That night, the bidding for all 11 oil blocks was completed, and BP was the big winner, getting the equity of 6 oil blocks, Exxon, Total, Shell, Rosneft, plus Dahua Industrial, got the remaining five oil fields.

France's Fina, Petrobras, and the relatively big Spanish company Repsona, which formed a group of companies with Dahua, had nothing to gain, and could only rely on signing cooperation and technology contracts with Dahua Industrial in accordance with the previous agreement to be downstream companies, which was somewhat similar in nature to the later oil service agreements, but with lower profits, which was a helpless expedient measure to make up for their respective efforts in the bidding.

Sioux City didn't care how long they could do it. The prelude to oil field development is the hardest, just like the beginning of a book is the hardest to write, and no amount of help can be overstated.

A few years later, if Fina, Repsol and other companies wanted to end the agreement, Sioux City didn't care, and when the time came, Dahua Industrial's profits from Azerbaijan alone would be enough for it to expand into a behemoth.

Representatives of various companies frequently congratulate Dahua Industrial, but the most sincere congratulatory message should belong to the media.

In this bidding, except for Dahua Industrial in Sioux City, which adopted an independent bidding method, the remaining 10 oil fields were all won by the company group, and only Rosneft and Exxon obtained more than 50% of the oil field shares.

For the media, this is the best subject of news.

The other five winning companies represent dozens of companies that will share the costs and risks of oil extraction. Historically, at least two of Azerbaijan's 11 oil fields have been dry, that is, almost non-productive. Of the remaining nine oil fields, there are about five or six with an annual output of more than 10 million barrels, but only two or three with an annual output of more than 20 million barrels.

In the current market. An oil field with a production of 10 million barrels of oil has only a small profit, and an oil field with an oil production of 20 million barrels can be called a huge profit. In other words, half of the oil companies that are celebrating now will go back crying in the next three years.

Only the remaining half will be able to taste the lusciousness of victory - after tasting the bitterness of crude oil.

In Sioux City's mind, Exxon eventually seemed to leave Azerbaijan for nothing, and it was no wonder that the three-year concession had not found an oil field...... Of course, Exxon, a big family, will not be shocked by this, and the wall will lose money outside the wall. Other companies are also in this situation.

The next day was the official signing ceremony, which Sioux City signed with 10 pens to commemorate the occasion.

Aliyev also changed three pens every time he signed, and went to Dahua Industrial. He even gave a pen directly to Su Cheng, meaning that "I hope you have a smooth mining." ”

After taking close to $500 million from Dahua Industrial, Aliyev really didn't want Sioux City to go home empty-handed.

Su Cheng smiled and thanked him. He was also a little worried at this time, after all, whether the Aqijiu oil field in his memory would appear as scheduled could not be said to be 100% of the thing, only when crude oil gushed out. It's 100%.

The next half day belongs to the media. However, the media in various countries are biased towards the reporting of oil companies, they do not like or care about oil development or oil refining projects worth hundreds of billions or tens of billions, but usually like to report on commercial projects worth $100 million or less.

Azerbaijan's oil bids are valuable to the economic press. But for other media, it's a little more boring. Anyway, in this world, there will always be oil fields to be developed. There will always be oil companies that will bid for the oil fields.

So, despite the fact that it is involved in perhaps the world's most important oil circle after the Middle East. The media was still superficial, and it only took half a day to complete most of the coverage.

And they can't be blamed for it, the oil companies have been at the top of the food chain for at least 60 years, and the journalists who always want to expose the shady have probably learned enough lessons.

Liu Jianguo waited until the evening after the media interview to meet Su Cheng, but that is to say, a few words.

Dahua Industrial, which has just concluded its bidding, does have too many affairs.

Despite this, on the morning of the third day, Su Cheng still invited Liu Jianguo as promised to go to the oil field to investigate, accompanied by Liu Jianguo's colleague Wang Yu, who was the same age as Liu Jianguo, and had graduated from school for six or seven years, with a sense of arrogance from the central government, neatly dressed but unwilling to have more contact with ordinary people.

Su Cheng ordered Yang Ming to greet him, and he took Liu Jianguo on the boat, and the two chatted casually about some things before and after school, and it was quite easy along the way.

However, this is not an easy task after all, and it is good to sit in a bumpy boat for two or three hours, and when you get to the oil block site 100 kilometers off the coast of Baku, you will encounter the problems that all offshore platforms encounter. The survey ship was full of equipment, overcrowded, full of steep steel escalators, dangerous and complicated, and the food was easy to come by, coupled with the sun exposure and the salty sea breeze, life on the survey ship was hard, very different from the sound of Baku.

Su Cheng introduced Liu Jianguo to the survey ship, and Wang Yu visited it casually, and the salty smell and the stench of crude oil quickly stuck to his body, and he covered his nose at first, but soon after, he was assimilated.

From time to time, the sound of speedboat machine guns hitting water bubbles can be heard in the distance, accompanied by the noise of the ocean, as if an unspeakable loneliness is spreading.

"They don't seem to be talkative. Wang Yu turned around twice, returned to the restaurant, and said quite uneasily: "When I ask them, almost no one is willing to answer." By the way, is there a purple potion?"

"Purple Potion, what's wrong?" Liu Jianguo turned his head away.

"There was a wolf just now, and I happened to be walking fast, and I was loaded on a piece of iron. Wang Yu rolled up his trouser leg and smiled awkwardly.

In the dim light of the restaurant, a large lump could be seen, but it was not lightly hit.

Yang Ming went to fetch the purple potion and cotton and helped him deal with it.

Wang Yu looked at the gauze wrapped, inhaled the cool air, and recited the old saying: "The people on the boat, don't they like to talk? ”

Su Cheng coughed lightly and said with a smile: "Maybe it's because they're all Central Asians." ”

Wang Yu was stunned, the light on the ship was either too dazzling or too dim, he remembered that they were all yellow, but he didn't carefully distinguish which nationality was from.

Liu Jianguo couldn't help laughing, and said, "You also invited Central Asians." ”

"Mainly the local workers in Baku. Sioux City said simply.

Liu Jianguo asked: "Dahua also has corresponding technicians, right?"

Su Cheng nodded: "Yes, there is, but now they all have jobs." ”

Liu Jianguo suddenly said: "Setan oil field?"

"Yes, there are also people who develop there. "It is not easy to train oil workers, although Chinese state-owned enterprises rarely care about the role of talent, but in such an industry, the lack of talent is not open, and the training of oil workers is also very time-consuming, Dahua Industrial has long swept away the domestic skilled workers, and now it is all relying on the training base in Pudong to increase manpower, and there are not many personnel sent to Azerbaijan.

Wang Yu said embarrassedly: "Then tomorrow, I will call the translator to understand the situation together." ”

"Oh, we're not going back today. Yang Ming smiled and put away the medicine box.

Wang Yu was stunned again and repeated: "Aren't you going back to Baku?"

"If we don't go back to land, it's going to take five or six hours to go back and forth, and we're going to stay on the ship for two days. ”

"What about the urgency?"

"Satellite phone. Su Cheng blinked as he spoke, and said, "Baku is not quiet now, and hiding in the boat can save a lot of trouble." ”

This answer was definitely beyond Wang Yu's imagination, and when a narrow crew cabin appeared in front of his eyes, and a bunk narrower than the door panel, something beyond imagination followed.

It was not until after the year 2000 that the accommodation conditions of offshore oil ships improved, and before that, only the captain's cabin was more comfortable.

Wang Yuhe had suffered such a crime, and he couldn't stand it after two days of hard work, so he persuaded Liu Jianguo: "The photos have also been taken, and the data have been recorded, I heard that it will take a while for the oil to be produced, let's report it to the top first." ”

Liu Jianguo disagreed, saying: "Fei Lao wants us to analyze the oil production situation in Central Asia, especially Azerbaijan, to judge whether the China-Kazakhstan oil pipeline can operate at full capacity." If you don't come to the scene, how can you just listen to Dahua Industrial's statement?"

"Didn't Chairman Su of Dahua Industrial say that if the oil production is insufficient, it will be replaced by a long-term contract?"

"Substitution is substitution, after all, it is different from our own oil field. How about the oil field that Dahua gets, whether the long-term contract is signed or not, and what the conditions are, we have to understand it before we can come up with the charter, otherwise, I don't know if I don't know when I get to Fei Lao, how embarrassed. Liu Jianguo's words are not just a scene, he really thinks of the role of supervision, which is also a breakthrough in his personal career.

Wang Yu couldn't stand his reasoning, and went to work again.

Before the two of them returned to land, Xu Jie, a representative of the Petroleum Corporation, hired a boat himself and came to the survey ship.

Xu Jie and Liu Jianguo have similar goals, but they represent different units. To him, Su Cheng didn't have so much politeness, only gave two communication cards, and didn't even have a cramped cabin, so he left the rest of the escort to fend for himself.

Space on survey ships is limited, and as it should be. Xu Jie and the company representatives who came from behind simply rented a fishing boat and lived on it.

Therefore, Dahua Industrial's first initial exploration well in Baku was drilled under the watchful eyes of a fishing boat.

This time, Sioux City could not find a better exploration well site in the vast sea, and he did not even know the depth of the Azijiu oil field, so he had to leave all these jobs to the conscientious geological engineer.

In the millions or even tens of millions of expenses, the more the first exploration shaft is erected, the clearer they know about the underground situation.

The end of 1993 ended with the harassment of a group of wildcat wells.

……