The Ebb and Flow of Chinese Petroleum

A Story Told by a Witness
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-40272-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 21, 367 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 249 mm, Gewicht: 703 g

Reihe: Ideas, History, and Modern China

For the first time, a work that breaks with the official Chinese government narrative concerning the petroleum industry and provides the true story as personally experienced by the author, Mao Huahe, a thirty-year veteran and executive in the oil industry. Mao witnessed first-hand the breakthrough discovery of the Daqing Oilfield, the behind-the-scenes political machinations and turmoil of the Cultural Revolution and the subsequent reform and opening period, and details the effects these events had upon China’s petroleum industry.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Huahe, Mao

Yiran, Mao

M Seay, Thomas

Weitere Mitwirkende

Yiran, Mao

Seay, Thomas M.

M Seay, Thomas

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Energie- & Versorgungswirtschaft Öl- und Gasindustrie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Volkswirtschaften einzelner Länder und Regionen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword

A Lingering Sentiment for Chinese Petroleum

Maps

Notes on Author, Translator, and Others

Part 1: The Yanchang Era (1877–1949): Advanced in Antiquity, Backward in Modern Times

1 Chinese Advances with Petroleum in Antiquity

2 The Six Old Oilfields in Modern China: Small Scale and Weak Foundation

3 China’s First On-Land Oilfield: Yanchang Oilfield

4 Yumen Oilfield, 1939: China’s First Modern Petroleum Base

Part 2: The Yumen Era (1950–1959): Laying the Foundation, Setting Petroleum Development Policy

5 China’s Petroleum Industry Takes Off

6 Yumen Oilfield: Cradle of the Chinese Petroleum Industry

7 Pioneering a Great Cause at Qinghai Oilfield

8 Karamay: New China’s First Big Oilfield

9 High Hopes for Sichuan Oil and Gas

10 The Anti-Rightist Movement and Great Leap Forward Harm the Petroleum Industry

Part 3: The Daqing Era (1960–1969): China No Longer “Poor in Oil”

11 The Search for Daqing Oilfield

12 Constructing Daqing Oilfield

13 “In Industry, Learn from Daqing” Reconsidered (Part One)

14 “In Industry, Learn From Daqing” Reconsidered (Part Two)

15 A Scribe—My Petroleum Career

16 Advancing on the Crest of Victory: Switching the Battleground to Bohai Bay Basin

Part 4: The Jianghan Era (1970–1979): Against the Current, China Becomes a Big Oil-Producing Country

17 The Jianghan Oil Campaign: Zhou Enlai’s Moves to Protect the Oil Industry

18 An Oil Industry Ready to Launch Out in All Directions

19 The Sudden Rise and Fall of Huabei Oilfield

20 Diary of the Deputy Executive of Huabei Oilfield

21 Ten Years of Endeavor, Leading Industry with High Speed

Part 5: Shengli Era (1980–1989): When the Gods Fight, Mortals Suffer: Rolling a Boulder Uphill

22 Hua Guofeng Endorses Kang Shi’en’s Proposal of a Dozen Daqings

23 Hua Guofeng Resigns, and the Oil Industry Faces a Storm

24 The Oil Industry Reels from Accidents, Scandals, and Vendettas

25 Rolling a Boulder Uphill

26 The Debate on Shengli Oilfield’s “Second Daqing Plan”

27 Seven Situations and Severe Challenges

Part 6: The Tarim Era (1990–2000): Bad Decisions Lead to Zero Increase of On-Land Oil Production

28 Origin of the Tarim Oil Campaign

29 Wang Tao Decides: Go All Out in Tarim without Foreign Investment

30 The State Council Ratifies the Tarim Oil Campaign

31 Seven Achievements of the Tarim Oil Campaign

32 Falling between Two Stools

33 Too Much Investment, Too Much Waste, Too Few Results

34 Overstating Achievements and Experiences

35 Other Issues Relating to the Tarim Campaign

Part 7: The Offshore Era (1953–2000): Leading the Reform, Another Daqing Realized

36 A Dry Duck Trying to Swim: the Difficulties of Offshore Petroleum Exploration

37 Leading the Reform and Opening-Up

38 International Cooperation Increases, an Offshore Daqing Emerges

39 Integrating Internationally, Creating a New Company

40 Engaging in International Cooperation, Exploring Foreign Oil and Gas Supplies

41 The Oil Industry in Taiwan

Epilogue

Über Autor(innen)

Mao Huahe worked in China’s petroleum industry for 33 years, from 1960 to 1993, when he retired. He worked on the front line at oil campaign sites and at the Ministry of Petroleum in Beijing. Throughout much of his career, he worked as a speechwriter for the Ministry of Petroleum’s leadership and as an executive in the oil industry, so he has broad, direct experience with China’s petroleum industry. He started writing this book in 1999 and finished it only in 2018. This book is the summation of more than fifty years of his work and observations.

Besides visiting many of the oilfields discussed in this book, Mao Yiran lived in Daqing Oilfield and Jianghan Oilfield as a child and worked in Huabei Oilfield for a year (1977). After receiving her B.A. in English from Beijing Foreign Languages Institute, she worked for the Chinese Ministry of Education for a year (1982). She then pursued graduate study at the University of Iowa, where she received two M.A. degrees, in comparative literature (1985) and art history (1988). Her translation of Qian Zhongshu’s novella Cat was published by Joint Publishing (H.K.) Co., Ltd. in 2001 and included in Humans, Beasts, Ghosts by Columbia University Press in 2011. She now lives in Palo Alto, California, and is the proud mother of Selena, Arianna, and Apollo.

Thomas E. Smith received his Ph.D. in Chinese from the University of Michigan in 1992. He lived in Taiwan from 1983 to 1985, as a student, and from 1994 to 2016, when he worked for Taiwan’s Bureau of Foreign Trade as a translator and editor. Recent projects have included most of the translated essays in Out of Character: Decoding Chinese Calligraphy (San Francisco Asian Art Museum, 2012) and in Treasures from Across the Kunlun Mountains: Islamic Jades in the National Palace Museum Collection (Taipei Palace Museum, 2015). In 2013, his annotated translation of part of Tao Hongjing’s (456–536) Zhen’gao, Declarations of the Perfected, Part One: Setting Scripts and Images into Motion, was published by Three Pines Press. He currently resides in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Thomas Seay is a Silicon Valley software engineer who enjoys a double-life as translator, writer and opiner on all things political, philosophical and culinary. He has written for and published translations in several European academic journals with pretentious names. Presently, he is busy penning his most ambitious and acrimonious work to date, an instructional manual on how to identify and excoriate postmodernists. Malleus Maleficarum is already taken, so he’ll have to come up with another title.