CHINA-WIRE

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Archive for March, 2007

China provides half of World’s carbon credits

China has provided half of the world’s carbon credits under the Kyoto Protocol after developing 279 foreign-invested carbon reduction projects, the National Development and Reform Commission (ND... Read More

Venezuela President Hugo Chavez meets CNPC President Jiang Jiemin

March 23 afternoon, Venezuela President Hugo Chavez met CNPC president Jiang Jiemin in the Miraflores presidential palace. The two sides held friendly talks on deepening and expanding oil and gas coop... Read More

The Group Copration Signed Three Contracts of Water Supply in Kenya

In the morning of March 21st the signing ceremony of water supply projects of the three cities of Nzoia, Cluster-Kitale, Webuye, and Bungpma was held in Kenya Ministry of Water Resources. Honoured gue... Read More

Kyoto: A primer

The Kyoto Protocol is an international agreement adopted in December 1997 in Japan during the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the 6th Conference of the Parties. It went into for... Read More

The International Company Initial An Contract with Ghana BUI Power Station

At 20:00 in March 17, 2007, the Interantional Company and Ghana Ministry of Energy initialed EPC contract of BUI Power Station in the capital of Ghana Accra. After being approved by Ghana cabinet the ... Read More

PetroChina to dispose of stake

PetroChina, the nation’s top oil producer, is to transfer its stake in an oil trading subsidiary through a connected transaction with its parent firm China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC).... Read More

Angola Vice-Minister of Finance Visited the Group Corporation

In the afternoon of March 16, assistant of the general manager of the Group Corporation and   general manager of the International Company Zeng Xingliang met with Angola Vice-Minister of Finance Dem... Read More

The International Company Signed Contract with Equatorial Guinea

At noon of March 13 the International Company of Sinihydro Corporation and Equatorial Guinea Ministry of Energy and Minerals signed formally the general contracting of EPC in Malabo. Equatorial Guinea... Read More

JCC Held the Fifth Meeting, the Group Corporation Attended

In the morning of March 5, 2007, the fifth meeting of JCC held in Yangon, Myanmar. On behalf of the International Company of the Group Corporation, deputy general manager Ji Xiaoyong attended the meet... Read More

Carbon trading not in the cards

There are no plans to set up a carbon-credit exchange in China like those in London and Chicago, according to a circular recently issued by the country’s top office on climate change to correct ... Read More

CNPC releases its first CSR Report

CNPC, in a press conference hold in Beijing on February 28, released its 2006 Corporate Social Responsibility Report. This is the first time CNPC has published an annual CSR Report, which is also CNPC... Read More