The new kings of crude: China, India and the global struggle for oil in Sudan and South Sudan
本书详述中国石油天然气集团公司和印度石油天然气公司维德什公司在苏丹和南苏丹的运营，揭示这两家国企虽受政府支持，但以利润为核心，且在南苏丹独立后政治复杂化中，对当地政府的影响力低于预期。
The title of this book suggests another ‘China rising’ sort of message, but Luke Patey's detailed study of Chinese and Indian oil companies in the Sudans tells a more complex story. The two key companies involved – the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) and the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Videsh (OVL) – are both state-owned, and the support of the Chinese and Indian governments has allowed them to establish themselves as the key players in the oil industry in the Sudans, supplanting US and European oil companies in the process. Yet Patey argues that neither company is simply an agent of state interests. Each has pursued a corporate strategy in which the pursuit of profit is the central concern. And while each has benefited significantly from involvement in the Sudans, both have found their involvement in the Sudans increasingly problematic in terms of those corporate interests. As the political situation has become ever more complicated in the wake of South Sudan's independence in 2011, both corporations have found that they have rather less leverage with the governments of Sudan and South Sudan than one might expect.