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Session 1

Figure 1: CartoonStock

Figure 3: taken from: https://kienthuc.net.vn/ ta-tay/ loat-chien-thuyen-quai-di-cua-trung-quoc-xua-342637.html#p-7

Figure 4: taken from: https://www.globalsecurity.org/ military/ world/ tanzania/ tanzam.htm

Figure 5: IISH / Stefan R. Landsberger / Private Collection;https://chineseposters.net

Figure 6: taken from: https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/ zflt/ eng/ zxxx/ t279813.htm

Figure 7: Natural News; http://www.truevaluemetrics.org/ DBadmin/ DBtxt001.php?vv1=txt00003101

Figure 8: US Energy Information Administration

Figures 9 and 10: © Xiaoyi Mu

Session 3

Activity 1: Petroleum Revenue Management Act, 2011, Government of Ghana.

Activity 1: Petroleum (Local Content and Local Participation) Regulations, 2013, Government of Ghana.

Figure 1: Ghana National Petroleum Corporation

Figure 2: https://www.tullowoil.com/

Session 4

Activity 1: Moreira, S. (2013) ‘Learning from failure: China’s overseas oil investments’, Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, vol. 42, no. 1, pp. 131–65.

Figure 1: European Coalition on Oil in Sudan (ECOS);

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Images in Timeline for China and Sudan oil

Figure 1: Concorp Petroleum Limited

Figure 2: taken from: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/ africaatlse/ 2012/ 07/ 04/ south-sudans-ultimate-goal-should-be-to-phase-out-its-petroleum-industry/

Figure 3: Khartoum Refinery Limited

Figure 4: taken from: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oil_fields_and_infrastructure_in_Sudan_and_South_Sudan.png; source: https://www.eia.gov/beta/international/analysis.cfm?iso=SDN;U.S. Energy Information Administration

Figure 5: taken from: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/africaatlse/2012/07/04/south-sudans-ultimate-goal-should-be-to-phase-out-its-petroleum-industry/ Dr. Jason Hickel, LSE

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