Chapter 267: Two Resources

Originally, they launched wars, whether it was the Iraq War or the Libyan War, to disrupt the international situation, and then raise oil prices, and then restrain their competitors, because their main competitors are China, Japan and Western European countries, which are characterized by their own oil is not much, and they need to rely heavily on external oil imports. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

And in this way, using the means of the crazy rise in oil, the US imperialists can strike at these countries through oil weapons.

It's just that I didn't expect that my side also suffered from it, the United States also depends on imports of crude oil, as long as their crude oil importing country is Canada, you read that right, Canada is also an oil exporter, and it is also the largest trading partner of the United States, in which oil is indispensable.

However, the United States itself has a lot of oil, but the government is unwilling to exploit it, saying that it is to protect its own resources, and it is not willing to destroy the environment, and there is a ban on oil in the United States, and oil originating in the United States is prohibited from being sold to foreign countries (the ban was lifted in 2016, because domestic oil production is really inexhaustible, and the first country to import American oil is China), so its oil companies are very keen to stake land around the world, and relatively little is exploited domestically.

But in the face of such high oil prices, if you continue to import oil from abroad, then the United States itself can not afford it, so the government slightly relaxed the restrictions, allowing companies to start extracting oil, and at this stall, the Americans discovered shale oil, this thing changed the pattern of world energy later, because it appeared so that oil is a consumable, sooner or later it will be depleted The statement has been shaken, people found that oil seems to be inexhaustible, oil is gone, and shale oil, and this news has caused panic in the Middle East oil-producing countries, and everyone is scrambling to increase production, trying to use supply and low prices to crush the American shale oil company, so later the price of oil plummeted, and the economies of many countries went bankrupt, such as Venezuela and Russia, of which Russia has a big problem, and the country has accumulated a lot of difficulties, and sooner or later the future will be led.

After the recession of the oil market, the days of oil-producing countries hanging and blowing up the sky are gone, their days of the former boss and my second child are over, and the energy importing countries have become the real God, China used to find those countries to buy oil, they can't wait to put their nostrils to the sky, and now, when China's economic transformation and the world's oil market is oversupplied, they have come to the door again, eager to dig out their hearts to show loyalty, many countries have begun to kneel and lick China, so China's international status in the world has improved a lot。

Some of the former loyal followers of the United States, such as Australia, Canada and even countries like the United Kingdom have begun to turn to China, trying to drink porridge behind China's ass, the improvement of economic strength is indeed to improve the right to speak, weak countries have no diplomacy, such a thing is indeed a bloody fact, even Western countries are now very contradictory, is it not to extend an olive branch to China, and then after a period of time they turn their faces and deny people without warning, this is not because China is not doing well, but because their countries themselves have internal differences, some people want to get closer to China, some people reject China, and such a situation was unimaginable before, because they were all excluded from China before。

And the contradictions and entanglements within their countries, reflected in their capriciousness in diplomacy, the Chinese are very puzzled in their hearts, always feel that these countries are like SB, in fact, others also have bitter intentions, both want to be a bitch, but also want to set up a chastity archway, both want to gain benefits from China, do not want to lose the Chinese market, on the other hand, they are not willing to give up the United States, but also a little look down on China, so diplomatically will have convulsions from time to time.

However, at this time in 2012, the oil market is still a seller's market, and the countries that sell oil are all hanging bombs, so China's life is very difficult now, therefore, the country began to disperse oil source channels, of which Angola's crude oil exports account for about 16-18% of China's oil imports, Russia second, about 13-16%, Saudi Arabia third, around 13-15%, other countries, what Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, Iran, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Libya, Iraq and other countries can all account for a part, but the proportion does not exceed 10%.

Diversifying energy import channels is crucial for national energy security, and at this time, China's oil companies are looking for oil all over the world, and they want to grab the oil fields that everyone wants, and they also want to take a look at the oil fields that everyone doesn't want, and Niger belongs to such a country where everyone is not interested.

However, PetroChina still attaches great importance to this market, having opened up several oil fields in the country before that, and last year the country's leaders visited Niger and signed some contracts with Niger.

Niger is a poor country with little to sell, and the only thing they can get their hands on is two things, one is oil and the other is uranium.

The former is fossil energy, while the latter is nuclear.

These two things are very, very important, fossil energy is currently the most important energy used by human beings, and nuclear energy is a huge potential, and relatively clean energy, in the developed countries of the West, nuclear energy accounts for a large proportion, for example, Japan's nuclear energy accounts for about 30% of the energy, and in the West, France's nuclear energy is the highest, their annual nuclear power plant power generation accounts for 75-85% of the country's total power generation About, the country, as a result, saves at least 90 million tons of oil every year, a ton of oil is about 10 barrels of crude oil, so if you calculate it, they can save at least more than 90 billion dollars a year!

That's a lot of money!

The development of nuclear energy requires the use of uranium mines, and not all uranium mines are suitable for nuclear power generation, but the uranium mines in Niger are relatively in line with the requirements, so Niger's resources are generally speaking, that is, uranium ore and oil are more important.

China currently has only six nuclear power plants, as the world's largest manufacturing power, China's annual power generation is also the world's largest, in 2012 reached 5 trillion kilowatt hours (one kilowatt hour = one kilowatt hour), this figure is 1.2 times that of the United States, 4.7 times that of Japan, 8 times that of Germany, 9 times that of France, and 12 times that of the United Kingdom!

However, compared to these countries, China's share of nuclear power is much lower, only 2%!