"Mr. Sinclair, Libya is, after all, Italian territory, and Italy has the right of first refusal to buy Libyan oil, which is necessary. I ask your company to sell all the production in Libya to the Italian oil company. ”

Ziano looked at Sinclair with a straight face.

"Chevron has no intention of questioning Italian ownership of Libya, nor will it give up the company's right to operate autonomously, and we have the right to dispose of our oil. Italy can be our priority partner, but you have to be sincere, not buy and sell!

If every customer were like you, Chevron wouldn't be eligible to be a bargaining partner for your government today. ”

Sinclair said confidently.

If you want to buy my oil, you can, the price should be fair, and the posture should be flat.

Chevron Oil Company has opened so many oil fields overseas, if the host country is like you, and it will take over the production of Chevron Oil Company, then how can Chevron Oil Company become a world predator? How can the American fleet be allowed to come and support it?

"What about your company's sincerity?" Ziano asked with a smile. I want to hear the Yankee offer.

In fact, the best plan is for the two sides to establish a joint venture company to jointly develop Libyan oil.

Unfortunately, Chevron's price was too high, and the Italians didn't have that much money, so Chevron was certainly unwilling to sell the oil fields that had been put into production, so the joint venture plan was aborted.

"Half the capacity, according to international oil prices!"

Sinclair was succinct.

According to preliminary estimates, the production capacity of the Sierte No. 1 oilfield can reach 500,000 barrels per year, half of which is 250,000 barrels, which is basically the same as the current production capacity of Italian oil companies. So in any case, Ziano is going to hold Libyan oil in his hands.

Ziano hurriedly shook his head: "Half of the production capacity is too small, at least eighty percent, and the price cannot be calculated according to the international oil price, we ask for at least 30% cheaper." ”

"Can Petroitalia digest that much oil? As far as I know, your refinery is ...... size."

Sinclair did not argue about the ridiculous price given by the Italians. Speaking of this, the face is disdainful.

Still want a 30% discount?

Can it be more shameless?

The so-called Italian oil company sounds very powerful, and it still has some strength in Italy, but it is just a sheep's head dog meat hung up by the government, in fact, the refining capacity is very limited, and there is no extraction capacity, and it has to rely on importing crude oil from Romania every year, and even does not hesitate to hook up with the Soviets to obtain a little crude oil in the Baku area.

in the Italian oil products market. Basically, the British and American oil giants account for the majority.

For Sinclair's disdain, Ziano did not have anger on his face, compared with giants like Chevron Oil, Italian oil companies are still too small, and it is normal for the Yankees to be arrogant.

When he came, the leader instructed him to do this beautifully, not only to obtain Libya's oil resources, but also to obtain oil processing capacity from Chevron. Ziano hopes to deepen the cooperation with Chevron Oil Company.

Ziano was silent for a while, and said slowly: "With the development of the economy." With Italy's future oil consumption likely to exceed 1 million barrels per year, you need not doubt our thirst for oil processing capacity.

I know that your company's oil potential in Libya must be more than 500,000 barrels, otherwise Chevron, which produces more than 100 million barrels of oil a year, would invest so much in Libya?

I heard that the chairman of your company, Hantec. Brown came to Libya some time ago to check out the oil fields here?

Isn't your company interested in the southern European oil market?

Italy is a rare partner for you, so why not put aside the hypocritical temptations and be honest with each other and deepen the cooperation? ”

Sinclair glanced at Ziano. Seeing that his face was sincere, his eyes were calm, and he looked like a city government, it was not easy to see his inner thoughts, and he thought: This young man does not seem to be a straw bale who relies on women to ascend to the throne. He has bigger ambitions and seems to want to get the technology for Chevron oil?

Chevron has been coveting the oil market in southern Europe for a long time, otherwise it would not invest in Libya and the Middle East, Italy is a large country in southern Europe, and it is also a strategic channel for Chevron oil companies to enter the European continent from southern Europe.

If Italy is won, then the vast markets of France, Germany, Austria and Poland will be opened.

France, Germany is okay, Chevron oil company layout in the early years, has built a Western European oil network on the Atlantic coast, the Atlantic coast is fiercely competitive, if from Italy to the north to open up the European oil market, then Chevron oil company will replace Exxon oil company to become the largest oil supplier in Europe.

Ziano's words reached Sinclair's heart, Sinclair's heart was itching, nodded at Ziano, and said slowly: "The European market is what Chevron Oil Company desires, and the oil produced by Libya will eventually flow into the European market. ”

Sinclair asked rhetorically with a smile, and without Ziano answering, he stood up and reached out in a friendly way......

Ziano also smiled and took the olive branch, secretly relieved in his heart.

Since then, the attitude of the two sides in negotiations has improved, and they have become more pragmatic and friendly.

Of course, it is still necessary to take care of it.

But that wasn't the job of Ziano and Sinclair, and their friendship even grew to the point of going inland to hunt or go fishing on a yacht over a cup of Sumatran coffee.

"This Sumatran coffee is good, the Chinese sell this coffee to Europe, they do a good job, but I still like Italian cappuccinos."

Ziano gently stirred the coffee and looked at Sinclair with deep meaning.

"I have no research on Italian coffee, but I know that the Chinese have improved coffee, added cream, sugar, coconut flour and so on, and made Sumatran coffee into compound coffee, which tastes good, and is cheap and can be produced in large quantities, and has become the darling of the working class."

Sinclair admired and took a sip of his coffee. He continued, "Chevron Oil Company is also sparing no effort in crude oil processing, in addition to traditional kerosene, gasoline, diesel, asphalt, candles and other products, Chevron is vigorously promoting Chevron lubricants, competing with brands such as Mobil and Castrol, perhaps in this regard." What else can we work with? ”

Ziano nodded, the other party proposed to cooperate with high value-added lubricants, there is no reason not to agree? "Yes, I know, it's a rapidly growing market," he laughs. The automotive industry in the United States and Italy is also developing, and I am very willing to add lubricants to the cooperation between the two sides. ”

This is an important market, and as machinery becomes more common, lubricant sales account for a significant share of the oil companies' share. It was the establishment of a lubricant factory in Italy. Or do you want to ship the lubricant from the United States to Italy and sell it in cooperation with the other party?

Sinclair had to consult the United States, and he preferred the former.

After some quarrels and numerous spittles from negotiators, Petrocol Italia and Chevron reached a cooperation agreement, under which Petroitalia received long-term stable price crude oil from Chevron, and Chevron supported Petroitalia in oil exploration in Libya and provided technical support.

Other words. Do Italians want to learn oil exploration techniques? Okay, go to Chevron's geological exploration team to do chores. Learn with me for a few years!

The so-called technical support, including equipment procurement, Italy's local petroleum machinery industry is backward, can only buy the oil production equipment provided by Chevron oil company, which will undoubtedly be slaughtered.

Chevron Petroleum Company's exploration equipment can generally hit 1,000 meters underground. With the world's most advanced drilling technology, if it were replaced by the Italians, it is estimated that they would not be able to drill four or five hundred meters in Libya.

Technology is very important, if there is no advanced drilling technology, the oil field alone can only be Zhu Bajie drooling at Chang'e. Like in Asia, Africa and Latin America, none of those oil-producing countries had the technology to exploit oil, and they had to rely on a few big countries to help them exploit it.

Those guys are just two-skinned faces, and their lives are good.

The Italians understood this and readily agreed to buy oil equipment from Chevron, for which the great leader Mussolini allocated money.

According to the agreement, Italian oil company also obtained the right to use Chevron's pipeline in Libya, that is, the oil extracted by the Italians in Libya can be transported to the port of Siirt by Chevron Oil's pipeline.

This is very important, because when the old Rockefeller forced small and medium-sized oil merchants in the United States to sell oil fields or crude oil to him through rail transportation, the Standard Oil empire was built by controlling oil transportation.

Ziano valued Chevron's pipelines very much and insisted on obtaining the right to use them. Of course, it would be better if you could get ownership, but unfortunately the other party's offer is too high to negotiate on this issue.

The Italians had no choice but to settle for the second best thing, demanding the right to use the pipeline.

Anyway, Libya is an Italian colony, and in Ziano's view, obtaining the right to use the pipeline is actually no different from obtaining the ownership of the pipeline.

"The premise is that we have to discover oil in Libya and have our own oil fields, otherwise it is useless to have the right to use the pipeline."

Eni, the head of the Italian oil company, said to Ziano with some concern, that he was not as optimistic as Ziano and thought that oil fields could be found in the inland desert.

Petroitalia's geological exploration capabilities are too scummy, otherwise it wouldn't have made Chevron as glamorous in Libya.

"Don't worry about this, we have reached a cooperation agreement with the Yankees, we can hire a geological exploration team from Chevron Oil Company to help us discover oil fields, and we will also send technicians to them to learn, and they are also willing to help us train qualified geological talents."

"How kind would a Yankee be? I'm afraid they'll take our money and deliberately don't work?" Eni worried.

"So the contract we offered was a base fee plus incentives. Engineers will lose money if they only take the basic fee and don't discover the oil field. Ziano laughed.

Thinking of something, he told Eni again, "Chevron Petroleum may send cheap Chinese engineers, you keep an eye on it, don't let them cheat?" ”

"Chinese engineers? If it were them, even if we gave the basic fee, it is estimated that the other party would not lose if they took over the business! ”

Eni was worried again.

Can those Chinese engineers do it?

A big question mark in the Italian's head?

And let the Italian engineers give each other a hand, and also call it the cultivation of Italian technical talents?

"You don't have to worry too much, the Chinese still learn a lot from the Americans, two years ago, they discovered oil fields near their own capital Wuhan, which shows that the Chinese have mastered considerable oil extraction technology."

And Nanhua is the world's top oil producing countries, the oil industry is developed, I have learned, in recent years, the Chinese have vigorously developed the petroleum machinery industry, made a lot of progress, even Chevron oil company has handed over some equipment orders to them.

If you can, you can go to the Eastern World and see if you can buy better equipment from them.

This time we were slaughtered by the Yankees, and next time the money should not be so easy for the Yankees. ”

Ziano was pained by the thought that most of the funds allocated by the leader went to Chevron.

Eni nodded heavily, equally impressed.

Isn't it just to get the coveted crude oil and production technology?

Given the importance of the oil industry, even if the kidney is cut, it is recognized.

Negotiations for oil exploration and exploitation in Libya are almost complete, and the next priority is to build a refinery on the mainland.

The refinery is the most important part of the cooperation package, so Chevron respects the views of the Italians on the issue of the establishment of oil terminals, pipelines and oil storage bases in the chosen places in Italy.

Sinclair looked at a map of Italy, focusing on Genoa to the north and Naples to the south, the best places to build oil ports and refineries.

"Genoa or Naples?" Sinclair asked.

Ziano hesitated for a moment and said, "Genoa!" It is the largest port in Italy, close to the Northern Industrial Zone, and the consumer market. In the end, it's up to the leaders to decide. ”

"Okay, Chevron will send someone to Genoa to inspect first, and try to come up with a refinery construction plan as soon as possible.

After all, this is a large project with an annual refining capacity of 1 million tons, and half of the money invested by the US headquarters in North Africa is invested in this refinery, and we like to work more efficiently.

As for the enthusiasm of Italian workers, after all, they are not quite the same as us Americans. ”

Sinclair laughed, a "you know" expression.

The Yankees were so rude, and as soon as they reached a cooperation agreement, they presumptuously ridiculed the freedom of the Italians.

Ziano greeted the rude Yankees with ten thousand words in his heart, but nodded earnestly on his face, not bothering the other party, he was now ambitious to establish the Italian oil industry.

Although half of the refinery is owned by Chevron, with 1 million tonnes, or more than 7 million barrels of refining capacity, Italy will surpass Germany and France to have the second-largest crude processing capacity in continental Europe.

The first place is the Soviet Union, while Britain and France, especially the United Kingdom, have huge oil production capacity, but the refineries are mainly overseas, such as the United States, Mexico and Southeast Asia, as well as Haifa, which is under construction, but the local oil refueling capacity is not strong, and the refined oil products are mainly supplied by the colonies and the United States.

When Mussolini heard the news from Libya, he was in a good mood and hurriedly called Ciano for questioning. (To be continued.) )