Last year, China's state-run energy company, CNOOC, was chased away from a plan to acquire Unocal.
Also, Cnooc and Sinopec need to repay loans they took out to buy assets.
U.S. officials also recently approved a deal that allowed Chinese state-run oil company Cnooc Ltd.
Sources attribute the online postings to employees of CNOOC, as the state oil giant is known.
Offshore oil producer Cnooc rebounded 1.3% in Hong Kong after falling 5.5% over the past three sessions.
Cnooc is currently in the hunt for oilfields off the coast of Ghana, vying with ExxonMobil and BP.
My Buffett-based model also likes CNOOC, whose EPS have declined in just one year of the past decade.
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Will CNOOC use the technology and expertise it acquires in the United States in any projects with Iran?
Still, many investors believe the relatively high yield on the Cnooc bond provided ample cushion against such a risk.
U.S. officials should determine whether CNOOC is in violation of U.S. sanctions law.
Offshore oil producer Cnooc was down just 0.3% in Hong Kong after falling 5.5% over the past three sessions.
Has CNOOC conducted business that would trigger sanctions under the Iran Sanctions Act?
Beijing was upset in 2005 when congressional opposition forced state-run Cnooc Ltd.
The deals were structured so that Cnooc didn't get an ownership stake in Chesapeake itself and didn't control production.
Or when China's CNOOC oil company put up a bid for the American oil firm Unocal a year earlier?
In 2005, Cnooc withdrew a multibillion dollar bid for Unocal Corp. as a result of national security concerns in Washington.
Pension fund boards in California, Florida, Illinois and Minnesota list CNOOC as a restricted company or a company under scrutiny.
According to several sources, Cnooc has hired Neil Bush, brother of President George W. Bush, to work on its behalf.
CNOOC, a state-owned Chinese oil firm that wanted to buy America's Unocal last year, America foolishly strengthened this mercantilist instinct.
When CNOOC launched its bid in April, it seemed to confirm a trend: Chinese companies were on a buying spree.
Cnooc, by virtue of a JV it formed with Nexen last November, was already a 20% partner in Kakuna.
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Among energy plays, Woodside Petroleum gained 1.9% in Sydney, Inpex rose 1.6% in Tokyo and Cnooc climbed 1.1% in Hong Kong.
Reliance has also spent billions acquiring stakes in U.S. natural gas projects, though it reportedly lost the Chesapeake deal to CNOOC.
Is CNOOC doing business with any entities controlled by the Iranian government?
In 2005 CNOOC, a Chinese oil firm, withdrew a bid for Unocal, a Californian producer, after American politicians kicked up a stink.
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McClendon and Fu were intent on avoiding the kind of political opposition Cnooc faced five years earlier in its ill-fated bid for Unocal.
State-owned oil company Cnooc Ltd. ran into a firestorm when it tried to buy Unocal Corp. in 2005, to name but one example.
From now on, CNOOC will acquire stakes in assets rather than buying an entire company, Fu Chengyu, chairman of the company, said earlier.
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Cnooc said it will continue to track its debt-to-equity ratio to make it comparable with its peers, and will maintain healthy and stable financials.
The deal also underscores CNOOC's greater presence in the region, where it must compete with the likes of Petrobras and Repsol-YPF to remain relevant.
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