Chapter 559 Natural Gas Pipelines

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"Is there a further plan?" Guo Shouyun nodded and said.

"Yes!"

Travis opened the briefcase he was carrying, took out a map manuscript from it, and put it in front of Guo Shouyun.

"At the moment, regarding the extension of the Colombian gas pipeline, we currently have two options. First, the southern route, the main pipeline from Bogotá to Pereira, then along the valley of the Cauca River to the southeast, connecting Carralca, Cali, Popayán, Pasto, and ending in Quito, the capital of Ecuador, with a total length of 340 miles. The secondary pipeline connects Medellín, Kibdo, Ibagué, Manizales and Neiva and is 275 miles long. The entire pipeline is 615 kilometers long, with a total investment of 1.8 billion US dollars and a five-year construction planning period. ”

"The second option is the northern route. That is, the main pipeline from Bucaramanga, Colombia, to Cucuta. After crossing the border, in Venezuela, starting from San Cristobal, along the Andes to Valencia, and then along the coastline to the city of Guyana, a total length of 320 miles. The sub-pipeline connects Barinas, Guanare, and Ciudad Bolívar and is 110 miles long. The entire pipeline is 430 miles long, with a total investment of $1.4 billion, and the planned construction period is also five years. ”

"How are you in contact with the three governments?"

"Ecuador has already negotiated. Colombia and Venezuela are not yet fully determined. ”

The pipeline in Ecuador is less than a small section of 100 kilometers, which is certainly easy to talk about.

"What's the difficulty?"

"There is no problem on the part of the government, and they also want to attract foreign funds and improve the infrastructure in the country. Mainly sales channels. We must first build up the market before we build, otherwise if such a high investment continues, in case we cannot make a profit, then our losses will be too great. ”

"It's too difficult to push forward this kind of thing with the strength of our family alone, and it is necessary to unite local forces!" Guo Shouyun nodded and said.

"We have negotiated gas supply with Petrocola and Petroleos de Venezuela, but some local power generation companies, as well as gas distribution and retail agencies, have not agreed to our terms!"

"If necessary, the Colombian gas pipeline business could be separated into a separate entity. We have a 51% controlling stake in it, and we take control of it, and then divide the rest of the shares between the larger power plants and gas distribution agencies, as well as the two upstream companies, Petrocola Colombia and Petroleos de Venezuela. ”

Over the years, Guo Shouyun has gradually changed his habit of eating alone and enjoying all the benefits. Everyone gathers firewood and the flame is high, and the words of the ancestors are still wise words.

If you want things to go smoothly, you have to take care of the interests of the vast majority of people.

“… In addition, Pacific Energy Group has its own distribution and retail operations for electricity and natural gas, allowing the company to expand downstream in both countries. Increase the scale of its own power generation, as well as distribution and retail networks. In this way, we will have more room to negotiate and be better able to negotiate terms that are favorable to us. ”

"We're already doing it, Venezuela has an eyebrow, but Colombia hasn't made progress. ”

"Why? We were the first to invest in Colombia and already have the Santa Marta to Bogotá pipeline, which should be easier than Venezuela. Guo Shouyun frowned.

"Boss, the situation in Colombia is too chaotic. The extension of the Colombian gas pipeline that we want to develop is under the control of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC), which is very difficult to access. Travis smiled wryly.

"AUCA?... Aren't they in the southern jungle, how did they get to the southeast coast?"

"The 'National Liberation ~ Liberation ~ Army' that originally controlled this place was wiped out by the Self-Defense Forces and the 'Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia', and the two sides divided their territory. The SDF got several provinces, such as Nariño and Cauca. The FARC received the Guaviare and Meta sections. ”

After listening, Guo Shouyun also felt a headache.

Today's Colombia is like the Three Kingdoms era in Chinese history, where government forces, guerrillas~illilla groups and paramilitary organizations are in a three-legged trend, and the forces of all parties are basically equal. Guerrillas~Paramilitaries and paramilitary organizations formed a situation of local separatism, and no one could eat anyone for a while.

Looking at the look of the big boss, Travis continued: "Boss, in view of the chaotic and volatile situation in Colombia, I propose to suspend investment in Colombia, especially the southeast extension of the gas pipeline. ”

He has always disagreed with the company's continued investment in Colombia. But the big boss is very keen on the official website of natural gas covering South America, so he also has to comply. But now that there are suitable reasons, of course, to try to dismiss the unrealistic plans of the big bosses.

Guo Shouyun glanced at him, "How is our pipeline network under the control of the government army now?"

"Since it was built, we have stopped 273 poaching operations and 158 unstopped sabotage, and the entire pipeline network is currently in a state of low profit. If you count our own power plants, as well as distribution and retail operations. The net profit of the entire Pacific Energy Group's consolidated operations in Colombia is about 8.2%!"

It has only been a year and two months since the construction of the pipeline network from Santa Marta to Bogotá was completed, and the fact that so many times of damage can be caused in this not a long period of time shows how chaotic the situation here is.

Hearing this, Guo Shouyun completely extinguished the idea of building the southeast extension line in his heart. Colombia's safest government forces are all in this area, and if you get out of here, you don't know what the chaos will become. Although he wants to build a natural gas official website across South America to change the global energy landscape and establish Pacific Energy's hegemony in the field of natural gas distribution, he also does not want to lose money.

"Since you don't think it's appropriate, then suspend the Columbia pipeline extension. ”

"Understood!"

Travis nodded a little excitedly.

"There won't be so much bad stuff in Colombia on the Venezuelan side, don't mess up this pipeline for me!"

Although the countries of South America are not very peaceful, Venezuela, which has the big killer of oil in its hands, is relatively better at home. Although the new President Hugo Chávez is a staunch anti-American fighter, it is just a showpiece to not dare to shake the hegemony of the 'petrodollar' no matter how loud the slogan is shouted. And compared to Sa~Da~M, this Chavez is more like a politician who increases his popularity, competes for votes, and consolidates power under the guise of anti-American!

Travis nodded in agreement. It has succeeded in getting the big boss to abandon the Colombian gas pipeline. If even Venezuela gives up, then he, the president of South America, is too incompetent. ()

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