Chapter 214: Dumping Oil (2)
Oil resources are set by the oil-producing countries united, and the oil-buying countries can only buy them by pinching their noses, but they will more or less leave some strategic reserves, so as to prevent the oil-producing countries from relying on their advantages to do the black thing of jointly raising oil prices.
Since the beginning of last year, international crude oil prices have risen for about three months, remained at a high level for a while at the end of last year, and since the beginning of this year, they have risen from more than $80 a barrel to more than $100.
The United States is stepping up oil exploitation, Russia is also stepping up exploitation, and almost all importing countries are reducing their purchases, and the need to hoard reserves has been curbed.
Brazil's oil production accounts for less than 1 percent of the world's total, and Ibn is a new company that has just been in business for a long time, so there is a situation where there is oil but cannot find a buyer.
The balance between supply and demand is gradually broken by high oil prices, and the current situation can be described as thrilling, Fan Liancheng feels that the reason why Ibn is urgently looking for a buyer is not to take advantage of the high price to "pit people" and try to ship at a high level, but since he said that it is slightly cheaper than the market price, there should be a market, so he is willing to help ask, whether it can be achieved is another story......
Ibn spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to rent a 100-meter-long luxury yacht, which was parked offshore, which was several times larger than those yachts in the surrounding area.
There are four or five decks, and the usable area is much more than the hybrid sailboat being customized, the two are positioned differently, Fan Liancheng has no regrets until now, and when I was in the last communication, I heard that it has undergone the final design corrections, and many parts are being customized, which is relatively smooth.
When he got to the foredeck, Ibn happened to talk about it and asked, "I remember anyone who said that someone in your country has customized one of the world's largest sailing ships?" If it is rented out to the outside world, please ask me for the contact information, the name of the ship is ......."
"Phoenix. ”
Fan Liancheng smiled slightly: "It's a hybrid sailboat that I customized, one hundred and one meters, almost three hundred and thirty-one feet." ”
"Phoenix", literally translated as "immortal bird", the Chinese name is Phoenix, set up in the mainland Singapore shipyard a few years ago, gave him ten proposed names, "Phoenix", "Holy Sword", "Thunder Son" and other names are from Star Wars, thinking that it is more beautiful to print a phoenix pattern on the hull, Fan Liancheng made a decision to finalize the name, which has been announced to the public.
Anyway, since he appeared last year, it can't be said to be too low-key, not bad for this bit of limelight, just said that it was purchased by Las Liancheng International Company, but everyone knows that it is Fan Liancheng's handiwork.
This shot, the original group of people who spent millions or tens of millions of "huge sums" to buy yachts, all the limelight was covered by him alone, and all kinds of negative remarks followed, and after getting used to it, it was actually like that, Fan Liancheng didn't care much, and he was quite willful.
Ibn was a little surprised, he knew some wealthy people who had spent a lot of money on yachts, so he was only "slightly", and said happily: "That's great, I would have liked to try to rent other falcons, and when the time comes, remember to invite me to visit your ship." ”
"Of course, I just started manufacturing, and it is estimated that it will take two or three years to get my hands on it......"
Han Xiaowen is not a squeamish character who sulks at every turn, although she can't understand each other's conversations, but Fan Liancheng occasionally helps translate, and she doesn't feel bored at the moment.
It was the first time in my life to come to a luxury yacht of this level, and after looking at it curiously, I suddenly understood why Fan Liancheng was willing to spend money to buy a boat, and he really enjoyed it, revealing luxury everywhere.
I think I just had a party last night, and some waiters were busy cleaning up, and more than a dozen empty wine bottles were removed from the ship one after another. Surrounded by large and small yachts, seabirds hovering above the marina, the wind and sun are beautiful, and the air smells of sea, which should be more comfortable if it were not for the temperature rising near noon.
The content of the chat is still pouring oil.
Ibn drank tequila and went on to tell Van Liancheng:
"Brazil is not a member of OPEC at the moment, and it is more liberal in terms of crude oil pricing, and now the production of the two oil fields that my family has partnered with others is rising, or it will produce about 60,000 barrels per day in less than half a month, and it can supply you with 6 million to 10 million barrels of crude oil.
If you can find a refinery that is in high demand, I can still be a little cheaper in terms of price, and now there is a competition for business everywhere, and buyers are starting to wait and see during this time, otherwise I can contact my friends myself to eat this production, and you don't have any cost to do this kind of business. ”
Doing business pays attention to mutual profit, and can probably guess that this oil company is exploring the market, Fan Liancheng has a little idea about this business, but more attention is paid to considering how long crude oil prices can be strong.
I didn't think much about it before, but now I think it's similar to last year's stock market, and the oil industry is inexplicably crazy, thinking that I should take the time to wait and see.
Nodding his head and replied: "I understand, as long as I can make money, I will definitely help find a market after returning to China, what is going on in the crude oil trading market now, the supply exceeds demand?"
"A little bit, but production should have dropped a little bit lately, and if it weren't for the regulations, the first two months of the year had to be given to Brazil, and the loan from the bank was about to expire, I wouldn't have sold it so cheaply.
A refinery is communicating with us, you have to hurry up, I can take some of it out of my father's pocket for me and you, if they come to an agreement first, my money will be all lost, and the guy from Koch Industries will let me go for the pigeon, otherwise I can buy a yacht of my own. ”
After listening to the questioning, Fan Liancheng realized that it was Ibn who took the initiative to talk to his father about business, and wanted to sell crude oil through his own channels and get a sum of money from his old man.
It took a lot of effort to get the father to agree to take out 10% of the contract and hand it over to his son to go out on his own, so there was a matter of "sharing 70 million US dollars equally", and the commissions of other intermediaries who poured crude oil were not so high.
Considering that Ibn has many brothers and sisters, it is understandable that he wants to put more in his pocket, and give a part to Fan Liancheng, at least it is more yellow than business, and it is not much better to get anything.
As for whether he is a loser, the "poor" Ibn and his Laozi, and the outsider who fattened Fan Liancheng is not in the scope of Ibn at all.
For Fan Liancheng, Lao Fan's money is equivalent to his money.
However, in Ibn's eyes, the family's money and his own money are completely different concepts, and it is likely to be taken away by other brothers in the end, and it can only be considered safe in his own bank card.
After listening to the cause and effect, Fan Liancheng dared to think that this business could be done, otherwise he suddenly met an old classmate who had not been in touch for a long time, who knows if he was waiting for him to jump into the pit, a business worth hundreds of millions of dollars, he must be careful and careful......