations -- China
China -- Foreign economic relations -- Sudan
South Sudan -- Foreign economic relations -- China
China -- Foreign economic relations -- South Sudan
Sudan -- Foreign economic relations -- India
India -- Foreign economic relations -- Sudan
India -- Foreign economic relations -- South Sudan
South Sudan -- Foreign economic relations -- India
Sudan -- History -- Civil War, 1955-1972. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85129609
Subject Africa
China
India
South Sudan
Sudan
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781849042949
1849042942