Chapter 636: The President's Assurance
The celebration dinner on the second night was grand in scale and high-end!
Including the current president of Argentina, Mauricio. Macri, Vice President of Argentina and President of the Senate Budou, Speaker of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies Domingos, President of Argentina's ruling Justice Party, Daniel Brown. Shorey, Chief Minister of the Argentine Cabinet (Prime Minister) Marque. Peña, president of the ruling coalition Radical Party, Mario Brown. Barreta, including a number of top Argentine political leaders, participated in the banquet.
Others, such as the governor of the province of Buenos Aires, members of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate, Argentine business tycoons in various industries, and CEOs of large foreign companies in Argentina, were involved.
During the entire dinner, Tang Feng made a rough estimate that there were more than 200 people to attend. Thankfully, Diego. Sigman's estate is large enough, and it's summer in Argentina, otherwise, the main villa alone would definitely not be able to accommodate so many people.
The dinner was held in a combination of indoor and outdoor mode, and so many people could come, even Hugo. Sigman didn't expect it.
As Argentina's richest man and a personal friend of current President Macri, Hugo Murphy is a close friend of President Macri. Sigman's face is still big enough. Not to mention, the discovery of the Gulf of Anegada oil and gas field is the largest oil and gas field discovered in Argentina so far, which has since freed Argentina from the history of not having a super-giant oil and gas field.
And this super giant oil field with reserves of nearly 15 billion barrels has also made Argentina's oil reserves surpass Brazil, becoming the world's largest oil reserve country in South America after Venezuela.
In the latest ranking of world oil reserves released at the end of last year, Venezuela, which was originally ranked seventh in the world, now has proven oil reserves of 297.6 billion barrels, surpassing Saudi Arabia with reserves of 267.9 billion barrels for the first time and becoming the world's first. Argentina, which was only ranked 33rd in the world, turned out to be ranked only. It has oil reserves of 2.8 billion barrels, but because of the discovery of the oil and gas field in the Gulf of Anegada, Argentina's oil reserves immediately increased to 17.8 billion barrels, surpassing Brazil, which originally ranked 13th in the world with reserves of 13.9 billion barrels, and became the 13th country in the world in terms of new oil reserves.
And the discovery of the oil and gas fields in the Gulf of Anegada. Not only has Argentina's oil reserves been ranked higher, but the most important thing is that the discovery of this oil and gas field can ease Argentina, which has been in an energy crisis in recent years, again, because the discovery of this oil and gas field alone is enough for Argentina to use for decades.
As the owners of this oil and gas field, Tang Feng, Sigman and Benjamin . Rockefeller, naturally, became the most striking character in this banquet.
"Mr. Tang, I really want to thank you for finding such a super giant oil field for our country. On behalf of all Argentine citizens, I would like to thank you for this contribution. President Macri held his glass and said affectionately to Tang Feng.
Tang Feng gently touched the cup with the president, who had just been in office for more than a year, and after taking a sip, he said: "Dear Mr. President, these tasks are only within the scope of my work, and I would like to thank you and the Argentine government under your leadership for your support for our work." ”
After a pause, Tang Feng pulled Benjamin, who was standing aside, and said, "Mr. President." This is the representative of the Rockefeller family, Benjamin Brown. Mr. Rockefeller. Although we discovered this huge oil and gas field this time, if we want to make full use of the oil and gas resources of this oil and gas field, Exxon. Mobil Oil Company's great support. Now I have Mr. Sigman and I have been with Exxon. Mobil Corporation has signed a series of agreements with Exxon. Mobil promised that it would be in the next three years. At least $5 billion will be invested to build a large-scale integrated refinery and a modern oil port near the Gulf of Anegada oil and gas field, so that the Argentine people can enjoy the oil and gas resources of this oil and gas field first. ”
President Macri smiled and touched Benjamin's glass again, took a sip and said, "Dear Mr. Rockefeller, I speak for all the Argentine people. Thank you and your family for your contribution to Argentina's basic industries. Mr. Rockefeller, please rest assured that your family's investment in Argentina will be absolutely protected by Argentine law and government, and we will not let investors encounter any trouble in Argentina, and at the same time, we will ensure the returns of investors. ”
As the supreme head of a country, President Macri can make such a guarantee, which is definitely quite important. You know, this kind of thing is usually said by the chief minister of the cabinet, and the president will not easily make such a guarantee.
However, President Macri cannot afford not to make such a guarantee, because last year Argentina attracted only $10 billion in foreign investment a year, and so far this year, Argentina has attracted just over $9 billion in foreign investment, and the Rockefeller family has invested $5 billion at once.
Benjamin was also an outstanding son of a large family, so he replied very comfortably: "Thank you for your commitment, Dear Mr. President, please rest assured that we of the Rockefeller family will make good use of this investment, and I also promise you that we will open up 90% of the jobs in this large oil refinery to the Argentine people." ”
"Hehe, then I would like to thank Mr. Rockefeller for his generosity." President Macri's face turned into a flower, a large oil refinery of tens of millions of tons like this, just needs 10,000 thousands of workers, even if 90% of the jobs, that is more than 10,000 jobs.
In fact, Tang Feng has already negotiated with the Rockefeller family about jobs, and if he wants to obtain the protection of the newly issued law, in addition to a sufficient amount of investment, it is also a very good insurance to hand over a large number of jobs to the Argentine government for arrangement.
In a developing country like Argentina, the amount of foreign investment is okay, and the most important thing is whether the foreign capital you introduce can really be utilized, which is the most crucial. A benchmark that can directly reflect the utilization of foreign capital is undoubtedly jobs.
This kind of opportunity to create more than 10,000 jobs at a time is almost unprecedented in the whole of Argentina, and as the newly appointed President Macri, of course, is happy.
In this way, in the midst of the staggering, Tang, Benjamin, and Sigman negotiated with a group of high-level government officials about the Anegada Bay oil and gas field and the refinery (to be continued). )