"If Dahua Industrial really wants to increase the exploration team a lot, I will immediately add 3 exploration teams within the scope of my authority, and ask them to move over, it will only take 3 days at most. Also, I will apply to the board of directors for more exploration teams and drilling teams. Ito Nobuyshige paused for a moment, looked at Su Cheng intently, and said, "Su Dong, is it necessary for us to fight like this?"

He glanced at Alixe, regardless of his expression, and said to Su Cheng: "Infinite competition is harmful to both sides, if Su Dong controls the exploration team within 5, we will not increase the exploration team, just based on this, the drilling team is also set to five, and then how about racing?"

Not to mention 30 exploration teams, sending 10 exploration teams is also difficult for Nobuyigge Ito to bear. Moreover, this is only the beginning of the race to explore, and the large investment is difficult for Nobuyigge Ito to accept.

He even prepared and waited for Sioux City to bargain. For example, limiting the number of exploration teams of the Shinma Group and Ito Trading Co., Ltd. to three is the best option from Nobuyshige Ito's point of view.

However, Sioux City's character and experience determined his firm pursuit of goals, and Dahua, as his private company, Sioux City did not have to think about shareholders and the board of directors, and was fully able to endure cost spikes and capital losses in a short period of time.

The winners are compensated, and the losers reap the consequences.

From the moment he determined the racing exploration, Su Cheng had anticipated the current situation, he smiled leisurely, and said: "Racing exploration, if even the exploration team is reluctant, just admit defeat." Limiting the number of exploration teams is contrary to the spirit of the contract. ”

"This is nothing more than a meaningless arms race. Li Zhengfu retorted weakly.

"When you sign an agreement for racing exploration. Don't you know that the contract signed is an 'arms race'?" Sioux City quipped. The cost of his exploration team and the Singapore-Malaysia Group are two different concepts, and the cost of 10 exploration teams may not be as much as that of Li Zhengfu's two exploration teams. And their effectiveness will far exceed that of foreign exploration teams equipped with advanced equipment.

The monthly salary of an ordinary Chinese worker is less than 500 yuan, and the investment in labor costs does not exceed 1,000 yuan, while the monthly salary of a member of a foreign exploration team is at least 1,000 US dollars, and even if the appreciation of the yen exempts Ito Trading Company from half of its expenditures, a 100-person exploration team will need more than 100,000 US dollars in labor costs. Those with highly technical titles, equipment operators, or exploration teams that include multiple types of work, often have as many as three or four hundred personnel. It's not uncommon for costs to jump 10 times.

The numbers on the books are the ones Nobuyoge Ito is most familiar with, and because of this, he is very unhappy in his heart. Foreign exploration teams since the 70s. In the way of chasing high-tech and less manpower, where did I think that today I would meet a guy like Sioux City who does not follow the international trend.

The core of a high-tech exploration team with little manpower is not to increase efficiency, but to reduce costs.

As fewer and fewer new fields are discovered in the world, the total investment in exploration by the oil industry is gradually decreasing. The exploration team using high-tech equipment only adapts to this situation, further reducing the cost, and at the same time reducing the mining speed, many high-cost exploration teams. In the case of insufficient workload, it tends to go out of business.

If there is a company that is fast, it is completely possible to hire multiple exploration teams to carry out exploration and bring those half-dead exploration teams back to life. In fact, on the contrary, companies tend to spend as little as possible. And the hope of profitability is placed in financial markets such as the stock market.

I can figure it out from another angle. No matter how advanced the exploration equipment of the developed countries of Europe and the United States in the 50s is, it will not be more advanced than the equipment of China in the 90s. Since European and American countries in the 50s were able to explore most of the world, China in the 90s had no reason to complain about backward equipment.

The Daqing Oil Battle and the Victory Oil Battle took only two or three years. It was still the poor China of the sixties. Replace it with a foreign oil company, whether it was 1960 or 1990. It is not uncommon to develop a Daqing oil field in 10 years -- of course, at the cost of foreign oil companies, if they adopt the model of oil battles, it will be a dead end for them to explore for as much oil as possible, and this is something that they cannot learn if they want to. Tens of thousands of formed units that have been directly discharged from the army have been thrown into the oil construction in the form equivalent to compulsory soldiers, and this has been accompanied by fiery enthusiasm for construction. The resulting power cannot be replaced by a few cranes and a more advanced drilling rig.

ExxonMobil and BP can't learn from it, and neither can Ito Trading Company and Singapore-Malaysia Group. That's why Nobuyshige Ito wants to limit competition.

After the method of restricting the exploration team was rejected by Sioux City, Nobushige Ito was silent for a moment and said, "Chairman Sioux City, you have raised the cost of competition. In this case, the two of us can only increase the cost of competition at the same time. You have opened Pandora's box. ”

Su Cheng took a look and said, "Since the signing of the racing exploration agreement, the magic box has been opened. ”

This is also the reason why oil companies don't like to enter into agreements for racing exploration, no matter how beautiful they say in advance, for the sake of huge profits, both sides will eventually do everything they can to increase their leverage until one side gives up or loses.

Ito Nobu smiled heavily, and said, "That's what I said." ”

Alexei felt a little neglected, and his face was strained. However, seeing that they have a tendency to increase investment, Alixe raised his wine glass with a smile on his face and exclaimed: "I wish you two success!"

"Success!" several people drank vodka with their own thoughts, and then grinned spicily.

Ito Nobu exhaled a breath of turbidity, put down the cup, and said with a smile: "Su Dong may not know that Ito Trading Company has invited an aviation exploration team from the United States, although it is a low-altitude and low-speed aircraft, but to do a good job of primary exploration, that is, a few days. ”

Alikse was pleasantly surprised: "I know about aerial exploration, I sat in Siberia when it was first developed. ”

The Siberian environment made the early Soviet Union quite dependent on air transportation, and helicopters such as the Mi-26 were specifically considered for Siberian needs. At the same time, the USSR also made a lot even after 20 years to see. It is also a very powerful land heavy truck, so that it can pass through muddy roads that are deeper than people. The fact that Aliksey was able to get his hands on an undeveloped plot of land in the Tyumen oil region proved his position in the upper echelons of the Soviet Union, or in the Russian Federation today, and it was not uncommon to take an aerial survey.

Nobuyage Ito looked at Sioux City, as if trying to find a little surprise or anger to come out.

He didn't see anything.

I only heard Su Cheng say lightly: "We all know that oil exploration is a systematic project, and aviation exploration can do it." It's really limited. If Ito Trading Company only had this ability, it would be better to surrender as soon as possible, so as not to lose too much. ”

Li Zhengfu said in unclear Chinese: "We just don't want to lose both." If Su Dong wants to compete with manpower. I hope you can keep up with the speed, the train that runs a week is too slow to transport. ”

Su Cheng smiled. At this moment, a bunch of headlights of a car came from behind, passed through the window and landed on the dining table.

The makeshift camp is very rudimentary, even the room where Alik is plugged is only at the level of a domestic youth hostel, and it is found by the headlights of a car, and it is suddenly difficult to see in the living room.

Several people walked out the door in unison.

I saw a convoy of cars, creaking in. This time, it was a 6x4 flat-headed truck at the head. Covered in mud and weathered.

"Is it Dahua's exploration team?"

"Yes. ”

"When I saw red and yellow, I thought of Dahua Industry. Alexei laughed twice. The red and yellow colors he said are Dahua's CI logos. Since the integration of Dahua Group two years ago, Dahua's corporate image recognition system has become more and more widely used, and Dahua's logo has become more and more famous. As a result, the number of large domestic enterprises adopting these two colors is decreasing day by day.

Nobushige Ito and Masashi Lee frowned as Sioux City went up to greet the newly arrived explorers.

At the same time, the Dahua logistics team, which had already prepared dinner, also served a pot of food on the table, the son of Chef Fan of the former Shengli Oilfield, Chef Xiao Fan. Guarding the two large pots of thick soup, he beckoned, "Come and drink some hot and warm up......"

The personnel left behind by Dahua, whether they were logistics staff or administrative staff, all poured out, shushing and asking for warmth under the bitter cold wind. Although many people are sleepy-eyed, they still smile and run back and forth to help in their coats.

From the city of Tyumen to the temporary camp, it is almost a whole day's drive, and there is only cold water bread on the road. At this point, the driver and passengers jumped out of the car, stomping their feet and swearing at the ghost weather in Siberia with their Chinese fellows in the makeshift camp. The oil workers who travel from south to north never have stage fright, let alone in a foreign country, whether they know each other or not, everyone quickly becomes acquainted. You are a native of Hu*Nan from the South China Exploration Bureau, and I am a native of Hu*Bei from the Dagang Oilfield.

In just a few minutes, the Dahua crowd was united. Everyone stomped their feet while waiting for a room to be allocated while drinking hot soup, and there were also members of the maintenance team, with their headlights on to verify the condition of the truck.

Normal repairs and unplugging will take place during the day tomorrow.

This fleet is loaded with large equipment and a set of steel structures. Dahua needs to build another supply base in the Kuwak area, otherwise it will be difficult for the tens of thousands of troops to hold on.

It's early in the evening in Siberia, and as soon as the sun sets, the temperature drops to below freezing. Even in a fur coat, it is difficult to say that it is warm.

But none of the employees left behind in the temporary camp in Dahua hid to keep warm. They first brought the driver and passengers into the camping house after a long day's travel, helped to check the condition of the vehicles, and unloaded the small amount of equipment that needed to be unloaded...... It's a lot of fun to be busy.

These Chinese, up and down, seem to be filled with heat, and with this heat, they infect their compatriots......

Li Zhengfu asked himself if he would get up and help if he fell asleep on such a cold day.

Answer: If it weren't for my job, I wouldn't!

Similarly, the staff of the other Singapore-Malaysia Group, except for the prescribed duty staff, are not expected to run out of the warm room......

However, it is difficult to maintain a team of tens of thousands of people by rules and regulations alone, which makes the job more difficult and adds more pressure to everyone.

If you want to keep a team on duty, how many people are needed, how much cost is needed, how much overhead is needed, and what kind of efficiency can it have.

A series of questions made Li Zhengfu fall into an inexplicable panic.