Major oil and gas deals require enormous financing, and Canada needs to further develop the oil sands.
Pemex has stepped up exploration of its deep waters, but it will take specialized expertise and enormous financing to produce oil there.
It also is particularly conspicuous given the enormous financing difficulties that many budding Chinese entrepreneurs confront in a society that still officially discourages real capitalism.
But while nuclear power, wind energy and photovoltaic solar panels have strong backing from China's political leaders and enormous financing by government-owned banks, concentrating solar power still faces deep-rooted skepticism in senior ranks of the government.
Countries like Russia and Venezuela, which have been riding a wave of energy-fueled nationalism, could be forced to scale back their ambitions and energy projects that require enormous financing could be delayed.
Saudi officials express concern about the impact a transition to a low-carbon energy mix will have on the country's revenue stream at a time when it faces enormous financing needs to transform its economy to create jobs for its young, growing population.
Protected by an armada of helicopters, Bradley tanks, Humvees and bulletproof Land Cruisers, the convoy looked like the makings of some kind of space program, but in fact it carried sections of an enormous generator, financed by American taxpayers, to upgrade the Iraqi power grid.
Despite enormous government financing, artificially supporting the development of such collaborative partnerships has proved difficult.
The large, yet compact, Restoration playhouses, with audience capacities from 700 (Bridges Street) to upwards of 2,000 (the next house on the same site, the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, finished in 1674), were enormous investments, financed through selling shares in the companies, which were thus bound to make more and more money from ticket sales.
While working at Chemical Bank, a predecessor bank to JPMorgan Chase, Lee was the architect of the now common practice of banks providing enormous deal-financing loans to companies or investors while arranging to have dozens of other banks take on some of the debt, spreading risks too large for any one firm to shoulder.
