In the sixties and seventies of the last century, Venezuela's high-quality oil was basically exploited and dried up, and only those heavy oils remained.

The first country in the world to develop heavy oil refining is the United States, and it can even be said that the most powerful of them is Texaco, and later Texaco also built several refineries in Texas to refine heavy oil imported from Venezuela.

Texaco was later acquired by Chevron, and the refineries became Chevron's property.

In the 90s of the last century, when world oil prices skyrocketed, Chevron also increased its investment and upgraded several refineries in Texas to improve the efficiency of refining.

But who would have thought that the Venezuelan madmen would come to power, nationalize all those oil companies, and then sell a large amount of oil to China and other South American countries.

At that time, it was crazy about the gas of the United States, but at that time, it was supported by the oil of the Middle East, and the United States did not look down on the heavy oil of Venezuela.

But Chevron is different, they have upgraded the refining equipment for Venezuela's heavy oil and invested more than 200 million US dollars.

Now that they haven't made a penny, they have gone down the drain, what do you say they are feeling?

Later, Chevron dismantled the equipment one after another, sold it to several countries in South America, such as the copper country, Brazil, etc., and collected patent fees to teach them the technology of refining heavy oil.

But even so, they still didn't feel like it was enjoyable, so this happened to Sunan coming to the door.

Now Venezuela is being sanctioned by the US government, and all the companies in the US do not dare to do business with Venezuela, and Venezuela cannot sell its oil.

The current price is simply low, and the rest of South America is very short of oil.

For example, Colombia, Peru, Brazil, Argentina, the copper country, and even Guyana, next to Sunanli, and French Guiana, are all oil-poor countries.

All of their oil needs to be imported, and the main import object is Chevron.

The only oil-producing country in this area is Sunan-ri, and several oil fields have been discovered near their coastline.

Some of the oil produced by these fields is supplied for their own consumption, and some is exported abroad, such as Guyana, Trinidad, and Caribbean countries such as Barbados.

The Sunanli National Oil Company is nominally state-owned, but in fact it is just a vest worn by Chevron.

Because this company has all the technology from exploration, to mining, to refining, transportation, etc., all of which are supported by Chevron.

Among the company's more than 600 employees, almost all of the management are sent by Chevron, except for front-line workers.

"Wait a minute, Mr. Sunan, I have a question, aren't you Chevron Company afraid of the sanctions imposed by the Chinese government? Aren't you afraid that someone will report it, or the Ministry of Commerce of the United States will find out about the problem of your refining and chemical country's petroleum?"

Xiao Feng called Li Xingkai and explained some of the questions he wanted to ask, and after Li Xingkai returned to the conference room, he directly threw the questions to Sunan.

Sunan on the other side was stunned for a moment, and then a wry smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"Well, I won't hide it from you, or you can find out about it from other sources. We recently invested in a mining and refinery near Tombrijo......"

Li Xingkai nodded, the last time he came to Sunanli, he saw a series of local news reports on TV.

It is said that in the Sunanli National Oil Company, a large oil field was discovered in Yubuliho.

Tonbrijo is a small village located 55 kilometers northwest of the capital, Paramaribo, and only 15 kilometers from the coastline.

It is said that the exploration company has discovered a large oil field with reserves of about 200 million barrels here, and the national oil company in Sunanli intends to build a large refinery by the sea, with a capacity of 7,000 barrels per day.

In this way, not only can we meet the domestic oil supply, but also export the excess oil overseas.

At that time, the news was very hot, and many people in southern Jiangsu were jubilant, thinking that the country would usher in a great development.

But later, there seems to be no movement, and if Sunan doesn't mention this stubble today, he has forgotten the news he read last time.

"Well, I know about that oil field, I've seen the news. ”

Li Xingkai said, but Sunan on the other side smiled even more bitterly at this time.

"Later, half of our factory was built, but there was a problem when it was extracted, because we found that there was not so much oil in the ground, which means that there was only enough oil for us to mine for three years, which was a complete miscalculation!"

"Uh..."

Li Xingkai really didn't know how to comfort this southern Jiangsu, but in the oil industry, such things are very common.

For example, when Australia discovered an offshore oil field in their western seas, at the beginning of exploration, they said that it was a large oil field, and the reserves were at least hundreds of millions of barrels.

As a result, the share price of the Australian company rose from a few dollars to more than 30 Australian dollars in just a few days.

As a result, after only one year of mining, the oil below dried up, and the company's share price plunged from more than 30 Australian dollars to a few cents, and finally went bankrupt.

This time, Chevron didn't know that there was a mistake in that link, so it caused such an oolong incident.

But for a volume like Chevron, that is, losing hundreds of millions of dollars, it is not a big deal for them.

Originally, it was an unlucky thing, but for Sunan, an ambitious guy who wanted to climb up, he felt that he had encountered an opportunity.

Especially after he learned through the copper country oil side that there was actually a Chinese on Ithaca's side who could get low-cost heavy oil from Venezuela, he came up with an idea in his head.

Chevron's refinery in Texas is dedicated to Venezuelan oil, but there are still two of them there.

The equipment inside has been disposed of by the company as a non-performing asset for a long time.

However, there was an oolong incident here in Tangbuliho in southern Sunan, and half of the factories were built, only to find that there were not so many reserves at all.

According to the normal way of thinking, the oil company will definitely not continue to invest in the construction of refineries, and as for the kowtow machine invested in the early stage, it will have to wait until the oil is drained and withdrawn immediately.

But what if the domestic oil equipment is secretly reorganized and utilized?

For example, if the equipment of the Texas factory is transported to Tombriho, and the heavy oil is obtained from Venezuela and refined here, then it can be directly sold in Brazil, Colombia, and the Caribbean.

In terms of the current cost of heavy oil and the price of oil in Venezuela, this plan is simply promising.

Making hundreds of millions of dollars a year is an easy task.

It was with this idea that Sunan came to the door and wanted to talk about cooperation with Li Xingkai.

At this time, Xiao Feng, who was sitting in the back, also understood what Sunan meant, and he called Li Xingkai again, asking Li Xingkai not to agree in a hurry, and to come back first to discuss it.

Li Xingkai agreed, then turned around and went back to the conference room, chatted with Sunan for a few more words, and finally told him that they would have to think about it for a few days.

Sunan smiled and nodded, after all, such a big business can't be decided soon.

Sunan left, and Li Xingkai returned to the president's office upstairs with a smile.

"Haha, this person is really an accident, Mr. Xiao, I really want to thank you!"

Looking at this guy's happy face, Xiao Feng felt that this guy must have some ideas.

"What? What are we going to get out of this deal?

"Hehe, what I want is to be exempted from the control of the flow of money! Needless to say, this will be beneficial to the future development of our bank. ”

"Huh, how?"

Xiao Feng also sat up straight.

Although Sunanli is rich in gold, the circulation of foreign exchange is very troublesome.

For example, if you send money abroad, you can only send up to $500 a day, and it is very difficult to get some money out.

It is even more difficult to transfer money to the company and earn it overseas, and if you don't do it, you will have to provoke someone to check the account.

Therefore, many Chinese people are very fond of underground banks, and when you go to those banks, as long as you give them gold, you will receive the same amount of cash in your overseas account the next day.

It's fast and convenient, so it's not just Chinese people who like to use it, but many other foreigners who do business here like to use it.

But this is not as secure as formal banks, and if it can get the right to move money in and out freely, then the Maribo National Bank has a big deal to do.

"We can contact the president and ask him to grant us a franchise. ”

"What?

"Of course you can, what's not to do?"

Li Xingkai rolled his eyes, obviously looking down on Xiao Feng's rare and strange appearance.

And Xiao Feng finally understood this time, why do people often say that South America is a magical continent, and the rules here are like child's play?

Any law, any morality is bullshit, as long as you have a way, you can change everything.

"Can you tell me more about that? First of all, how do you get on the line of the president? That Djotte, he doesn't seem to be a good talker. ”

Xiao Feng also did a lot of homework about Sunanli before he came, at least he always knew who the president of this country was.

The current president of Sunanli is named Deyote, a former military man, who staged a military coup in the 80s of the last century and overthrew the government at that time.

Later, he served as Minister of Military Affairs and other positions, and later formed his own political party and participated in several national elections, but in the end he was unsuccessful.

It wasn't until a few years ago that he was elected president of the country.

At first glance, this resume is an old fritter with ups and downs in the sea, and it is definitely not so easy to get him to issue a franchise.

Xiao Feng wanted to know how Li Xingkai was going to operate this matter.

And this old guy, although he claims to have Chinese ancestry, a series of policies after coming to power don't seem to be particularly friendly to the Chinese.