oil companies that have held exclusive oil-extraction privileges for nearly a decade in are now facing resistance from governments who In , private auditors have recently uncovered large costs and impractical charges made by the , which has added another argument for the revisions of trade agreements that have already saved Niger tens of millions of dollars from the Chinese. In neighboring , the government recently shut down Chinese oil operations after discovering immense amounts of environmental pollution within their borders. has also joined in the fight against the Chinese petroleum corporation, which surprised the by withdrawing a permit from another Chinese state-owned company, , and giving it instead to a newly created national oil company.