CNOOC's Foreign Direct Investment Development And Future Strategy Selection

This paper introduces and analyses the present condition and the characteristics of ourcountry petroleum profession and CNOOC' foreign direct investment. Through the analysis ofits present development crisis, it accounts for CNOOC's foreign direct investment necessity andits resource-oriented investment drive. Based on the theory of eclectic paradigm of internationalproduction and the analysis of indispensable conditions for investment, this paper indicatesCNOOC's advantages in foreign direct investment. Making use of the method of combiningtheories with physical, combining investment cases of SINOPEC, CNPC and ONGC, upon theanalysis of process and pace relationship in oversea expansion, investment mode, investmentlocation, investment domain, capital source and capital form, it suggests the issues those shouldbe taken into account for investment strategy, including recognizing the relationship betweenreward and development pace, the priority in investment mode selecting, pluralizing of oil sourcesupply, upstream business investment philosophy, all forms of financing channels, and theproportion of non-fund capital in investment capital forms.