关键词: 东非　油气产业　发展模式　国际油气合作

Abstract: Elaborating the current conditions of oil and gas resources and industrialization in East Africa, this paper analyzes and predicts the patterns of the future oil and gas industrial development in this region. Generally speaking, the African oil and gas resources and industrialization are distributed “heavily in the east and lightly in the west.” However, with significant oil and gas breakthroughs made continually in East African region in recent years, changes are taking place in the African oil and gas blueprint: Sudan and South Sudan take the lead in Eastern African oil and gas industrial development, followed by the newlyemerging oil and gas producers, such as Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda and Madagascar. Based on such a situation, the paper analyzes the current conditions, prospects, opportunities and risks for oil and gas cooperation between China and the related Eastern African nations. It also comes up with a number of suggestions on China’s in-depth oil and gas cooperation with East Africa, such as active involvement in natural gas investment and trade in the emerging natural gas countries like Mozambique and Tanzania, investment in infrastructural construction projects in Eastern African nations, consolidation of oil cooperation with South Sudan and Sudan, and establishment of bases for China’s oil and gas cooperation with East Africa.

Key words: East Africa, oil and gas industry, development pattern, international oil and gas cooperation