Without any warning, just as the Ministry of Finance suddenly announced that it would invest US$65 billion in the stock market every year starting from August, Tokyo's largest real estate company, Ubi Bank, suddenly declared bankruptcy, catching the market by surprise and evading the bulls.
Perhaps it would be more appropriate to say it was cut in half.
Panic spread across the market and bulls fled, but most of them were too late.
With a large number of short orders, Southern Industrial's paper profits quickly turned losses into profits, and then soared wildly. The main battlefield of the Nikkei Index and the accounts of more than a dozen stocks soared almost at the same time.
Mitsubishi Bank, which had just sold a short position, felt so regretful that it wanted to bang its head against the wall.
As of market close, the Nikkei Index fell more than 400 points, or 3.5%.
Jesus cannot save the Japanese stock market, nor can he save Japanese real estate.
The next day, the Nikkei Index fell 2% at the opening...
It doesn't make much sense for Yao Yuan to continue to stay in Tokyo. The trading team continues to operate in the general direction he pointed out. The next thing to do is to expand profits, harvest Japan's wool, and cut Japanese stockholders' leeks. These are extremely professional things.
, but it is not something he can do.
Poor Cage and other representatives of the oil giants, who had gone through so much trouble to transfer from Dubai. When they arrived at the hotel where Yao Yuan was staying, they learned that Yao Yuan had already taken a flight back to Baku.
They didn't even have time to rest, so they had to go to the airport immediately to catch the earliest flight and return the same way, without delaying for a moment.
On the Boeing 747 special plane, on the way back to Baku, there were two more guests on the plane.
Obviously Jason and Camille.
Yao Yuan is not anxious, but they are anxious because Cage and others are behind them. Judging from the strength of oil giants such as Exxon and BP and the conditions they will offer, France's Total Petroleum Company does not have much chance of winning.
Although Yao Yuan said he was leaning toward Total, Camille knew that men can be deceitful, and it would be stupid to believe Yao Yuan's words.
Without tangible benefits, empty talk is the most unreliable thing.
Yao Yuan deliberately talked with them at the same time, not deliberately creating competition, but for Southern Industrial, Halliburton and Total are companies that can complement each other's advantages, rather than competitors competing for opportunities to cooperate with Southern Industrial.
During a new round of talks on the plane, Jason and Camille also figured it out.
Jason opened his notebook and said, "Mr. Yao, Halliburton management agrees in principle to share dynamic positioning technology with Southern Industrial, but the second and third generation offshore drilling platform technology needs to be purchased by Southern Industrial.
"
After a pause, he said, "I proposed a plan to the management. Southern Industrial will purchase a second-generation offshore drilling platform and a third-generation offshore drilling platform from Halliburton. Halliburton will transfer the two generations of offshore drilling platforms to Southern Industrial.
Full set of technologies for the drilling platform. Management approved.”
There is no doubt that Halliburton decided to bleed blood.
Compared with the exploration and production of tens of billions of tons of oil reserves, the value of these technologies is actually nothing, although in the short term, Halliburton will suffer a loss.
Yao Yuan thought for a while and said, "I prefer leasing."
Jason smiled bitterly and said, "Mr. Yao, it is impossible to obtain technology transfer by leasing. You know, in order to convince the management, the global executive president and I have done a lot of work in the past day. This is what Halliburton can come up with."
The utmost sincerity.”
"But I think an offshore drilling platform that costs tens of millions of dollars is too expensive." Yao Yuan said with a smile.
Jason blinked strangely and said, "You really know how to joke. Compared with your profits in the Tokyo stock market, the tens of millions of dollars are not even a fraction. By the way, Mr. Yao, thank you very much for giving me a
The opportunity to make money, in just two days, I have achieved financial freedom, thanks to your gift."
"Me too, thank you Mr. Yao." Camille echoed, her gratitude is sincere, after all, it is real that two million US dollars has turned into five million US dollars.
Yao Yuan smiled and said, "The landlords don't have enough food left. Don't forget, I have to inject US$1.5 billion into the Azerbaijan National Oil Company. I really don't have much spare money. It's okay to buy two platforms, but the price needs to be discussed again.
."
Jason thought for a while, gritted his teeth and said, "Norway has two platforms ready for overhaul. Although they are a bit old, the technologies are common. If Mr. Yao you are only using them for experimental research, these two platforms are actually suitable.
, only five million dollars."
It’s not much more expensive than selling scrap metal, so Halliburton is very sincere.
However, Yao Yuan was still dissatisfied. He shook his head and said, "Three million dollars is the most I can pay."
Jason inhaled with toothache and said in a deep voice, "Five million US dollars covers the full set of technologies for two generations of offshore drilling platforms, and we share the dynamic positioning technology with Southern Industrial for free. Mr. Yao, you still think it's expensive?
This is really unreasonable.”
"The exploration and production service contract for Baku's shallow-water oil fields is worth more than 1 billion US dollars. I think there are many oil service companies that are willing to use the most advanced technology to obtain such a big contract of the century." Yao Yuan said lightly.
The implication is simple, you have no room for bargaining.
Jason is not being cryptic, but has indeed exceeded Halliburton's bottom line.
He said helplessly, "I have to make a phone call."
He got up and walked to the communications room to use the satellite phone to call the company headquarters to report.
If an agreement cannot be reached before landing, Halliburton will face competition from multiple competitors, and who will have the last laugh is anyone’s guess.
Kamil said, "Mr. Yao, Total agrees to the conditions you proposed. The complete set of refined oil refining technology and ethylene technology will be transferred to Southern Industrial for free. However, since the transaction entity is Southern Industrial, the Azerbaijan National Oil Company should
How to sign a contract?”
The preconditions for the French oil company Total's agreement were within Yao Yuan's expectations.
Nodding slightly, Yao Yuan suddenly said, "The French government is ready to sell its shares in Total until it completely withdraws. As you know, the largest shareholder of Azerbaijan National Oil Company is the Azerbaijani government, and the second largest shareholder is Southern Industries.
Oriental Oil Company.”
Kamil didn't understand what Yao Yuan meant and waited for the next chapter.
"In other words, Azerbaijan State Oil Company is a joint venture, not a state enterprise in the full sense. If Total is willing to transfer part of the shares held by the French government to Azerbaijan State Oil Company, I think everything will go smoothly for the cooperation between the two parties.
Yao Yuan said with a smile.
Camille was stunned, and then her heart began to beat.
Undoubtedly, this is a very promising solution.
She has no doubt that Yao Yuan knows the deeper affairs of France's Total Oil Company. The only thing she needs to think about is how to convince the company's management to agree to this plan.
Yao Yuan said, "The Azerbaijani State Oil Company will exchange 10% of its shares, equivalent to 1 billion tons of oil reserves, for 25% of the French Total oil company. This is what Mr. Aliyev and I agreed.
conditions.”
Camille said without hesitation, "Mr. Yao, I will report your intention to the Paris headquarters immediately."
He quickly got up and went to make a phone call.
Compared with the leading giants such as Exxon and BP, the only shortcoming of France's Total oil company is its smaller oil reserves. BP's oil reserves are the largest in the world, while France's Total has the largest oil reserves in the world.
Less than half of the company.
There is no doubt that this plan plays into the hands of the management of French oil company Total.
The reason why Yao Yuan proposed such a plan, in addition to his confidence in the future prospects of French oil company Total, is also closely related to Azerbaijan's local refining capabilities.
There is almost no way to refine crude oil into refined oil in Azerbaijan, and a large amount of profits in this link have to be given up. Naturally, Yao Yuan will not just watch these profits flow out of his hands. France's Total will be introduced to build a refinery in Baku
Chemical plants can solve this problem.
The reason why I chose France's Total is because they will accept the exchange of reserves for equity, but companies such as Exxon and BP will never accept it.
For the rest of the flight, Jason and Camille kept talking on the phone.
If a preliminary agreement cannot be reached before landing, everything will have to start from scratch. They do not dare to neglect at all. The headquarters in New York and Paris are also conducting emergency consultations. Meetings have been held and they have been in contact with frontline representatives.
When the Boeing-747 special plane began to perform the descent procedure, both Halliburton and Total decided to accept Yao Yuan's conditions and requested that a formal contract be signed as soon as possible.
At this point, most of Southern Industrial's plans in Azerbaijan have been completed.
In the next few days, Aliyev Jr., as the chairman and executive president of the Azerbaijan State Oil Company, signed a series of cooperation agreements with a number of companies. The largest part of the business was handed over to Oriental Petroleum Company. Oriental Oil Company
As a decisive enterprise, oil companies have signed a series of cooperation agreements with Halliburton, Total and many local oilfield companies in China.
As the second largest shareholder of the Azerbaijan National Oil Company, the Baku Old Oilfield and the Baku Shallow Sea Oilfield full agency company have been renamed China Oriental Petroleum Corporation. It is an enterprise at the same level as Southern Industry under the control of Yao Yuan. At the same time, Oriental Petroleum is known as
With 3.5 billion tons of oil reserves, it has become one of the top ten oil companies and created an Eastern myth.
In late July, Yao Yuan set out to return to China. The national civil aviation department specially approved a temporary route from Baku to Guangdong International Airport, allowing Yao Yuan to fly directly to Guangdong without having to transfer through Hong Kong's Kai Tak Airport.
Looking out through the cabin window, Yao Yuan was surprised to find that the plane was passing through the water gate.
This is the highest welcome etiquette in the civil aviation industry.
At the parking bay, a welcoming team of hundreds of people were waiting, holding flowers and banners...