How to prevent oil thieves from stealing crude oil seems to be an easy question to answer. It is nothing more than strengthening the armed forces.
However, Andre does not think this question is easy to answer, because strengthening the armed forces is only a temporary solution and does not address the root cause at all.
If we only treat the symptoms but not the root cause, even if we can severely crack down on oil thieves now, they will reappear after a while.
In order to cure the root cause, on the one hand, the relevant parties in East Africa must cooperate to strengthen the crackdown on oil thieves; on the other hand, they must work hard on the oil thieves.
Andrei answered his thoughts, which made Vladimir quite satisfied after hearing it.
He couldn't change the attitude of the relevant departments in East Africa, and he didn't think it was necessary. It was too difficult. It was different from Budiniya and Nyar. After all, it had been a historical colony of the Ying Kingdom, so emotionally it was more or less the same.
Preferring to Yingguo.
As for the oil thieves, they can be put to good use.
Therefore, Vladimir was looking forward to the outcome of Machyev's trip to East Africa deep in his heart.
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Bracken and Campbell indeed invested more than $10 billion invested by the two of them and other shareholders in the oil exploration field in East Africa.
Essien, the current boss of East Africa, is indeed as analyzed by Vladimir and the others. He has been funded by Yingguo and has also studied in English-speaking countries. Therefore, when giving Bracken and the others a few oil prices,
All at pretty good prices too.
Due to the rapid arrival of funds, Bracken and his newly registered BC Petroleum Company directly used the construction team of Huaxia. The construction has been carried out for more than two months. Transportation, pipelines, and mines are all proceeding in an orderly manner, in accordance with the agreement signed by both parties.
The contract will be completed in less than three months.
Essien gave Bracken a very low price for their oil fields, and he himself received a lot of rewards from this very low price.
"By the way, gentlemen, there is an oil field in another place now. The mining conditions there are better, but the external environment is not good."
"What external environment?" Bracken smiled slightly. He seemed to have understood the meaning of Essien's words, but he didn't want to say it, but needed Essien to say it.
"It is currently occupied by some illegal oil thieves. We have tried to crack down on them, but the impact has been minimal. Those guys are even equipped with many American weapons, such as stingers, which have eaten a lot for our fighter jets.
"Essien just wanted to use Bracken and the others to come over to invest in oil, severely crack down on those oil thieves, and at the same time enhance his personal prestige.
Two years ago, a group of oil thieves destroyed an oil pipeline from the energy department of an East African country. The local villagers were very happy with the "gift" that fell from the sky. They couldn't help but pick up all the tools in the house that could hold oil and join in the oil theft.
of ranks.
At first, there were not many villagers, but later, thousands of villagers from several surrounding villages joined in. As a result, for some unknown reason, an explosion occurred at the leak port, and several kilometers of crude oil pipelines were scrapped on the spot.
, the billowing smoke is like a scene from an atomic bomb test.
This accident not only severely tarnished the reputation of this country in East Africa, but also caused the deaths of four to five hundred people. Broken human bodies were everywhere at the accident site.
It was also due to this incident that the original boss was dismissed in the general election two years ago, and Essien became the boss of East Africa.
The profits in the field of oil extraction are huge, and the cost of oil thieves is zero. Therefore, according to incomplete estimates, the country in East Africa loses about 3 to 5 billion US dollars in this area alone every year. Such losses are very important to dogs.
It may not seem like much to big households, but for a poor and backward country like East Africa, it is definitely a huge amount of income.
So Essien decided to use Bracken and others to severely crack down on the oil thieves.
"Where's the data on that oil field?" Bracken and the others are so smart. They need to seek to maximize profits while balancing costs and benefits.
"Wait a minute and I'll have someone deliver it."
"good."
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An hour later, the information on the oil field was sent over. The oil experts brought by Bracken and the others made a rough calculation based on the survey data. The proven storage capacity of this oil field was about 1 billion tons, although it was not as large as a dog.
Big players often have oil field reserves of tens of billions of tons, but in the Philippines they are definitely quite good.
After reading this, the oil expert nodded gently to Bracken and Campbell.
"It's definitely not possible for us to send people, but it's not a big problem to give you weapons and equipment." Bracken said.
Essien said: "With the advanced weapons and equipment you provide, it shouldn't be a big problem. If we can provide some more military experts or use some high-tech weapons, such as satellite reconnaissance, I think our confidence in cracking down on oil thieves will increase."
It’s more than enough.”
Bracken said directly: "Mr. Essien, there is no problem in providing some military experts. As for satellites, we are currently unable to make the decision, but we will also mediate after we return. If we can get the help of satellites, it will definitely be the best solution."
It couldn't be better."
Essien also knew that their strength should not be underestimated, and said again: "And the United States, could you please say hello and stop selling Stinger missiles? That thing is a nightmare for our aircraft."
Bracken's answer to this is also quite official. After all, this is related to the interests of two different countries, and they can only mediate. As for the result, they can only say that they will try their best.
"Well, I look forward to your good news." Essien said with a smile.
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An oil field with a storage capacity of up to 1 billion tons was worth at least tens of billions of dollars. Essien sold it to Bracken and the others for less than two billion US dollars, which made Bracken and Campbell determined.
Determined to teach those oil thieves a lesson.
Originally, Yingguo, as an old capitalist country, has always attached great importance to the legitimate interests of its citizens overseas, so it did not encounter particularly big obstacles in opening the right to use civilian reconnaissance satellites.
However, Bracken encountered a setback in his contacts with the Americans. The Americans insisted that they did not sell the Stingers to East African oil thieves.
As for the request to inquire about the sting-related sales batch numbers, the Americans said that they did not have relevant evidence and therefore would not conduct inquiries.
The frustrated Bracken once again tried his best to sell some advanced weapons and equipment to relevant departments in East Africa.