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Energy & Resources

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Sealed with a kiss

Zhanjiang to get $11 billion steel mill. Mad idea?
Jun 8, 2012 (WiC 153)

Politicians kiss babies at election time and goal-scoring footballers kiss the club badge on their team shirts when their contract negotiations are due. But when a Chinese mayor locked lips on the document approving a huge new steel plant in ...

State Grid’s Manila dilemma
Jun 1, 2012 (WiC 152)

As long as war does not occur between China and the Philippines, the State Grid’s Rmb10 billion investment in the Philippines is not likely to be wasted.” That was the rather chilling verdict from Time Weekly on State Grid’s investment ...

How Zhang Shiping took on the mighty State Grid
Jun 1, 2012 (WiC 152)

Goliath of Gath was a Philistine warrior who stood six foot nine inches (in his sandals). Famously he was defeated by a much smaller man, five stones and a slingshot. The story of David’s victory is the classic tale of underdog beating ...

$Time to get fracking$

All you need to know about shale gas and Beijing’s ambitions to exploit it
May 25, 2012 (WiC 151)

We first mentioned ‘Iron Man’ Wang Jinxi in WiC34. A shepherd-turned-oilman, Wang was revered for his commitment to China’s virgin oilfields in Daqing. In the most famous image, he is pictured waist-deep in a gushing well, battling to keep ...

Chinese copper mining IPOs face rough markets
May 25, 2012 (WiC 151)

Last month 1,200 metres of overhead copper cabling was stolen from Edmonton Green, north London, causing severe delays to city-bound trains. Why anyone would risk cutting into wire carrying 25,000 volts might just be answered by this ...

China battled the iron ore miners, but was happy to corner rare earth prices
May 18, 2012 (WiC 150)

Bust-ups over billion-dollar deals; arrests and lengthy prison sentences; vicious newspaper editorials, and even the occasional diplomatic slap down. Few industries have made as many headlines in these pages as iron ore, which has offered a saga ...

Sinopec has a new rival in China Gas takeover
May 11, 2012 (WiC 149)

Beijing Enterprises is not a company that’s frequently in the news. In fact, the last time it hogged the headlines was when it listed in Hong Kong in 1997. Back then it set off a frenzy, with Hongkongers queueing up to get its prospectus and ...

Reforms in the pipeline

In a breakthrough, a private company will start importing oil from Russia
Apr 27, 2012 (WiC 147)

Pipeline politics were top of the agenda this week as South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit arrived in Beijing to seek Chinese support in a dispute on an oil supply route with its neighbour Sudan. Dressed resplendently in a ten-gallon ...

China’s iron ore exchange signs up Fortescue
Mar 30, 2012 (WiC 144)

In January, China soft-launched the China Beijing Mining Exchange (CBMX), an online iron ore trading platform. The full launch is planned for early May. At the time, Nev Power, chief executive of Fortescue Metals, Australia’s third largest ...

Export more, please

Why a dispute over Chinese rare earths exports has gone to the WTO
Mar 23, 2012 (WiC 143)

Last Friday something rather unusual happened. A farmer in Sichuan was bitten by a wild panda. “I am fortunate to have been bitten by China’s national treasure,” joked Liu Yunkang, before adding more seriously, “I used to think pandas ...

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