Chinese Oil Company Linked to Human Rights Abuses in Burma (Myanmar)
China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC)
About the company
China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC)
CNPC is a Chinese state owned energy company.
In Burma CNPC is in a joint venture with state owned Myanmar Oil & Gas Enterprise (MOGE), which has been under military control since the coup on 1st February 2021. Revenues to MOGE go to the military. The Shwe gas project includes a pipeline across Burma to China which has been linked to conflict and human rights violations.
Contact:
Hou Qijun
Director and President
CNPC
9 Dongzhimen North Street,
Dongcheng District,
Beijing, 100007
P.R. China,
Email: admin_eng@cnpc.com.cn
Sources:
CNPC website accessed September 2021
http://www.cnpc.com.cn/en/2020Myanmar/2020Myanmar.shtml
Chinese company linked to human rights abuses in Burma (Myanmar), EarthRights International, 8th December 2011
Factbox: Oil majors in Myanmar in spotlight after UN call for sanctions – Reuters, 9th March 2021
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-myanmar-politics-energy-factbox-idUSKBN2B11XX
Notified 30th September 2021
Added to the Dirty List 19th October 2021
The Dirty List
The Dirty List names international companies doing business with the military in Burma. The list also includes international companies involved in projects where there are human rights violations or environmental destruction.
In September 2018, the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on Myanmar, which has been investigating human rights violations in the country, stated:
“The actions of the Tatmadaw (Burmese military) in Kachin, Rakhine and Shan States, in particular in the context of the ‘clearance operations’ in northern Rakhine State in 2016 and 2017, have so seriously violated international law that any engagement in any form with the Tatmadaw, its current leadership, and its businesses, is indefensible.”
A PDF of the full Dirty List is available here.