Wu Qian's words choked Sat Muqi, his expression froze, and it took a while to arrive: "Wu, the storage of crude oil has high requirements in terms of technology and hard conditions, and the cost is huge, and generally only the country will make strategic reserves. ”

"You can't make money by storing crude oil. ”

As a prince of a large oil-producing country, Satmuzi has a good understanding of the oil industry, and he is very serious about persuading Wu Qian.

For a long time, Wu Qian would always worry about one thing from time to time, that is, the root of all evil system suddenly popped out and told him what crime he had committed and what would happen in the future.

But he ignored that the world itself was also full of various crises, and hoarding some hedging currencies other than currency was an idea that suddenly came to Wu Qian after chatting with Allenon Sergei.

He started out in the arms business, thought about many things, and worried him about tens of billions of pounds in cash, and the currency was sometimes incredibly fragile.

Originally, Wu Qian planned to follow the example of some wealthy people, and also buy dozens of tons of gold to deposit in a certain bank, or build an underground vault himself in case of emergency.

Although gold can be used as a hard currency to store value, the use value of gold is far worse than that of oil, so he finally set his sights on crude oil.

Oil is widely used, highly dependent and non-renewable, and for the foreseeable future, there is no real alternative to the hard currency that can be used to transact with the state.

Wu Qian wanted to arrange a safe and solid back road for himself.

"It doesn't matter if you make money or not, the main thing is that I like oil. ”

Wu Qian spread his hands, and his appearance was simply enraged, which stunned the local tyrant prince.

"Wu, I have something to say, your idea is very dangerous, in what name do you reserve crude oil? Personally? It's not that I said cool words, do you think you have the ability to resist those pressures? Impossible......

Satmuzi said very seriously.

Wu Qian said calmly: "Of course I won't do it in my personal name, you don't have to worry about these things, Your Royal Highness the Prince doesn't have to worry about these things, I just want to ask, can you sell me?"

It's not in the name of a person, it's in the name of the country, and Wu Qian is still more at ease to negotiate an agreement with his own country.

(Of course, the state will not abandon its own people, this must be true!)

Satemuqi didn't say much, it was true that as Wu Qian said, he didn't have to worry about others, because his own affairs were enough to worry about.

"Wu, to be honest, I don't have much ...... of crude oil quota I can provide."

Speaking of this, Satmuzi's face was a little unbearable.

In the eyes of the outside world, they are wearing white robes, but all that flows in their bodies is "black gold", but in fact, Saudi Arabia's crude oil exports are very strict, and although Satmuzi is a core member of the royal family, he has no say in this matter.

"How much?" Wu Qian asked.

Satmuzi pursed his lips, as if he didn't want to bring up this topic, he was quite embarrassed to say: "One year, 100,000 barrels." ”

100,000 barrels, at first glance, wow, a lot.

Wu Qian thought so at first, because he didn't have a very concrete concept of the unit "bucket".

But when he took out his mobile phone and calculated it a little, and then found a few sets of publicly available data, he found that 100,000 barrels was simply a "drizzle", and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the tip of the iceberg!

The barrel is a unit that OPEC and the United Kingdom and the United States like to use, a barrel is about forty-two gallons, one hundred and fifty-nine liters, that is, one ton is about equal to 7.2-7.3 barrels, so 100,000 barrels is less than 14,000 tons.

A very simple set of data, in 2018, the average daily consumption of crude oil was about 13 million barrels.

If we strictly calculate that 13 million barrels can take 24 hours, 100,000 barrels can only be used for 11 minutes for the whole country.

There is no time to take a shower......

Wu Qian looked at 11.0769 (the number of minutes calculated) on the calculator with a strange look.

He looked at the atmospheric extraction rate of gasoline and diesel, and learned that with relatively excellent technology and high-quality crude oil, more than 3,000 kilograms of gasoline and half a ton of diesel can be refined per ton.

According to the current oil price, each barrel is about 60 US dollars, and 100,000 barrels is 6 million US dollars, and it is indeed profitable to refine it into gasoline, diesel and other petroleum products.

But no matter from which point of view, this amount is too little, and it is too far from what Wu Qian's heart expected!

He is not to buy oil to sell, he wants to use oil as a bargaining chip to prepare a solid back road for himself.

If it's not a lot, who can see it?

There is no weight in talking at all!

"Satmuzi, 100,000 barrels is too little, are you sure this is not the amount you can dispose of in a day, but a year......?

Wu Qian was really speechless, the prince has such power?

Are you a fake prince!?

Satmuzi felt very sad in his heart, Made, what's wrong with the prince, there are more than 3,000 princes in the core of the family, and there are more than 3,000 princes who do not belong to the core of the royal family, and the prince is not worth much.

Think about it, if the core of 3,000 princes, each can control 100,000 barrels of oil per year, that is 300 million barrels of oil, which is more than the annual import volume of some small countries, which is really scary.

No way, there are too many people......

"Wu, how much oil do you want to buy?"

Satemuqi didn't want Wu Qian to continue to dwell on his quota, so he pinched his nose and asked.

The quota of 100,000 barrels a year was usually exchanged for pocket money by Satmuzi, and he never thought that he would trade crude oil with anyone else, because he was not in charge of this range in the royal family.

Satmuzi has never been so aggrieved since he started talking to others about business.

Today was originally him begging others to help buy the cruise ship in his hand, and he needed to be polite, okay, now the other party is willing to buy it, but he needs to buy some oil from him, but he can't satisfy the other party.

It's so uncomfortable.

Faced with Satmuzi's question, he closed his eyes and pondered before changing Wu this time.

"It cost 3.6 billion to buy Harrods from Qatar Holdings, 5.5 billion to Thames Water, 2.1 billion to football clubs, and Romani Conti to 600 million. ”

These properties are investments that can be produced sustainably, and Harrods and Romanée Conti are among the most high-quality properties that can be cashed out at any time.

"Hmm...... There are still 38 billion left, since this is the case, you have to be prepared, otherwise you will be embarrassed to talk to the country......"

It is true that the quantity unit is measured in billions, but the monetary unit is equally important, if it is 円, then it is not much money, if it is won , then it is directly finished.

I don't know what kind of fairy bug happened in the root of all evil system, and it was pounds for Wu Qian, who was in London.

Thinking of this, Wu Qian tapped his finger on his mobile phone, and then said: "Satmuqi, I want to buy 100 million barrels of crude oil." ”