ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses the commonalities and differences in the approaches, motivations, state roles and resulting strategies of China and Brazil vis-vis fossil fuels in Sub-Saharan Africa. It looks at two emerging players in fossil fuel exploration in Sub-Saharan Africa: China and Brazil. China's swelling demand for fossil fuels, and particularly oil, has to some extent been a game changer for Sub-Saharan fossil fuel markets by pushing up prices and attracting investment from around the globe. Along with China, Brazil presently figures amongst the major emerging investors in the extraction of the region's fossil fuels. Brazil's investment in Sub-Saharan fossil fuels predates the China factor'. Three NOCs dominate China's rush for fossil fuels in Sub-Saharan Africa: the China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) and Sinopec. The chapter explains about Brazil which has the expertise and technologies that Chinese NOCs lack.
