{"id":71035,"date":"2026-04-18T01:18:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T01:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/71035\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T01:18:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T01:18:16","slug":"why-china-is-urgently-looking-to-north-africa-as-the-energy-crisis-rolls-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/71035\/","title":{"rendered":"Why China is urgently looking to North Africa as the energy crisis rolls on"},"content":{"rendered":"

The war in Iran and ensuing closure of the Strait of Hormuz<\/a> has exposed the risks of over-reliance on the Persian Gulf for oil, turning Beijing\u2019s Mediterranean infrastructure plans from long-term goals into urgent strategic necessities.<\/p>\n

From Algerian oilfields to Moroccan battery factories and Egypt\u2019s industrial base, China might now fast-track these projects to create a Mediterranean hub for a green-energy supply chain, observers said.<\/p>\n

Beijing aims to create a strategic backup that protects its economy from future energy disruptions.<\/p>\n

In Algeria, a major Belt and Road Initiative<\/a> partner with one of Africa\u2019s biggest Chinese expatriate communities, Chinese state-owned firms manage multibillion-dollar infrastructure and energy portfolios.These include a long-standing production-sharing partnership between Sonatrach and Sinopec<\/a>, as well as the US$437 million naphtha processing unit at the Arzew refinery in the country\u2019s northwest.Up the coast, the proposed US$4.7 billion El Hamdania megaport in Cherchell, originally developed by China State Construction Engineering<\/a> and China Harbour, is meant to anchor Beijing\u2019s maritime strategy in the Maghreb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The war in Iran and ensuing closure of the Strait of Hormuz has exposed the risks of over-reliance…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[2025,26334,383,15060,262,655,26332,102,34,26335,6414,3249,39,1000,24087,26333],"class_list":{"0":"post-71035","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-persian-gulf","8":"tag-algeria","9":"tag-arzew","10":"tag-beijing","11":"tag-belt-and-road-initiative","12":"tag-china","13":"tag-egypt","14":"tag-el-hamdania","15":"tag-hormuz","16":"tag-iran","17":"tag-kenitra","18":"tag-morocco","19":"tag-north-africa","20":"tag-persian-gulf","21":"tag-red-sea","22":"tag-sinopec","23":"tag-sonatrach"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116423078906150506","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}