Spring Breeze 1991

"Dear President Nazaryev, our Huaxia Petrochemical Corporation can provide a construction team of no less than 10 people and supporting machinery for the construction of your country's new capital. The cost can be deducted from the future oil share... "

"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 prepayment to support the construction of your country's new capital..."

"Our Huaxia Petrochemical Corporation promises to increase Kazakhstan's annual oil production to [-] million tons within three years..."

Zhan Sheng only read for more than 20 minutes and listed more than a dozen conditions, but there was only one that could be called the trump card—providing a construction team of no less than 10 people.

Such conditions cannot be offered by any Western oil company.

They can provide all types of technology companies, including architectural design companies, but in the end, it takes a lot of workers to turn the drawings into real things.They simply cannot afford to pay so many people and would rather send you $5 million.

Occidental Petroleum Company was very helpless. Faced with the price offered by Huaxia Petrochemical Corporation, they had no choice but to keep silent.

Satisfied, Nazaryev smiled for the first time.The most hardworking workers in the world are Huaxia workers, and the wages are low, and the price performance ratio is very high.

Coupled with the weighting of politics, it is almost certain that Huaxia Petrochemical Corporation will win in the end. Even Western Petroleum Corporation looks at Dongfang Petroleum with concern.

In the past few years, Dongfang Petroleum has successively won super heavyweight projects such as Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and the UAE Shidan Oilfield. key factor.

In one exploration, Dongfang Petroleum can organize an exploration team of tens of thousands of people, all of whom are skilled workers, which is unmatched by any Western oil company.

But what about now?

Huaxia Petrochemical Corporation with the support of the state will go all out to attack, and Dongfang Petroleum's organizational and mobilization advantages will no longer exist. No matter how strong the Petrochemical Corporation with state support is, it will be stronger?

The petrochemical company can't afford the capital that attracts people's hearts. Huaxia currency is available, but the US dollar is too little, and because of various other reasons, the result is that the bidding for the two large oilfield projects in Azerbaijan or the United Arab Emirates, Petrochemical Corporation is a supporting role without any 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 struggling to take care of itself, Kazakhstan, the largest landlocked country, looks around at a loss and finds that the boss is unreliable. Only China, the second in command of the socialist camp, is worth getting close to. .

Therefore, Huaxia Petrochemical Corporation has a very, very high 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 Dongfang Petroleum.Of course, the name of Dongfang Petroleum is well-known. Among the five countries in Central Asia, except for Kazakhstan, only Tajikistan, which is the smallest in size but relatively pro-Western, has not cooperated with Dongfang Petroleum in terms of oil and gas resources.

And Dongfang Petroleum's Shidan Oilfield drilled the world's highest production oil well, which proved the strength of technology to the world.

Nazaryev still prefers Dongfang Petroleum. The leaders of Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan recommended him more than once, and the impression of Dongfang Petroleum was naturally deeper.

But this is not enough, unless Dongfang Petroleum can offer a price that he can ignore the state-owned enterprise status of Huaxia Petrochemical Corporation.

Therefore, Yao Yuan gave him a condition that was difficult to refuse.

Su Jianmin stood up, did not have a speech, did not read the plan, and with a smile as usual, said in Russian, "Dongfang Petroleum is willing to build the new capital of Kazakhstan for free, and we will bear the organization and all costs of all personnel, machinery and equipment. "

As soon as this sentence came out, the audience fell silent.

Nazaryev suspected that he had misheard, although Su Jianmin spoke Russian well.

The whole venue was dead silent for several seconds.

Nazaryev adjusted the position of the microphone, leaned forward slightly, and asked, "Mr. Su, please repeat it again."

This time, everyone pricked up their ears, and those who could not understand Russian immediately signaled the translator to listen carefully and accurately.

Su Jianmin once again said, "Dongfang Petroleum is willing to undertake all the construction of the new capital of Kazakhstan, and we will not charge even a penny from the Kazakh government to express our determination to obtain the oil and gas resource management concession in Kazakhstan. "

Then he spoke again in English.

Everyone heard clearly.

Dongfang Petroleum wants to help Kazakhstan build a new capital, free of charge!

Everyone's first reaction is, don't believe it!

Frank said subconsciously, "How is it possible, how could they build a city with a population of one million, for free!"

"Yeah, how is it possible, it's impossible." After being shocked, Jackson slowly calmed down and turned his gaze to Yao Yuan.

With Yao Yuan present, Su Jianmin is not important.

Jackson can be said to be the Westerner who knows Yao Yuan best. He quickly reviewed Yao Yuan's past few operations and was suddenly stunned.

He murmured, "However, Yao Yuan never fights uncertain battles. You know how he won the Shidan Oilfield."

"Undertake all the natural gas in the UAE." Of course, Frank still remembers it vividly. It was precisely because of this condition that everyone was shocked that he moved the Crown Prince of the UAE, and thus obtained the operating concession of the Shidan Oilfield.

Who can underwrite natural gas in the UAE?Every oil company has a huge amount of natural gas to burn for nothing every year!

This is an impossible operation.

But Dongfang Petroleum did it. When everyone waited for Dongfang Petroleum to go bankrupt due to the rapid loss of the underwriting natural gas agreement, Dongfang Petroleum became more and more prosperous.

Dutch Shell Petroleum was one of the few oil majors that went to China to do field research. At that time, Frank led the team. He was surprised to find that Dongfang Petroleum had established Dongfang Pipeline Gas Company in the mainland of China, and established a company in more than [-] large coastal cities. The city has built a gas pipeline, 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 UAE, it is not enough to sell all the natural gas produced by Dongfang Petroleum to the mainland of China!

It is precisely because of this matter that Dutch Shell Petroleum made a strategic decision. The preferred partner of Dutch Shell Petroleum to enter the Chinese mainland market is Dongfang Petroleum Company, not Petroleum Corporation or Petrochemical Corporation.

It is very powerful to drill the world's first ultra-high-yield oil well, but it is oil production after all. There is still a long way to go before Dongfang Petroleum's oil production surpasses Dutch Shell. However, Dongfang Petroleum's energy in the mainland of China and Yao Yuan are extremely sensitive A strong market awareness is what Dutch Shell values.

In the 90s, a large part of the natural gas (associated gas from oil extraction) produced by oil companies was burned for nothing because the market was very limited, which is why the price of natural gas was extremely low.

Dongfang Petroleum has promoted the construction of gas pipelines on a large scale in the coastal cities of China's inland, allowing hundreds of millions of urban residents to use clean, efficient and safe pipeline gas, which is tantamount to opening up a huge natural gas market.

Considering this, neither Jackson nor Frank dare to think that Dongfang Petroleum's promise to build the new capital of Kazakhstan for free is a joke!

Having said that, can this kind of thing be joked, dare to joke!

However, Dongfang Petroleum does not have this ability at all!

Jackson quickly thought of this question, and said, "Dongfang Petroleum is simply unable to undertake the construction of the new capital of Kazakhstan for free. President Nazaryev requested that it be completed before 2000, and there is 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, but he saw Yao Yuan sitting there with a slight smile on his face, as if he just promised to build a factory for free.

Wang Lincheng from the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation frowned tightly and said, "Mr. Zhang, what is he doing, making trouble on purpose?"

"Yeah, how could it be built for free? It is a big city with a population of one million, and the government of Kazakhstan has put forward many demands." Of course Zhang Huaide couldn't figure it out, and said hesitantly, "However, this person, this person often Playing cards not according to common sense, this occasion is not a place for joking."

Wang Lincheng snorted and said, "What ability does he have to build a new capital? He doesn't have any personnel or funds!"

"Director Wang, as long as you have money, there are not many personnel and equipment." Zhang Huaide said with a wry smile.

Conservatives can't cover the sky with one hand, and there are so many state-owned enterprises that don't care about them. As long as there is an opportunity to earn foreign exchange, those construction state-owned enterprises that are too idle to eat are not crazy enough to find Dongfang 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 there is, spending so much money to get a business franchise will definitely lose money, and it will be a serious loss. Geological analysis The results show that Kazakhstan's national oil reserves are about 50 billion tons, and the recoverable reserves are 30 billion tons, which is not very large in the world."

Building a new capital will cost at least several tens of billions. Calculated based on the recoverable reserves of 30 billion tons. On the premise that the Kazakh government wants to share at least 5% of the profits, Dongfang Petroleum will definitely lose money. This does not include the investment period and The time required for the profitable period.

People with no brains will not do business like this.

Wang Lincheng folded his arms and said with a smile, "It seems that this Yao Yuan is impatient, and he is fighting in the nest. In order to get rid of us, we don't care about it. It's okay, there is a saying in the West, if God wants to destroy him, he must first make him crazy."

Liu Zhiyuan, who was sitting on the side, twitched the corners of his mouth slightly, and said in his heart, you are the ones who want to overthrow them, and you are the ones who want to fight each other. At the beginning, when Dongfang Petroleum took the initiative to ask for a union, it was good for everyone to agree to it. Dongfang Petroleum has funds and technology. The petrochemical company has sufficient personnel and equipment and national background support. In a win-win situation, the loser is the Westerners.

Unfortunately, he can only talk in his heart.

Nazaryev cared more than they did, and he didn't believe it either.

In fact, the senior officials of the Kazakh government who were sitting on the left and right sides of him came to their senses and whispered to each other, all of them looked like they couldn't believe it.

He didn't dare to talk to Nazaryev, because the senior officials of Kazakhstan knew very well that the more this kind of thing happened, the more Mr. President needed to calm down and think. It is very undesirable to rashly interfere with his thinking.

Nazaryev took off the microphone and stood up slowly. At this time, he had already made a decision-if Dongfang Petroleum could do it, then all the development of oil and gas resources in Kazakhstan would be handed over to Dongfang Petroleum. Divided into concessions!

"Mr. Su, how does your company convince me that you can fulfill your promise?" Nazaryev asked directly.

Su Jianmin said, "Mr. President, our company's secrets are involved. We hope that we can conduct unilateral talks. After that, if Mr. President thinks that our company cannot fulfill its promise, our company will immediately withdraw from the competition."

After hearing the translation, Wang Lincheng became anxious and immediately stood up, "Mr. President, I object. This is an open competition, and any form of unilateral talks is not allowed."

Representatives of other oil companies rose to protest.

The advantages and disadvantages of this kind of open competition are the same. There are no secrets about the conditions proposed by each other. Everyone on the scene knows it, so they can quickly adjust their strategies and offer new conditions.

However, everyone is like this, so there is nothing to say.

However, now Dongfang Petroleum asks other oil companies to evade, and they want to hold unilateral talks with the Kazakh government. Then Dongfang Petroleum has formed a one-way transparency advantage, how can it compete.

Nazaryev did not rely on fists to get on stage, his wrists are very powerful.

He waved his hand and said lightly, "The company that can offer the same conditions as Dongfang Petroleum can stay. It is also an open competition."

So I stopped talking.

If you can offer the same conditions, you are eligible to stay, otherwise, you may leave.

Everyone understands that walking out of this door basically means being eliminated, but there are still some people who hold hope—what if Dongfang Petroleum cannot convince Nazaryev?

Representative teams of oil companies got up and left one after another, and slowly only Huaxia Petrochemical Corporation was left.

Zhang Huaide was discussing with Wang Lincheng in a low voice. However, the decision to build the new capital of Kazakhstan free of charge must be made by the country's leaders. They are not even qualified to discuss it. What's the use of discussing it?

Zhang Huaide wanted to ask Yao Yuan for clarification, but Yao Yuan stood up and said from afar, "Mr. Zhang, Dongfang Petroleum plans to spend 200 billion U.S. dollars to help Kazakhstan build a new capital, and 200 billion U.S. dollars is almost enough."

Upon hearing this, Zhang Huaide stopped, and it was pointless to walk over.

Because China's foreign exchange reserves just exceeded 50 billion US dollars last year.

Yao Yuan was telling him not to mess around, you can't afford it.