CHINA’S privately-owned energy player Poly-GCL Petroleum is ready to start development drilling on its Calub and Hilal gas fields in Ethiopia as early as this summer, as it pursues what it says is a plan to export gas to China.

Sources said Poly-GCL is looking for rigs to embark on a drilling campaign at the fields which, located in the remote Ogaden basin where a rebel group is demanding the right to self-determination, hold combined resources of 4.7