May in Draculamore, the chaotic city, is always sultry and humid that the Atlantic monsoon can't blow away.
The salty sea breeze roared over the city, but the crowded vehicles on the streets in the early morning were impatient and honked their horns impatiently, converging into a louder torrent of sound.
The convoy leaving the city was caught in the crowded traffic. There were old cars on the left and right, and traces of age-old rust could be seen on the car bodies. Han Shaorong doubted whether these cars would break down in the middle of the road at every turn, causing the city of Draculamore to collapse.
The traffic situation is even worse.
"I read public information that this city has nearly one million passenger cars, most of which are second-hand cars. But every day I see fleets of cars stuck in the middle of the road slower than a tortoise, and I think about this city.
How does the city look like there are only one million cars?" Han Shaorong still went to Dracula Motors slightly more often than Yu Jinjie, and stayed longer. Sitting in the car, he talked to Yu Jinjie about his feelings for this place.
Feelings about the city.
Yu Jinjie felt a little upset.
His initial move into Africa was mainly due to the fact that a group of domestic steel companies were unwilling to be limited by the three major iron ore giants and were willing to look for new sources of high-quality iron ore outside Australia and Brazil.
Akwa Mamba Iron Ore is a very good choice, with good quality and high reserves. Although it is further away than Australia, it is one day closer than Brazil. However, Akwa’s local energy consumption and human resource costs are far away.
lower than Brazil.
Apart from the unstable political and economic environment, the Mangba iron ore mine in Akwa is a project that domestic steel companies should focus on.
New Steel Union's initial investment in the Catero Steel Plant was mainly to pave the way for its later involvement in the large-scale development of the Akwa Mamba Iron Mine. Who would have thought that it would completely deviate from this direction later?
The large-scale private placement plan was finally successfully implemented. Qiming Technology issued an additional 2 billion new shares to New Steel Alliance, Huamao, Liang Yuan individuals and a number of specific investment institutions. In addition to Xihai, which will fully hold all the assets of Catero Steel Plant, Qiming Technology
Steel was completely absorbed into Qiming Technology, and the listed company after changing its name to Xihai Steel also raised nearly 500 million U.S. dollars in one fell swoop, which will be used to jointly build and operate the Bosso-Catro Steel Industrial Complex with the Evans Foundation.
project.
Although at this point, Yu Jinjie does not need to worry about how much impact the success or failure of the Bosso-Catro Steel Industrial Complex project will have on the New Steel Union, the question is, how does reaching this point have anything to do with the original strategic goals of the New Steel Union?
relation?
This not only caused severe turbulence within the management of New Steel Alliance, but also caused criticism from other investors.
Of course, it can be said that it is extremely difficult for the Bosso-Catro Steel Industrial Complex to be prepared and enter the actual construction stage in such a short period of time. Yu Jinjie will not say anything discouraging.
The convoy finally left the city, and the road and view became wider. Sitting in the car, one could see the rolling turbid water of the Ogun River to the south. Under the sunlight, it seemed to contain billions of bright gems.
The Ogun River cannot be compared with other major rivers in China, but from Catero to Draculamo, the river is deep and wide, and a constant stream of deep-draft cargo ships pass by, but it also highlights the prosperity and busyness of the core economic zone of the Gulf of Guinea.
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"Cao Mo's Lake Noqua estate in Benin was attacked by pirates at the beginning of the year. Now there are rumors everywhere that there are actually forces behind these pirates. Have Mr. Han and Mr. Yu heard any rumors in the country?
?" Dong Chengpeng sat in the passenger seat and turned around and asked.
The attack on Lake Norquay Manor can be said to be the most sensational event for Chinese businessmen in Africa in recent years. Dong Chengpeng has also spread some reports and information to the country before, but before that it was mainly limited to the pirate attack itself and the strengthening of pirate control by countries in the Gulf of Guinea.
The attitude of attacking.
However, even during this period, even if there were no public reports, the public opinion behind it tended to point towards the Evans Foundation, and many analytical articles were posted on relevant online forums, which had a considerable impact.
Dong Chengpeng has collected some information in the past few days, but has not yet had time to send it to Han Shaorong.
Han Shaorong remained silent and did not answer Dong Chengpeng directly. It was obvious that besides Dong Chengpeng, he had other channels to pay attention to the troubles in Africa.
Guo Jian was sitting in the last row of the seven-seater business car. The seat was relatively narrow. His body curled up slightly and he looked at Dong Chengpeng with dark eyes.
Ever since Liang Yuan confessed in front of Ryan Fortis that Dong Chengpeng was Cao Mo's thorn in Han Shaorong's side, and he sat aside and acquiesced, he took advantage of the opportunity of working with Dong Chengpeng to silently follow Dong Chengpeng's every move. :
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When Dong Chengpeng raised this issue at this time, he also wanted to exercise caution and give Han Shaorong a reminder.
Dong Chengpeng had carefully studied the content that had been revealed on the Internet. Although he could guess that Tianyue was most likely the whistleblower behind the scenes, he had to admit that the accusations made by these articles against the Evans Foundation were not without purpose.
Now that the cooperation with the Evans Foundation is a foregone conclusion, Dong Chengpeng believes that necessary precautions cannot be lacking and should be relaxed.
Not to mention that Han Shaorong was silent at this time, Yu Jinjie was even more upset inside.
The operations team of Catero Steel Plant is now directly controlled by Yu Jinjie. Of course, he is also aware of what is being spread in the several online forums where Chinese businessmen gather during this time.
If he were in China, where would he need to get involved in this ridiculous matter?
Of course, in Guo Jian's view, Dong Chengpeng's reminder at this time was undoubtedly an attempt to alienate Huamao. The relationship between New Steel United and the Evans Foundation sounded like Cao Mo was behind the scenes.
However, Ryan Fortis's previous intention was also very clear. He did not want to expand the business until the Bosso Catero Steel Industrial Complex was built, so Guo Jian just sat in the back seat as if he had not heard anything.
Dong Chengpeng didn't know what Guo Jian was thinking, otherwise he would have grabbed him by the collar and asked: What on earth did you hear?
Han Shaorong was silent for a long time and asked Dong Chengpeng: "How far have they gone to acquire an oilfield technical service company in Draculamo and take over Langhua Petroleum's oil exploration business in Quekotos?"
Langhua Petroleum is currently treating a dead cat as a living cat doctor, and does not expect the Fulkov Petrochemical Group to successfully operate all three drilling platforms at once.
In the cooperation agreement, Langhua Petroleum only requires that Fulkov Petrochemical Group can successfully operate one of the drilling platforms before the end of next year, restore the daily production volume to the level of six to eight thousand barrels, and do a good job in the other two
Routine maintenance of one drilling platform is enough.
Therefore, Cao Mo proposed that two years before the two parties signed a cooperation agreement, Fulkov established a specialized oil field service company to undertake the mining of the Quekotos oil field, including mining operations, updating and maintenance of many equipment on the drilling platform, crude oil transportation, and armed escorts, etc.
Including outsourcing business, 50% of crude oil sales need to be used as outsourcing expenses. In the second two years, 40% of crude oil sales need to be used as outsourcing expenses, and then in the fifth year, the outsourcing charges will be reduced to 30%.
In terms of sales, the actual outsourcing charge per barrel is not less than 20 US dollars, which is a relatively reasonable market quotation. Langhua Petroleum did not insist on it for long before fully accepting it. The fastest update on the computer::/
For Langhua Petroleum, it is definitely much easier to find a home for an oil field that is operating normally than an abandoned oil field that is full of unpredictable risks.
In fact, Cao Mo and Sturgeon have their own plans.
They plan to put all three drilling platforms into operation by the end of this year, so they also directly invested in the acquisition of an oilfield service company with considerable scale and technical strength from Draculamo.
Compared with the total daily production volume of 4 million barrels in the Gulf of Guinea at its peak, the peak production capacity of the Quekotos offshore oil field does not seem so terrifying.
However, that is against the background of the huge global crude oil trade scale.
Since the beginning of 2000, international crude oil futures prices have returned to US$80 per barrel.
If the Quekotos offshore oil field production can return to historical highs, the annual output value will be as high as 8 to 1 billion US dollars.
In the first two years, 50% of crude oil sales are used as outsourcing charges, and this drops to 40% in the third year, and to 30% in the fifth year. Even based on the outsourcing charges after the fifth year, the expected annual revenue of this outsourcing business is
It will also be as high as US$300 million.
And as long as the local cheap and affordable human resources can be fully utilized, the profits will never be low.
Even if Huamao's shares in Fulkov Petrochemical Group are now priced very low, Cao Mo doesn't want them to take advantage. More importantly, Cao Mo doesn't want Huamao to have the opportunity to spy on this business.
specific operational details.
Therefore, Cao Mo and Sturgeon finally decided to bypass the Huamao and Oguheimer families and operate the acquired oilfield technical services company separately from the Falk Fu Petrochemical Group.
From the available public information, in addition to knowing that Cao Mo, together with Sturgeon, Conero Lake Industrial Park Co., Ltd. and Guinea Shipping Group jointly invested US$120 million to acquire an oilfield technical services company with three 50,000-ton ships,
Apart from the double-hull tanker crude oil transportation company, Dong Chengpeng is not yet sure whether this company, which was renamed Tianyue Oil Services, has entered into the actual operation stage to undertake the mining business of Kuikotos oil field.
Dong Chengpeng actually told Han Shaorong the latest situation he knew:
"They were very decisive in acquiring the oil services company. I don't know how long they had been talking about it in the early stage. It was not until the beginning of the month that they carried out drastic reorganization of the core business. Huang Hebin was still in charge. Since the outside world is not yet close to the Quekotos oil field, there is no one yet.
Tankers pump crude oil into storage tanks at the Port of Conero Lake, and it’s still hard to judge what’s going on!”
Guo Jian thought of something and interrupted and asked: "Is it possible that Cao Mo directed and acted the attack on Lake Norquay Manor?"
"You're saying that Cao Mo's purpose of directing and acting is to take over the mining business of Kuikotos Oilfield, but isn't this too cruel?" Dong Chengpeng was shocked when he heard Guo Jian's words and asked subconsciously.
He said, "Why do you think so?"
"Is there ever a time when Cao Mo is soft-hearted in doing things?" Guo Jian saw that Dong Chengpeng's subconscious reaction was to question him, and asked Dong Chengpeng in a rather tough tone.
"This has nothing to do with the attack on Lake Norquay Manor. Nearly fifty pirates were killed and nine armed guards and staff were lost in the manor." Dong Chengpeng didn't think too much, thinking that Guo Jian was purely against Cao Mo.
The prejudice was too deep, so he shook his head and said, "If we can direct and act in such a big scene, then we might as well retreat to the country. What qualifications do we have to accompany him to play?"
"..."
Seeing what Guo Jian wanted to say, Dong Chengpeng felt that his conspiracy theory was too strong and didn't want to hear him waste his words, so he said directly,
"Langhua Petroleum was forced to withdraw from the Quekotos Oilfield because of pirate attacks. They were able to come together with Tianyue so quickly to negotiate a cooperation agreement. I think they actually believed that the Evans Foundation was behind the pirate attacks.
Langhua Petroleum, as a party and victim of the Kuikotos Oil Field robbery, I believe they should know too many details better than us, and they cannot easily be fooled by the so-called self-directed and self-acted tricks.
I feel there is no need to discuss this point..."
Han Shaorong and Yu Jinjie didn't really believe in Guo Jian's so-called conspiracy theory at this time, and had no interest in pursuing it further. However, in Guo Jian's view, it was Dong Chengpeng who was always targeting him and driving a wedge between them and the Evans Foundation.