China's Oil Future: A Case of Modest Expectations

Preface -- Summary -- How Much Oil and Where -- Marketing and Distribution -- Offshore Development -- People's Republic of China Domestic Variables -- People's Republic of China Trade -- Foreign Policy Questions -- People's Republic of China Foreign Policy Goals -- Conclusions -- Appendixes -- Major PRC Oil Fields (In Thousands of bpd and Million Tons/Year) -- Map of PRC Oil Resources and Refineries -- Overall Estimates for Onshore and Offshore Reserves -- Estimate of Size of New Oil Reserve Finds Necessary to Maintain R/Ps of 15 and 30 (in Billion Barrels)1 -- PRC Refineries1 -- Chinese Refining Capacity and Capacity Utilization -- Major Field Crude Oil Characteristics and Average Pruduct Ylelds -- World Crude Oil Residual Yields1 -- Chinese Continental Shelf -- Estimated Hydrocarbon Potential of the Chinese Continental Shelf -- Chinese Offshore Hydrocarbon Potential -- Sample Offshore Claims -- Wave Frequency and Maximum Height -- Environmental/Technology Classifications of China's Continental Shelf -- PRC Energy Consumption by Sector (Thousand bpd of Oil Equivalent) -- Calculated Capital Investment Increases Between 1975 and 1980 -- Calculated Capital Investment Increases Between 1975 and 1980 (Different Base Periods) -- PRC Petroleum Industry Organization: Standing Committee State Council -- Petroleum-Related Equipment Sales to China -- Us Technicians in China -- Sample Sino-Japanese Crude Oil Contract, 1974 -- Japan's Five-Year Supply and Demand Plan (Thousand bpd) -- Various Projections of Chinese and Soviet Oil Output