China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC), the parent company of the nation's largest oil refiner, PetroChina<601857><0857><PTR>, on Wednesday inked a US$4.7-billion contract with Iran for the development of phase 11 of the South Pars gas field in the Gulf, taking the place of France's Total...
Total SA, a France-based oil titan, announced on Sunday that it may set up a JV with China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC), parent of PetroChina<601857><857><PTR>, to jointly explore gas field in China, the People's Daily reported.Christophe De Margerie, CEO of Total SA, said the JV plan is also supported...
CALGARY, Alberta, April 1 (Reuters) - French oil major Total SA (TOTF.PA) said on Wednesday it sold a 10 percent stake in a proposed Canadian oil sands project to China's Sinopec (600028.SS), making both firms equal partners ...
FRENCH energy giant Total SA said it expects to make a final investment decision by mid-2009 on a major natural-gas cooperation project with China National Petroleum Corp in northern China ...
BANGKOK, Feb 8 - Thailand's Total Access Communication PCL <DTAC.BK> (TAC) reported a better-than-expected 73 percent rise in its fourth-quarter net profit on Monday, boosted by rising mobile use as the economy improves. TAC, controlled...
China Life Insurance (Overseas), the Hong Kong unit of China Life Insurance Co<601628><2628><LFC>, earned a net profit of HK$510 million last year, the Standard reported, citing Deputy Chairman and President Liu Tingan as saying. Total premiums rose 30.6% from 2008 to HK$4.49 billion, while new...
Yunnan Province sold 22.3 million square meters of properties for a total of RMB 65.3 billion last year, according to Yunnan Provincial Statistics Bureau.Sales area grew 35.7% year on year and revenue grew 48.4% year on year.Last year, the province invested RMB 73.7 billion in real estate, an amount 32.3% more...
Shanghai, the financial center of China, last year saw a total volume of RMB 251 trillion worth of transactions in the financial markets, 41.7% more than in 2008, the Xinhua News Agency reported.Stock market turnover was RMB 39.3 trillion, 85.1% more year on year. Turnover in the futures market rose 260%...
Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province, last year sold 362 pieces of land totaling 32,047 Mu, almost twice the amount it sold in 2008, according to a report released by China Realty Research Center.Last year, the city sold 66 parcels totaling 4,407 Mu in its five major districts. Residential property accounted for...
China's renewable energy consumption accounted for 8.3% of the total last year, said Shi Lishan, deputy director of the National Energy Administration, at a forum today.Shi said that China's total energy consumption last year was equivalent to 3 billion tons of standard coal, of which more than 90% was...