The old group has been disbanded. I will always stay in this group on rainy days: 254981398. Only genuine subscribers are accepted.
————
Kong Jiayu received a high-level reception at the Suzhou Yamen. Regarding Kong Jiayu's request to purchase a large area of wasteland for oil exploration, the Suzhou Yamen said that everything would be easy to handle.
But Kong Jiayu has spent a lot of time dealing with officials, so he naturally knows that these officials may sound nice on the surface, but they may bite you as soon as they turn around.
Sure enough, the Suzhou Yamen soon stated that the local finance department of Suzhou used land resources as shares and asked to occupy a part of the shares in the oil field. Moreover, the appetite was not small, and it was 80% with just one mouth!
Kong Jiayu made a direct expression!
Although cooperative development is the basic principle, when developing minerals, many domestic mining companies choose to cooperate with land owners, regardless of whether they are private individuals, other enterprises, or simply the government. The mining companies provide funds and technology, etc.
Landowners mine land and mineral resources and then cooperate to develop them.
Of course, you can also choose to purchase land directly, but this generally only occurs when private individuals or private companies own the land.
But when the owner of the land is a government official, this is not possible.
In the past, there were several local officials who dared to do this, but they all died miserably in the end. They were basically accused of selling state-owned assets at a low price and were shot!
So now, cooperative development is the common model, but this requires 80% of the shares, which is not a small appetite.
You know, the Suzhou Yamen didn't plan to offer anything except a piece of desolate land. Not only did they want shares, they also demanded that the refinery be built there.
Because they also want jobs and more tax revenue.
After fully witnessing the greed of local officials, Kong Jiayu would not give up. He had been in the business world for so many years. He had previously led a team to explore and develop oil in Yanchang, Shaanxi, and had signed a similar agreement with the local government.
So it is quite skillful to negotiate!
It is said that Datang is the only Royal Petroleum Company that has the technology to develop oil, and another very important thing is that the technology patent for refining kerosene from petroleum is also in their hands. They spent a huge sum of money to buy out this technology from the Royal Institute of Technology.
patent.
Within fifteen years, they were the only ones in the Tang Empire and even around the world who could use this technology to refine kerosene from oil.
If other companies want to refine kerosene from petroleum, they can only develop new refining technologies.
Similarly, Royal Petroleum Company also has absolute technical and market advantages in surveying, development and applications.
It can even be said that if the Royal Petroleum Company did not want it, Suzhou's oil resources would not be developed at all.
And throughout the empire, there was more oil, not just domestically, but also overseas.
The world is so big and there is so much oil. Our Royal Petroleum Company will not be trapped in Suzhou.
As a result, the two sides talked back and forth, and finally the Gansu Governor's Yamen personally intervened, which allowed the two sides to reach a cooperation agreement.
The Gansu governor's office is also looking at local development.
Gansu has traditionally been a border town area. Let alone industry, even agriculture is not very good, and even the population is not that big.
Although in recent years, a large number of immigrants have been attracted to colonize the border areas in order to enrich the frontiers, overall agriculture is still not very good, and industry is close to zero.
It is not easy for a company to develop oil in Gansu. If there is an opportunity to develop the oil industry, the Gansu governor's office will naturally attach great importance to it.
With the coordination of various parties, Royal Petroleum Company and Suzhou local government also reached an agreement on cooperative development. Suzhou local finance will invest in land, accounting for 51% of the shares, and Royal Petroleum Company will invest in capital and technology, accounting for 100% of the shares.
Forty-nine/49, they jointly established Suzhou Oilfield Company to explore and develop oil.
As a condition for Suzhou's local concession, Royal Petroleum Company also agreed that if the oil field's output reaches a certain level, it will directly build a refinery there.
Suzhou just wants to keep the oil industry directly in the local area to develop the oil industry.
For Royal Petroleum Company, locating the refinery directly can also avoid the cost and trouble of long-distance transportation of crude oil, and directly refine the refined kerosene and transport it to other regions for sale.
Before the two parties signed the agreement, the survey team had actually started its own work.
After all, one is the government and the other is a royal enterprise. It seems that the government and commercial companies are negotiating, but they are all coordination of interests within the government. At most, it is a matter of interest distribution. However, the exploration and development of Suzhou Petroleum will not be affected by this.
Stopped due to conflict of interests on both sides.
If we can't reach an agreement, I'm afraid Jinling will directly intervene.
Therefore, the technical experts of the survey team did not pay attention to the various negotiations at the rear. As soon as they arrived in Suzhou, they went to the wilderness to conduct on-site inspections and prepare to drill wells.
Prior to this, an advance team of hundreds of people sent by the Royal Petroleum Company had actually conducted a detailed topographic survey of the areas with oil springs in the Laojun Temple area.
After making preliminary survey preparations, within a few days, they selected a place to start drilling a well.
However, due to limitations of surveying technology, the first well drilled did not produce oil!
But they didn't stop.
The first well didn't produce oil, so they started drilling the second well without stopping.
At this time, Kong Jiayu also settled all the troubles in Suzhou, signed an agreement, and went to the construction site!
There are many workers on the construction site here. In addition to about thirty technicians from the Royal Petroleum Company, there are also hundreds of ordinary young people hired locally.
Transporting so much large equipment from the city to the wilderness is also a troublesome matter. It requires a lot of manpower to transport it, and the construction also requires a lot of manpower.
Kong Jiayu walked into the tent and saw Professor Ding Lin, the technical leader of the survey team, the chief survey engineer of the Royal Petroleum Company, and hired from Jinling University of Technology.
"Professor Ding, what's going on?"
When Kong Jiayu entered the tent, Professor Ding Lin was working at his desk. He raised his head and glanced at Kong Jiayu and said: "The first deep well was drilled in the wrong position, and now we are drilling the second deep well!"
Kong Jiayu naturally knew that the first well had failed. He was actually asking about the situation of the second well, but as a smart man, he knew very well who was the boss in the survey team.
Professor Ding Lin is the boss. In order to find him, Royal Petroleum Company promised to donate a batch of experimental equipment to his laboratory.
Test equipment is extremely expensive, and Royal Petroleum spent a lot of money every time.
But if it hadn't been like this, Professor Ding Lin wouldn't have come to this barren mountain and forest to help prospect for oil.
It cost such a huge price to invite this person over, and Royal Petroleum Company also sent many of its own technical backbones to follow him, hoping that the technical backbones of his own company would also be able to learn both skills.
Professor Ding Lin was different from ordinary academics. He was not too arrogant. After saying that, he stood up and pointed at a map on the shelf: "I have recalculated it and calculated it based on the nearby terrain.
In other cases, three directions were selected, and this is the location where we are drilling the well now!"
Kong Jiayu naturally didn't understand calculations. He didn't even know what Professor Ding Lin used to determine the location of the well.
However, he still pretended to step forward and take a look. In his opinion, there was nothing special about these calibration locations.
After another chat, Kong Jiayu took the initiative to ask if the technicians in the survey team had any other difficulties in life. If they did, please mention it as soon as possible, and you were welcome.
Professor Ding Lin was actually not polite, he complained a lot, and then listed a lot of requirements, the most important of which was a large number of equipment.
Moreover, many of the required equipment are not readily available and must be customized by a machinery company.
This cost is not small!
But this was not something Kong Jiayu would consider. He directly wrote down many requests, and then began to order the more than ten people he brought with him. Some problems that could be solved directly locally, such as food and drinking water supply, would be solved directly.
Problems, such as insufficient manpower, etc.
He can solve it directly on the spot.
As for mechanical equipment, you can only send people to nearby machinery factories to inquire. For some types of equipment with relatively high requirements, you have to send people to large machinery companies with excellent technology.
Kong Jiayu's ability to do things was still good. Within a few days, he got some equipment one after another. For some equipment that couldn't be obtained in a short period of time, he also found someone to come up with alternative solutions temporarily.
Although it is said to be difficult to use, it is barely usable.
Half a month later, Professor Ding Lin and a group of people went to the third drilling well. Professor Ding Lin's face didn't look good on the way.
Because this was the third drilling well, but the oil still failed to come out, which put him under a lot of pressure.
The cost of drilling a well in this wilderness is huge. Not to mention, the cost of so much equipment is extremely high. Even though he is an academic, Ding Lin has basically no concept of money, but seeing so much money being spent every day
I went in but couldn't find anything, which made me anxious.
Although the money lost was not Ding Lin’s money, it did damage his academic reputation!
He is the chief engineer of this survey team. Before coming to Jiayuguan, Gansu, he boasted in front of his colleagues at Jinling Institute of Technology that he wanted to be the number one person in the imperial oil industry.
Drilled the first oil well in human history.
But it has been more than a month since he came to Jiayuguan, but he has not even built an oil well. Instead, it has cost countless money, which makes him a little anxious.
If oil cannot be produced, although the Royal Petroleum Company will not lose its experimental equipment, it will still be embarrassing, and it will have to be scolded behind his back.
When the second drilling also failed, he summoned many technicians and started the technical demonstration again. After spending several days and nights, he determined the location of the third drilling well.
This time, he specifically chose a place several kilometers away from the No. 1 and No. 2 drilling wells.
His intuition told him that he could find the oil layer this time!
Well, he also had this intuition the previous two times!