In spite of chevron being successful and one of the biggest oil company in America, they have had to suffer a lot to get their way to success because there is not even one company who does not have to go through obstacles to achieve success. In 2016, Chevron announces that they first fully-owned subordinate Unocal East China Sea, LTD in which they began the process of natural gas production from the first state of the Chuandongbei project in southwest China. In addition, Chuandongbei project is a huge onshore gas project that was advanced by international oil company and a national company in china. According to “Crouching Tiger” by Peter Navarro states that China to be known as one the world’s largest oil importer in which “over 70 percent of china’s petroleum imports along with almost half of china’s energy needs must travel first Africa, then pass through one of the most infamous maritime choke points in the world the Malacca strait” ( Navarro 29). In today’s world, to achieve this success, Chevron has to go through several challenges and decisions they have to make toward the project such as investments, location of fields, and choice of supplies and consumers etc. In addition, it shows that most of the resolutions for the project was made is mainly related to china as they signed the 30 year production-sharing contract in central china in …show more content…
This project approximate the capital cost to be $6.4 billion, which was one of the largest investment for china in petroleum area. Moreover, US energy huge Chevron $6.4 billion Chuandongbei gas project in china most likely to be delayed again as there was some dispute between the company and its partner Petrochina over the procedure of emerging the fields as the project is a 2000 square kilometer block in Sichuan basin in southwest china. As of 2007, for almost 7 years they did not expected to transfer first gas until almost end of 2014, after the company has assured a 30 year contract to create a 7.6 billion cubic meters of gas a year. Also, by end of 2010, Petrochina was expecting the first gas to be deliver to them; however, CNPC forecast that first gas tend to be deliver by end of 2013 not 2010, which start creating some issues between them. China tries to unlock supplies of the cleaner burning fuel by improving imports and domestic explorations. The Chinese government has disapproved to move into different stages of the project before they have completed the first stage, since the first stage need more focus. The natural gas holds a high level of hydrogen Sulphur, and high Sulphur expansion which can bring high level of