The fundamental reason why Adan Company is so powerful is that the cost of extracting oil is much lower than that of other oil companies.
The cost of oil companies is mainly in finding oil fields. The cost of drilling an oil well is as little as RMB 100,000. Although there are geologists and technical personnel for preliminary exploration, no one can guarantee that oil can be produced. I don’t know how many oil companies are established in the world every year. Some of them are powerful.
A company that does not have enough resources will be unable to produce oil from several wells and will be out of business if it runs out of funds.
Even if you find oil, you are only qualified to participate in the game. The strength of the company is closely related to the reserves of the oil wells, the difficulty of extraction, and the grade. Only after all these problems are solved can you be qualified to join an industry giant like Adan Company.
Begging for food behind me.
Forget about dialogue and competition.
An industry giant like Adan Company can make the difference between life and death with a casual word. How many small companies work hard to extract oil. They thought they would be happy after all their hard work, but because of the drop in oil prices, they are worse off than dead. The more they extract, the more they lose.
So Alvin is really not a threat to Alexander. Even if the North African oil field has great potential, there are only three wells at present. If Adan Company takes action, both Anglo American Petroleum and Royal Shell will have to step aside.
For a country like the United Kingdom, don't talk about national strategy, but really have a long-term vision. A geomantic treasure like Southern Africa has no chance of independence. No matter how distressed Winston is, the shareholders of Anglo American Petroleum and Royal Shell must be willing to lose money.
Just keep messing around.
Now the shareholders of Anglo American Petroleum are very dissatisfied.
Finding oil fields is a good thing, but seeing a huge amount of oil buried in the desert that cannot be cashed in is even more sad than not being able to find oil.
The oil fields in North Africa were discovered by Anglo-American Petroleum. The investment by Anglo-American Petroleum has exceeded one million pounds, but now it cannot be exploited on a large scale due to internal conflicts within the Allies. From the perspective of Anglo-American Petroleum shareholders, they would rather divide the profits than spend money.
Earn it.
At the very least, make back the initial investment costs first.
Stay safe.
Alexander didn't care about such a big thing, and the situation was quickly reported to London, giving Winston, who had just returned to London, a headache.
"It's the damn Adan Company again. Southern Africans are too greedy. It's not enough to own the oil fields in the Persian Gulf. They also want to extend their hands to North Africa. This is why we originally refused the Southern African army to participate in the North African campaign." Minister of Labor and Military Service.
Ernest Bevin's words were vaguely directed at Winston.
Bevin is a member of the Labor Party.
"Without the participation of southern Africa, perhaps the North African campaign would still be ongoing-" Cunningham took the initiative to defend Winston.
During the North African campaign, Cunningham served as commander of the Mediterranean Fleet. If anyone should be responsible for the expansion of southern African influence in North Africa, then Cunningham should also be responsible.
In the early days of the North African campaign, the British army retreated steadily, and Rommel once invaded Egypt, threatening the security of the Suez Canal, so Winston allowed the southern African army to participate in the war.
This is not entirely Winston's responsibility. If the British army could withstand the attack of Rommel's North African Army, Winston would not have led the wolf into the house.
"So the military has a greater responsibility. It is precisely because of mediocre generals that oil cannot be shipped out of North Africa." Archibald Sinclair, a member of the wartime cabinet and leader of the Liberal Party, assisted in the offensive. Since Lloyd George
, there is a reason why the Liberal Party is deteriorating.
Now the largest party in the UK is Winston's Conservative Party, so Winston can serve as Prime Minister of the UK.
However, the Conservative Party did not have an absolute advantage in the UK, so Winston had to form a coalition cabinet.
As the saying goes, after three years in power, all dogs are disgusted. In this troubled year, the Conservative Party has been criticized, and even Winston's personal image has been affected. The Labor Party is regrouping and preparing to make a comeback in the next general election.
The Labor Party has now clearly realized that in terms of pure competition for personal prestige, no one in the UK can compete with Winston. Therefore, if the Labor Party wants to win the power, it must overwhelm the Conservative Party as a whole. Only in this way can Winston be removed from office.
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The dilemma of the ruling party is that even the smallest mistakes will be infinitely magnified under the attack of the opposition party.
In the context of the world war, Britain was in a difficult situation, and Winston worked hard to maintain it so that Britain could persevere.
In order to continue fighting, Winston tried every means, food rationing, military control, destroyers to change islands, traveling between southern Africa and the United States. While frugal on food and clothing, he also had to find ways to help Russia. It is said that governing a big country is like cooking a small one.
Fresh, the British "little fresh" was made into a pot of hodgepodge by Winston.
Ordinary British people will not understand Winston's difficulties. They feel the decline of the British Empire from the increasingly difficult life, and the responsibility naturally lies with the ruling party.
This environment gives Labor its best chance.
Labor doesn't even need to come up with a solution. As long as it puts all the blame on the Conservatives, it will have a significant impact on Winston's personal reputation.
"Why don't you think of a way to persuade the Marquis of Nyasaland." Aiden is a staunch supporter of Winston, but unfortunately he is alone and weak.
"This kind of matter has nothing to do with the Marquis of Nyasaland. The Marquis of Nyasaland has neither the time nor the energy to deal with this kind of matter." Deputy Prime Minister, President of the Privy Council and Secretary of State for Colonial Affairs Clement Attlee looked on with cold eyes.
He is the leader of the Labor Party.
Attlee was half right, Roark did not care about this matter, but it was not irrelevant to Roark.
"Do you agree with Adan Company's plan?" Winston pointed directly to the core of the problem. Rock didn't have time to deal with this kind of thing, and Winston's time was also precious.
Neither Sinclair nor Attlee spoke, and anything they said at this time would become evidence in court.
"Haha——" Aiden sneered, this is the biggest problem of the British Empire now.
It goes back to that sentence, fortresses are breached from within.
If Britain had worked together, it would not be as weak as it is today.
"Victory has seen the light of day, but the victory of the war is not the end. Another more cruel war with no smoke in sight is about to begin. We must be prepared." Winston still has a long-term vision, he said
The invisible war is the competition between countries in southern Africa, the United States, Russia and other countries.
Both Eden and Cunningham had solemn expressions. Just one Germany has already exhausted the UK's resources. With the addition of a large number of allied countries, how long can the United Kingdom hold on?
Sinclair and Attlee looked happy.
Two world wars in the past twenty years have deeply disgusted the British.
Now Winston keeps saying that there is another, more cruel war waiting for Britain.
What does this make the average British person think?
For ordinary people, competition between countries is too far away. What they care about is their living standards, what they care about is working 40 hours a week, and what they care about is one month of holiday travel every year. As long as they can do these, there will be a world war every day.
It doesn't matter.
If it cannot do this, then the ruling party is incompetent.
"Then let's decide like this. Lord Beihai is right, thirty percent is always more than zero percent." Winston cut through the mess quickly. He now wants to focus more on Operation Overlord.
This is the key to winning the war.
The news spread to North Africa and the dust finally settled. Some were happy and some were sad.
"You succeeded again. I hope everything goes well for you." Alexander was indignant and insisted that Alvin was taking advantage of the situation.
"It's not that we succeeded, but that we jointly chose the best plan. Since the British and American oil companies are not strong enough, then the oil fields should be taken over by more powerful people." Alvin was calm and did not get carried away.
This is not a great victory. There is no shortage of oil in southern Africa. The oil fields in North Africa are just the icing on the cake for Adan Company. In terms of production costs, North Africa is higher than Port Elizabeth, so the price of oil will definitely rise in the future.
, those who thought that with more oil supplies, oil prices would fall will be disappointed.
The prices of some commodities are determined by market supply and demand.
The prices of some things are affected by special factors. No matter how much oil Adan Company mines, it will not affect the price of oil.
Since the oil field was taken over by Adan Company, the British troops responsible for protecting the oil field withdrew in batches.
The oil field had just suffered a large-scale attack not long ago. The camp was in a mess and the oil wells were still burning. This made Larry Anderson, general manager of the North Africa Division of Adan Company, very anxious when he arrived at the camp.
The North African Division of Adan Company was just established two days ago.
Larry Anderson previously served as the deputy general manager of the Najd Oilfield. He was an ambitious man and hoped to achieve a big career in North Africa. However, the current situation in the North African oilfields dealt Larry a heavy blow. It seemed that the restoration of production was far away.
"The British are pretty good at finding oil in the vast desert." Cheng Teng, a senior manager from Umbrella Company, doesn't care about the current situation of the oil field. He is only responsible for the external safety of the oil field.
There were only about a hundred mercenaries who arrived in North Africa with Cheng Teng, which made Joseph Quincey, the vice president of British and American oil in charge of the handover, very curious.
You must know that there was a reinforcement team responsible for oil field safety before.
"Don't worry, one hundred people are enough. Your biggest mistake is to choose to trust the British army instead of trusting our umbrella. If you had let our umbrella be responsible for the safety of the oil fields, the situation would not have deteriorated to the extent it is today." Cheng
Teng seizes every opportunity to promote business. Although Anglo American Petroleum is in competition with Adam, it can also become a customer of the umbrella company.
Joseph Quincy's face was as black as the bottom of a pot.
With the degree of collusion between Adan Company and Umbrella, if Anglo-American Petroleum chooses Umbrella, it may be completely sold by Umbrella, and it will die without knowing how.
"Where are your engineers? I need all the information related to the oil field." Larry Anderson took the initiative to find Quincy.
Don't look at the newspapers bragging about the billions of oil reserves in North Africa. They are all news released by Anglo-American Petroleum on their own initiative. The purpose is to attract the attention of the British government and give greater support to Anglo-American Petroleum.
Now that the oil field has been taken over by Adan Company, everything has to start from scratch. Adan Company hopes to obtain preliminary information about the oil field, which can save some time.
"You have seen it -" Quincy pointed to the ruined camp with a bright smile: "-all the information about the oil field is here, and it was burned together with the derrick, so I'm sorry, I can't do anything
Any help I can give you, bye!"
Quincy waved his hand and left calmly, leaving this mess to Larry and Cheng Teng.
"I'm going to take a look around. We need to arrange more sentry posts here." Cheng Teng also ran away, and he couldn't help much if he stayed.
"What the hell - the workers have to give me some!" Larry was very angry. He was now the commander-in-chief and no one could care about him.
Alvin is also busy.
Busy negotiating with nomadic tribes.
It's not right to talk about negotiation, it should be about ventilation.
During this period, the relationship between the nomadic tribes and the Allied forces was very bad, and they often fought with each other. Both sides suffered heavy casualties. Fortunately, Alvin came forward and there was room for peace talks.
The southern African army did not participate in the Allied forces' retaliation against the nomadic tribes, so Alvin used an intermediary to invite several elders of the nomadic tribes to Algiers as guests.
The middleman is French.
This relationship is still very subtle.
Alvin did not arrange the Hongmen Banquet, but arranged the meeting at the Rhodesia Hotel. This somewhat constrained the elders of the nomadic tribe. For them, everything in the Rhodesia Hotel was too luxurious.
The service staff at the Rhodesia Hotel are all pure white people.
For the natives of North Africa, white people are the lords of the upper class, and let the lords serve them?
I dare not even think about it.
"Let's go. Today's meeting is mainly about you. I'm just a follower. You can do whatever you want." Alvin had a bad taste and handed over the leadership of the negotiations to Cao Yin, the logistics major of the North African Allied Forces Command.
That's right, a few elders from nomadic tribes are really not qualified to let the majestic Lord Beihai of the British Empire come forward.
"Is this necessary? The population of these tribes is less than a thousand. I doubt they can gather a hundred healthy warriors. Can't they find a few larger tribes?" Cao Yinfan said
Look at the information at hand and let the elders wait for a moment. Don't be in a hurry.
"The situation here in North Africa is like this. A thousand people is already the largest tribe. As for warriors, the children and women in these tribes can also fight. They have almost no old people because most of them died before they grow old.
, or die in battle." Oliver, the director of North African intelligence in Bullard's office, worked hard, and it was good to be able to invite people here in such a short period of time.
"It doesn't matter if we have a small number of people. As long as we have our support, there will soon be a large tribe with tens of thousands of people in North Africa." Alvin was relaxed and casual. The Najd royal family had also settled down before being selected by Roque.
As for North Africa, Alvin already has a plan. After the war is over in the future, North Africa will definitely establish a country. The current tribes are not the prototype of the future country.
As long as the money is in place, anything is easy to say.
