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Ended with Ronald? Immediately after Gomez's meeting, Guedas sent the results of the preliminary negotiations to the William.

The all-round in-depth cooperation he and Gomez mentioned has exceeded the authority given by Situ Nan, although he has discussed with Situ Nan about the investment in Venezuela, but such a big matter must be approved by Situ Nan.

"This Guedas, I have a good idea!"

Situ Nan put down the telegram and sat on a wicker chair to meditate, and the telegram from Gedass made his eyes light up and opened his mind.

Originally, he just wanted to take advantage of the fact that Anglo-Dutch Shell and Mobil Oil had not paid attention, first buy the Lake Maracaibo oil field, and then develop it slowly.

Because the oil field is so big, the lake area is more than 10,000 square kilometers, not including the nearby land.

With the current strength of Western Petroleum, it was a bit laborious to completely swallow the oil of the Lake Maracaibo region, so Situ Nan thought of uniting the Mellon family.

In the telegram, however, Gedas strongly insisted that he swallow the entire Lake Maracaibo, which was secretly in line with Situ Nan's thoughts.

However, the guy from Gedas actually took it upon himself to propose a package of land construction in exchange for the support of Gomez and his sons, in order to annex Lake Maracaibo oil.

Arming the Gomez family is not a big problem, and it is also good for Situ Nan to support part of the industrial construction of Lake Maracaibo, but the problem is that although the Anglo-Dutch Shell oil company has diverted its attention from Venezuela, this transfer is not complete, and there is still some land in the Maracaibo area that is in the hands of Shell Oil Company, but they have not yet discovered oil.

It's a roadblock! Once the other party is alerted, things get complicated. Therefore, the action should be fast, so fast that the other party will set the overall situation before he has time to react.

Think so. But behind Shell Oil is the British government, and he wants to confront the British overseas, and Situ Nan is a little weak-hearted.

Over the years, he began to gradually realize that although the strength of the British has gradually caught up with the Americans, the British are still well-deserved bosses in the world, and the residual power they have accumulated over the past hundred years has not yet dissipated, let alone the little brother who followed the Americans a hundred years later!

But there will always be a first time, and it is only a matter of time before Occidental Petroleum and Shell come into play.

Situ Nan thought. Now the British are in a hurry, and it seems like a big deal to offend the Americans when they don't need them.

"I don't believe it, Occidental Petroleum plus my father-in-law's Gulf oil is not as good as Shell oil? Let's talk to them first! I can afford to lose anyway! It really doesn't work. Just like at the beginning, it was better to give up some of the oil fields to them. ”

Play big if you want to!

Situ Nan, who had made up his mind, immediately responded to Gedas, not only agreeing to Gedas's proposal in its entirety. He was encouraged to be bolder, especially to lease as much land as possible in the Maracaibo area, even if it was worth the cost. At the same time, he was also reminded of the small actions of Shell Oil Company.

After receiving Situ Nan's telegram, Guedas was full of hesitation, chased after Pratt's ass, and kept asking how deep he had drilled today, and when would the oil come out?

It is hoped that the Pratt geological exploration team will do their best to drill a high-yield oil well. This put a lot of pressure on Pratt.

He later took the trouble and simply ordered the security guards not to let Gedas get close to the well.

It's not that Guedas doesn't want to go with Ronald? Gomez negotiated, but what he feared most about this kind of heavy negotiation was that he couldn't hold his breath.

He knew that if he appeared too eager, he would arouse the other party's vigilance. On the contrary, he will lose the initiative in the next negotiations, so he has to be patient and wait for the other party's initiative to come to the door.

He also secretly contacted local oil companies, encouraging oil dealers in Venezuela, who had been sluggish in recent years, to sell oil rights to the Panamanian oil development company.

After a round of secret deals, Petrocaribe Panama paid $1 million for PetroCaribbean, the largest local oil company, becoming its largest shareholder with a 42 percent stake.

Also from the local oiler Antonio? Aranguren bought more than 1 million hectares of mining rights in the eastern coast of Maracaibo and the Orinoco Delta in Suriya, and then acquired 2 million hectares of leased land in the Coron region on Lake Maracaibo and Terlegles in 12 states.

This land later became Venezuela's first large oil field, the Main Grande oil field, with more than 160 million tons of oil.

However, at this time, Guedas did not know what kind of sensation his feat would cause. While he was full of hesitation, he was also a little worried. Because he has no money!

To be precise, the Panama Petroleum Development Company ran out of money, and the $3 million that Guedas brought from the United States was spent in just a few days. In exchange for a bunch of contracts for a thick land deal.

Fortunately, within a few days, the troubles of Guedas were gone! Because a powerful business group came to the small city of Maracaibo from Los Angeles, led by Thomas, Situan's personal intelligence assistant, who was officially the director of Wells Fargo's overseas investment department.

Thomas and his entourage of about 20 people, the lineup is unprecedentedly strong, and representatives from Wells Fargo, Bethlehem Steel, California Agriculture, and the U.S.-China Trade are all here. These guys are on par with Gedas!

When Gedas received the list of business delegations, he was surprised, "Good boy! This is simply a national-level economic and trade cooperation! ”

He knew that Situ Nan was going to get serious, and it wasn't just as simple as extracting Maracaibo's oil.

Adhering to Situ Nan's usual practice, sneak into the village, don't shoot! Not wanting to attract attention, the business group arrived very low-key and without much fanfare.

But fall to Ronald? Gomez's ears were very different. He had just returned from the capital, Calacas, after he and his father, Venezuela's dictator Juan ? Gomez consulted a lot and decided to accept in principle the terms of Gedas.

Shortly after his secret return to Maracaibo, he was caught off guard by a larger business delegation sent by Situ Nan. The representatives sent by Situ Nan were bigger than the others. If it weren't for keeping a low profile, Venezuela would at least have to send its country's leaders to greet it.

Robles did not dare to slack off, and after getting the other party to carry out all-round cooperation. He immediately informed the Caracas side, urging his father, Juan? Gómez rushed to the city of Maracaibo, because Thomas, the chief representative of the business group, had designated that he wanted to meet with Juan? Gomez meets.

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In a hotel on the shores of Lake Maracaibo, Brooke? Owen looked out the window at the quiet Lake Maracaibo, his brow furrowed, ignoring the exquisite seafood in front of him, which usually seemed very delicious and did not arouse his appetite at all.

"The waters of Lake Maracaibo will no longer be calm, and the pigs in the company will regret their short-sightedness." Brooke muttered to himself.

Represented Shell in the Maracaibo office. Bruker has been campaigning for the company's Maracay oil for several years, but his enthusiasm has been met with indifference.

A few years ago, Shell invested huge manpower and material resources in Maracaibo to carry out a vigorous exploration in the West Bank, which caused a sensation at the time.

Among them, the most zealous, in addition to Brooke, the head of Shell oil company in Maracaibo. Just count Ronald? Gomez, who has acquired a large amount of land and is bent on making a fortune in the coming oil boom.

Unfortunately, the results were disappointing. With the exception of a few wells that were not producing much, none of the other wells were producing oil, and the company's executives, who were beginning to be impressed by Brooke's sworn rhetoric, felt cheated and were very disappointed in Bruker.

At this time, there was a sudden oil fever from Texas, so Shell could not sit still, and they gave up the exploration of Maracaibo and hurried to Texas. I'm afraid that their old rival, Mobil Oil, will wait soon.

Shell did not disappoint, and they withstood the pressure and received a large number of long-term cheap crude contracts from the fledgling Occidental Petroleum Company, which did not have its own refinery at the time. Except for Mobil. It can only be sold to Shell oil.

However, in recent years, Occidental Petroleum has grown beyond everyone's expectations, laying pipelines, owning its own refinery, and actively expanding upstream and downstream, finally improving its own production chain.

After several years of successive mergers, Occidental Petroleum formed a threat to Shell and began to swallow up more and more of Shell's market.

Especially after the marriage of Situ Nan and the Mellon family. Occidental Petroleum, the second-largest oil system in the United States, and Gulf Oil, the third-largest oil system, formed an alliance and began to tacitly confront Standard and Shell oil systems, which were ahead of them.

The world war drove a huge demand for oil. So now the major oil merchants are living very well, but people have no foresight. Bruker expects that once the war is over, the market will shrink, competition will become fierce, and Shell will face a huge challenge.

Moreover, once the oil contract arrives, Occidental Petroleum will no longer continue to provide Shell with cheap crude oil, and Shell, which lacks its own oil reserves, will be in a very disadvantageous situation.

Therefore, we must have more oil reserves, and we must control more oil fields in advance. In Brooke's opinion, the best option is still in Lake Maracaibo, where he has always believed that there is a huge super oil field.

So even if his application was rejected again and again, he did not give up. The arrival of Guedas made him even more convinced of this.

At the same time, the arrival of Guedas also made Brooke feel bad, he did not expect that he was waiting for not his own company's geological exploration team, but an opponent from Shell Oil Company.

And these Americans are so fast! Before Brooke could react, the Panamanian Petroleum Development Company had already acquired a large tract of land on the eastern shore of Lake Maracaibo.

In the past two days, the Pratt geological team has drilled more wells in the Coron area on the shores of Lake Maracaibo, which has just been acquired.

Brooke secretly ran to see it, and the sound of the rumbling rig made him uneasy, because that land had been almost taken by Brooke a few years ago, but unfortunately it was now a prison for Occidental Petroleum Company.

Back at the hotel, Brooke was not interested, he had just received news that this morning another boat had sailed into the port of Maracaibo, and a group of well-dressed men had disembarked on it, and had stayed at the hotel where Gedas was stationed, and they were in a group.

You can't wait, you must report this important information. Thinking of this, Brooke wrote:

"Dear Sir, as the representative of Shell Oil in the Maracaibo region, I now solemnly remind you that, according to the information I have received, the Panamanian Oil Company, an outpost of the United States Occidental Petroleum Company, has begun geological exploration on the east and west shores of Lake Maracaibo.

Also, in a very short period of time, the other side bought more than a third of the land on the eastern shore of Lake Maracaibo?"

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