THE NEW KINGS OF CRUDE
From Amazon:
In the past decade, the
need for oil in Asia's new industrial powers, China and India, has grown
dramatically. The New Kings of Crude takes the reader from the dusty streets of
an African capital to Asia's glistening corporate towers to provide a first
look at how the world's rising economies established new international oil
empires in Sudan, amid one of Africa's longest-running and deadliest civil
wars. For over a decade, Sudan fueled the international rise of Chinese and
Indian national oil companies. But the political turmoil surrounding the
historic division of Africa's largest country, with the birth of South Sudan,
challenged Asia's oil giants to chart a new course. Luke Patey weaves together
the stories of hardened oilmen, powerful politicians, rebel fighters, and human
rights activists to show how the lure of oil brought China and India into Sudan
- only later to ensnare both in the messy politics of a divided country. His
book also introduces the reader to the Chinese and Indian oilmen and
politicians who were willing to become entangled in an African civil war in the
pursuit of the world's most coveted resource. It offers a portrait of the
challenges China and India are increasingly facing as emerging powers in the
world.
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