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Volume III Aftermath 24 Middle Eastern Oil, a maddening term

In Situnan's memory, the Suez Gulf area is Egypt's most important oil-producing area, accounting for 78% of Egypt's oil production

The oil reserves in this area cannot be covered by a small 4,000 hectares of land. Situ Nan only knew the approximate place, so the vast land he bought from the king of Egypt was only partially oil-contained. Situ Nan was satisfied with this result, but due to the British, Occidental Petroleum was unable to carry out oil exploration and production operations in the Suez Bay Area.

If an oil company is registered in Egypt, without the support of large American companies, it is weak, and I am afraid that once the oil is opened, the British will flock to it, and it will inevitably not be able to keep the oil fields in the Gulf of Suez, so Situ Nan can only "occupy the pit and not", and he is still quietly holding back

Fortunately, he has empty treasures and can't show his eyes, Situ Nan has already experienced it in the East Texas Super Oilfield, and he has become accustomed to it after a long time, and over time, he is also used to quietly "occupying it".

In any case, I finally planted the first nail in the Middle East, and after a few years, I will come back and draw up the black gold below, and what belongs to me will definitely not be able to run. Situ Nan thought to himself.

If it weren't for the fear of attracting attention, he would have wanted to buy the waters of the Gulf of Suez as well. Now that the war is over, there is no large-scale arms trade, except for finance, and the money is fast in oil.

Since the international oil price broke through $3 per barrel from $2 per barrel last year, it has not fallen and is hovering at a high level.

Under the frenzied investment of Western oil companies, the oil industry in the Lake Maracaibo region has developed rapidly, exploratory wells have been erected in the oil fields, thick oil pipes have been extended from the port of Maracaibo to Bolivar and other large oil fields on the shore of the lake, and tens of thousands of tons of crude oil have been transported to the port through pipelines, injected into 10,000-ton tankers, and finally transported back to refineries in Texas and California.

Since the successful development of the Lake Maracaibo oil field, Occidental Petroleum has greatly increased its production capacity, surpassing Exxon, one of the Standard Petroleum systems, and approaching the largest oil company in the Standard Petroleum system, Mobil Oil.

According to the current situation, it is not impossible that in five years, Occidental Petroleum will be at its maximum in the Maracaibo oil field, and it is not impossible that Occidental Petroleum will surpass Mobil Oil. Ten years from now, with the East Texas and North Houston fields being developed, Occidental Petroleum will surpass Standard Systems. At that time, the William consortium will overwhelm the Rockefeller consortium in the oil sector.

This is not impossible, and after the dismemberment of Standard Oil in history, it was divided into very large oil companies, of which Mobil Oil and Exxon Oil are the two largest. At the beginning of the twentieth century, there was an oil boom in California and Texas in the United States, and at that time, the oil merchants were scattered and unable to compete with Mobil and Exxon, so Mobil and Exxon got most of the oil fields in California and Texas.

As a result of Situan's unexpected appearance, the oil fields that originally belonged to Mobil and Exxon became Occidental Petroleum, which greatly weakened the monopoly of Standard System Oil on the American oil industry. After several years of development, Occidental Petroleum has become a stand-alone company that can compete with Mobil.

For others, oil is a high-risk and high-return investment, but for Situ Nan, it is a golden finger after one. The hundredfold profit margin is the reason why Situ Nan and Occidental Petroleum Company became rich, and it is conceivable that the company will expand at a geometric rate in the coming decades, so it is possible that the William consortium will surpass Rockefeller in the oil field.

After the success of the small test from Suez, Egypt, Situ Nan's confidence was inflated, and he decided to take more of the pit, even if he didn't and disgust the British. Even if the British stepped on dog shit one day and dug up an oil field, they would share a part of it with Situ Nan, because that land belonged to Situ Nan.

If you want to open oil on Situ Nan's land, okay, what is the merger? Sold to you? Do you want to keep it to yourself? If you don't want to be a small shareholder, it's not bad, if you can't pull it, it's a big deal, and when the influence of the United States reaches the Middle East in a few years, our American company will mine it alone, and you will not have the share of the British.

Where to start? Saudi Arabia's Ghawar oil field? Kuwait's Burgan oil field? The Rumaila oil field in Iraq? Or the Zakum oil field in the UAE?

Situ Nan looked at the map of the Middle East, and drew large and small circles on it, especially the Persian Gulf coast, which was densely circled by Situ Nan with a red pen.

Each circle was equal to a huge glittering gold mine, and Situ Nan felt that there were countless gold beckoning to him in front of him, his eyes were shining, and his saliva kept dripping.

"Oh my God, I'm going crazy, I really can't stand it" Situ Nan put the map aside, grabbed his hair hard, and tried to calm himself down. But with such excitement, how easy is it to calm down all at once?

His experience in Mobil in his previous life gave him a thorough knowledge of the world's major oil fields, and Situ Nan could easily say the general location of dozens of large oil fields, just like finding big cities such as New York and Los Angeles on a map.

This is also the result of Situ Nan's constant strengthening of memory, in the past few years, every once in a while, he will review his "homework", which is why his memory is so profound.

After the war, BP stepped up oil exploration in the Middle East, but they did not have Situ Nan's rebellion, and it was not so easy to drill oil wells in the vast desert, and sometimes they were still a few hundred meters away, and they had to give up the oil adventure because of lack of funds.

The oil fields in the Middle East are shallow and generally drilled to a depth of 2,000 meters, which puts forward more severe requirements in terms of technology and investment. After all, this was in 1919, not 1999. It is not easy to drill two or three kilometers underground, and the manpower and material resources are expensive. Even for a large company like Shell, the choice of a location for an exploratory well has to be considered before making a decision.

Most of the oil fields in the Middle East have not yet been discovered, and they will be "hidden" tightly in the next ten years, which gives Situ Nan another opportunity to take advantage of, and he can even calmly "pick" the fattest and sweet piece of this big cake

The power of the "prophet" is great, and Situ Nan has the ability to pick and choose the fat and the thin. After thinking about it for a while, Situ Nan made a shameless decision, he divided several major oil fields in the Middle East into two levels, one is the oil fields that are large and easy to exploit, and the political situation is relatively stable, these oil fields Situ Nanxi Oil Company wants to monopolize them;

The second tier is FF8 large but not easy to exploit (for a variety of reasons) that are going to be taken into joint ventures with other companies, or, as Petro-Cal did in the past, to divide the fields into a share and put them up for auction, just like selling land for other oil companies to bid.

Thinking of this, a crazy voice sounded in Situ Nan's mind.

"Haha, so that you can control the oil of the whole world, the Middle East, the United States, Latin America and other regions have me to distribute the oil, I don't divide yours, Rockefeller, you can't move"

This is really a shameless idea to take two-thirds of the world's oil reserves as its own, and there is no such arrogant person in the history of the earth. Do you want to control the whole world?

Asking himself, Situ Nan felt that his ambition had swelled to the point that he was surprised by himself. He could almost appreciate the arrogance and domineering of Rockefeller when he founded Standard Oil to monopolize American oil in one fell swoop

After calming down for a while, Situ Nan finally came to his senses, except for a bunch of circles drawn on the map, he didn't get any of the big oil fields in the Middle East

Do you really think of yourself as a Deng designer, and you can make oil come out of the paper by drawing circles at will? Even if they get their hands on it, won't the Arabs take it back in a few decades? OPEC is just OPEC for the Arabs

Situ Nan smiled self-deprecatingly, carefully picked up the map on the table, and hid it

One thing to gossip about is the situation in Egypt, although the British swallowed Egypt and turned it into their colony, there has always been opposition in Egypt.

Independent democracy is the common pursuit of all peoples, and the Egyptians are no exception. During World War I, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia and other regions were originally part of the Turkish Ottoman Empire.

This is only a nominal territory, the actual power is in the hands of the British consulate, well, more than half of the members of the top of the Egyptian government are British. After the war, the British turned the Turkish Ottoman Empire's dependencies of Egypt, Iran, and Iraq into British-led international trust territories on the grounds that the Turkish Ottoman Empire had joined the Central Powers (which was also forced by the British).

Oh my God, you know, the Egyptians had been cooperating with the British in order to gain independence from the Turkish Ottoman Empire, but now how did they turn their faces and change from allies to masters and slaves?

During the war, Britain requisitioned more than 1.5 million Egyptians, of whom 1.17 million were "labor troops" and "convoys" serving the war. Two-thirds of the livestock and a large number of transports were also recruited.

The Egyptians paid so much, but in the end they were treated by the British as a defeated country, isn't this feeding the Egyptians dead cats? It's so deceitful

Thus, a movement for Egypt's independence began at the end of the war. Leading the movement was the Waffle Party, headed by Chairul. Like most ethnic groups, they started with peaceful demonstrations, gradually confronted the authorities, and finally moved to the point of armed resistance.

Although Cairo was still calm, Situ Nan could feel the undercurrent surging, and it only took a little spark to ignite the flames of war.

This originally had nothing to do with Situ Nan, but it involved an arms trade, and I don't know how this Chailur found Situ Nan. Later, Situ Nan learned that it was a senior official of the US Foreign Department who wanted Chailuer to hint that he could ask Situ Nan for arms.

Hey, it's a small move again for the cautious U.S. government.

For the sake of money, Situ Nan admitted it. He knew that in two or three years, Egypt would become independent, and although it did not take back important rights such as the Suez Canal, it was at least a sovereign state. At that time, Occidental Petroleum will be able to extract oil in the Gulf of Suez.

Just make a good fortune, Situ Nan just bought the land from the king of Egypt, and then gave the Waffles a batch of weapons on credit.

**, it's just a business

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