Chapter 1. The evolution of the chinese oil sector: from self-sufficiency to increasing external dependence -- chapter 2. The expansion of the brazilian oil sector: from external dependence to oil self-sufficiency -- chapter 3. Breaking records: the sino-brazilian oil trade -- chapter 4. In search of el dorado: chinese investments in the brazilian oil sector -- chapter 5. Made in china: chinese constructors role in the expansion of the brazilian oil infrastructure -- chapter 6. Sailing against the tide: china’s countercyclical lending in times of brazilian internal crisis -- chapter 7. Four pillars in four stages: the phases of the sino-brazilian oil relationship -- chapter 8. A look into the future.

This book explores how China-Brazil relations have been impacted by the oil-related bilateral trade, investments, infrastructure projects and financing — an increasingly consequential aspect of Sino-Brazilian relations, which sheds light on China's energy security concerns and its relationship with oil-rich countries more generally. This book depicts in detail how China’s quest for petroleum has been helping Brazil become an oil power. Written by a career diplomat whose insights into Chinese economics, politics and energy policies are deep, this book will interest scholars, diplomats, economists and professionals in the oil sector. Pedro Henrique Batista Barbosa, a career diplomat at the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Relations, completed a PhD in Chinese on the topic of this book.