In a few weeks’ time, two oil rigs off the coast of Brazil will move smoothly into production, pumping thousands of barrels of oil a day out of the Peregrino oilfield in the Campos basin. They would be unremarkable if it were not for the story that lies behind the field and its investors. Owned by Statoil of Norway, another investor in the project is Sinochem, a Chinese state-owned energy and trading group, which won a bid for 40 per cent of the field in one of the most hotly contested bidding rounds in the industry last year.
數週之後,巴西兩座離岸石油鑽井平臺將順利投產,每天從坎波斯盆地的佩雷格里諾(Peregrino)油田抽出數千桶石油。如果不是因爲該油田及其股東背後的故事,這兩座平臺本將默默無聞。佩雷格里諾油田的股東有兩家,一家是挪威國家石油公司(Statoil),另一家是中國國有能源及貿易集團中化集團(Sinochem)。去年,中化在該行業競爭最爲激烈的競標中勝出,獲得該油田40%的權益。