After the Lantern Festival, Cao Mo rushed to Paris to attend the signing ceremony for Langhua Petroleum to invest in the Fulkov Petrochemical Group.
Prior to this, in addition to exchanging part of the equity of Heyuan Power, Ding Zhaoqiang and Qian Wenhan also invested a total of one billion yuan to acquire an additional part of the equity of Fulkov Petrochemical from Tianyue Investment, and transferred their respective shares to Fulkov
Petrochemical's shareholding increased to 3%.
Huamao finally chose to withdraw from Fulkov Petrochemical and took away US$150 million in cash. The Oppenheimer family also finally chose to accept the current financing plan. The cross-shareholding structure of Fulkov Petrochemical is
Disassembled smoothly.
After Langhua Petroleum's capital injection, Tianyue Investment's shareholding in Fulkov Petrochemical Group was reduced to 44%. Even though it is no longer as exclusive as before and the distribution of interests is more balanced, it still remains the controlling shareholder.
status.
As the second largest shareholder, Sturgeon Foster holds 12% of the shares of Fulkov Petrochemical, with an equity of nearly US$500 million. This is also the return of his energy layout and planning in Kanem over the years.
Langhua Petroleum injected capital and held 10% of the shares, becoming the third largest shareholder of Fulkov Petrochemical.
Dongsheng Holdings and Sun Hung Investment each hold a 3% stake in Fulkov Petrochemical. The Oppenheimer family's shares are broken down and hold a 2% stake in Fulkov Petrochemical.
In addition, investors including the Felician family, Blake family, Sika family, Rupert family, Stanning family, Bertich and other investors hold a total of 22% of the shares; while Huang Hebin and others
The management within the company only holds 4% of the shares of Ferkov Petrochemical Group.
In the field of oil and gas exploration and refining, which is characterized by heavy assets, the valuation of 4 billion U.S. dollars of Furkov Petrochemical Group is not even considered. Among the many giants in the same industry, it can only be regarded as a little brother.
However, Ferkov Petrochemical relies on the Kuikotos Oilfield in the upstream and the fuel market in severe short supply along the Gulf of Guinea in the downstream, and has an extremely stable and optimistic profit model.
Of course, all this depends on being able to suppress the pirate forces around Quekotos and not dare to show up.
This will not only ensure the extraction of 30,000 barrels of crude oil per day from the three existing drilling platforms in the Quekotos Oil Field, but will also require investment in survey operations for the Quekotos Oil Field and nearby waters, and will also use Langhua Petroleum as an asset.
Two comprehensive semi-submersible drilling platforms were injected into Furkov and launched into the southern waters of the Gulf of Guinea to further improve crude oil extraction and refining capabilities.
Crude oil, as the blood of modern industry, plays an important role in the national economy. At present, three central state-owned enterprises, namely PetroChina, Sinopec, and China National Offshore Oil Corporation, are taking the lead in overseas oil and gas expansion.
To a certain extent, this is a game between countries.
In addition to the macro-political, military, and economic support behind this, the funds used are also unimaginably huge.
Cao Mo has no ambitions in oil and gas development. At this time, the main purpose of integrating Fulkov Refinery is to bring in Langhua Petroleum to compete with the Evans Foundation.
After the attack on Lake Norquay Manor, a small-scale military standoff, or confrontation, with the Evans Foundation was inevitable.
Taking over the cooperation with Langhua Petroleum and taking over the exploitation and maintenance of the Kuikonov Oilfield not only places the defense line against pirates in the southern waters of the Gulf of Guinea, but also has another important reason, which is that the Kuikotos Oilfield mining operations can directly provide
Tubman Security Consultants shares more than a third of the security budget.
Tubman Security Consultants’ training camp base in Augusta has been officially put into use after nearly a year of construction.
The infrastructure cost of the Augusta training camp base is not high. In addition to a small dock that can accommodate a 3,000-ton supply ship, the barracks and activity center, shooting range, complex building, command and intelligence center and other buildings can accommodate 500 people.
Based on the scale of mercenaries and training students, the investment is only 30 million US dollars.
However, in order to improve intelligence reconnaissance and small-scale combat assault capabilities, in addition to conventional weapons and equipment, Tubman Security Consulting invested US$40 million in the purchase and construction of reconnaissance systems last year.
These are not a one-time investment. Daily maintenance and follow-up training will cause huge operational losses. :(/
Tubman Security Consultants' daily maintenance budget per capita increased threefold before and after the attack on Lake Norquay Manor, in addition to weapons and equipment procurement and investment in base construction.
Although "A Thousand Days Against Thieves" will inevitably be passive, Cao Mo made such a high investment in Tubman Security Consulting Company, including the purchase of light and heavy weapons and equipment and training
The construction of the camp base is legal.
In Africa, there are a few private mercenary companies that are stronger than Tubman Security Consultants, but they are completely different from the pirate forces secretly supported by the Evans Foundation in the south of Quekotos but not visible to the public.
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The Evans Foundation can secretly provide untraceable funds to pirate forces, and can also assist in the purchase of weapons and equipment commonly seen on the arms black market such as rocket launchers, rapid-fire machine guns, and high-speed boats.
However, it is difficult for the Evans Foundation to deliver more sophisticated equipment such as military radars, armed helicopters, and reconnaissance drones to pirate forces through secret channels without revealing their flaws.
Not to mention, it is impossible for the Evans Foundation to build a formal paramilitary base, conduct strict training for pirates without strict training, cannot openly recruit well-educated talents, and give high-precision equipment to pirates without knowing how to use it.
ah.
As a result, the combat effectiveness of the pirate forces secretly supported by the Evans Foundation was far behind that of Tubman's security consultant, let alone those ordinary pirates.
In the past year, the special operations security team of Tubman Security Consultants has had more than ten encounters with various pirate forces in the waters south of Quinatos, and each time they have won a resounding victory.
What casualties.
In addition to the Augusta training camp base, Lake Norquay Manor also underwent re-planning and construction after the attack as a living area for dispatched employees. Cao Mo stayed in Paris for half a month and flew directly from Paris to Cotonou.
, participated in the opening ceremony of the Lake Norquay employee living base.
In addition to Cotonou's first and second power plants, steel plants, copper smelters, and oil refineries, after more than a year of intense planning and construction, they have all entered the trial production stage.
The construction speed of these factories is so fast that Tianyue maintains its consistent high-speed record along the Gulf of Guinea coast.
Benin's industrial base is much worse than Dracula Mo's. Even though they recruited a large number of middle and low-level technical engineers and skilled workers from the descendants of the colonists, these factories still hired a group of management and technical backbones from the country with high salaries.
, ensuring stable and efficient operation in the early stage.
At present, in Cotonou-Podonov, in addition to Chinese businessmen, their families, and employees who are doing business or investing in private enterprises, there are also more than 200 Chinese employees directly affiliated with Tianyue Holdings and shareholding companies.
In the past, a hotel was booked in Cotonou to provide food and accommodation for Chinese employees, but the hotel's activity space was still too narrow.
Lake Norquay Manor has been rebuilt. In addition to the villa-style dormitory building, a restaurant in the main building, and an activity center including various function rooms, the manor also has shooting training ranges, swimming pools, basketball courts, badminton courts and other cultural and sports facilities. The conditions are
Much better than simply staying in a hotel.
However, the most distinctive feature of the living base is that the main building survived four rocket launchers during the attack and was preserved as a memorial; the wall facing the lake is also built to be particularly strong and towering.
Cao Mo revisited his old place and stood in front of the preserved damaged main building. He was also a little emotional. When he saw two explosion-proof vehicles parked in the field in front, he laughed with Zhang Chaoyang and others: "If you are so exaggerated, I don't believe it."
There are pirates who dare to attack here..."
"It is still necessary to be careful."
Zhang Chaoyang has strong management capabilities. He also has the largest number of dispatched employees used by the Cotonou Steel Plant. Zhang Chaoyang is also in charge of the employee living base. He does not want to see any accidents happen at today's opening ceremony.
And he also knows that the current situation is still very complicated.
"Has the Xinhai Metallurgical Design Institute now come up with the design plan for the Cotonou Second Steel Plant?" Cao Mo asked Zhang Chaoyang.
"The first factory has just been put into trial operation, and the second factory is about to be launched soon. Xinye thought it was not so urgent, and the Spring Festival was in the middle, so I made a special trip back to China to urge it. I just faxed the first draft yesterday," Zhang Chaoyang said, "I
I took someone with me to go through it overnight, and only some minor issues were not resolved, but overall there was no problem..."
In recent years, domestic steel production capacity has been exploding. The planning, design and corresponding technology of domestic steel plants can be said to be leading the world. Therefore, even if it is the first draft, we will directly follow the construction here, and then make detailed adjustments during the construction process.
, there is no fear that anything will go wrong.
Of course, the Cotonou First Steel Plant has a designed annual production capacity of one million tons, which has already filled the gap in demand for crude steel along the Gulf of Guinea. Especially since it is still in the trial production stage, generally speaking, there should be no rush to build a larger scale.
The second phase of the project.
However, one of the important purposes of Cao Mo's initial investment in building an industrial cluster in Cotonou was to put pressure on the Akwa authorities.
steel factory, smelting
After the oil plant and copper smelting plant are put into operation, if all raw materials are imported from the Northern Province of Akwa, they will contribute approximately 10 to 2 billion US dollars in mineral income to the Northern Province of Akwa every year.
This is a figure that cannot be ignored for Akwa, which is still extremely backward in industrial development, and specifically for Northern Province, where the mining industry is relatively developed.
However, the Benin authorities have been negotiating with the Sewi Presidential Administration in Akwa for more than a year, and there has been no substantial progress in the construction of this railway.
At present, in addition to the Cotonou copper smelter continuing to transfer the copper concentrate mined from the Usan River copper-gold mine from Drake via Pemme Port, the Cotonou oil refinery will subsequently take over the crude oil mined from the Quekotos oil field.
The Cotonou Steel Plant has also signed a supply agreement with Seri, giving up the purchase of iron ore from Mamba in Akwa, which is equivalent to a direct loss of more than one billion U.S. dollars in revenue for Akwa Northern Province a year.
What's more, once the Mamba-Cotonou railway is successfully constructed, it will be able to produce minerals from Akwa Norte Province and open a new sea channel in the Port of Cotonou, which will be of even greater significance.
As the most developed industrial and mining industry in Akwa, the Northern Province contributes a considerable proportion of industrial output value. It has always been an industrial powerhouse for the Akan people and has always been the traditional power territory of President Seviyi.
Now, due to the selfish grievances of the Sewie family, the construction of the Mamba-Cotonou railway has not seen the light of day, which directly harmed the interests of the Northern Province and the local traditional powerful forces, and caused domestic dissatisfaction with President Sewie and his wife in Akwa.
His family's voice of dissatisfaction became stronger and stronger.
At this time, Cao Mo was still very grateful that he had decisively invested in the construction of an industrial cluster in Cotonou and had it completed and put into operation so quickly, so that the people in Akwa could clearly see how much losses were ahead of them.
The international gold price fluctuated for a year at US$1,300 per ounce last year. After the year, it continuously crossed the threshold of US$1,400 and US$1,500 per ounce.
In addition to the official formation of the gold futures bull market, the price of metallic copper has also risen to a rare high in history. The price of electrolytic copper per ton may cross the critical line of US$10,000 at any time.
Under this situation, if the Saivi family's ruling foundation in Akwa had not been affected to a certain extent and restricted by the moderate forces of the Kant tribe, it would be difficult to imagine that they would not join forces with the Evans Foundation again.
, the idea of moving the Wusang River copper and gold mine.
Of course, the combat effectiveness displayed by Tubman Security Consulting Company is not worth mentioning in front of military powers, but there have always been serious conflicts between the Akan and Kant tribes in Akwa.
To retain the armed forces, the Sevi family has to consider what kind of chemical reaction will occur if Tubman Security Consultants is a chess piece in Akwa's domestic military balance chess game.
The Wusang River copper and gold mine has an economic value of up to 70 to 80 billion U.S. dollars based on its current proven reserves, construction and mining cost. Before the price of gold and metallic copper futures surged, the Wusang River copper and gold mine was due to mining, transportation and other costs.
It is not low, but its economic value is far less outstanding. It has surpassed any existing super-large oil field in Africa, and it is currently attracting more and more attention internationally.
This is both a good thing and a bad thing.
The good thing is that more and more people are being targeted, which makes the Evans Foundation and the Savvy family understand that even if they act rashly, it will be difficult to take it for themselves. The bad thing is that no one is willing to see the Tianyue family take advantage of it.
In Akwa, ordinary people's attention to the Usan River copper-gold mine is also extremely high, and the calls for Ibogu Mining to speed up the development of copper-gold mines are getting stronger and stronger.
Cao Mo had long realized that behind these strong calls, the Evans Foundation and the Savvy family were fanning the flames.
Their intention is also obvious, which is to deceive Tianyue from investing tens of billions of dollars in the Wusang River copper and gold mine to build a second mine before he is more certain.
However, by simply delaying it like this, they can further incite the people of Akwa against the Ibogu mining industry.
By then, whether Saiwei directly signs a presidential executive order, or Akwa's National Assembly passes a bill to take back the mining rights of the Usan River copper and gold mine, it will gain widespread support in Akwa.
For now, Cao Mo is still focusing on the Mamba-Cotonou railway.
In any case, if the Usan River copper and gold mine increases its development efforts, it will also need to have sufficient transportation capacity to transport the ore to the sea. If he continues to build a second steel plant in Cotonou, he can justifiably change the name to Usan River.
Copper and gold mines also come to sea from Cotonou.
This will also facilitate the attention of the people in Akwa to the construction of the Mamba-Cotonou railway...