Mike Byfield’s article in the Oil & Gas Inquirer (February 15, 2010) is a keen reminder of the severe challenge that Chinese oilfield manufacturers pose to the incumbents in North America. The big question remains whether or not North America’s advantage in research and development can manage to compensate for China’s huge (yet slowly shrinking) labour cost advantage.
From the perspective of Chicago during the Gilded Age of the robber barons, economist Thorstein Veblen wrote in The Theory of Business Enterprise that business cycles were the result of manipulation and not natural market processes. This peculiar but very influential conjecture was predicated on the belief in the “machine” as paradigmatic for the modern industrial economy. The operation of machines is highly systematic. They are run by engineers and technicians whose interests lie in the integrity of the system and its plan-like functioning. In Veblen’s view this kind of predictability in an economic system is anathema to the interests of the so-called “leisure class” (i.e. business people). Unlike the engineers, these are “money-makers” who need market turbulence for the opportunities it creates. A smoothly-functioning economy is, he thought, an unprofitable one. (Continued)
Global Petroleum Show
Calgary, June 10-12, 2008
展会名称： 2008年加拿大全球国际石油、天然气展览会
展会时间： 2008年6月10日–12日
展览周期： 二年一届
展会地点： 加拿大 卡尔加里
展品范围：
机械设备：石油钻具、油井设备、离岸设备、离岸平台、焊接技术和设备、分离设备、油罐设备、起重设备、吊装设备、密封、防腐、保温、通风设备、升降设备、物探设备、遥控监测设备、制冷设备、维修、保养设备、透平机、涡轮机、汽轮机、叶轮机、各种金属制管道和橡皮制软管及其连接装置、电动传送装置、及其装配、液压起重器; 仪器仪表：阀门、变压器、温度感应器、稳定器、记录器、过滤器、测量仪器、气体计量仪表、法兰等；其 它：过滤网、筛网、钢铁架构、安全系统、报警系统、操作进程控制系统、管道线路保护系统、实验及模拟系统、险情控制系统、紧急停工系统、钻井平台、石油天然气管道及其安装、天然气集合管、绝缘材料、指示灯和指示器材、焚化炉、千斤顶、水龙消防栓、电气工程作业、钻探工具、熔炉、防火装置和消防灭火装置、防爆装置、完井等 (Continued)
加拿大西北地区贸易访问团在中国惊奇不已
YELLOWKNIFE – Two months after a historic trade mission to China, NWT delegates are rife with memories – and are still scrambling to put together a report.
“It was a bit of an eye-opener for us,” said Robin Wotherspoon, president of NWT Tourism and one of the delegates on the 10-day trip.
The $160,000 visit was a whirlwind tour of Hong Kong, Shanghai and Beijing Sept. 10-20, in which delegates met industry and tourism representatives, said Garry Singer, director of investment and economic analysis for the GNWT’s Department of Industry, Tourism and Investment. (Continued)
SkinnyFish Media Inc. Announces Launch of Chinese Oil and Gas Periodical “Canada Oil Magazine”
新闻发布
阿尔伯塔省卡尔加里—-SkinnyFish传媒公司，《阿尔伯塔石油》杂志的发行商，已成为第一个在中华人民共和国发行商业性中文期刊的加拿大公司。《加拿大石油》杂志将与中国石油与化学工业杂志公司（CPCI）联袂编辑发行，为中国读者提供以加拿大为信息源的有关石油天然气工业的最新资讯和评论。
“加拿大作为全球能源强国正在吸引能源饥渴的中国的瞩目。《加拿大石油》为我们能源业界传播自己的声音建立了一个频道：一个用中文播出的频道。”Mike Dodd， SkinnyFish公司总裁如是说。“第一年，《加拿大石油》将发行两期—分别在春季和秋季。之后我们将评估发行情况，以决定是否在2009年将杂志扩为季刊。” (Continued)
European energy companies have grabbed the headlines recently with mega-deals for Gulf of Mexico oil and gas projects, but Asian energy companies are quietly expanding their presence in the U.S. The deals may be smaller, but carry an outsized importance for resource-starved countries like Japan and Korea, which are picking up mostly older oil and gas fields to anchor a new global strategy that includes riskier pursuits in Africa and the Middle East.
The European oil majors have long dominated in the Gulf, with Netherlands-based Royal Dutch Shell PLC pioneering offshore exploration in the 1960s, and the U.K.’s BP PLC leading the pack in recent years with a series of ultra-deepwater finds. Since 2005 those giants have been joined by smaller European majors, with Norway’s StatoilHydro, Spain’s Repsol-YPF and Italy’s Eni all massively increasing their U.S. holdings.
In a series of predominantly under-the-radar deals over the past 18 months, Japanese and Korean oil companies have gained a toehold in the U.S. The total amount spent on acquisitions — more than $3.4 billion — is less than Eni’s April deal for a U.S. company’s Gulf assets. But for companies that long have been bit players outside Asia, the smaller deals are no less significant. They look to the U.S. as a steady source of both energy and cash as they seek to broaden the sources of oil and gas for Japan and Korea, which have outgrown their traditional suppliers. (Continued)
加拿大中国输出激增
Canada’s Chinese exports surge: China’s voracious appetite for natural resources drives 43% export jump, the G-7’s top growth rate
Canada’s exports to China may have “surged” during the first part of this year, but critics say Canadian trade with the Asian giant remains “pitifully” low and more must be done to diversify exports away from the United States.
According to yesterday’s Statistics Canada report, Canada’s merchandise exports to China in the first seven months of 2007 grew at “more than twice the pace of its imports” because of China’s voracious appetite for metals, energy, fertilizers and forestry products. The 43 per cent gain over last year’s period was the largest posted by any G-7 country, said author Diana Wyman. (Continued)
中加贸易2007年激增
OTTAWA — The rate of Canadian exports to China surpassed that of any other G7 country, and this year put China neck-and-neck with Japan as Canada’s third largest export market.
According to a recent report by Stats Canada in the Canadian Economic Observer, Canada’s exports to China surged 43 percent in 2007 from the same period in 2006, while its imports from the Asian powerhouse rose only 17 percent. (Continued)
卡尔加利媒体公司创造中文石油杂志《加拿大石油》
PRESS RELEASE
SkinnyFish Media announces historic launch of Chinese-language oil magazine
CALGARY, AB – SkinnyFish Media Inc., publishers of Alberta Oil magazine, has become the first Canadian company to launch a commercial, Chinese-language publication in the People’s Republic of China. In partnership with Chinese Petroleum & Chemical Industry Magazine Co. (CPCI), Canada Oil will provide Canadian-based oil & gas industry news and commentary for Chinese readers.
“Canada’s status as a global energy power means resource-hungry China is paying close attention to what we’re doing and Canada Oil gives the stakeholders of our energy sector a voice – in fact, a Chinese voice,” says SkinnyFish Media president Mike Dodd. “We will bring out the magazine twice the first year – in the spring and autumn. We will then evaluate the results before deciding whether to employ our option to convert to a quarterly format in 2009.”
CPCI, a media arm of the Chinese Petroleum & Chemical Industry Association, whose members – including the likes of CNPC and Sinopec – extend overriding control over China’s petroleum and petrochemical industries, will distribute Canada Oil as a supplement to its own publication, thereby reaching up to 100,000 readers per issue.
Editor-in-chief Sebastian Gault underscored the historic significance of the undertaking. “Canada is an emergent energy powerhouse. China is an emergent economic superpower. Our opportunity is to serve the huge need for an intelligence conduit between their energy industries.” (Continued)
环保科技会带来下次的商业景气：阿省有机会变成全球领导
Sydney Sharpe
Special to The Edmonton Journal
Monday, November 05, 2007
Despite our provincial wealth, Alberta often seems beset by the turmoil American historian William Leuchtenburg famously labeled as “the perils of prosperity.”
The many challenges of growth, from homelessness to environmental degradation, sometimes make wealth seem more a burden than a blessing.
We fret that it will all end with a sudden crash, plunging us into provincial poverty even before we’ve come to grips with prosperity.
But these challenges mask a stunning opportunity for the province. Alberta has both the wealth and the duty to become the world leader in the planet’s next boom industry — environmental technology. To achieve this, the province needs to invest wisely and focus clearly on the specific goal of stimulating environmental industries. (Continued)
