Spring Breeze 1991

Since they are here for inspection, they will not sit in the conference room for a meeting.

The next day, Liu Zhiyuan summoned the members of the business investigation group to the meeting room to arrange the inspection content. Except for their petrochemical company to inspect the oil fields in Kazakhstan, people from other departments have their own inspection tasks, so we need to collect everyone's information. The situation, and then report to the person in charge of reception in Kazakhstan, and they will make distribution arrangements.

Chen Hai is going to Kazakhstan's aviation management department to talk to them about the opening of the route, which involves many technical standards and national defense security. The embassy in Kazakhstan sent a military attache and a second secretary to accompany him. The military attache must always evaluate the safety situation , the second secretary acts as an interpreter.

Yao Yuan didn't have the right to speak, so in the end Liu Zhiyuan asked him to act as an interpreter for him, which Yao Yuan could not have wished for, because it was a good opportunity to find out the Petrochemical Corporation's participation in the development of Kazakhstan's oil and gas resources.

He raised his hands to support the Petrochemical Corporation in defeating other countries to obtain the oil and gas resources franchise in Kazakhstan, but the premise is that Chunfeng Group must be one of the participants.

He can't do it by handing over everything to the Petrochemical Corporation. That's what a saint should do.

However, Yao Yuan is pessimistic about the acquisition of the franchise by the Petrochemical Corporation. Workers and supplies to build the new capital.

What does Kazakhstan have?What do you rely on for food?

There are only oil and gas resources, and they are unique.Russia is different. In addition to oil and natural gas, they also have a large number of natural mineral resources that can be sold, which cannot be sold out in 100 years.

Nazaryev does not invite public tenders, which shows that his plan is very large.

If you continue to work as an interpreter in the business delegation without revealing your identity, you should have the opportunity to get in touch with the latest information, and even have the opportunity to know what Dai Lao and Nazaryev talked about.

"Xiao Yao, just follow me and be my interpreter for a few days." Liu Zhiyuan walked over, pointed to Yao Yuan and said.

Of course, the Petrochemical Corporation could find someone who could speak Russian. Liu Zhiyuan had already brought a translator, but Yao Yuan was a talent specially recruited from the grassroots by the Economic and Trade Commission, so it was not easy for Liu Zhiyuan to let Yao Yuan hang out.

Yao Yuan agreed with a smile, enjoying himself at leisure.

The deputy minister of the Ministry of Petroleum of Kazakhstan accompanied Liu Zhiyuan on the inspection. This team of inspectors was also the highest and the largest in number. They took several cars to the airport. This trip they went to the Caspian Sea coast area in the west of Kazakhstan - Atyrau State.

There is the Maxie Oilfield, the largest oilfield currently in production in Kazakhstan.

Atyrau State is 1200 kilometers away from Almaty. I took an An-12 medium-sized transport plane there, and then changed to a Uaz jeep at the airport to go to the Maxie Oilfield dozens of kilometers away. It was already noon when I arrived.

There are not many proven and developed oil fields in Kazakhstan. The Makshay Oilfield is the largest among them, with an annual output of more than 500 million tons, and it is also the main source of foreign exchange for Kazakhstan.

In the eyes of Liu Zhiyuan, this oil field is not small, but in the eyes of major international oil companies, the output is not even mentioned, and it does not attract Yao Yuan's interest.

The annual output of Dongfang No. 5000 well in Shidan Oilfield is [-] million tons!

Oil predators flock to Kazakhstan's oil and gas resources because the country is rich in oil and gas resources and has backward exploitation technology capabilities. To put it bluntly, Kazakhstan has neither the funds for large-scale development nor the relevant technical capabilities.

The production capacity of the Maxie Oilfield is definitely more than this number.

The purpose of Liu Zhiyuan's visit is to understand the situation on the spot, assess the potential of the Mark Xie Oilfield, how much money is needed, and what technology should be used to increase production, and obtain detailed first-hand data to provide a basis for the decision-making of the leadership above.

Fortunately, this time it was a special inspection activity specially arranged for the Huaxia inspection team. If he mixed with other oil companies, Yao Yuan would definitely be recognized. Although his face has never appeared in the public and media, those oil giants The president and vice presidents all know him.

Along the way, Yao Yuan adhered to the principle of watching more, listening more and talking less, followed Liu Zhiyuan.Kazakhstan is more sincere, and has produced a lot of data on oilfield reserves and geology, which is very rare.As one of the important neighboring countries, even though Huaxia is still very poor, it still has a considerable place in Nazaryev's heart.

It can be seen from his cordial meeting with Mr. Dai and personally accompanying Mr. Dai on his inspection tour. Of course, it cannot be ruled out that this is a means for him to put pressure on Occidental Petroleum Company-you have to increase the price, or you will sell it to Huaxia!

Liu Zhiyuan's translation level is very high, and he is from the petroleum system. He has a good understanding of technical materials, and there is no need for an outsider, Yao Yuan, to intervene in the translation throughout the whole process.

Yao Yuan was happy to have more time to study those geological materials.Reserves are also analyzed based on geological reports, and geological materials are the most basic.

He only remembered the start and end points of the Huaha oil pipeline in the previous generation, and he didn't know anything else about it. The first-hand geological materials provided by Kazakhstan were undoubtedly very important.

As for the production capacity of the Maxie Oilfield, it is all the equipment and technology of the 60s in the Soviet era, so it doesn't matter if you don't look at it.

The Kazakh side provided a large conference room for the Chinese inspectors to look at the materials, and sent several engineers to introduce them.

Liu Zhiyuan sat there with his arms folded and listened to the translation. If the translator didn't understand something, he would ask the Kazakh engineer next to him, and his secretary took notes at the side.

After listening to it for a while, Liu Zhiyuan felt strange when he saw Yao Yuan sitting there with the engineers from Petrochemical Corporation looking through the materials from the corner of his eye.

After listening for a while, Liu Zhiyuan signaled the translator and secretary to continue to understand the situation, and he got up and walked behind Yao Yuan, and found that Yao Yuan was watching very intently.

"Xiao Yao, what material are you looking at?" Liu Zhiyuan asked.

Yao Yuan turned his head abruptly, and said with a smile, "Oh, geological materials from Atyrau State."

During the Soviet period, several large-scale geological explorations were carried out in all the member countries, leaving behind a large amount of geological materials. After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, these geological materials were not only in the archives in Moscow, but also in each member country. Exploration materials for geological conditions.

The material that Yao Yuan is looking at now comes from this.

In fact, until 2022, these geological exploration materials are still in use, because it is difficult for the former Soviet Union countries including Russia to organize large-scale geological exploration activities, and targeted exploration activities are also established. On the basis of materials from the Soviet period.

Liu Zhiyuan asked, "Can you understand?"

"Mr. Liu, you know I understand Russian." Yao Yuan pretended to be stupid.

Liu Zhiyuan waved his hand, pointed to the materials and said, "These are very professional exploration reports, do you understand them?"

"Oh, take your time. Anyway, if you are idle, you are idle, so you should improve your Russian reading comprehension." Yao Yuan laughed.

Liu Zhiyuan was taken aback, then smiled faintly, "Well, then take your time."

In his opinion, these geological exploration materials are not classified information, but he does not know that Kazakhstan will not provide these geological exploration materials to foreign oil companies right now, because the Huaxia business investigation team followed Dai The older ones are valued by the higher-ups, so they made an exception in this regard, and they came into contact with these materials.

The same is true for Yao Yuan. It is impossible for Dongfang Petroleum to obtain these geological exploration materials through official and formal channels, and the same is true for other Western oil companies.

Now that he has the opportunity to come into contact with these materials, Yao Yuan can't wait to have supernatural powers, and use the method of transporting to transport all the information inside to his brain for storage.

Fortunately, my homework has not fallen behind in the past few years, and my reading speed is not too slow.

Looking up at the materials piled up on the table, Yao Yuan didn't want to waste a second, and looked through it seriously again.

If Liu Zhiyuan knew that he was leading wolves into the house, he didn't know how he would feel.

The serious attitude of the engineers from the Petrochemical Corporation surprised the Kazakh staff. Several retirees and family members of the leaders who were supposed to go abroad for welfare also gave up their minds about playing and buried their heads to help.The whole is a posture to thoroughly understand the geological materials.

On the third day, Kazakhstan’s deputy oil minister couldn’t take it anymore, he couldn’t stay here all the time, so he asked for instructions, discussed with Liu Zhiyuan, and decided to leave an assistant in charge, and he returned to Ala wooden figure.

Of course, Liu Zhiyuan has no dissatisfaction. The entire Kazakhstan Makshay Oilfield can see all the relevant materials at one time. Here is the front line of the scene. It is best to complete the main part of the investigation work here, so as not to run around.

There are fifteen days of inspection time in total, and he is not in a hurry.

Yao Yuan was not in a hurry anymore, he wished to stay in the Maxie Oilfield as long as possible, so that he would have more time to record all the geological information.

No one paid attention to Yao Yuan. No one could have imagined that this young man could not only understand raw geological materials, but also be able to make quite accurate analysis. No one could have imagined that this young man was the big boss behind Dongfang Petroleum. Now it is one of the competitors of Petrochemical Corporation.

Isn't this leading the wolf into the house?

Yao Yuan doesn't care what Liu Zhiyuan thinks, all he has to do is hurry up and catch up with the progress of the Petrochemical Corporation. The Petrochemical Corporation can use the power of the state to obtain these geological materials in advance for analysis, but Dongfang Petroleum cannot.

In terms of progress, Petrochemical Corporation is also ahead.

Yao Yuan is not worried about fighting for financial strength. The US dollars he can use will not be much less than the country's foreign exchange reserves. He is afraid of this way of fighting for the background of the national government.

The difficulty of private capital is here. Without a backing, there is only a last stand.

On the fifth day, the engineers of Petrochemical Corporation had to stop even if they hadn’t finished reading the materials, because Mr. Dai was going back to China tomorrow. The result came, otherwise Mr. Dai would not know how to report if he wanted to report back to China.

It was also in the last 10 minutes when Kazakhstan was going to take back the materials, Yao Yuan finally saw the familiar name - Kashagan.