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To: Don Green who wrote (891)6/14/2002 8:44:13 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER  Respond to of 49381
 
The scramble for oil has started....

CHINA
The Quest for Energy to Grow
China is mounting a determined effort to safeguard the energy supplies that are vital to its development. It won't be easy, with demand for oil now outstripping stagnant domestic output

By David Lague/HONG KONG
Issue cover-dated June 20, 2002


IT WAS NEVER MEANT to be this way. More than two decades into China's dizzying economic boom and a steady stream of giant oil tankers riding low in the water sails thousands of miles from terminals in the Middle East to the mainland's booming coastal ports.

Despite a long-standing determination to be energy self-sufficient, demand for oil in China is accelerating far beyond domestic output, and increasingly it is Middle East suppliers, including Iran, Oman, Yemen and Saudi Arabia, that make up the difference.
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