Such is the cruelty of oil exploration. If everything goes well, it will be like that of the Southern African Oil Company. One well can smoothly produce oil, with a daily output of tens of thousands of barrels of crude oil. The high production has not diminished at all for several months.
The bad luck is like the Persian Petroleum Company, which drills an oil well and then everyone rushes in, and the oil well is quickly depleted.
Or because of other factors, even the oil was not found, and the previous investment was in vain.
Compared with Persian Oil Company, Southern African Oil Company is operating steadily. Relying on oil from Port Elizabeth, Southern African Oil Company has established a firm foothold in the Persian Gulf, and tens of thousands of barrels of oil are transported to Nyasaland by sea every day.
Although Rock is not planning to expand oil production in the short term, related exploration work has been ongoing. Of course, this work is still entrusted to Christian Exploration Company. For this reason, Christian Exploration Company sent its chief geological expert Ted to Port Elizabeth.
Ted is a student of Professor George Eugene, dean of the School of Geology at the University of Nyasaland. He came to Nyasaland with Professor George Eugene ten years ago and started working for Rock. When he was in Ziwei Town, Ted
De developed motorcycles with Bobby Holt and is now a shareholder of the Johannesburg Motorcycle Company.
It is said that Ted can now live a wealthy and leisurely retirement life with his shares in the Johannesburg Motorcycle Company, but Ted is still working hard and now also holds part of the shares of Christian Exploration Company and has become a shareholder of Christian Exploration Company.
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Geological exploration work is still very hard, and sometimes it only takes a month or two to go to the field. However, Adan Company takes good care of Ted. It not only sends mercenaries to protect Ted's safety, but also sends a chef to Ted.
and servants, so Ted was in pretty good shape.
"This time we went to Baling Island. The situation on that island is similar to that of the Elizabeth Oilfield. There are oil seedlings. If you want to be more sure, you can drill one or two wells first. But the biggest surprises come from Daman and the Baling Peninsula.
, we discovered a geological structure in Daman and multiple oil seedlings in the Baling Peninsula. There is likely to be a huge oil field there, which may have more reserves than all the oil fields discovered so far combined. Even if
If we don’t develop the oil fields in Daman and Baling Peninsula now, we should buy the land there first and prohibit other oil companies from entering. In addition, we met several colleagues this time. They may work for other oil companies.
I think it is necessary to pay attention to this." As soon as Ted returned to Port Elizabeth, he went to find Carl Fox, the general manager of Southern African Oil Company.
Baling Island is Bahrain in another time and space. Now this island is also the property of Adan Company. Baling Peninsula is the future Qatar. It now belongs to the British sphere of influence. However, the British do not pay attention to the Baling Peninsula. The island is not even subject to British taxation.
There are no officials.
This illustrates the economic value of the Baling Peninsula.
"Comrades from other oil companies?" Carl Fox smiled grimly and immediately rang the bell to call his secretary over: "Call Mr. David and tell him that the Baling Peninsula needs some strong men."
This kind of thing is familiar to the Umbrella Company. Because of the continuous tribal vendettas and natural disasters, in fact, there are no indigenous tribes living along the Persian Gulf, including Daman and the Baling Peninsula. All the indigenous tribes have either been destroyed.
If they were forced to move to the interior of the peninsula, they would suffer misfortune. The areas passed by those desert bandits were basically barren of grass.
"That's really rude, you should choose a more civilized way." Ted didn't approve of Carl Fox's behavior, but he didn't object much.
This is the law of survival in this era. When you return to the city, everyone is a civilized person. Once you leave the city, the gentle gentlemen will turn into demons that eat people without spitting out their bones. Ted has seen this kind of thing too many times in recent years.
Without the protection of mercenaries, Ted would have been dead.
"There is no civilization at all in the face of interests. There can only be one oil company on the peninsula, and that is our Southern African Oil Company." Carl Fox was overflowing with arrogance.
"It's difficult -" Ted's expression was solemn. A colleague had already appeared on the Baling Peninsula. This was a very bad sign.
"As long as they are not afraid of losing their money, then let's do it." Carl Fox laughed. Persian Oil Company is a good example.
Although oil is attractive, it must be profitable. Like the Persian Petroleum Company, when the derrick was blown up and lost all its money, let alone ordinary small businesses, even large companies cannot survive a few times.
Only companies like Southern African Petroleum Corporation, which has the full protection of the umbrella company, can ignore the threat of these "accidents".
Later, Carl Fox hosted a banquet for Tang En and Li De, and Ted also attended the dinner.
At the dinner, Ted introduced the basic situation of oil storage along the Persian Gulf coast to Tang En and Li De, which immediately attracted Tang En and Li De's attention.
"We must control all the land along the Persian Gulf. Even in areas where oil has not yet been discovered, there may be countless oil underground. It is just that it cannot be exploited due to current technical conditions, so it cannot be used. But it does not mean that it cannot be exploited now.
It cannot be exploited in the future. Ten years ago, we relied on manpower to dig oil wells. Now we have begun to use derricks to drill. Our current oil wells are only 500 meters deep. If we cannot find oil within this range, it does not mean that there is no oil. We may go further.
Drill down a little, to one thousand or two thousand meters, and you will find oil fields." Ted can only use experience to judge, and many things cannot be verified due to technical conditions.
Tang En and Li De looked at each other, and both of them could see the greed in each other's eyes.
"Then now it's Daman and the Baling Peninsula." Tang En was eager to give it a try. There were thousands of mercenaries from the Umbrella Company in the Persian Gulf, and it was not okay to always stay in the barracks with nothing to do.
"Don't worry, keep the secret first, and then let the Lord make the decision." Li De is still reasonable. The coast of the Persian Gulf is now the British sphere of influence and is under the jurisdiction of the Governor of Egypt. The Umbrella Company cannot have its own way.
However, some small actions are still possible, such as gradually clearing out the indigenous people along the Persian Gulf coast, prohibiting oil exploration personnel from other companies, and even any unrelated persons from entering the Persian Gulf coast, and sealing off this area.
It is actually not difficult to do this. The ports along the Persian Gulf on one side of the peninsula are now under the control of Adan Company. Except for Port Elizabeth, Adan Company has closed all other ports and prohibited any ships from entering or leaving, so other companies
It is not easy for oil exploration personnel to land smoothly. After all, oil exploration requires tools and equipment. They also need to hire some local people as guides and security personnel to ensure safety. Therefore, oil exploration cannot be completed by one or two people.
On the Persian Gulf coast, if Umbrella Corporation and Adam Corporation do not cooperate, it will be extremely difficult to achieve this.
This is the benefit of planning in advance. Now if other oil companies want to develop oil on the Persian Gulf coast, they all have to look at the Southern African Oil Company. If the Southern African Oil Company does not agree, then even the British oil companies will not be able to develop oil in Persia.
Gulf Coast Survival.
Gulf Oil is a good example.
"Your Majesty is too busy with his work. We should share your worries as much as possible." Tang En has his own plan, and he is not afraid even if he gets into trouble. If it doesn't work, Roque will step in to end it.
While Tang En and Li De were discussing how to occupy the Persian Gulf coast, Rock and Viscount Glaston were in Ulysses on the North Sea.
The current North Sea is still nominally half of Nyasaland and Tanganyika, but Tanganyika is unable to develop the fishery resources of the North Sea. The only gunboat "Weissmann" has not dared to leave port for a long time, so the North Sea
Under the actual control of Nyasaland.
"The North Sea has a total area of 33,000 square kilometers and is rich in aquatic resources. The Rhodesian Canning Company has a canning factory in the North Sea. The cans produced are not only supplied to the southern African market, but also sold to Europe, which is also widely used in the European market.
It's well received." Roque doesn't care about the profits from the cans. After all, the raw materials are provided by the Nyasaland Aquatic Products Company, so everyone makes money.
Viscount Glaston said nothing, his attention mainly focused on the "Viscount".
This ship used to be called the "Lord", but after Rock was promoted to Viscount, the ship was renamed the "Viscount".
The size of the "Viscount" is similar to that of the North Sea Police's flagship "North Sea". According to British standards, it is close to the destroyer level. However, due to the conditions in the North Sea, there are no artillery and torpedoes installed on the "Viscount". Only the left and right sides are installed.
Four large-caliber heavy machine guns and four 40mm naval rapid-fire cannons. This firepower level is second to none in the North Sea. Only marine police ships equipped with artillery pose a threat to the "Viscount".
"How many people are there near the North Sea now?" This is Viscount Glaston's first visit to the North Sea.
In the past, all Viscount Glaston's impressions of the North Sea came from the internal information of the federal government. Although Viscount Glaston also knew that the area of the North Sea exceeded 30,000 square kilometers, only when he came to the North Sea could Viscount Glaston truly realize that a
How big is a lake of 30,000 square kilometers?
It's no wonder that Rock insists on using the name "Beihai".
"There are 25,000 people. The largest city on the entire North Sea coast is Ulysses, with a permanent population of more than 10,000. The rest are distributed in more than 20 residential areas along the North Sea coast. Not all of them rely on the aquatic products of the North Sea for their lives.
, 400,000 hectares of land along the coast of the North Sea have now been developed into fertile farmland, and millions of people can be settled here in the future." Rock is still very proud, that is, only in the hands of the Chinese can the North Sea shine with its true glory.
Four hundred thousand hectares, which is about one million acres or six million acres, sounds like a lot, but in fact, compared to the developable land around Beihai, it is only about 5%, or a little more, 10%.
