Aprés la news de hier des Norvégiens et Canadiens au Texas au tour des Chinois de CNOOC d' y aller.
CNOOC va racheter des parts à Chesapeake pour 2.2 milliards de $ d' actifs au Sud Texas.
C'est le second gros coup des Chinois dans le domaine de l' energie, le 1er coup s' étant soldé par un echec il y a 5 ans dans la tentative ratée de racheter UNOCAL. (véto du gouvernement US). Ce coup ci devrait réussir.
et CNOOC espére beaucoup apprendre techniquement sur l' extraction de ces shale Gas pour y appliquer en Chine.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/bus ... 42533.htmlChinese oil giant takes big step into Texas shale
HOUSTON CHRONICLE Oct. 12, 2010
State-owned Chinese energy giant CNOOC is buying a multibillion-dollar stake in 600,000 acres of South Texas oil and gas fields, potentially testing the political waters for further expansion into U.S. energy reserves.
With the announcement Monday it would pay up to $2.2 billion for a one-third stake in Chesapeake Energy assets, CNOOC lays claim to a share of properties that eventually could produce up to half a million barrels a day of oil equivalent.
It also may pick up some American know-how about tapping the hard-to-get deposits trapped in dense shale rock formations, analysts said.
As part of the deal, the largest purchase of an interest in U.S. energy assets by a Chinese company, CNOOC has agreed to pay about $1.1 billion for a chunk of Chesapeake's assets in the Eagle Ford, a broad oil and gas play that runs roughly from southwest of San Antonio to the Mexican border. CNOOC also will provide up to $1.1 billion more to cover drilling costs.
The deal represents China's second try at making a big move into the U.S. oil and gas market, following a failed bid five years ago to buy California-based Unocal Corp. Intense political opposition over energy security concerns derailed that $18.4 billion deal. But analysts expect few political or regulatory hurdles to the CNOOC-Chesapeake deal.
"The climate is much more hospitable now," said Juli MacDonald-Wimbush, a partner with Marstel-Day, an energy and environmental security consultancy in Fredericksburg, Va. Amid low natural gas prices and a largely uneconomic drilling climate, she said highly liquid Chinese companies will find willing partners among onshore oil and gas companies hurting for capital to drill.
"They have the cash, and energy companies in the U.S. are looking for the cash to develop these reserves," MacDonald-Wimbush said.
Aubrey McClendon, CEO of Oklahoma City-based Chesapeake, said he hasn't heard any objections to the sale. Unlike China's Unocal bid, the latest deal doesn't involve technology transfers or a direct investment in Chesapeake, he said, and CNOOC employees won't work for Chesapeake, which will continue to operate the project.
"This is a pretty simple business transaction," McClendon said. "The initial feedback we're getting is that this is something the government should be very happy to see, which is the return of American capital into our country so that we can use it to create high-paying American jobs and also reduce oil imports a few years down the road."
Quand on a un javelin dans la main, tous les problèmes ressemblent à un T-72.
