The Great Leap Offshore: Sino-Norwegian Relations and Petro-Knowledge Transfers, 1976–1997

IF 0.7 2区 历史学 Q4 BUSINESS Enterprise & Society Pub Date : 2022-02-08 DOI:10.1017/eso.2022.4
J. Gjersø
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China’s reemergence among the world’s leading economic and political powers has been one of the most defining changes in the international order since the end of the Cold War. Underpinning China’s ascent were the economic reforms instituted across the late 1970s and early 1980s that opened its economy to foreign direct investments. Preceding these reforms were the ambitions entertained for China’s continental shelf, optimistically forecasting it as nothing less than “the world’s richest petroleum reservoir.” This article will attempt to link these phenomena by examining the economic readjustment in conjunction with the capital- and technology-intensive requirements of the offshore oil industry. It will explore how petroleum knowledge was diffused between Norway and China: notably, how Chinese reformers abandoned the Daqinigst doctrine of self-reliance in favor of a hybrid Norwegian model of petroleum governance. Even though exploration efforts proved disappointing, the episode had both long-term political and commercial ramifications. It was during this often-overlooked episode of Chinese, international, and indeed Norwegian petroleum history that Norway’s national oil company, Statoil, took its first steps outside the Norwegian continental shelf and inspired the formation of China’s own national offshore oil company, China National Offshore Oil Corporation.
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海上大跃进:中挪关系与石油知识转移,1976-1997
中国在世界主要经济和政治大国之列的重新崛起,是冷战结束以来国际秩序中最具决定性的变化之一。支撑中国崛起的是上世纪70年代末和80年代初实施的经济改革,这些改革向外国直接投资开放了中国经济。在这些改革之前,人们对中国大陆架抱有雄心壮志,乐观地预测它不亚于“世界上储量最丰富的石油储藏地”。本文将通过考察经济调整与海上石油工业的资本和技术密集型要求相结合,试图将这些现象联系起来。它将探讨石油知识是如何在挪威和中国之间传播的:值得注意的是,中国的改革者是如何放弃大秦主义的自力更生学说,转而采用挪威混合的石油治理模式的。尽管勘探工作令人失望,但这一事件对政治和商业都产生了长期影响。正是在这段常常被忽视的中国、国际乃至挪威石油史上,挪威国家石油公司(Statoil)迈出了走出挪威大陆架的第一步,并启发了中国自己的国有海洋石油公司——中国海洋石油总公司的成立。
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期刊介绍: Enterprise & Society offers a forum for research on the historical relations between businesses and their larger political, cultural, institutional, social, and economic contexts. The journal aims to be truly international in scope. Studies focused on individual firms and industries and grounded in a broad historical framework are welcome, as are innovative applications of economic or management theories to business and its context.
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