"Dear President Nazaryev, our China Petrochemical Corporation can provide a construction team of no less than 100,000 people and supporting machinery for the construction of your new capital. The cost can be deducted from future oil sharing...
"
"We promise to underwrite all the export production of Kazakhstan's oil, and we can give your country's shareholding companies a share in the form of advance payment to support the construction of your country's new capital..."
"We, China Petrochemical Corporation, promise to increase Kazakhstan's annual oil production to 10 million tons within three years..."
Zhan Sheng read for more than 20 minutes and listed more than ten conditions, but there was only one that could be called the trump card - providing a construction team of no less than 100,000 people.
Such conditions cannot be offered by any Western oil company.
They can provide all types of technical companies, including architectural design companies, but in the end, to turn the drawings into real things, a large number of workers are needed. They simply cannot afford the cost of so many people, and would rather give you 5
billion US dollars.
Occidental Petroleum was helpless. Faced with the price offered by China Petrochemical Corporation, they had no way to follow it and could only remain silent.
Nazarev was very satisfied and smiled for the first time. The hardest-working workers in the world are Chinese workers, and the wages are low and the price-performance ratio is very high.
Coupled with political weighting, China Petrochemical Corporation's final victory is almost certain, and even Occidental Petroleum is looking at Oriental Petroleum with concern.
In the past few years, Oriental Petroleum has successively seized super heavyweight projects in Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and the Sedan Oilfield in the United Arab Emirates. What did it rely on? In addition to superhuman innate awareness, Oriental Petroleum's human sea tactics are very
key factors.
For one exploration, Dongfang Petroleum can organize an exploration team of tens of thousands of people, all of whom are skilled workers. This is unmatched by any Western oil company.
But what now?
China Petrochemical Corporation, which has the support of the state, goes all out to attack, and Dongfang Petroleum's advantage in organizational and mobilization capabilities no longer exists. No matter how strong it is, how strong can the Petrochemical Corporation with state support be?
The Petrochemical Corporation cannot come up with exciting funds. There are Chinese coins, but the U.S. dollars are too few, and due to various other reasons, the result is that whether it is the bidding for two large oil field projects in Azerbaijan or the United Arab Emirates,
Petrochemical Corporation is a supporting role with no sense of existence.
However, the situation in Kazakhstan is completely different. Politically, Kazakhstan intends to move closer to China and alienate Western countries. Now that Russia is too busy to take care of itself, Kazakhstan, the largest landlocked country, looks around at a loss and finds that its boss is unreliable. Now, only
Only China, the second in command of the socialist camp, is worth getting close to.
Therefore, China Petrochemical Corporation has a very, very big chance of winning in this competition.
The change in Nazaryev's expression at this time is a very obvious manifestation.
At this time, Nazaryev's eyes fell on Oriental Petroleum. Of course, Oriental Petroleum's name is well-known. Among the five Central Asian countries, apart from Kazakhstan, there is only Tajikistan, which is the smallest but relatively pro-Western.
Stan has not cooperated with Dongfang Petroleum in oil and gas resources.
The fact that Dongfang Petroleum drilled the world's most productive oil well in the Sedan Oilfield proved its technological strength to the world.
Nazaryev still prefers Oriental Petroleum. The leaders of Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan have recommended it to him more than once. Naturally, he is more impressed by Oriental Petroleum.
But this is not enough unless Dongfang Petroleum can offer a price that allows it to ignore China Petrochemical Corporation's status as a state-owned enterprise.
So Yao Yuan gave him an offer that was hard to refuse.
Su Jianmin stood up, without a speech or reading the plan. With his usual smile, he said in Russian, "Oriental Petroleum is willing to build the new capital of Kazakhstan for free. We will bear the organization of all personnel, machinery and equipment and all costs.
"
As soon as this sentence came out, the whole audience was silent.
Nazaryev suspected that he had heard wrongly, even though Su Jianmin spoke Russian well.
The entire venue was dead silent for several seconds.
Nazarev adjusted the position of the microphone, leaned forward slightly, and asked, "Mr. Su, please repeat that again."
This time, everyone pricked up their ears, and those who didn’t understand Russian immediately looked at the translator to tell them to listen carefully and translate accurately.
Su Jianmin once again said, “Oriental Petroleum is willing to undertake all construction of the new capital of Kazakhstan, and we will not charge even one cent from the Kazakh government to express our determination to obtain Kazakhstan’s oil and gas resource operating concessions.
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Then, he said it again in English.
Everyone heard it clearly.
Oriental Petroleum wants to help Kazakhstan build a new capital, for free!
Everyone’s first reaction is, don’t believe it!
Frank subconsciously said, "How is it possible? How can they build a city with a population of one million for free!"
"Yeah, how is that possible? It's impossible." After the shock, Jackson slowly calmed down and turned to Yao Yuan.
With Yao Yuan present, Su Jianmin is not important.
Jackson could be said to be the Westerner who knew Yao Yuan best. He quickly reviewed Yao Yuan's past operations and was suddenly shocked.
He murmured, "But Yao Yuan never fights an uncertain battle. You know how he won the Sedan Oilfield."
"Underwriting all the natural gas in the UAE." Of course Frank still remembers it. It was precisely because of this condition that made everyone uproar that the Crown Prince of the UAE was impressed, and thus obtained the operating concession of the Sedan Oilfield.
Who can underwrite the natural gas in the United Arab Emirates? Every oil company burns a large amount of natural gas in vain every year!
This is an impossible operation.
But Dongfang Petroleum did it. While everyone was waiting for Dongfang Petroleum to collapse due to rapid losses due to the natural gas underwriting agreement, Dongfang Petroleum became more and more prosperous.
Dutch Shell Petroleum was one of the few oil giants to go to China for field research. Frank was leading the team at the time. He was surprised to find that Dongfang Petroleum had established the Dongfang Pipeline Gas Company in mainland China, with more than 20 large companies along the coast.
The city has built gas pipelines, and with the strong support of the local government, it has rapidly promoted the use of pipeline natural gas by urban residents...
With the population size of China's coastal cities, not to mention all the natural gas in the United Arab Emirates, it is not enough to sell all the natural gas mined by Oriental Petroleum back to mainland China!
It is precisely because of this incident that Dutch Shell Petroleum made a strategic decision. Dutch Shell Petroleum's preferred partner to enter the Chinese mainland market is Dongfang Petroleum Company, not the National Petroleum Corporation or the Petrochemical Corporation.
Drilling the world's first ultra-high-yield oil well is great, but it is oil production after all. There is still a long way to go before Dongfang Petroleum's oil production exceeds that of Dutch Shell. However, Dongfang Petroleum's energy in mainland China and Yao Yuan's extremely keen
Market awareness is what Dutch Shell values.
In the 1990s, a large part of the natural gas (gas associated with oil extraction) produced by oil companies was burned in vain because the market was very limited, which is why natural gas prices are extremely low.
Oriental Petroleum has promoted the construction of gas pipelines on a large scale in coastal cities in mainland China, allowing hundreds of millions of urban residents to use clean, efficient and safe pipeline gas, which is equivalent to opening up a huge natural gas market.
Considering this, neither Jackson nor Frank dared to think that Oriental Petroleum's promise to build the new capital of Kazakhstan for free was a joke!
Having said that, can you joke about this kind of thing? Do you dare to joke about it?
However, Dongfang Petroleum does not have this ability at all!
Jackson quickly thought of this problem and said, "Oriental Petroleum simply does not have the ability to build the new capital of Kazakhstan for free. President Nazaryev requires that it be completed before 2000, and there are only four years left."
"Yes, it's impossible." Frank shook his head in approval of Jackson's analysis.
The most shocking thing was the Petrochemical Corporation.
Zhang Huaide turned his head to look at Dongfang Petroleum in surprise, and saw Yao Yuan sitting there relaxedly with a faint smile on his face, as if he had just promised to build a factory for free.
Wang Lincheng from the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation frowned and said, "Mr. Zhang, what is he doing, deliberately causing trouble?"
"Yeah, how could it be built for free? It's a big city with a population of one million, and the Kazakh government has made many demands." Of course, Zhang Huaide couldn't understand and said hesitantly, "But this person, this person often
If you don’t play your cards according to common sense, this situation is no place for joking.”
Wang Lincheng snorted and said, "What ability does he have to build a new capital? He doesn't have the personnel or funds!"
"Director Wang, as long as you have money, you don't have many people and equipment." Zhang Huaide said with a wry smile.
The conservatives can't cover the sky with one hand. There are so many state-owned enterprises that don't care about them. As long as there are opportunities to earn foreign exchange, those construction state-owned enterprises that are so idle that they are almost out of food will go crazy and look for Oriental Petroleum?
"How much does it cost to build a new capital? Do they have that much money?" Wang Lincheng didn't believe it at all.
Zhang Huaide sighed and said, "Yeah, where did they get so much money? Even if they did, spending so much money to get a business franchise would definitely be a loss, and a serious loss." Geological Analysis
The results show that Kazakhstan’s national oil reserves are about 5 billion tons, and its recoverable reserves are 3 billion tons, which is not very large in the world.”
Building a new capital costs at least tens of billions. Based on the recoverable reserves of 3 billion tons, under the premise that the Kazakh government has to share at least 50% of the profits, Oriental Petroleum will definitely lose money. This does not include the investment period and
The time required for the profit period.
No one with no brains would do this kind of business.
Wang Lincheng folded his arms and said with a smile, "It seems that Yao Yuan is so anxious that he fights among himself and ignores us in order to defeat us. Well, as Westerners say, if God wants to destroy him, he must first make him crazy."
Liu Zhiyuan, who was sitting on the edge, twitched his lips slightly and said in his heart, you are the one who wants to bring them down, you are the one who wants to fight among themselves. It would be good for everyone if Dongfang Petroleum agreed to join forces at the beginning. Dongfang Petroleum has the funds and technology.
Petrochemical Corporation has sufficient personnel and equipment and national background support. It is a win-win situation, and the loser is the Westerners.
Unfortunately, he could only talk in his heart.
Nazarev was more concerned than they were, and he was equally unconvinced.
In fact, the senior officials of the Kazakh government sitting on his left and right started talking among themselves after they came to their senses, all looking like they couldn't believe it.
They did not dare to talk to Nazaryev, because Kazakhstan's senior officials knew very well that the more this kind of thing happened, the more the president needed to calm down and think, and it was very undesirable to rashly interfere with his thoughts.
Nazaryev took off the microphone and stood up slowly. At this time, he already had a certain conclusion - if Dongfang Petroleum can do it, then all the development of oil and gas resources in Kazakhstan will be handed over to Dongfang Petroleum, even in
Concession on share!
"Mr. Su, how can your company convince me that you can fulfill your promises?" Nazaryev asked directly.
Su Jianmin said, "Mr. President, when it comes to our company's secrets, we hope to have unilateral talks. After that, if Mr. President thinks that our company cannot fulfill its commitments, our company will immediately withdraw from the competition."
After hearing the translation, Wang Lincheng became anxious and stood up immediately, "Mr. President, I object. This is an open competition, and any form of unilateral talks is not allowed."
Representatives from other oil companies stood up to express their opposition.
The advantages and disadvantages of this kind of open competition are the same. There is no secret about the conditions proposed by each other. Everyone on the scene knows it, so the strategy can be quickly adjusted to create new conditions.
However, everyone is like this, so there is nothing to say.
However, now that Oriental Petroleum is asking other oil companies to avoid it and they want to have unilateral talks with the Kazakh government, then Oriental Petroleum will have the advantage of one-way transparency, so how can it compete.
Nazarev didn't just rely on his fists to get to power, he was very powerful with his wrists.
He waved his hand and said calmly, "Companies that can offer the same conditions as Dongfang Petroleum can stay. It is also an open competition."
So he stopped talking.
If you can meet the same conditions, you are qualified to stay. Otherwise, it is easy to leave without giving up.
Everyone understands that walking out of this door basically means being eliminated, but some people still hold out hope-what if Oriental Petroleum cannot convince Nazarev?
Representative teams from petroleum companies stood up and left one after another, and slowly only China Petrochemical Corporation was left.
Zhang Huaide was discussing in a low voice with Wang Lincheng. However, such a decision to provide free aid to build the new capital of Kazakhstan must be made by national leaders. They are not even qualified to discuss it. What is the use of discussion?
Zhang Huaide wanted to go to Yao Yuan to ask clearly, but Yao Yuan stood up and said from a distance, "Mr. Zhang, our Oriental Petroleum plans to spend 20 billion US dollars to help Kazakhstan build a new capital. 20 billion US dollars is almost enough."
Upon hearing this, Zhang Huaide stopped and there was no point in walking further.
Because China's foreign exchange reserves just exceeded US$5 billion last year.
Yao Yuan was telling him not to bother, you can't afford it.