By Daily Crux Editor Sean Goldsmith:
China's second-largest oil producer, Sinopec, paid $7.3 billion to buy Addax Petroleum - a Swiss explorer with reserves in Iraq's Kurdish region and Africa.
The takeover was at a 47% premium to Addax's closing price June 5 - the day before the company announced it was in takeover talks.
China, which imports about half its crude, is looking to diversify its oil supplies, and ensure its massive demand can be met in the future.
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