RPT-FACTBOX-China's Top-10 overseas oil and gas deals in 2009

Oct 23 (Reuters) - Chinese oil firms, tasked with securing
energy supplies to fuel the world's fastest-growing major
economy, are finding it tough to search for new oil reserves,
especially in western countries that have been largely
off-limits due to protectionist sentiment.

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Following are the Top-10 acquisitions by Chinese companies
in the oil and gas sector so far in 2009. (billions of US
dollars) RANK VALUE ACQUIRER TARGET

STATUS
1. 7.15 Sinopec Group (600028.SS) Addax Petroleum
Corp Completed
2. 3.30 China National Petroleum Corp OAO
MangistauMunaiGaz Pending
3. 1.73 PetroChina Intl Invest Co Ltd Athabasca Oil Sands
(assets) Pending
4. 1.30 CNOOC, Sinopec Group Block 32 Offshore,
Angola Pending
5. 0.93 China Investment Corp KazMunaiGas Expl &
Prodn JSC Completed
6. 0.87 Sinochem Resources UK Ltd Emerald Energy PLC
(EMEN.BE) Pending
7. 0.41 Petrochina (0857.HK) South Oil E&D Co
Ltd Pending
8. 0.31 CNOOC Talisman Energy Inc
(gas assets) (TLM.TO) Pending
9. 0.27 Xinjiang Guanghui Ind Co Ltd Xinjiang Guanghui
New Energy Pending

(600256.SS) 10. 0.13 XinAo Gas Holdings Ltd
(2688.HK) XinAo Gas Holdings Ltd Intended
Source: Thomson Reuters
(Reporting by Sui-Lee Wee, Compiled by Gillian Murdoch;
Editing by Ian Geoghegan)