Soyal took a sip of coffee, looked at Xu Yuan, and asked in a very surprised tone.

"Is Source Shadow International Group also interested in the freshwater business?"

"That's right." Xu Yuan nodded again, looked at him and continued, "Yuanying International Heavy Industry, a subsidiary of our group, has just made a breakthrough in seawater desalination technology recently. ”

"It just so happened that Lin Xiujie came to me and told me about the lack of fresh water resources in Qatar, so I planned to build a desalination plant on the island, with an estimated daily processing capacity of more than 40,000 tons."

40,000 tonnes is just a conservative figure, and the minimum treatment capacity of any desalination technology from Yuanxing is much higher than this number, but for Qatar, this figure is sufficient.

"40,000 tons, that's quite a big scale." Soyal said slowly, "But have you considered the cost?" ”

"With the price of industrial electricity in Qatar, our cost per ton of desalinated water can be controlled below US$0.5."

"$0.5? That's not bad......" Soyal's hand holding the coffee cup suddenly froze.

With a bang, the cup fell to the ground, and he didn't care about the coffee juice on his body, he propped up the table and looked at Xu Yuan with wide eyes.

"It can't be! I've never heard of a technology that can reduce costs to this extent, not even for Wind Gusts! ”

"But we're Source Shadow International Group." Xu Yuan said quietly, but he laughed secretly in his heart.

This is also because of the high price of electricity on this side of the earth, and if it is put into a source star with mature nuclear fusion technology, the cost of desalinated water is not much more expensive than tap water.

Soyal was about to refute, but the words were frozen in his throat.

He suddenly remembered that the Source Shadow International Group seemed to be forever creating miracles and subverting people's preconceived notions.

For example, from virtual reality to home robots......

A ridiculous idea crossed Soyal's mind, maybe they could do it!

"How? Interested in collaborating? Looking at Soyal, who didn't speak, Xu Yuan asked with a smile.

$0.5!

Such cheap desalinated water is even cheaper than the groundwater pumped out by some of the pumps on the island! Soyal had never heard of such a powerful desalination technology!

In fact, the cost of desalination largely depends on the local electricity price.

Qatar itself has no oil production and uses a lot of new energy power generation equipment, so although it is environmentally friendly, the price of electricity has not been low.

According to WT Group's assessment, the cost of a desalination plant on the island would be more than US$2 per tonne of water, even with state-of-the-art production equipment.

So when Xu Yuan said that the cost was only $0.5, Soyal would be so shocked.

Even if there is a nuclear power plant on this island, the cost of desalinated water cannot be so low!

The two sides quickly reached a cooperation agreement, and even the step of bargaining was omitted.

Yuanying International Heavy Industries is responsible for the construction of the desalination plant, and WT Group is responsible for connecting the pipeline to connect the fresh water produced by Yuanying International Group to the tap water supply system of Qatar.

Soyal immediately instructed the secretary to print the contract and signed a contract with Xu Yuan for the supply of 20,000 tons of desalinated water per day, as if he was afraid that Xu Yuan would regret it.

After the contract was signed, Soyal politely personally delivered him to the door.

"Why don't you bring some of the black coffee I brought with me from Western Australia?"

"No need." Xu Yuan hurriedly waved his hand and refused.

He'd just learned how bad that thing was.

The 20,000-ton supply contract, excluding all expenses including labor costs, can bring up to $300,000 per month to Yuanying International Group with a profit of $0.5 per ton.

This income is really pitiful, even if Yuanying International Group spends money to acquire WT Group's water supply system and monopolize all channels from production to sales, at most it will triple this figure.

So from the very beginning, Xu Yuan set his sights on overseas markets.

It just so happened that there was such a person in his phone number, and he would definitely be interested in such cheap fresh water.

"Hello? Mr. Akru, it's me Xu Yuan, and our Yuanying International Heavy Industries has come up with a new gadget...... No, no, no, I'm not talking about new robots, it's desalination equipment. ”

Sitting in the car, as soon as Xu Yuan closed the door, he took out his mobile phone and called Akru, who was far away in Arabia.

"Desalination equipment? We do have plans to build a new desalination plant, but we've already approached the American Wind Array to help us design it, and they're experts in this area and we've been working with for a long time. Hearing that Xu Yuan seemed to have the intention of selling seawater desalination equipment, Akeru frowned slightly.

Although he has a good personal relationship with Xu Yuan, he will not make concessions on drinking water projects that are related to the well-being of the people.

The American Wind Array promised them a new hybrid desalination plant with a capacity of 1.1 million cubic meters per day powered by ultra-high concentrating photovoltaic power generation technology to replace the energy-intensive and inefficient petroleum energy desalination plant.

Although thermal power is cheap in oil-rich Arabia, the "oil for water" approach does more harm than good from the perspective of environmental protection and sustainable use.

The production cost of the plant, which uses a hybrid energy source, is as low as US$1.5 per tonne, which is already quite good in Aakru's opinion.

"What is the price of water in your country?" Jiang Chen asked.

"According to the data for the first half of the year, it averaged $1.9 per ton of water." After thinking for a moment, Ack Ru said.

After a slight estimate in his heart, the corners of Xu Yuan's mouth hooked up with a smile.

"So, are you interested in $1 per ton of fresh water?"

Hearing Xu Yuan's words, Akeru was stunned.

"$1 per tonne? Cost price? ”

"Of course, the cost will be a little bit lower than that, and $1 is the price of our water supply to you." Xu Yuan said with a smile.

Shocked, Akeru immediately stood up, held his phone and walked to the palace window.

"My friend, you've always been like that... Surprising, ahem! I would like to ask, is what you said true? Feed us water at $1 per ton? It's incredible, and forgive me for being a little excited. ”

Not only was he excited, but Akeru was a little incoherent.

For a long time, the Arab countries have carried out a certain degree of financial subsidies in terms of gasoline, electricity, and water conservancy in the country.

Take tap water as an example, if you want the capital's 5 million people to drink clean and relatively cheap, the royal family has to spend hundreds of millions of dollars every year to subsidize the price of water.

Although the royal family has a lot of money, who doesn't want to save some money?

The US$1 water supply price proposed by Xu Yuan will greatly ease the pressure on domestic funds.

"Of course it's true, more true than gold." Xu Yuan smiled brightly.

Compared to the welfare water supply contract signed with WT Group, the contract with an oil boss like Arabia is the main thing!

The price of $1 for water supply, even if it is calculated according to the amount of water supplied by 1 million tons, is $15 million a month.

And the production capacity of the desalination equipment on hand is not more than 1 million tons per day!

As cooperation with the Arabs intensifies, the Arabs, accustomed to cheap water, will certainly expand their water supply contracts.

And other water-scarce countries in the surrounding area, seeing the cheap fresh water enjoyed by Arabia, will definitely sit still and come to the door to ask for cooperation!

Xu Yuan seemed to have seen that those Arab tyrants were waving banknotes and waving to him.

"By the way, what is the quality of the desalinated water you produce? We would never give our own people anything that had been mixed with sand. Akeru asked another question of his concern.

Originally, drinking desalinated water for a long time is not good for health, and if the quality of the desalinated water produced by Yuanying International Group is not up to par, the royal family will definitely not tolerate it.

However, his worries were completely unnecessary, the source star's strict requirements for food safety were far greater than those of any country on earth.

"You just have to rest assured, we are expected to build the first desalination plant in a month, then you can send someone to inspect the quality of our desalinated water, one thing I can assure you is that the desalinated water we produce is definitely cleaner than the current market circulation, and much healthier!"

Hearing Xu Yuan say this, Akeru breathed a sigh of relief.

He is still very relieved about the promise of Yuanying International Group.

"I'll send someone to your side to investigate." After a pause, Akeru hesitated slightly, and then spoke, "Xu Yuan, we're friends, aren't we?" ”

"Of course." Xu Yuan didn't know why he suddenly asked this question.

"Can you do me a small favor?" Akeru whispered.

"Of course it's fine, as long as I can help." Xu Yuan said happily.

"It shouldn't be too difficult for you." Akeru coughed and lowered his voice, "Negotiate with the desalination project of the Wind Array Company, and I will find a way to obstruct it, and finally change it to a public tender from major companies around the world, I hope you will not take the initiative to bid from our side at that time." ”

"No bidding?" Xu Yuan didn't understand what he meant.

"Yes," Akru nodded, "I'll offer you an invitation." ”

Hearing him say this, Xu Yuan immediately understood what he meant.

Akru is king. Prince, and the prince is not the only one, but this old king likes to change kings. Prince, so peep at him as the king. There are a lot of people in the position of reserve.

Although he was responsible for leading the cooperation with the Wind Array Company this time, the person who initiated the project and found the Wind Array Company was another prince.

Although he didn't say it, the old king seemed to be pleased with the other prince's performance, which also made Akru feel uneasy!