Chapter 567: VAM Agreement

Isabella gets the information that Ding Mu has gathered through neutrinos, just like a clever gambler has already known the hole cards in advance, and the gambling agreement is not winnable.

What is missing now is opportunity. After all, the country of Shengding is a small country with few resources, and the resources for diplomatic relations are not much. However, Isabella is a member of the European Double-headed Eagle family. Resources are abundant on the European side.

European culture, on the other hand, attaches great importance to maritime culture, and the world's most influential salvage companies are made by European pirates.

Isabella has already made arrangements to start a month-long state visit to the developed countries of Europe and the United States. She will bring her diplomatic team, economic and trade cooperation team and cultural exchange team to continuously contact countries with a foundation for cooperation, reach strategic cooperation, and form bilateral cooperative relations.

Ding Mu is at home, watching TV news while continuing to study technology.

After all, the Shengding Kingdom is a weak country, and it cannot be compared with the Great China Kingdom in all aspects. Ding Mu watched the domestic TV station, but there was no news at all, and even the visit of his Prime Minister Isabella to Europe was the first to be exposed in the foreign media.

This talent is really lacking. Shengding is not only lacking in talents, but also lacking in people, only 900,000 people, which may not be as many as the self-media in Dahuaguo.

Seeing that it was reported on the foreign network, the two sides had in-depth discussions on economic exchanges, cultural exchanges. Isabella took underwater archaeology as an opportunity to take global naval warfare research as a project, and established a good cooperation platform for top universities in the country of Santo, Europe and even the world.

Education is a major issue in the country of Santo, and if a country does not have top universities, then it cannot become a real power.

See Isabella use her resources and search the world for resources that can be used to rapidly develop the kingdom of Saint-Ding. Ding Mu knew that he was still much worse than her in this regard.

Managing such a super-small country is almost like managing a county. Isabella is not a hundred miles away, how can she be satisfied with such a small place, an island country in the Pacific, she wants to get involved. First twist the 72 island nations of the South Pacific into a rope, and then slowly figure it out.

Isabella walked around Europe and the United States, clearly brushing up her sense of existence, making the international popularity and influence of the country of Shengding much stronger than when it was called the country of airplanes. Only in this way can she have the capital to talk about cooperation and gambling with other countries.

The last stop of Isabella's visit is the Alliance of Petroleum Nations, and her ultimate goal is also the Alliance of Petroleum Nations. She signed the only economic and trade agreement of the trip with the oil royal family.

Oil countries are now panicking, because of the rapid realization of new energy applications, coupled with the solar energy technology invented by Ding Mu, photovoltaic technology will become the mainstream of power generation in the future, and more economical and environmentally friendly power generation fuels will surely replace traditional coal and fuel oil. In any case, Dahua has greatly reduced its dependence on crude oil, and has taken the lead in reducing oil imports, and in the future, oil can only become a non-essential strategic material and be stored.

Therefore, the world's largest oil company, and the private property of the oil royal family, Aza Oil, already knows its future and destiny. Although there is money now, the future will definitely be difficult. Therefore, we must take advantage of this time difference and make a quick transformation. Make good use of existing resources and invest in other industries.

For the oil royal family, Isabella's arrival was to doze off and send pillows. She mentioned the world's leading technology for combustible ice exploration and mining in the country of Santin.

Combustible ice, also known as gas hydrate, is an ice-like crystalline compound formed by natural gas and water under high pressure and low temperatures. In appearance, combustible ice resembles white or light gray ice crystals. At this time, if there is an ignition source, it can be ignited like solid alcohol, so it is called "combustible ice".

Combustible ice combustion produces dozens of times more energy than coal, oil, and natural gas, and does not produce any residue and exhaust gas after combustion, avoiding the most troublesome pollution problem.

Dingmu has been explored, and the total resources of combustible ice are roughly twice the total resources of coal, oil and gas in the world. Huge reserves, efficient and clean, high combustion value.

Because of its high energy density, combustible ice is the most preferred fuel for Dingmu. It has a small footprint but a lot of energy. For example, if a car fueled by natural gas can travel 300 kilometers with 100 liters of natural gas at a time, then the car can travel 50,000 kilometers with the same volume of combustible ice.

The vast majority of countries around the world produce combustible ice for gasification. Generally, after drilling, a large amount of combustible natural gas will be produced, and the daily production capacity of one mining point may be as high as more than 10,000 cubic meters. Just because combustible ice is generally located in the deep sea, it is very difficult to produce gas continuously.

It can be said that it is more than ten times more difficult than oil extraction, so the cost of using this fuel is also more than ten times higher. No commercial application has been achieved worldwide.

Isabella spawned that the combustible ice in our country of St. Ding is developed in a completely different way, and he uses a special method to keep the combustible ice solidified. A special device is used to work on the seabed, directly converting combustible ice into "energy blocks" that can be used. These blocks are available in different sizes, with a standard energy block of 500ml providing the equivalent of 100 litres of gasoline.

Moreover, the use of Ding wood technology in the mining process, the use of the process, completely pollution-free. This "energy block" will become the fuel of choice for aircraft and high-performance tools.

When the oil royal family saw this technology, their eyes immediately straightened. If this alternative fuel is so strong, if it is commercially exploited, then the market will definitely change dramatically. The situation facing its own Aza Oil is even more dangerous and even worse.

Isabella proposed an agreement on cooperative development. Let the oil royal family, the sovereign wealth fund of the oil states, and the Azza Petroleum Company jointly form a consortium to become the cornerstone investor of this combustible ice company in the country of Santin. Up to $500 billion will be used to purchase a 50% stake in Santin Combustible Company, which will be developed in partnership with the two parties.

Such cooperation, of course, will be rejected by the oil countries. Although they are tyrants, the money is not blown by the wind, how can they casually throw such a large sum of money, this money is close to their annual GDP.

Isabella knew they wouldn't agree, so she "relented" to a VAM agreement. She used the sovereign fund of the Kingdom of Santo as collateral and formed a stepped shareholding plan with the head of the oil royal family based on the production of the "energy block".

The oil state's $500 billion still holds 50 percent of the shares, but the 50 percent stake is not set in stone, but is related to the first year of production by the company Santin.

If the standard amount of "commercialization" agreed by both parties is reached, then each party will hold 50% of the shares. If it is twice the standard amount, then the oil country's stake becomes 25%, and if it is five, then the oil country's stake is 10%. If it's 50 times, it's 1%. Correspondingly, if the standard amount is not reached, only 50% of the standard amount, then the oil country's stake becomes 75%, and if there is only 10% of the standard amount, then the oil country's share is 95%.

Seeing the fax of this agreement, Ding Mu smiled. On the surface, this thing makes too much sense. The standard amount calculated by the oil country does not suffer. But Ding Mu, who knows the inside story, knows very well that Isabella is too tricky, and this oil country is going to lose blood.