As Xiao Zhenlei expected, in the next few days, the newspaper press carried out overwhelming reports on the news of the discovery of a huge oil field in Dorset, and for a time the White Penguin Company became the focus of attention in Europe, especially the boss of the White Penguin Company, Xiao Zhenlei, directly entered the attention of the European people, but of course he was most interested in not ordinary people, nor governments, but oil companies in Europe and the United States, among which the oil companies in the United Kingdom were even more eyeing the oil field, and they were determined to win this oil field. The most competitive is the Royal Dutch Shell Oil Company and the British Persian Petroleum Company, the British side has a 40 percent stake in the Royal Dutch Shell Oil Company, so it is also one of the most powerful competitors in this oil field, and although the British Persian Oil Company is an oil company established last year, the backstage of this company is the American Morgan consortium, and its boss Darcy has a close relationship with the Morgan brothers.

There is also the Standard Oil Company of New York, which is a professional subsidiary of the Rockefeller Petroleum Trust to open up overseas markets, and its kerosene for lamps has entered the Chinese market very early, and the brand name is "Mobil". Its biggest advantage is in the downstream, and it has long established a sales network system in Europe and Asia. After the separation of Standard Oil of New York from the "Standard Family". Soon it merged with the Vacuum Oil Company to become a "subordinate" oil company. As this company is extremely professional in exploring overseas markets. Therefore, it is the most interested oil company in the oil field in Xiao Zhenlei's hands. However, its advantage is in the downstream of the oil industry chain, and it is not professional in upstream extraction and refining.

Standard Oil of California, which was spun off from Standard Oil, is also determined to win the oil fields in Xiao Zhenlei's hands. Its executives consider themselves unrivalled in their expertise in extraction and refining, and they want to compete with other oil companies.

There are also two American oil companies, namely Texas Corporation (later Texaco) and the Mellon family's Gulf Oil Company, which have grown up under the pressure of Standard Oil, relying on Texas' rich oil resources and a large number of oil and gas discoveries, and have become two American oil companies with the strength to develop overseas.

The most competitive are of course the British domestic oil companies, namely Royal Dutch Shell and British Persian Oil. The British have a 40 percent stake in Shell, one of the two headquarters in London. Shell started in Indonesia, then the Dutch colony of the East Indies. Its parent company has two companies: one is the Royal Dutch Oil Company, which found and developed Indonesia's first oil field on the Indonesian island of Sumatra in 1886, and established Indonesia's first oil refinery, first oil pipeline and first wharf. The other parent company is the British Shell Transport and Trading Company, which started by transporting and selling Russian Baku oil, found an oil field in Borneo in 1896, built an oil refinery, and had a huge oil distribution system in the Far East. In 1907, the two companies merged. Formation of the Royal Holland-Shell Group.

The British Persian Oil Company originated in Iran. It was the first oil company to look for oil in the Middle East. Due to the strategic position of Middle Eastern oil, the British government invests in it and holds a 40% stake. It grew with the development of the oil industry in the Middle East, especially in Iran.

Sure enough, as Xiao Zhenlei expected, three or four days later. After the news of his White Penguin's production of large eruptive oil wells spread in Europe and the United States, representatives of oil companies from Europe and the United States rushed to Dorset, and the first of these were representatives of Royal Dutch Shell and British Persian Petroleum.

Xiao Zhenlei and Opiyin received the representative of the Dutch Shell company, the Englishman Zoe, in the town's office. In order to protect his own interests, Xiao Zhenlei specially invited a lawyer to accompany him.

Zoe is a very arrogant Englishman in his forties. When he found out that he was greeted by a Chinese who had smashed the restaurant manager with money at the Dunlun high-end restaurant a few days ago, his arrogance was somewhat restrained. But this did not make him think that he should not be superior in front of Xiao Zhenlei.

"Mr. Zuo Yi, we have poor conditions here, if the hospitality is not good, please forgive me, I also know that you are a busy person, it is rare to be able to take the time to come to us, I don't want to waste your time, let's go straight to the topic, if we can talk, let's continue to talk, if we can't talk, then we will stop, none of us waste anyone's time, what do you think?"

Zuo Yi has never been in contact with the Chinese before, in his impression, the ancient East is a very mysterious country, and Xiao Zhenlei's impression on him can be seen from these few words, is a vigorous person, a person who does not like to drag, before the two sides officially opened, he was taken by Xiao Zhenlei and was somewhat inferior in momentum.

However, Zoe is an Englishman, and he is the kind of guy who is super proud of being a British citizen, you must know that until now, the British Empire is also a superpower in the world, and there is no one, which is why Zoe was able to stabilize his position when Xiao Zhenlei wanted to suppress him as soon as he started.

He nodded: "Of course, whether the sale is successful or not is based on the principle of mutual consent, and no one can force anyone!" ”

Zuo Yi said hello when he came, and explained that the purpose of this trip was to buy the exploitation rights of this oil field from the White Penguin Company, otherwise he would not have come here, so Xiao Zhenlei did not talk nonsense, and asked directly: "Okay, since your company wants to buy the exploitation rights of this oil field from our White Penguin Company, I don't know what purchase conditions your company can offer?" ”

Zuo Yi nodded and said: "Okay, I was entrusted by the company to negotiate with your company, and our company gave your company two plans: first, a one-time buyout, your company can get 12 million pounds; Second, your company started to get two million pounds at one time, and then you can get a profit share of 600,000 pounds from our company every year, for a total of 20 years, and after 20 years, this field is completely owned by our company, I don't know which one your company chooses? ”

These two schemes seem to be much more cost-effective than the first scheme, but in fact Xiao Zhenlei is not satisfied with these two schemes, no matter which scheme, the price given by Shell is too low, and now the price of crude oil is about $15 per barrel, according to the reserves of this oil field of 500 million barrels, that is 7.5 billion US dollars, of course, the market value of this oil field can not be calculated like this, to extract oil, it still needs to do a lot of work, spend a lot of time, and require great costs. In addition, the calculation of reserves is not necessarily accurate, and the utilization rate of oil exploitation cannot reach 100 percent, at the current level of science and technology, at most about 15 percent, so the price of oil fields cannot be simply calculated by multiplying oil reserves by the current oil price.

According to Xiao Zhenlei's psychological price, the minimum selling price for the sale of this oil field should be more than 40 million pounds, you must know that in the later generations of the Wichfam Oilfield since the official exploitation to Xiao Zhenlei crossed the time of nearly half a century, the daily oil output is still unabated, according to expert calculations, this oil field will not be exhausted even if it is another hundred years. If it weren't for the fact that he had more important things to do, and he didn't have a strong country to back him up, he really wanted to exploit this oil field by himself, but unfortunately, he didn't have this condition, so he could only choose to sell, but he would never be willing to sell it at a low price!

Looking at Zuo Yi's appearance as the eldest and his second child, Xiao Zhenlei really wanted to beat him up, but now it was a negotiation, not a fight, nor a time to be angry, he smiled and said: "Mr. Zuo Yi, is this the sincerity of your company?" I'm really sorry, we are not satisfied with both of these plans, if Mr. Zoe Yi is sincere to come, I hope your company can give us a price that can be accepted! ”

Zuo Yi's face was a little unsightly, he was originally very confident in this negotiation, he had conducted an investigation before coming, as far as he knew, the White Penguin Company was a newly registered breeding company, and there was no background, to say that there was a background, the boss of this company could be regarded as a small officer in China, but this identity was useless in the UK, such a company without any background did not have any confidence when negotiating, he thought that this money was enough to send the White Penguin Company away, but he didn't expect the other party to be on the road, You must know that this is the British mainland, what confidence does this Chinese have to bargain?

Remembering that he was still a gentleman and it was inconvenient to get angry in this kind of negotiation situation, he held back his anger and asked, "So what kind of price does your company want to sell it for?" ”

"Ninety million pounds!" Xiao Zhenlei said, "This price is too far from the price of the two plans given by your company, so Mr. Zuo Yi, I really don't have much confidence in the negotiations between us, the differences between us are too big, and it is almost impossible to reach an agreement!" I think we are talking about this today, Mr. Zoe can go back and discuss with the people who can call the shots of your company, please forgive us for not being able to continue to receive you, because in the afternoon Mr. Darcy, the owner of the British Persian Oil Company, will come over in person, and tomorrow the representatives of several American oil companies in the UK will also come to negotiate with us, and when your company's senior management comes up with a practical plan, we will talk again! (To be continued......) R1071