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皇冠体育app's appetite for foreign energy and resources assets has remained strong over the period, accounting and consulting firm Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu said in a report.

In 2005, just 10 皇冠体育app outbound energy and resources deals were announced. In 2008, the number had grown to 34, and over the first nine months of 2012, 39 such transactions had come to market, it said.

皇冠体育app has spent $44.8 billion on purchasing Canada's assets since 2005, while $42.8 billion was spent buying Canadian energy and resources targets, Deloitte said.

In addition to the CNOOC-Nexen deal, Asia's biggest oil producer Petro皇冠体育app Co Ltd, said it would purchase a 49.9 percent stake in Encana's Duvernay shale gas field in Canada last month. Sinopec Group had acquired a 49 percent stake in the United Kingdom subsidiary of the Canada-based Talisman Energy Inc for $1.5 billion.

The United States was listed as the second-biggest target nation of 皇冠体育app's outbound M&As in 2012, with more than $10 billion in deal volume, nearly triple what it was in 2011.

Analysts said North America might become a new hot spot for Chinese energy investors.

"A key reason for the success of the CNOOC-Nexen deal is that the international energy scale has changed because the US is becoming increasingly independent in energy supply thanks to its unconventional natural-gas development," Lin said. "Thus, the US' dependence on Canadian energy resources is declining, which has created opportunities for closer 皇冠体育app-Canada cooperation in the energy sector."

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