China-Gulf Oil Cooperation Under the Belt and Road Initiative

Dr. Tingting Zhang is currently an Assistant Research Professor of Power Machinery and Engineering at School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), Shanghai, China. She is also a Research Associate of Energy Geopolitics in International Energy Research Center at SJTU. Dr. Zhang received her BA in Light Chemical Engineering and MA in Pulp & Paper Making Engineering at Guangxi University before she obtained her doctorate in Power Machinery and Engineering at SJTU in 2014. Her fields of research interests include energy system assessment, low-carbon energy transformation, and energy geopolitics. Since her PhD, she has participated in a number of research projects as the main participator. She joined a collaborative project with KAPSARC and submitted a paper “Analysis of Cooperation Potential on Low-Carbon Energy Between GCC and NEA” to “Energy Relations and Policy Making in Asia’ (ISBN 978-981-10-1093-4). She currently hosts the National Natural ScienceFoundation of China (Grant No. 71904122). She has published nearly 30 per-reviewed journal articles and newspaper comments on topics related to energy security and energy geopolitics, and has authored and edited two books as well.  Prof. Dehua Wang is Director and Professor, Institute of South and Central Asia Studies, Shanghai Municipal Center for International Studies; Senior Fellow, Center for International Energy Research Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Advisor to China Association for South-Asia Studies; Ex-Senior Fellow, Center for National Strategic Studies, SJTU, Ex-Vice Presidents, of Shanghai Institute for International Strategic Studies and Institute of Information Science, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (SASS). Professor Wang mainly focusses on South Asia and energy security studies while he is an author of more than 20 books: such as 1. RISE OF THE ASIAN GIANTS: Dragon-Elephant Tango; 2. Rising China in the Age of Oil-Price Peak;3. A Study of New Silk Roads, New Dreams and Energy Channels; 4. China-Gulf Cooperation in China’s Petroleum Stockpiling under the “Belt and Road” Initiative, etc.

Chapter 1 Background.- Chapter 2 Oil situation along with “the Belt and Road Initiative” and within GCC countries.- Chapter 3 Energy cooperation between China and GCC in the context of “the Belt and Road Initiative”.- Chapter 4 Maritime transportion security in the context of “the Belt and Road Initiative”.- Chapter 5 China’s oil reserve from the view of oil supply chain.- Chapter 6 Risk analysis of energy cooperation between China and GCC under geopolitical view.- Chapter 7 Build joint oil stockpiling between GCC and China under “the Belt and Road Initiative”.- Chapter 8 Energy diplomacy and cooperation on oil stockpiling between China and GCC.- Chapter 9 Strategic thinking on energy cooperation between China and GCC under “the Belt and Road Initiative”.- Chapter 10 Conclusions and policy recommendations.