"Mr. Feng, welcome to the Captain Cook Project Committee!"

"Mr. Matsk, it's a pleasure to meet you. ”

"I have heard of Mr. Feng's name for a long time, and I am very much looking forward to working with him. ”

"That's exactly what we're looking forward to. ”

"I think it's going to be a great pleasure to work together!"

"I think so. ”

The atmosphere when the guests and hosts met was very harmonious. Matsk has a very big smile on his face, which makes people think that this is a very warm and very sincere European uncle. As for Feng Xiaochen, he seemed very kind most of the time, and he didn't see any edge, at least in Matsk's eyes.

After greeting each other, Matsk beckoned Feng Xiaochen and his entourage to the conference room, sat down the guests, and after saying a few more words, Matsk introduced the conversation to the topic.

"Mr. Feng, Mr. Styr of the British Fidelman Company told me that you have some interest in our Captain Cook project. In addition, Ms. Feng Shuyi of the patent firm Ruthenburg in Bonn, Germany, also asked our committee staff to convey this message to me, saying that she was entrusted by you to convey the message. Matsk said.

Feng Xiaochen nodded and said, "Yes, I entrusted Mr. Steyr to contact you. As for Ms. Feng Shuyi, she is my aunt, and I have also entrusted her to express my desire to cooperate with your committee. ”

Several of the members of our committee have worked with Chinese companies and have been very impressed, and they have paid very close attention to Mr. Feng's interest in working with us. ”

Matsk said beautiful things. He said in his heart, I'm not lying, Heinzl's gang is really impressed by the cooperation with China, and they are also very concerned about this cooperation, well, although they expressed a strong refusal, but this can also be regarded as a kind of concern.

Feng Xiaochen has not been idle these days, he has some understanding of the composition of the committee through the relationship between Yan Leqin, Feng Hua and others, and Feng Xiaochen also knows which member units are included in the member units mentioned by Matsk. Is anyone like Prometheus better aware of its attitude toward cooperation with China than Feng Xiaochen? It is no wonder that Prometheus is not impressed by the fact that Chinese companies have robbed up all of its traditional markets.

I knew in my heart that this was the case, but since Matsk said it so vaguely, of course Feng Xiaochen would not make a big deal of it, so everyone pretended to be confused. Feng Xiaochen handed a smile to Matsk and said, "Thank you very much Mr. Matsk and your colleagues, we very much hope to start a new cooperation with you." Mr. Matsk, if you may, could you please tell us a little bit about this project and how you can get involved. ”

"Absolutely, I'm more than happy to tell you about our project. Matsk said.

Everyone spread out their little notebooks and prepared to take notes. Matsk lit up the projector in the conference room and began to play a PowerPoint presentation about the project, while explaining to everyone.

Deep-sea oil extraction involves the extraction of oil and associated gas from multiple wellheads, the pooling of these oils and gases, the separation of oil and gas, the dehydration and purification of water, and finally the storage and transportation. According to the different wellhead settings, it can be divided into underwater wellhead and surface wellhead, according to the different production and processing methods, it can be divided into offshore production and shore production, and according to the different storage and transportation methods, it can be divided into oil tanker storage and transportation and submarine pipeline transportation, etc., in addition to different operating platforms. The combination of all these approaches results in different solutions.

The Captain Cook project proposed a combination of an underwater wellhead, a semi-submersible platform, a production storage tanker, and a shuttle tanker, which has the advantage of being more adaptable and more experienced, and is one of the most popular designs in the world. And China's own planned and designed drilling rig happens to be such a plan.

"Great, Mr. Matsk, your proposal coincides with what we are currently working on, and if possible, we are willing to merge our research with yours in order to reduce the duplication of work between our two sides, improve the efficiency of research and development, and speed up research and development. After listening to Matsk's statement, Feng Xiaochen said.

"I've heard that China is also working on a sixth-generation offshore drilling rig, and I'd like to know how you're progressing. Matsk asked.

While Feng Xiaochen was learning about Captain Cook's project, Matsk was also learning about China's situation through his own channels. China's National Development and Reform Commission is organizing the development of the sixth-generation offshore drilling platform, and it is not a secret matter, so Matsk easily knew about the situation, but he did not know the details. Since the two sides want to talk about cooperation, he naturally has to inquire deeply.

Feng Xiaochen said: "In the 80s of the last century, our country once designed and built a semi-submersible drilling platform called Exploration No. 3, with an operating water depth of 200 meters. Since then, we have not built a similar platform on our own, but the research on related technologies has not stopped. We have a lot of experience in the construction of floating production storage vessels, or FPSOs, and more than a dozen FPSOs that we have built ourselves have been used in offshore oil development. In terms of wellhead devices, we have designed and manufactured a full set of underwater equipment as early as the 70s of the last century and successfully applied to shallow sea oil development.

We started the pre-research of the sixth-generation platform about 10 years ago, and we have made a lot of progress in platform design, wellhead installation, seabed conditions, shallow flow conditions, etc. If we can work together, we will provide a detailed report to the Committee on the progress made in these areas so that we can share the results of these studies with other partners. ”

"I see. Matsk nodded. The situation Feng Xiaochen said was similar to what he had mastered. He was originally misled by Heinzl and others, believing that China was completely blank in offshore oil development technology, and after reading some information, he found that the Chinese have actually accumulated a lot, and it is entirely possible to independently develop the sixth generation platform technology over time.

Recognizing this problem, he became more eager to recruit China into the Captain Cook program, with the aim of not only looking at the possible funding provided by China, but also to keep the Chinese's research work under his control, so as not to threaten the interests of European companies.

Of course, Matsk would not say this to Feng Xiaochen, but he wanted to express another way: "Mr. Feng, after listening to your introduction, I feel very excited, and I feel once again that it is a very wise move to recruit China as a member of the Captain Cook project. You have done so much valuable work in the early stages, and this experience will definitely be of great help to our project. ”

"Yes, if that's the case, then I'm very honored. Feng Xiaochen replied with a smile, and then asked, "So, Mr. Matsk, if we are interested in joining this project, what will the committee arrange?"

"What do you think about yourself?" asked Matsk rhetorically.

Feng Xiaochen said: "We came with a learning mentality. Whether it's a wellhead installation, an offshore platform, a production facility, or a transmission and storage facility, we are interested in participating in the research. We can set up a research center in China and invite our European counterparts to work in China. At the same time, we can also send technicians to work in research centers in Europe. In addition, we can arrange no less than 200 equipment manufacturing enterprises to undertake specific equipment manufacturing work, and since China has very low labor prices, I think our participation can effectively reduce the cost of the whole project. ”

"Mr. Feng's wish is very good, and we very much welcome the full participation of Chinese companies in the project. Matsk smiled sincerely, then changed his mind and said: "However, in order to improve the efficiency of the entire R&D project and shorten the R&D cycle, our consideration is to make full use of the strengths of each member institution, each of which is mainly responsible for its own strengths." The committee will hold project coordination meetings from time to time, and the undertaking units of each subsystem will present their progress to each other, so that the subsystems can work together perfectly. ”

"Undertake what you are good at?" Wang Weilong, who came with Feng Xiaochen, was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously said, "If that's the case, then why should we participate?"

As soon as these words came out, everyone on the Chinese side laughed dumbly. Matsk couldn't understand Chinese, so he didn't react for a while, and after listening to the translator's words, he showed an embarrassed look on his face and said, "This,...... It's our practice. ”

Feng Xiaochen frowned slightly. Matsk's words actually make sense, the purpose of cooperation is to learn from each other's strengths, each responsible for what they are good at, and together they are a kind of strong alliance. But the problem is that the purpose of China's participation in this project is not to contribute to world peace, but to gain the technology it lacks through participating in this project, and finally achieve complete independence. If we are just doing what we are good at in the project, then as Wang Weilong said, why should we participate?

"Mr. Matsk, it does make sense to do what you are good at. However, we are involved in this project, not as a subcontractor, but as a collaborator. Since we are collaborators, we hope to make progress in cooperation, and I think Mr. Matsk should be able to understand this, right?" Feng Xiaochen said euphemistically.