Huahaiyou's guests enjoyed a night of delicious food, fine wine, and top-notch entertainment with the high-end services provided by Gu Kun.
The next day was the official opening ceremony for Lanfang Petroleum Company to sell oil to external parties.
The venue for the ceremony was specially chosen near the newly built huge pier in the north of Lanfang Port - it was an oil tanker terminal that was built in 1998. It took two or three years of construction and was slowly repaired.
Anyway, there is no rush. Basically, the Lanfang Oilfield is undergoing exploration and construction, and the wharf here is also slowly being built.
Of course, the pumping and filling facilities at the terminal can definitely be used to load other liquid cargo ships, but apart from petroleum/refined oil products, there are no other bulk liquid cargoes that can be shipped from Lanfang.
The berth size of this oil tanker terminal has reached an astonishing 300,000 tons, which is a class of oil tankers. The number of berths has also reached two, ensuring that there is a spare, and it can also ensure that the oil production rate of Lanfang Oilfield is fully satisfied without wasting too much.
Lots of transport capacity.
The current measured reserves of the Lanfang Oilfield are only three to four billion barrels. Taking into account the share in the Malay Exclusive Economic Zone that can be cooperated in the future, and if we also use Lanfang Port for external transportation, the total historical reserves are only 5 billion.
Barrels. (Gu Kun boasted that the reserves of the Lanfang Oil Field itself were 5 billion barrels, which was exaggerated by about half. This was for publicity, to enhance Lanfang’s tycoon attributes, and to strengthen netizens’ stereotypes about Lanfang’s character.)
According to the practice of countries where most land has permanent property rights and mineral resources permanently belong to the land owner, the production-to-reserve ratio is generally set at 60 to 70 years before all is mined. Some very Buddhist countries even have a production-to-reserve ratio of 90 years.
The purpose is to save some mining equipment and construction scale. After all, if you dig slowly, you can build less infrastructure, improve the reuse rate of mining facilities, and fully depreciate.
On the other hand, people at the beginning of the 21st century were still thinking that "there will be an oil crisis in the future and oil will become more and more expensive." Therefore, in order to maintain oil prices, many major oil countries that have fallen into the resource curse are hoarding oil and waiting for it to become more expensive in the future.
Digging as much as possible is generally a relatively conservative method. From the big players to Abu Dhabi to Kuwait, they basically do this in a simple and crude way, and the existing oil field reserves have not been dug out for more than 70 years.
But Gu Kun obviously went against the grain on this issue, so much so that when he made the decision, the people at Huahai Oil who worked with him couldn't believe it - Gu Kun directly chose the shortest option, 35 years.
The production-to-reserve ratio will reach around 50 years.
In other words, let the people of Huahai Oil not save money when building the drilling platform and related supporting facilities. They should repair it as large as possible and as fast as possible to dig out oil. Even if it is slightly redundant, it doesn't matter.
All this investment is just to dig out the oil in Lanfang as soon as possible in about 40 years.
For the people of Huahai Oil, it is of course a dream. Since everyone thinks that the human economy will not be able to get rid of heavy dependence on oil in the next sixty or seventy years, even if there is new energy, it will be more expensive. The earlier the oil is dug, the cheaper it will be.
...Of course, CNOOC hopes to purchase more as early as possible.
What's more, Gu Kun asked them to increase the scale of construction, help CNOOC solve more jobs and labor needs, and expand infrastructure investment. Where can Party A find such a good landlord?
Therefore, in the past three years, people from Huahai Oil respected Gu Kun almost as if they were their own father. They felt that cooperating with Gu Kun was too open. The country should strongly support this kind of friendly and friendly country that cares about China, and it is best to do its best to protect it.
For an old friend like Gu Kun, it is best to let Gu Kun and his family live in Nanyang forever.
But from Gu Kun's point of view, he certainly knew that he had taken advantage of this plan - as a reborn person, Gu Kun had twenty years more knowledge about future new energy technologies than any other person on earth at the moment.
The foresight of the speed of development and the relationship between oil supply and demand.
He knows that shale oil, which is still unknown, will be forced out of actual investment by high oil prices in ten or eight years. Although shale oil has little combat effectiveness, the future of new energy vehicles/machines will be Japanese.
Catalytic hydrogen production with high light energy conversion rate and various measures will make oil in the future far less "increasingly scarce" than people predict today.
(Gu Kun is not betting on the plummeting oil prices around 2020. He will not live to see it until then. This price drop is also temporary and is caused by black swan events. Only price drops caused by technological progress are permanent and irreversible.
, Gu Kun’s bet is on predicting technology rather than predicting events)
Therefore, it would be a good idea to give 40 years of varnish digging and change the profession. If Gu Kun can finish the job in his early 60s, the people of Lanfang will no longer need to rely on oil to survive.
With such great determination, the reserves of the Lanfang Oilfield must be pumped out at a scale of 90 million barrels per year. According to the international standard, 7 barrels are about one ton, which means that 13 million tons of oil must be sold every year, and it will also take oil tankers to load it.
There are about 50 to 60 ships (their own weight is 42,000 tons, but the actual oil capacity is less than 300,000 tons)
However, oil tankers cannot leave the port immediately after entering the port. The key depends on the pumping and filling capacity of the terminal facilities. The Chinese are relatively hardworking and efficient. The first-class oil port berth controlled and managed by the Chinese can pump and fill 50,000 tons of crude oil every 24 hours.
In and out of the port, each berth can only receive one ship per week.
Based on this calculation, the annual oil production capacity of 13 million tons and the output of the berths. It seems a bit wasteful for Lanfang to build two 300,000-ton piers.
But what Gu Kun considered was that if only one dock was built, there would be no backup in case of unexpected troubles, which would easily cause losses.
For example, although earthquakes never occur in Lanzhou, the southern edge of Indonesia, thousands of kilometers away to the south, is where the crustal plates join together, and disasters often occur in Indonesia. Although vibration waves cannot affect Lanzhou, tsunamis can easily spread there.
Even if the tsunami has been reduced to a "big wave" by the time we make two turns to Lanfang, it is still possible to cause damage to the dock facilities.
You don't have to worry if you keep a backup for emergencies. If a terminal breaks down and needs to be repaired, the oil depot will not be full and there will be no place to store it, which will waste money and pollute the environment.
On the other hand, Gu Kun was sure that after the operation of Lanfang's oil port improved, as long as there was a cost advantage and it was convenient enough, the Malays from neighboring countries might build pipelines and use Lanfang's oil port terminal to ship goods.
Even Brunei, an old oil-producing neighbor, has been unable to make progress in recent years. Because the geographical environment is not good enough, it is unwilling to spend money to build a large oil tanker terminal. Oil tankers of this level can only accommodate tankers of less than 100,000 tons.
In fact, the natural geological conditions of Lanfang's port are not much better than those of Brunei. If we rely on natural factors, these potential anchorages in the north of Lanfang's main island will definitely not be able to develop a 300,000-ton oil tanker terminal.
It was not because Gu Kun was willing to spend money on infrastructure construction, dredging deeply and building embankments to build longer trestles, that the natural transformation led to the creation of such a large port.
As long as Gu Kun does a good job, in the future, those Bruneians who think "Building is worse than buying" will definitely feel that it is not cost-effective to continue to maintain their own oil port when their own port ages and is in disrepair. It is better to ship it to Lanfang and sell it together. Also save some money on comprehensive shipping costs.
What makes Bruneians completely unambitious? They are typically caught in the "resource curse" and give up their struggle because oil money comes quickly.
How can he be as inspirational as Gu Kun? He is so rich just from oil, and he works so hard to develop. In order to transform from an oil tycoon to a luxury tycoon, he often goes out of his way to personally interact with top European and American celebrities on social media to seek media exposure and maintain traffic popularity.
Other short-sighted oil tycoons in the world have no idea how hard Gu Kun works!
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"It's been three years to achieve what we have today. It's not easy. Gu Kun's handiwork is really big. No other customer has ever seen such a rapid investment in supporting terminals, pipelines, storage and refining facilities. Don't say it, it's pretty good.
It has the aesthetics pursued by the industrial stage, which is not only practical, but also comfortable for tourists to look at.”
At the ceremony site, since it hadn't started yet, Mr. Yang took his assistant around to observe the environment, and then went to the banquet table later. While watching, he felt deep emotions in his heart.
After so many years, I have never been used to seeing it. I have never thought that industrial buildings can also have a magnificent beauty. However, when I arrived at Lanfang, it looked very impressive. It is the same as the nearby Burj Al Arab Hotel that opened recently, and the Lanfang Hotel that has been under construction for nearly two years.
Tower, such a matching combination can inspire the steampunk romantic feelings in men.
The 300,000-ton oil tanker is neither far nor close to the luxury wonders area. You can see such a magnificent ship no matter from the Lanfang Tower or the north-facing guest room of the Burj Al Arab Hotel. It has become a sight in itself.
scene.
The bigger the tonnage, the better, and the more turrets, the more beautiful it is. Even if you know that this is a vulgar oil tanker and it is not elegant, as long as a man poses as if he is standing on the balcony and pointing out the country, his body will honestly want to see this vulgarity.
of romance.
Just like children who have received the education and indoctrination that "only those who study well" will say that they look down on workers, but they will still pass by the excavator on the road and secretly take a second look when no one is around. Chinese culture is suppressed by the weak Confucian consciousness.
, I have not dared to mention this kind of violent beauty for a long time, so Gu Kun provides an environment for customers who are very honest about their health.
Not interesting.
The ceremony finally began, and Mr. Yang was invited to the stage by the emcee. Gu Kun's speech quickly brought him out of his thoughts.
“…here today, I would like to express my personal gratitude and that of the Lanfang royal family to every Huahai Oil employee and every hard-working worker who has made outstanding efforts for the Lanfang shallow offshore oil field project over the past three years.
It is their dedication and hard work that have made everything we see here today possible. In the future, our Lan side will also do more to give back to contributors, promote further friendly cooperation, and achieve mutual benefit..."
Then, Gu Kun first announced a list of Huahai Oil personnel who had been determined to be transferred from oil field exploration and development employees to long-term daily maintenance and operation employees in the future, and cashed in on the spot to allocate these people in Lanfang.
The promise of villa residence.
The employees from the north cheered and were all very excited.
After announcing the award, Gu Kun, led by the staff, cut the ribbon for the official opening of the oil port terminal, and the oil tanker set sail.