Sinopec has obediently followed Beijing's recent orders to its three big energy companies: go forth and bring me oil. Addax Petroleum, which Sinopec will buy for $7.3bn, pumps some 137,000 barrels of oil a day in West Africa and Kurdistan. State ownership will provide Sinopec with political cover in these unstable regions – and the delicious irony that, among the big powers, China has become the first to gorge itself on a slice of the potentially 40bn barrels of oil in northern Iraq.
中國石化(Sinopec)乖乖地遵從了中國政府對三大國有能源企業下達的最新指示：出去把油給我找回來。中石化即將以73億美元收購的Addax石油公司在西非和庫德斯坦每日開採約13.7萬桶原油。國企身份將爲中石化在這些動盪地區提供政治庇護——其中令人回味的諷刺意味是，在世界大國中，中國第一個享用了伊拉克北部400億桶潛在原油產量的饕餮大餐。
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