The news of Sat Muqi made Wu Qian's eyebrows jump, every time the price of crude oil fluctuates violently, it will directly affect the price of crude oil futures, grasp the opportunity, enough to make a sharp increase in wealth, the last time I made a lot of money through crude oil futures is still fresh in my memory

But Wu Qian was very puzzled by one thing, he asked: "Satmuzi, tell me, crude oil has been said since many years ago, it is only enough for many years, but after all these years, the reserves do not seem to be decreasing, but the oil price is getting lower and lower, why?"

Wu Qian was a little confused about this matter.

He remembers that when he was a child, there were reports that the world's crude oil was only enough for 20 years, but after 20 years, the depletion of crude oil resources not only did not appear, but there was a phenomenon that crude oil was used more and more, and the price became cheaper and cheaper, which was really embarrassing.

Similar reports related to energy depletion have appeared from time to time in the last hundred years, which is very eye-catching.

Satmuzi smiled and said: "Wu, this matter is actually very simple, because of the improvement of exploration technology and exploitation technology, new oil fields are constantly being discovered and developed, and the crude oil extracted by existing technology has not been used up, and after the technology leaps to a new height, there will be new crude oil extracted." ”

"So you're going to find that you never run out of crude oil, and the price will go down. ”

This is somewhat similar to the situation of freshwater resources, in the past, there was no breakthrough in seawater desalination, and freshwater is indeed expensive, but now, the situation has been greatly improved, because of technological breakthroughs.

There is also a key issue here, which makes crude oil, which is actually more abundant, look rare.

Since the beginning of the twentieth century, the automobile and chemical industries have ushered in explosive growth, and the demand for crude oil has increased significantly. Faced with this situation, it is generally possible to directly solve the problem by increasing crude oil production capacity by oil-producing countries, but energy giants are not satisfied with this.

By acquiring the world's oil field exploitation rights at a high price, and strengthening the cooperation between giants, the supply is artificially controlled, so that this resource that is not scarce is forcibly scarce in exchange for higher profits.

However, anyone with a little common sense of economics will know that the higher the price of a commodity, the lower the demand, and the high price of oil directly leads to the sluggishness of the demand side, and the energy giants certainly do not watch this happen.

Inspired by diamond merchants, they artificially created panic in order to get more people to buy crude oil, and stimulated the consumption of crude oil by spreading plausible but verifiable arguments such as "oil resources are about to be depleted" and "oil is a non-renewable resource."

Wu Qian nodded, in the final analysis, it is still a capitalist's game, but this is not all bad, the cost of crude oil has gradually increased, which has stimulated the development of technology, not only the technology of exploration and mining of crude oil, but also the development of science and technology in industry.

He smiled and asked, "Then what is the main reason for your negotiation with Mao Ziguo this time? If it is convenient to tell me, it doesn't matter if it is inconvenient." ”

Satmuzi made a strange expression and said: "This time, our country and Maoziguo are negotiating to achieve the goal of stabilizing oil prices by reducing production, but judging from the current situation in Maoziguo, it is difficult to reach an agreement with our country's ideas." ”

Since he has chosen to tell Wu Qian the news, there is no secret that cannot be said, and good people do it to the end.

The world's two major crude oil producers, one is Saudi Arabia, 10 million barrels per day, followed by Maoziguo, which can reach 9.5 million barrels, it can be said that the oil production of these two countries has greatly affected the price of global crude oil.

However, when it comes to stabilizing crude oil prices, it is not just a matter of reducing production, which involves many stakeholders and is complicated.

Satmuzi was not the main negotiator, but he saw the whole thing more clearly, and judged that Mao Ziguo might not simply agree to cut production, so he proposed that Wu Qian sell crude oil first to avoid risks.

"Thank you for your kindness, Satmuzi, I think I know how to do it. By the way, the renovation of the 'Ocean Symphony' has been completed, and the opening ceremony will be held at the Miami cruise home port in a week, are you interested in attending?"

Wu Qian planned not to talk about the issue of crude oil for now, he believed that Satmuqi would not deliberately cheat him, but he was also afraid that Satmuqi would be inaccurate in his judgment, and planned to wait for someone from the other side to ask about the situation before making a decision.

"Haha, I still have a lot of feelings for the 'Ocean Symphony', if I have time, I will definitely go to Miami to have a show,"

Satmuzi did not talk about the previous topic again, his obligation was to convey the news to Wu Qian, as for how to decide, it was not his business.

The two sides didn't continue to talk and ended the call.

Wu Qian did not continue to visit Baipeila, after he instructed Zhang Junrui and Lu Hao some things, he took people back to the military factory.

He wanted to inquire about the problem of Maoziguo's crude oil from Kuretta.

The negotiations have not yet begun, but Wu Qian has already sensed that this time things are not simple, and if he makes good use of the news that Satemuzi told him, he may be able to achieve an extremely considerable wave of wealth growth.

Since the departure of the Source of All Evil system, Wu Qian's thirst for wealth has undergone some subtle changes, he would not pursue profits excessively before, but now he is beginning to thirst for it.

Wu Qian's chase is not a small profit, the kind of remark that any mosquito leg is also meat is meaningless to him, he must be interested in big ham, elephant leg!

When Wu Qian found Kuretta, Kuretta was in contact with several experts in the manufacture of munitions.

Wu Qian walked into Kureta's temporary house, looked left and right, and felt that the living environment on the side of the munitions factory also needed to be improved in a timely manner, he saw Kureta frowning, so he asked, "What's wrong?"

Kuretta said: "I just had a phone call with the country, and I want to invite a few experts in the manufacture of missiles, but unfortunately it ......."

With that, Kuretta shook her head, and it seemed that it wasn't going well.

Some things are not made with raw materials, they require considerable technology, and if there is no technology, everything is in vain.

The same uranium is used by different people, and the effect is very different.

Wu Qian understood the distress of the lack of talent, and he asked, "Is the remuneration not attractive enough?"

Kureta licked her lips and said angrily: "I've already given a reward that is more than three times the normal salary of Mao Ziguo, but I still can't talk about those bullshit experts!"

Wu Qian waved his hand and said with a smile: "What is a bullshit expert, those are all rare talents! Kuretta, this is your mistake, three times is not good, five times, right, as long as you are sure that that talent is what you want, ten times, twenty times the price will also be dug up!"

Kuretta had a slightly helpless look on his face, how could he not know this truth, it was easy to say, but it cost real money to do.

Wu Qian seemed to see that Kureta was a little embarrassed, and he said: "Let's fund the establishment of an exclusive military factory research institute together, you go to recruit talents, as long as they have a desire for money, you give them a price that they can't refuse, the money is not enough, I will come out." ”

Wu Qian will not feel distressed when spending money only in two situations, one is to buy what he likes, and the other is to recruit talents, if it is ugly, it is actually the same thing, as long as it is what he likes, he is willing to spend money, things are, people are too!

It's not that Kuretta doesn't want to cooperate with Wu Qian, Solan's project, he and Wu Qian are already inseparable from each other, because too many places cost Wu Qian's money, he can't wipe off his face, thinking that if he can solve it himself, he will solve it himself, but he didn't expect Wu Qian to help him solve the problem in the end.

"Okay, Wu, with your guarantee, I am completely relieved, there are indeed talents in some fields that are very difficult to dig into, and there is no way to ...... By the way, what did you come to me for?"

Only then did Kureta remember that it seemed that Wu Qian had taken the initiative to come to him.

Wu Qian sat down on the chair and said, "I have something to ask you, do you know anything about your country's crude oil market?"

Kureta brushed his hair with his hand and said, "I know a little bit, Wu, what kind of news do you want to know, I have a friend in the Energy Bureau." ”

Many friends, many roads, not fake at all.

"You should also know that the price of international crude oil has been declining recently, and you say that several major oil-producing countries will take measures to stabilize oil prices, such as reducing production?"

Wu Qian turned what Satmuzi told him into a problem.

Kuretta was not born in economics, he really didn't have this brain, after thinking about it, he said: "Wu, I don't know much about this, anyway, for me, whether crude oil rises or falls, it should be used, so I'll call my friend and ask." ”

Wu Qian raised his hand, which means to trouble you.

Kureta saw that Wu Qian probably wanted to do something in the international crude oil market, and of course he was willing to help Wu Qian make more money, because the more wealth Wu Qian had, the more things he could do in the future.

Kuretta picked up the satellite phone and walked to the window, pulled out a very old-fashioned phone book, and rummaged through it with saliva to find the contact information of his friend who worked for the Energy Agency.

After a while, the phone was connected, and Kuretta communicated with the other party in their national language, and Wu Qian couldn't understand it, so he had to flip through the drawings stacked on the desk boredly.

Looking at the drawings of arms and equipment, which were either machine-drawn or hand-drawn, Wu Qian couldn't help but smile, recalling the things when he was a child when he played with assembling toys, using small parts to assemble a tank, two or three hundred parts, it took several days to complete, but the joy after completion can still be remembered.

Wu Qian looked at the drawings and looked fascinated, he couldn't understand those measurement symbols, but he just thought it was very interesting, and unconsciously, more than twenty minutes passed......

When he came back to his senses, Wu Qian found that Kuretta hadn't finished making the phone call yet, and he said in his heart, is this helping me ask about things or an old friend.

Coincidentally, at this moment, Kureta said "досвидания", which was very simple, Wu Qian remembered that it seemed to mean "goodbye", and the call was finally over.

Kureta put down the satellite phone, walked to the refrigerator and took two cans of cold beer, opened it with a pop, sat down on the chair, and said, "Wu, your judgment of the international crude oil market surprised me, even terrifying. ”

"Is there any bad news?"

Wu Qian put down the drawing and asked, he didn't try to clarify Kuretta's misunderstanding of him, because that would affect the effect of his ability to obtain information.

Kuretta handed a can of beer to Wu Qian, nodded and said, "In three days, our country will have a negotiation with Saudi Arabia on crude oil production!"

This news was not told to him by the other party as soon as Kureta called, but under the soft grinding and hard bubbles of Kureta, the other party revealed the news to him when he remembered the friendship.

"And how likely do you think this negotiation is to succeed?"

Wu Qian asked, he knew about the negotiation, and now he wanted to predict the outcome of the negotiation through clues, so that it would be convenient for him to carry out follow-up actions.

The corners of Kureta's mouth were very open, and he shook his head and said: "The possibility of success in the negotiations between the two sides is very small, and Saudi Arabia hopes that our country will reduce production by 1.5 million barrels per day, which is simply impossible to agree." ”

Wu Qian snapped his fingers and made a rough calculation, and said with a smile: "According to the current market, 1.5 million barrels is only 60 million US dollars, and it is only 1.8 billion a month...... The impact is not huge, why don't you agree?"

1.8 billion, dollars, only ......

The small dilapidated house is talking about the business of "only" 1.8 billion, which scares people to death.

Kuretta let out a sigh of relief and said, "I inquired in detail just now, and the matter is not complicated, and it is not simple to say that it is simple......"

Crude oil energy is the lifeline of Maoziguo's economy, if the price of crude oil is too low, Maoziguo is also unacceptable, Maoziguo Emperor once gave the price of crude oil is 43 US dollars a barrel, if the crude oil is lower than this price, then Maoziguo's economy will have problems.

At present, the international crude oil price has fallen to 41 US dollars a barrel, and it has long broken through the psychological defense line of Mao Ziguo.

It stands to reason that in this case, Maozi should cooperate with Saudi Arabia and OPEC members to reduce production, but the news that Kuretta heard was the opposite.

Because although the vast majority of oil-producing countries are very cooperative with you to reduce production by 500,000 and I reduce production by 300,000, there is still one country that is very capricious and refuses to reduce production, and that is the United States!

At a time when the world is cutting production, the country has not only not followed suit, but has increased production dramatically, from 8 million barrels per day to a frenzied 14 million barrels per day.

This has directly led to the vacant market share of many oil-producing countries to reduce production, which has been taken up by the United States, and Mao Ziguo resolutely refuses to reduce production when he sees this.