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The Petroleum Industry in China

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2009

Tatsu Kambara
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Because the Chinese do not publish detailed industrial and economic data, the analysis of the petroleum industry is very difficult indeed. Its defence significance makes it additionally hard to establish a firm picture of the situation. Despite the speculative content of any article on the subject, however, it seems worthwhile attempting to evaluate what information is available on Chinese oil because of the industry's growing domestic and international importance.

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The China Quarterly , Volume 60 , December 1974 , pp. 699 - 719
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Copyright © The China Quarterly 1974

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References

* This article is a wholly revised version of “Chūgoku no Sekiyu-sangyoo” (“Petroleum Industry in China” which appeared in Sekiyu no Kaihatsu (Petroleum Development) (Tokyo: Japan Petroleum Development Corporation), Vol.5, No.2 (04 1972), pp.17–38Google Scholar;The author is a member of the London Representative Office of the Japan Petroleum Development Corporation, but this article is in no way connected with his office and expresses only his personal views and opinions.

* For further information on the Chinese oil situation, see the Quarterly Chronicle, below, pp. 834–35.

1 In this article, I do not discuss the petroleum geology of Chinese oil and gas fields. Information on this topic may be found in Meyerhoff, A. A., “Development in mainland China, 1949–1968,” American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, Vol.54, No. 8 (08 1970), pp.1567–80Google Scholar; Chih, Lin, “Chung kuo ta-lu yu-t'ien ti-chih chien-chieh” (“A brief note on petroleum geology of continental China”) Taiwan petroleum Geology, No. 9 (12 1971), pp. 205–25Google Scholar; trans. into Japanese by Motojjma, K., “Chugoku Tairiku no Yuden Chishitsu Gaiyoo, “Bulletin of Geological Survey of Japan, Vol. 24 (1973), pp. 27–47Google Scholar;

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