Wang Jianyun said: "I studied with my father in the Shengli Oilfield for half a year, and when I saw that it was not interesting in the oilfield, I went to the army." I just changed jobs, and when I saw you recruiting, I came to Saudi Arabia. Looks like I'm really on the right track, or I'd have to go with my dad at home. It's only a salary of more than 200 yuan a month, so it's better for me to work honestly here for a day. The only thing that was unpleasant was that it was too hot. ”

Tao Guoshui asked, "According to your estimate, the exploration team really won't come here?"

Because Jiang Xinwei was not sure whether the exploration sites given by Saudi Arabia were all the exploration sites, he was worried that because Iraq had drilled several wells with groundwater during exploration and drilling, in order to cover up the facts and to make people believe that there was a large amount of underground oil in the Gavatan area, they might deliberately conceal these wells, let alone tell the bidders the location of these wells. Therefore, his order to Tao Guoshui was to find as many exploration wells as possible, and then photograph the environment around the wellhead.

Wang Jianyun said: "No. The equipment used for exploration is too heavy. Iron frames, engines, motors, etc., not a few people can carry them. If it were the military of our country who did that, I might believe it. I'm not convinced. ”

Tao Guoshui kicked Wang Jianyun and said, "Go!"

Wang Jianyun was stunned for a moment and asked, "Let's go, what's going to go, aren't we going to cook and prepare for camping?"

Tao Guoshui said: "Since there are no exploration wells here, why are you staying here? You take us and see where there may be a drilling machine, you take us over to find it." ”

Wang Jianyun looked bitter and said, "Mr. Tao, you can't do this, right? Don't you tire us to death? There are still more than ten days." ”

Tao Guoshui said dissatisfiedly: "It's a shame that you are still a young man, and you have been a soldier." Lao Tzu is older than you, and he has always been in school, and he is not as delicate as you. If you don't leave, you'll get out! More than 10 days, do you think more than 10 days is a long time? These photographed films have to be developed, and Jiang Dong and them have to show them before they can decide whether to participate in the auction or not. Time is tight, don't delay. After that, I'll take your leave and pay your salary. ”

When several young people who were originally very tired heard this, they immediately got up and packed their things one by one and prepared to go.

Wang Jianyun had no choice but to get up from the ground, patting the sand on his buttocks, and said, "I really don't understand what nerves people at the group headquarters have. If you want to bid for oil fields, the best way is to take the information from the Saudi Ministry of Energy, like other oil companies participating in the auction, and then study whether their conclusions are correct, and then absolutely not participate in the auction according to the country's desire for crude oil and the forecast of future oil prices. How can anyone look east and west like we do? If you really look at oil like this, then you are not immortals?"

Tao Guoshui liked this cheerful boy very much, but he was also a little annoyed by his nagging, kicked him again, and said, "Boy, what do you know? Jiang Dong They must have their reasons for doing this." How do you know that they didn't get the bid? How do you know that our oil experts aren't counting the reserves here? Maybe we're just here to cover up, just to attract the attention of other oil companies. ”

Wang Jianyun agreed very much this time and said, "What you said is also true. How can any electronics company in the world go to a foreign country in search of oil? However, are those foreign oil companies really so stupid? Will they really be fooled? Even if they want to deceive the gringos, then they should send a few experts from PetroChina to make a false and real thing, so that some people can believe it even more. We are laymen at first glance, and we can't fool other people's eyes at all. ”

Tao Guoshui was actually full of doubts in his heart like Wang Jianyun, but because this matter was personally arranged by Jiang Xinwei and recalled him back to China, it was very important and needed to be kept secret, so he could only suppress the doubts in his heart, pretending to be full of confidence, and led a group of young people to trek, watch, and shoot here with a group of young people......

Watching a group of Chinese people come out of the rocky mountains with difficulty, a man in his thirties sitting in a Toyota SUV said with a smile: "Chinese people are really ignorant. Is that how they determined the oil reserves in the ground? They thought they had a pair of powerful X-ray eyes that could see underground? Thankfully this is Saudi Arabia, and no one would suspect that they were surveying maps and doing spy work. If it is in Vietnam, Pakistan, Afghanistan and other countries bordering China, they will definitely be arrested by the military. ”

A white-bearded old man next to him smiled and said, "Don't look down on them, although they don't have the technology or equipment, their spirit is commendable." What if they are lucky enough to hit the crude oil spewed out of the ground? You know, their Yumen 1 oil field is an oil field that came out of itself, and there is no need to explore at all. ”

His words sounded like praise, but there was a palpable contempt in his tone.

The young Japanese asked, "Qingwu Specialist, do we still need to play?" I think we can go back to China." The storage capacity here is at most 230 million barrels, and the auction can only lose money. ”

The white-bearded old man smiled and said: "Miura-kun, our Keyang Petroleum Co., Ltd. has calculated that the reserves here do not exceed 230 million barrels, and I think the British BP company, the American Exxon oil company and the French total calculation results are similar. What do you say?"

Miura didn't understand what the old man meant by asking, but he still nodded and said, "Yes." Our technology has always been leading, and the calculation will definitely not be wrong. I think that even if the technology of BP in the UK, Exxon in the US and Total in France is poor, it is not far from our technology, and the calculated reserves are about the same. Although this reserve is considered a large oil reservoir, it is not enough for us to spend $2 billion to invest in the construction of highways and oil pipelines, nor is it enough to support a 35 percent profit share. ”

The oilfield auction is different from the calligraphy and painting auction, after the calligraphy and painting auction is concluded, there is no relationship between the buyer and the seller, and the calligraphy and painting will have nothing to do with the seller even if the price of calligraphy and painting increases tenfold, hundredfold or even tens of thousands of times in the future. Oilfield auctions are often not a one-time sale, but the owner of the oilfield only transfers the right to explore the oilfield and the right to extract oil, and the recovered oil is subject to profit sharing in accordance with the agreement.

After all, no one can be sure how much crude oil is below, and they don't want to gamble on luck, and it is impossible to make a hammer deal. Another reason is that even the world's largest oil companies can't come up with that much cash to buy an oil field in full at once, which would definitely break the company's capital chain.

Both bidders are willing to pay a portion of the funds and then share the profits.

As for the proportion of the share, it is basically adjusted and negotiated according to the oil price at the time of signing the contract.

When the price of crude oil is low, the oil company that bids for the oil field often accounts for the majority of the profits, while the owners of the oil fields get a small share of the profits, after all, in addition to the initial investment, such as the signing fee, the later exploration requires a large amount of investment, and the previous investment must be recovered.

When the price of crude oil is high, the owner of the oil field will take the lion's share of the profit, and the oil company bidding on the oil field will get a small share of the profit.

It's easy to understand that when the price of oil is only $20 a barrel, the bidder gets a lot of money and gets very little profit. Taking Saudi Arabia's oil as an example, the price of crude oil is 20 US dollars, the exploration cost is about 6 US dollars, and the profit is 14 US dollars, even if 80 percent of the profit is given to the extractors, each barrel of crude oil can only get 11.2 US dollars.

But if the price of crude oil rises to $120, the profit per barrel of crude oil can be as high as $114, and even if only 30 percent of the profit is distributed to the extractors, the profit per barrel will be $34.2.

This time, Saudi Arabia demanded that its side get 35 percent, which is not very high, but it is definitely not low, and it is basically in line with the current oil price of 20 US dollars, and if you do not count the 2 billion US dollars of investment, this is a very ideal share. Add two billion dollars in investment, and oil companies are less reluctant.

The reserves calculated according to the exploration data are auctioned in accordance with the minimum conditions of the Saudi auction, and there is a 90 percent chance that they will be at a loss.

Therefore, the interest of the major oil companies in the auction is not high. Miura, who works as an assistant in the marketing department of Nikko Oil Co., Ltd., wants to quit directly: "Unless we are crazy, if our company has two billion dollars in cash, I will look for oil from you? At most, the oil quality is slightly worse, but the poor ghosts in the former Soviet Union will treat me like a god. ”

The white-bearded old man smiled and asked, "In that case, then why should we quit?"

Looking at the cheap smile on the old man's face, Miura Kamakura knew that the old man was secretly smug in his heart, and hoped that he would ask him and let him show off well, plus he really didn't understand what the old man meant, so he bowed slightly and said, "Qingwu Special Affairs, please advise." ”

The white-bearded old man smiled and said, "Young man, I still don't think about the problem comprehensively enough. …… If you think about it, what will happen if so many oil companies think that the conditions for Saudi Arabia's auction are too high? Everyone thinks that they have no money to make or even lose, so they will naturally tear their faces and put pressure on the Saudi government. As long as the Saudi government really wants to extract the crude oil here, as long as they don't want to lose the auction, they will have to lower the conditions of this auction. ”

Miura suddenly realized: "Yes, yes, we all want to put pressure on the Saudi government, and they have to give up some benefits. And...... Moreover, I heard that the conditions of this bidding were not originally like this, and that Saudi Arabia only needs 32 percent of its profits, which is set against the oil fields tendered by the United Arab Emirates. ”