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Ovani's seaview villas are located on the Luanda Peninsula, which is ten kilometres long from north to south and less than a kilometre wide on the coastline of the capital city of Luanda. Many of the sections are only one road wide, like a natural breakout that protects Luanda.

The island is lined with greenery, many villas full of southern European style, and many beautiful beaches, which are full of tourists, and it is obviously an upscale residential and tourist area.

It's a pity that most of the tourists are some locals who are covered in darkness, which makes Chen Mo not experience Yaxing at all. He looked at the restrained Hana beside him, and said in his heart: If all the black people are of her level, then it is worth seeing.

But he also knew that this was unrealistic, pure black people were really not charming, and even in terms of Chen Mo's aesthetics, they could be regarded as terrifying.

Although Isabel is black, her mother is a Russian beauty from Azerbaijan, so she has attractive brown skin and even a little Russian style in her silhouette.

This Hana is also a mixed race, but according to her status, either she is an unfavored girl, or she is the seed left by some European tourist here, and she doesn't even know who her father is.

The car drove all the way to the northernmost tip of the peninsula, passing a street park surrounded by exotic cafes and pubs, where many white tourists were just dressed in beach pants and bared their big bellies, enjoying the sea breeze and cold beer in the shade of the trees.

Owannee's villa is a Moorish-style villa that is not very large, but it is surrounded by trees and the setting is quite charming.

Chen Mo and his convoy drove directly into the courtyard, and Chen Mo found that there was a private beach isolated from the backyard. See here. Chen Mo couldn't help but envy him, although he didn't have any money of his own, he was a person who could enjoy life very well.

However, I am still young, and now I still have to focus on my career. If you want to enjoy yourself, with hundreds of millions of dollars in family property, you can buy a house like this everywhere in the world and enjoy life at will, which is definitely not comparable to himself.

There are two middle-aged maids and two security guards in the villa, but neither of them understands English. But now with Hana. Chen Mo can arrange their work through Hana.

Although Ovani was the master, he didn't put out the master's shelf at this time, arranged the things in the villa properly, and officially invited Chen Mo, so he left in a hurry.

The weather here is too hot, when I was in the capital, the temperature was around 10 degrees, but here the temperature is more than 40 degrees. Although the sea breeze was gusting, it still couldn't stop the steam.

Due to power shortages. The central air conditioner in the villa can't be started, although there is a small air conditioner in the bedroom, but Chen Mo can't meet the company's employees in the bedroom.

So, he simply learned from the people here. Wearing only a pair of beach pants, he sat under the palm trees in the yard.

Even Xu Yunteng couldn't stand the weather here. After holding on for a while, he couldn't help but unbutton his shirt, revealing his loose muscles.

Zhang Jun after they entered the villa. took over the security here, and it was very busy for a while. After scanning all over the room and signaling safety, Chen Mo nodded.

Seeing this, Xu Yunteng took out all the materials of the bidding from his bag, and the two of them sat in the courtyard and discussed in a low voice.

Although Angola is a well-known oil producer, most of their oil is produced in the northern enclave of Cabinda. Since Angola was originally a Portuguese colony, while their neighbor Congo was a Belgian colony.

At that time, in order to obtain an outlet to the sea for the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Belgium united with other countries at the European Conference to trap Portugal, cutting a corridor about 20 kilometers wide to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and separating the Cabinda region from the Angolan mainland.

Originally, Cabinda was just an enclave of obscurity, but with the discovery of oil, the peaceful life here was completely changed.

At present, the major Western oil companies have their own spheres of influence in the Cabinda region. In the past, most of them had provided financial support to both government forces and guerrilla colleagues, but since the resumption of the civil war, most companies have cut off access to funding for the Savimbi guerrilla side.

According to the original exploration of land-based oil fields, the oil area of the Cabinda region has been mostly occupied by Western oil companies. However, due to the civil war, some undeveloped areas that originally belonged to Western companies were nationalized by the Angolan government, and this time they were divided into seven sections for external bidding.

Among them, the fourth plate, which has been regarded by Ovani as their own, originally belonged to Italy's Eni Oil, but they drilled several oil wells in the local area without harvesting them, and transferred part of the rights to British Petroleum.

Neither company paid much attention to the area, and after spending tens of millions of dollars without harvesting, the area was put on hold.

But because they did some tricks in the course of the civil war, they annoyed dos Santos. Although dos Santos did not dare to directly target the wells they were already producing, they also decided to punish them, so they revised the energy management methods in Angola and the sectors that had not been developed for two years would be recovered.

At this time, an Asian company, Petronas Indonesia, took over the plot from Angolan Oil Company, and their luck was very good, and a large oil field was discovered in the second well. Although the depth of this field is relatively deep and the development cost is high, Indonesian oil companies have also found gold mines.

Unfortunately, due to the impact of the Asian financial crisis, Indonesian oil companies have been hit hard. They have experienced many personnel changes, financial crises, and they have not been able to take care of themselves for a while. When they finally got out of the throes of the financial crisis, they suddenly discovered that Angola had used its own development policies to re-nationalize the region.

From May to October, Petrova Indonesia and the Angolan government have been fighting a lawsuit to take back the development rights, but everyone knows that such a lawsuit is unlikely to win. It is nothing more than a matter of how much compensation the Angolan government is willing to give.

In the end, the Angolan government refunded some of the initial exploration and development costs of Petrova, and only a measly US$20 million was used to reclaim the large field.

However, the Angolan oil company's technical strength is very backward and lacks funds, so this oil field will eventually have to attract foreign capital and technology development.

For this ready-made oil field, there is no development risk at all, and Chen Mo and they are of course very interested. But Angolan interest groups have seen the field as a no-hold, even if it is now part of a tender scheme. But it is clear to everyone that they can only occupy the majority of the interests in this oil field.

Chen Mo's company is a new company without any foundation, but he has a huge advantage, that is, he has this huge amount of cash in his hands. Although the investment in Kazakhstan has cost nearly $100 million, there are still more than 300 million in cash.

What's more, there is also the shadow of the big eastern country behind him, as long as he gets the right to develop this oil field, the bank will continue to provide financial support. The two local tyrants, PetroChina and Petronas, can underwrite all the output, which is equivalent to once and for all.

But how to develop such an oil field and how to cooperate has now become a problem in front of Chen Mo and them.

The best course of action is, of course, to invest directly in the name of the joint venture Zhongan Petroleum Company. But because Chen Mo and Xu Yunteng occupy more than fifty percent of the rights and interests in it, this idea can only be an idea, and the Angolan side will not agree.

Angolan National Oil Company has proposed a new cooperation model, that is, the Sino-Angolan oil company established by Chen Mo and Ovani. A new oil company will be formed with the Angolan state oil company to develop the oil field through this new company.

However, Chen Mo and Xu Yunteng only occupy 56% of the shares now, if the second joint venture. Then their stake will be reduced to a very small share.

If both parties invest according to such a share, of course Chen Mo and they have no opinion, but this is not the case.

First of all, Chen Mo had to advance funds for the other twelve partners, and he would suffer a loss in terms of funds. Secondly, Chen Mo is responsible for introducing technology and cultivating talents for Angola, which suffers again. Therefore, how to cooperate, there has been no negotiation of a mutually satisfactory result.

Chen Mo's pity is that CNPC is unwilling to invest in the civil war area, and if CNPC is pulled in, this matter will be solved very easily. Because CNPC not only has strong financial support, but also has complete technical reserves, although their technology is not very advanced, but there is no problem in coping with the development of land-based oil fields.

The two of them went through all the problems in detail, but they still couldn't make a suitable decision, there was still a week to go to the bidding, and the cooperation here was not in place, and it would also affect the bidding of other projects, leaving little time for Chen Mo.

The hot weather also seemed to freeze Chen Mo's brain, he rubbed his temples and said: "This question will wait for me to rest for one night, and then talk about it in detail, the past 24 hours have been on the journey, I haven't rested well, and my head is dizzy." Let's start by filtering bids for other projects. ”

Xu Yunteng took out other information from the same level and said: "Our team has done careful research on the other 24 projects, integrated various factors, and made some preliminary exchanges with major oil companies, and finally sorted out the current investment plan." ”

Most of the oil fields in the Cabinda area are located in shallow waters, so this bid, which is also a plate in shallow waters, is more popular.

It took three oil companies to discover oil in a rock formation nearly 6,000 meters above the ground, leaving the first two with no money, and the other plates were not popular with everyone.

In Lang Yufu's memory, there is no specific information about this bidding, but there is one information that is worth Chen Mo's attention.

Three years later, PetroChina vigorously entered the Angolan market, and in seven or eight years, more than half of Angola's oil was brought back to China, and even became China's largest oil supplier for a time. In this, the first project they invested in was the Offshore 18 project.

At that time, CNPC spent nearly 10 billion US dollars to obtain the oil production rights of this section from the businessman surnamed Xu, Eni Petroleum and Angolan National Oil Company, which shows that in this No. 18 plate area, a super-large oil field has definitely been discovered.

And in this bidding project, there is also an eighteenth plate, so Chen Mo superimposed the two eighteenth plates together in his heart.

For other areas, Chen Mo may still give up, but for this area, he is determined to win.

However, since he has not yet come to Angola and has not even studied further information, of course he will not rashly instruct Xu Yunteng to make sure that he must win this project.

The exploration area demarcated by the Angolan side this time is not far from the developed oil fields, and the whole area is divided into 18 areas in a clockwise direction from the inside to the outside.

Area 18 is already located at the outermost end of the entire area, with a water depth of about 200 meters, and this area has not received special attention among all the projects.

Chen Mingzhen checked all the information and asked, "What are the current competitors in this No. 18 area?" ”

Xu Yunteng took out his notebook, checked it and said, "Except for BP and Eni, there is no other family that has shown special interest in this area at present. The two of them are interested because they have an oil field that is already under development near the 18th. ”

Chen Mo nodded and said, "Since the competition is not strong, then we will take this area as an important goal for us." Minimizing competition and conflict with others is also an issue that we need to pay attention to at present. ”

Xu Yunteng said with some displeasure: "But during my time in Angola, it took so much effort to finally persuade the companies not to compete with us for the development rights of the No. 3 plate. Isn't it a bit too childish to turn to plate 18 at this time? ”

Sector 3 is one of the highlights of the tender and has received a lot of attention because it is close to the coastline. Chen Mo knows that before 2005, 80% of Angola's bidding projects have been harvested, and the past few years have also been the frequent discovery period of Angola's major oil fields, and almost as long as the bidding projects are made, most of them have made money.

Chen Mo explained: "I don't mean to give up on Plate 3, where the water depth is shallow, close to the coastline, and there are several oil fields around, and there is a high probability of finding oil fields in Plate 3. And if there is a discovery, the cost of development is also low, so we have no reason to give up. But I think it's enough to have a No. 3 block for a project to bid on separately in the name of CM, and we can't keep our eyes on the hot areas. ”

"What about some of the collaborations?" His face looked much better.

"All agreed, and tried to get rights and interests in as many projects as possible." (To be continued.) )