Knaster is a board member at Alfa Bank and oil joint-venture TNK-BP.
In turn, CNPC is a Chinese government company and the largest shareholder (40%) in the Sudanese government's oil joint venture, the Greater Nile Petroleum Operating Company (GNPOC).
Tanzania BP, an oil trading joint venture owned by the government and a subsidiary of commodity trader Trafigura, has been suspended from selling fuel for three months after refusing to do so because of a fall in oil prices, the energy regulator said.
Such a channel could also serve Ethiopia, which shares Kenya's joy about their joint oil prospects.
The two countries formed a joint oil and gas committee to broaden energy cooperation.
Soviet authorities have launched an all-out campaign to sign up Western oil companies for joint exploration and production ventures.
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With the Philippines, China does seem to be taking a somewhat softer line, pushing the possibility of joint oil-and-gas development.
In fact, Iran has established a financial and business infrastructure with Chavez's consent and encouragement that now includes banks, gold mining, a cement plant, a tractor and bicycle factory, a tuna processing plant and a joint oil venture.
They traded on the results of drilling tests at an oil field which was part of a joint venture with Heritage Oil.
And a foray outside steel into the world of oil ended in frustration when Mittal Steel's joint bid with Indian oil company ONGC for PetroKazakhstan was topped by China National Petroleum Corp.
And a foray outside steel into the world of oil ended in frustration when Mittal Steel's joint bid with Indian oil company ONGC for PetroKazakhstan (nyse: PKZ - news - people ) was topped by China National Petroleum Corp.
In addition, Chinese oil giant Sinopec reached a joint agreement with NNPC in December 2004 to develop and explore two more oil blocks in 2005.
This transaction would support the sale of U.S. oil field equipment to the Chernogorskoye Joint Venture, ostensibly a private sector project, in order to develop a new oil field in Western Siberia.
According to some press reports the attack at Abiteye in Delta State was carried out by oil thieves angry that the military Joint Task Force in the Niger Delta is succeeding in its effort to stop illegal oil bunkering in the area, thereby jeopardising the livelihood of local bandits who often masquerade as militants.
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The new "multilateration" monitoring system is a joint initiative by Oil and Gas UK and National Air Traffic Services Ltd (Nats).
This can sometimes involve a limited sharing of risk between national and OFS firms, just as in a regular joint venture between oil companies.
His warning came after the chief executive of TNK-BP , the British oil firm's Russian joint venture, left Moscow over a dispute with Russian shareholders.
Late last year, a diverse coalition of activists launched a campaign against Talisman Energy of Canada, which is involved in a joint-venture oil exploration project in Sudan.
The government, keen to double production to over 800, 000 barrels per day, has pledged to allow cash-strapped Petroecuador, the state oil company, to form joint ventures with private-sector firms.
BP's belief is that the oligarchs regret the way they frustrated last year's attempt by the British oil giant to form a joint venture with the Russian state-owned energy colossus, Rosneft, which could have involved Rosneft buying out the oligarchs.
Oil giant BP, which operates the In Amenas field in a joint venture with Sonatrac, the Algerian national oil company, and Norway's Statoil, said it was attacked by "unidentified armed people" who were occupying the site.
Oil giant BP, which operates the In Amenas field in a joint venture with Sonatrac, the Algerian national oil company, and Norway's Statoil, said it was attacked by "unidentified armed people" who are now occupying the site.
Confirming what we surmised nearly two months ago, Chesapeake Energy revealed this morning that French oil giant Total is its new joint venture partner in the Utica Shale.
He issued a regulation allowing joint ventures with the state oil company, and sent Congress an emergency bill of spending cuts.
Together the men persuaded the Angolan elite to channel their fast-expanding oil exports to China through a new joint venture, called China Sonangol.
BP, the British oil giant, is reportedly close to selling its 50% stake in Russian joint venture TNK-BP to Rosneft, the state-owned oil company.
The government has also arranged for Petrobras to be the primary operator of all pre-salt oil fields and to have a minimum 30 percent stake in all pre-salt joint ventures, an arrangement that is still competitive in relation to other major oil-producing states like Nigeria and Venezuela (and without the high militant and political risk).
Foreign oil firms must operate as minority partners in joint ventures with it.
In the Gulf, meanwhile, American, British and Bahraini ships are involved in a joint exercise to protect gas and oil installations.
The In Amenas gas field and its facilities are operated by a joint venture of the Algerian national oil company Sonatrach, BP and Statoil.
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