Among the huge group of admirers who followed the trend, Alan Wilson was of course also indispensable. He came in through the back door and was currently staring at the other Lord Sheffield who came through the back door.
"If the oil reserves in the Gulf of Guinea are huge, BP would also like to help." Markins lowered his voice and continued his great career as a middleman, "You and Pamela can talk about it. This will also help everyone work together to solve the problem."
The cake gets bigger.”
"Her industry cannot be settled by just one word from me. In fact, with the strength of BP, we can just send someone to talk. I don't think the problem is big." Alan Wilson looked in the direction of the Queen with eyes that were filled with reverence.
, replied in a low voice, "The economic crisis is still spreading, and the general environment is quite tense. It is completely late to wait until the economic crisis is over. Of course, this is just my personal opinion. You should consider it yourself."
Alan Wilson really doesn't care much about oil or anything like that. Of course he likes money, but when it comes to career, he doesn't value it so much. He has long been financially free, and there is no dream of swimming without gold coins filling the swimming pool.
dream.
"Anyway, everyone knows that if the Mountbatten Group goes public, it can easily become the king of stocks." Makins said in surprise, "You don't know, oil in the Gulf of Guinea has been discussed for a while, and I have never seen anything like this.
influence."
"I really don't know." Alan Wilson asked himself. He was in Lagos at that time. Although he still retained his reading habit, he only read political newspapers and had no idea how popular oil in the Gulf of Guinea was.
But having said that, the exploration area that Princess Margaret cooperates with Portugal, that is, the part off the coast of Angola, is actually a part of the Gulf of Guinea in a broad sense. If good news comes from Angola, it can sideways prove that the Gulf of Guinea
is the authenticity of the second Persian Gulf assertion.
But if this is the case, things may become extremely complicated. You must know that between the Portuguese colonial Angola and the Nigerian Dominion, there is French Central Africa. If the Nigerian Dominion in the north and the Portuguese Angola in the south both have oil, there is no reason to be in the middle.
There is no such large French colony.
Will France let go of its oil resources? A famous example in later generations is that although Equatorial Guinea, with a per capita of US$20,000, is not a French colony, there are French colonies nearby. Equatorial Guinea is a Spanish colony, and the situation may even be worse.
Spain doesn't have many colonies now, and Equatorial Guinea is already considered the most important one. If the oil resources arouse Franco's interest, this matter will be quite difficult.
"I may have neglected the impact on other countries." Alan Wilson discovered at this time that today, when the colonial power in Africa is still quite strong, because of the need to raise development funds for the Nigerian Dominion, the news released may bring some
Butterfly effect, not counting the British, there are Spanish, Portuguese and French colonial forces nearby.
I don’t know what these countries think about the oil in the Gulf of Guinea at this moment, especially whether the French, who are more powerful than the British on the west coast of Africa, will take any action.
"Alan, what are you thinking about?" General Mountbatten noticed his son-in-law's movements and came over to ask.
"It's nothing. I felt a little emotional when I saw the launch of the nuclear submarine." Alan Wilson adjusted his mood, "Actually, the motivation for my colleagues and I to work is that scenes like this always happen."
"Well, me too." General Mountbatten nodded happily, "Me too, this is just the beginning. The Queen invited me to be a guest at Windsor Castle and let's go and see it together."
"That's such an honor." Alan Wilson agreed immediately upon hearing this. After all, we are a family.
Although the Imperial Commissioner always collects black money and raises young wives, even Princess Margaret of the royal family... But this is all for the benefit of the British Empire, and he has a clear conscience.
Knowing that his son-in-law's driving skills were very average, Mountbatten let Alan Wilson experience the treatment of a special Admiralty car.
"The Dreadnought nuclear submarine is a start. We have verified the technology through the construction of the Dreadnought and accumulated experience for the next level of construction. The next step will be a long-distance voyage to verify the reliability." General Mountbatten did not hide anything from his son-in-law, "If
If you think the Malayan colonies are unstable, how about making Singapore one of the stops?"
This was a benefit given by Mountbatten to his son-in-law, Alan Wilson, who was serving as administrator of the Malayan colony. The visit of the Dreadnought nuclear submarine could deter potential enemies of the Malayan colony.
"That's great." Alan Wilson expressed his agreement, but what he wanted to ask more about was the idea of the next-level nuclear submarine. "Since the Dreadnought nuclear submarine has an experimental nature, the next-level nuclear submarine is probably already under planning."
"If you were not Pamela's husband, I would even suspect that you are a spy." Mountbatten said with a smile, "There are ideas. Regarding the difference in the use of nuclear submarines, this aspect is still being discussed. The budget is still a big issue. One
The cost is around 20 million pounds.”
"This is about to catch up with the heavy aircraft carrier that has started construction." Alan Wilson was shocked. The heavy aircraft carrier currently under construction is the Enterprise without nuclear power. What is the tonnage of a nuclear submarine? Four to five thousand tons.
"After all, this is a new field. Our accumulation of manufacturing surface ships and cost savings are useless on nuclear submarines. Many aspects of equipment and nuclear reactors are new things, and it is very difficult to reduce costs." Mountbatten shrugged and complained.
He said, "Don't expect to achieve a much cheaper cost like surface ships."
The UK was able to produce a battleship at the same cost as the United States producing a heavy cruiser.
That relies on Britain's long-term experience in surface ships. But times have changed. On new warships, the cost advantage has dropped a lot, but the construction cost can still be cheaper than that of the United States.
But when it comes to nuclear submarines, Britain is still a toddler, and it is no longer realistic to save costs.
It is not completely impossible. Mass construction can always spread the cost evenly. As long as the construction period is not long, the cost can be reduced.
Of course, this was General Mountbatten's explanation. Alan Wilson was deeply skeptical about this. He remembered that each American warship was more expensive than the other. Could it be that the British could make each ship cheaper than the other in the construction cycle?
He didn't know that Britain had actually accomplished this in history, compressing the construction period of a first-class nuclear submarine within two years, resulting in a reduction in construction costs.
Arriving at Windsor Castle, Alan Wilson entered the state of spectators again, thinking about another issue that Mountbatten had talked about before. Although Mountbatten did not mention the different uses of nuclear submarines, he certainly understood that they were attack nuclear submarines and strategic
The difference between nuclear submarines.
Attack nuclear submarines are mainly used for attack, so attack nuclear submarines are equipped with a series of weapons, such as submarine-launched torpedoes, missiles and torpedo launch tubes. Moreover, attack nuclear submarines can sail faster than strategic nuclear submarines, and are also faster than strategic nuclear submarines.
It can dive deeper and has a smaller displacement than a strategic nuclear submarine.
Under today's technical conditions, the weapons carried by attack nuclear submarines are torpedoes.
Attack nuclear submarines mainly perform reconnaissance missions, while strategic nuclear submarines mainly perform duty tasks. Since the intercontinental missiles loaded on strategic nuclear submarines can strike outside the theater, strategic nuclear submarines can ensure that as long as they cruise within a safe range,
Maritime security.
The only thing that is certain now is that the USS Nautilus is already in service, and no one knows whether the Soviet Union's nuclear submarines have been completed. The British HMS Dauntless nuclear submarine has just been launched.
It will take several years for strategic nuclear submarines to be put into general service, and it cannot be ruled out that there have already been discussions within the military of various countries.
However, another dilemma faced by strategic nuclear submarines, which mainly use long-range missiles as their attack method, is that today, when land-based missiles frequently fail, there is still no reliable missile that strategic nuclear submarines can equip.
Since Mountbatten said that the difference between nuclear submarines is only under discussion, there is no reason to think that other countries have realized the difference between attack nuclear submarines and strategic nuclear submarines.
Before leaving London, Alan Wilson decided to help his father-in-law stay at the forefront of the times. He himself was too far away from submarine experts. This required Pamela Mountbatten to find someone to demonstrate, and he would give the results of this argument to Mountbatten.
The general knows.
On July 16, after a vote by the French National Assembly, Maurice Bourget-Monoury, the 19th President of the French Council of Ministers after the war, announced that oil resources in the Gulf of Guinea would be developed. The news spread and triggered discussions throughout France.
Three days later, France's Total Oil and Gas Company officially announced that it had signed a contract with the French government to develop oil and natural gas in the Gulf of Guinea.
Just one day later, in Madrid, the capital of Spain, the Spanish oil company announced that it would develop oil resources in Equatorial Guinea.
It also called on the Spanish government to discuss with the United Kingdom, France, Portugal and other countries to clarify each other's mining areas and conduct diplomatic negotiations.
"It seems that things have taken a not so wonderful turn." Alan Wilson was still in London, and his previous worries had become a reality. He released the existence of oil resources in the Gulf of Guinea in order to attract local funds to fill the funding gap for the development of the Nigerian Dominion.
.
But inevitably, this kind of public news attracted France, Spain and Portugal, which also had colonies around the Gulf of Guinea. Portugal was even the first among several countries to take action because of Princess Margaret's cooperation.
Fortunately, there is real oil in the Gulf of Guinea. If this was a scam, Alan Wilson would not dare to think about what would happen to him in the end.
At this moment, the Africans around the Gulf of Guinea do not feel that they are back, and the colonists are back.