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Because in terms of politics, there is not much right to speak, and in the world's famous oil-producing regions, there are often places where the political voice is needed, so the Japanese often show weakness in such oil-producing areas.

Although they are very rich, but more often than not, they are regarded as kaizi and ATMs in the oil world, so in the current oil world, the sphere of influence is basically completely divided, and the Japanese are undoubtedly the most hopeful to find new oil-producing areas or some people with oil-producing wells.

In Australia, the Japanese also tried to find a suitable oil field, and they spent a lot of effort to do so, but in the end they all came to naught.

Of course, they have not found nothing, and they have also produced in the construction of some offshore oil fields in Australia, and in the offshore areas of Australia, several offshore oil fields have also been found.

However, those oil fields are some low-production oil fields that are not very high, and the daily output is 5,000 barrels, or even less than 5,000 barrels.

Such oil fields, coupled with Australia's high labor costs, transportation, refining and other costs, add up, it is obvious that such an investment is not worth the loss, so the Japanese quickly abandoned those oil fields.

Including Mitsui, who just over two years ago abandoned several offshore wells off the coast of Sydney.

However, this does not mean that they have given up on the desire to find new oil fields in Australia.

You must know that in the eyes of many people, Australia is definitely a gift from God. As the last continent to be discovered on Earth. It's a blessed place.

Although eight million million square kilometers of land. More than 6 million of these lands are desertified and unsuitable for human existence, but God has buried underground treasures that are enough to make many countries blush.

The mineral resources here are too rich, all kinds of iron, coal, all kinds of rare metal deposits, it can be said that there is everything here. But how can you not find an oil field?

The Japanese were not reconciled, because they envisaged that if oil fields could be discovered, it would be the most beneficial area for Japan's large-scale oil production in the world.

Although the Middle East is the richest oil-producing place in the world, where the religious environment is complicated, political forces from all over the world are playing games.

Moreover, that place has long been enclosed by many Western powers, and even if they want to go inside, it is not so simple.

And Japan itself is not a place rich in any resources, so they can only hope for it. Outside of Japan, the closest place to Japan. Find a newly developed virgin oil field.

In this way, they can get the maximum benefit from such an oil field.

Especially for a chaebol like Mitsui, who is dedicated to acquiring and developing various resource and mineral deposits, it means a breakthrough for them to find a few high-yield oil fields in Australia, even if it is just a few high-yield oil wells.

Finding such an oil field will not only mean a steady stream of profits, but more importantly, it will have a very important relationship with the balance and change of the position of the major chaebols in Japan.

The oil field will be a very critical bargaining chip for them when they are playing games with other chaebols at home.

There are eight famous zaibatsu in Japan, of which the top three are Fuji, Mitsubishi, and Mitsui.

Needless to say, Fuji is the royal chaebol, the private property of the emperor, and Mitsubishi is a relative of Fuji, because since the Meiji Restoration, the guys with the surname Mitsubishi have always been the top of the country, in ancient times they were retainers of the imperial family, and later, they were a heartfelt dog of the imperial family.

Although the two chaebols are nominally independent of each other, they have always been disconnected.

And then there is Mitsui, as the earliest representative of the pioneer school, the history of Mitsui's beginnings can be said to have started by absorbing the blood of Chinese and Koreans.

At that time, almost all the minerals in the northeast region of China and North Korea were monopolized by the Mitsui family, so it is not an exaggeration to say that they were Houyi who were war criminals.

After World War II, the Mitsui chaebol kept a low profile for a while, but with the support of the state, it quickly recovered, and then embarked on the road of searching for mineral resources around the world.

The Mitsui family now controls many of the import channels for various means of production that are urgently needed in Japan, or they simply own a lot of equity in overseas minerals, which is the main reason why they stand tall among the eight families.

However, although there are thousands of resources at their disposal, there is only one that they have never mastered, and that is oil.

In Japan, oil is generally controlled and operated by a few large companies with national backgrounds, and basically the Japanese empire has companies, and there are a few companies in Tokyo Petroleum.

But among the traditional eight families, the only one who can participate in the game of the ultimate resource such as oil seems to be the Sumitomo family.

Sumitomo zaibatsu started by participating in the oil business, and they were not originally one of the eight chaebols, but it was precisely because of the relationship between the state and the state after World War II that they participated in the oil game.

And by virtue of the rise in oil prices over the years, they have made a lot of money and become a member of the eight chaebols.

And by participating in the oil import and export business, Sumitomo Zaibatsu used the money earned from this to start a big expansion into the financial industry and the manufacturing industry, and soon gained a firm foothold in these industries.

Especially in recent years, because Japan and the United States have become closer and closer, and even some time ago, when the United States attacked Iraq, Japan not only contributed a lot of military expenses for the Americans, but also undertook some of the tasks of sending troops overseas.

Sumitomo, who followed in the footsteps of the Americans, also followed this opportunity to catch a lot of leftovers in the Middle East that Americans could not look down on.

Almost all of the chaebols were blushing when they saw Sumitomo making such a war windfall.

After all, everyone pays the taxes together, but the only people who encourage the government to pay for the military on behalf of the Americans, and then go to the Middle East to pick up the bargains, how can you make the other chaebols not be angry?

But now Sumitomo's gang is very close to Koizumi, and although everyone is dissatisfied with Sumitomo, they are helpless to do anything about them now.

Fortunately, Koizumi's guy is about to step down at the end of this year, and without Koizumi's support, Sumitomo, a gang of bastards, will definitely have to restrain a little.

But at this time, they are pretending to be obedient, and they can't let the other big chaebols extinguish their anger at them, after all, they have already eaten their brains and fat their stomachs, and they haven't left enough shares for everyone.

Now among the eight major chaebols, Mitsui's ranking is being threatened by rising stars like Sumitomo Chaebol, so Mitsui's people are very unhappy.

You must know that a family that is famous for controlling various mineral resources does not have a few decent oil wells and a few decent oil fields in its hands until now, which makes the people of the Mitsui family feel very faceless and uncomfortable.

And how to find new oil production areas now is the key concern of the Mitsui family.

The news that Dirham has discovered two high-yield oil fields off the coast of Perth and drilled two high-yield oil wells is now tightly sealed to the outside world.

But that doesn't mean that no one knows about them.

Mitsui Noshira was one of the first people to get the news, and the reason why he was able to get the news in such a timely manner was because of a somewhat unexpected greeting from him back then.

Two years ago, when he met Li Yifan for the first time in front of him, he was very embarrassed at that time and was Li Yifan's prisoner.

But in the end, this James did not kill himself, but talked about business with himself, and finally let himself go, which became a stalk for him and James.

At that time, James wanted the shares of Rio Tinto in their hands, and Mitsui did not agree because of the big matter, but later in order to seal the mouth, they still gave up 7% of the equity of the Rob River mine, which is the highest output and best quality iron mine in Rio Tinto so far.

And the James on the other side said that they wanted more, and they could trade things for themselves, and what he was talking about at the time was Australia's offshore oil fields.

But at that time, he didn't agree, after all, they didn't find an oil field off the coast of Australia at that time, but James was so confident at that time that he still sent someone to pay attention to the movements of the offshore oil fields in Australia.

I didn't expect to wait for nearly two years, but when he got the news of the discovery of high-yield oil wells off the coast of Australia, his only thought was that the two years had not been in vain.

After a general understanding of the situation of those two oil fields, Mitsui could no longer sit still, because he knew that if he could win these two oil fields, then in the future, the position of the head of the Mitsui chaebol would definitely not be someone else's, but definitely his own bag.

So for these two oil fields, he can be said to be determined to win.

Originally, he planned to go to find James, but unexpectedly, just before he was about to leave, his people at customs told him that Mr. James actually happened to enter the country at this time.

Although this time is very coincidental, but Mitsui can't take care of it so much, he originally thought that the other party would take the initiative to contact him, but after waiting at home for more than a day, there was no movement at all, and finally he had to come to the door in person.

He knew that the other party was selling Guanzi, but he had to take this Guanzi. (To be continued......)