After the loan agreement was signed, the next thing was simple. Qingshan Oil Company began to purchase various machinery and equipment with banknotes.
Because the purchased equipment was large and the amount was not small, even Rhodes Machinery Company personally sent a business manager to Qingshan Town to discuss the business.
In fact, for Rhodes Machinery Company, the order from Qingshan Oil Company is not too big. Even if Ding Quankun, in order to increase the bargaining chip, in addition to the steam engines needed by the oil company itself, he also purchased all the items that Boss Wang's ironworks workshop was planning to purchase.
A steam unit was also added, and some other equipment was also purchased from Rhodes Machinery Company.
In addition to producing steam engines, Rhodes Machinery Company also produces various other mechanical products.
But in the end, the purchase amount was only 20,000 Hang Yuan.
Twenty thousand hengyuan may be a large purchase for Qingshan Petroleum Company, but for Rhodes Machinery Company, this amount is still not large.
If someone sells a ship-based steam unit for large ships, it will cost tens of thousands or even more than 100,000.
Last year, the Luohai County Navy purchased a steam engine power system from Rhodes Machinery Company for their first large-scale ironclad ship. The cost of this steam unit system alone exceeded 200,000 yuan.
Qingshan Petroleum Company's order of only 20,000 yuan is really not that big.
However, Rhodes Machinery Company feels that Qingshan Petroleum Company has good development potential as a customer. In just a few months, it has already ordered more than 20 steam units of various types and hundreds of various types of mechanical equipment from their company.
Although these orders are small in their opinion, they are not small in total.
Considering the expansion potential of Qingshan Petroleum Company, Rhodes Machinery Company also attaches great importance to it and wants to establish a good relationship in advance to win over Qingshan Petroleum Company as a customer.
Therefore, they not only sent a business manager to negotiate, but also agreed to send a paid technical team to assist Qingshan Petroleum Company in assembling and maintaining steam engines and other equipment.
In addition to Rod Machinery Company, many other suppliers of Qingshan Petroleum Company have sent their middle and senior managers to negotiate. Some even attach great importance to it. At the same time, relatively small machinery companies also attach great importance to it, and all the bosses come to the door in person.
This situation made Lin Ziran dumbfounded.
On the one hand, it feels very good to be a kid who makes money. When buying and selling, those suppliers want to treat Lin Ziran as his parents.
But on the other hand, I lamented that money was not spent. After signing more than ten purchase orders, I had already spent 70,000 to 80,000 yuan.
However, the refinery cannot be expanded without spending money to purchase equipment, so the crude oil produced in the No. 5 oil well cannot be refined.
Now the No. 5 oil well can produce oil stably every day, and 500 barrels a day is not a discount at all.
However, almost all of the crude oil produced can only be stored. Even though the refinery is working overtime now and all the refining equipment is running day and night, it can only refine more than fifty barrels of crude oil.
Even if everything goes well, it will take at least a month until the current batch of equipment is installed and debugged to reach a refining capacity of one hundred barrels per day.
Naturally, such refining capacity cannot consume the current huge crude oil production capacity.
Therefore, after the crude oil is extracted, it can only be stored first, and it is not simply stored in wooden barrels as in the past, but huge oil storage pools are directly built for storage.
This is also something that can't be helped.
In the past, when Qingshan Oil Company stored and transported oil or kerosene, in order to facilitate settlement, it directly imitated the whale oil industry in Nanzhou County and used standard whale oil barrels as transportation tools. Each barrel can hold approximately 150 barrels.
Nine liters of oil.
In the past, when the output was small, such standard wooden barrels could be used, but now that the output has increased at least ten times, wooden barrels must not be used.
On the one hand, wooden barrels also cost money. Although they can be reused, they also cost money.
In addition, the current production capacity is too large, and there are not so many barrels available in a short period of time.
Therefore, Qingshan Oil Company simply built several large oil pools for storage, and began to use oil pipelines to transport oil within the oil field area to reduce internal transportation costs.
Next, Lin Ziran is also considering building some oil tankers to transport the produced kerosene to Sanyang Ferry.
The huge and simple oil storage tank pipes are filled with crude oil waiting to be refined, and more oil storage tanks are being built. Lin Ziran is helpless when looking at this scene.
This crude oil reserve requires costs, and it cannot be refined and sold. This is equivalent to digging gold and keeping it at home, but not spending it. This makes Lin Ziran extremely helpless.
He knew that his monopoly on kerosene production would not last long in the market!
After all, there can't be only one oil field like Qingshan Oilfield in the world. This is impossible. The world is so big, there are more oil fields, and there are more places with oil seedlings. In the past, people just didn't pay attention to it. Once they pay attention to it, it is estimated that
It won't be long before a large number of oil fields pop up.
I don't know how many people are searching for oil all over the world. Anyway, Lin Ziran heard that people in several nearby towns have started drilling wells to look for oil, but they haven't found it yet.
At the same time, the technology for refining kerosene cannot be kept secret forever. Although Lin Ziran has almost sealed off the entire oil field area, he has protected the core technical backbones, such as Nangong Hou!
But Qingshan Petroleum Company has hundreds of employees, and some middle-level technicians know a little bit about it. They only need to know the basic principles. Other businessmen can find a few chemical experts to conduct experiments, and they will definitely be able to discover the real secret of distilled petroleum.
of.
Maybe in a year and a half, these technologies will be leaked.
Once the oil field is found and the oil refining technology is cracked by others, countless kerosene will be continuously supplied to the market.
If the supply is large, the price of kerosene will definitely plummet.
Even if the profits will still be huge by then, they will certainly not be as profitable as they are now.
Therefore, Lin Ziran must take advantage of this period to squeeze as much profit from kerosene as possible. It does not take too long. A monopoly period of one and a half years is enough to increase the strength of Lin Ziran's Qingshan Patrol Battalion.
Take it to another level.
The strength of Qingshan Patrol Camp is directly related to Lin Ziran's status and future in this world.
Therefore, Lin Ziran is more concerned about the production of kerosene than anyone else.