Chapter 384: Laugh at the End
It was discussed, but it was still a big problem to store the oil there, and it was a bit unsuitable to find a salt mine like the United States, and after inspecting several locations, someone suddenly came up with a huge abandoned underground tunnel in Yasuda Province.
The tunnel is 32 kilometers long, 5 meters high and 4 meters wide, and was originally intended to be used as a mobile platform for strategic missiles; because Yasuda Province is close to the coast and Taiwan is opposite, when it was close to completion, due to changes in the international situation, this tunnel was abandoned, and now except for a small area that is used as a military warehouse, the other areas are not used and are blocked.
Although this tunnel can not accommodate tens of millions of tons, but hundreds of thousands of tons is still no problem, and there is a force nearby, security is not a problem, and the tunnel is in good condition, only a little repair can play the role of oil storage, and after this idea of development, we found that the original domestic construction of this kind of underground engineering is like a cow's hair, many are now useless, can be used as an oil depot.
The three surrounding provinces of Yasuda Province alone can provide tens of millions of tons of reserves, and although the petrochemical industry in Yasuda Province is not developed, several neighboring provinces are all large petrochemical provinces, and the strategic reserve location is also conducive to industrial distribution.
After hearing this, Su Ming also agreed, it doesn't matter where he puts it, all he wants now is this news, and the specific things can be discussed later, there is such a tunnel to save a little for the time being, and the action of having a real surname is much more effective than empty news, sure enough, as soon as the news of China's political axe announcing the joint investment of Su's strategic petroleum reserves came out, it immediately caused strong turmoil in the international oil market, especially the news that the first phase of the plan of one million tons has begun to be purchased in the international market. Immediately, the price of oil rose wildly, especially the price of Brent crude oil futures, which surged to the position of $29, and the New York crude oil futures once rushed to the position of $21, and then were frantically suppressed back to $20, but the average price of the two places was already 24.5, only one step away from $25.
Seeing that victory was in sight, Su Ming's side immediately stepped up its offensive, but the other party was not willing to admit defeat, and also began to increase capital investment, especially the news that the United States was going to continue to release strategic petroleum reserves in the market.
Just before the price of Brent crude oil broke through $30, the price of oil in New York fell to a little more than $19, and there was news that the two major oil producers, Britain and Norway, were preparing to expand production and increase capacity.
Now, even some countries in the OPEC organization can't sit still, everyone has limited production and it is not easy to get oil prices up, there is no reason to cheapen other countries, and it is said that Russia is also secretly increasing production, or we will also increase production? Although the formal meeting has not been held, the mutual communication has been carried out several times.
When Su Ming heard the news, he almost didn't hold his breath, he had spent so much effort, and he had contributed money and effort, and he had already brought out all the abilities he could play, if it really didn't work, then he could just take violent measures, and this was the last thing Su Ming wanted to use, but once OPEC really expanded production, then the current price would definitely not be able to support it.
What to do? Just when Su Ming hadn't figured out how to solve it, Mihoko suddenly came to the door and proposed to Su Ming a request to invest in the Su family in exchange for increasing the amount of strategic oil reserves, although Mihoko apologized to Su Ming vigorously, saying that this was the meaning of the consortium, for his behavior of taking advantage of the fire to rob, Su Ming endured disgust and refused, that is, to Mihoko, although he hated not to go there, but Su Ming still didn't give her a good face.
Su Ming would rather lose, and will not let him take a stake in Su's family, they are different from Dubai, Dubaii people focus on long-term investment, the purpose is for the future industry tilt, plus their money is easy to come by, and they don't look too heavily on money, but I have always been shrewd, and I have never wanted to be cheap, and once they are allowed to join, they will definitely do things to make things happen, and not let Su Ming have a good time.
After Mihoko went back, she soon came over again, this time with a different condition, it was okay not to invest in the Su family, but he said that he wanted to be able to land Thor without restrictions, this condition Su Ming was a little tempted, and Thor was not sold to other countries, since it was sold to anyone, why couldn't it be sold to himself, but after Su Ming thought about it, he still refused this request.
On the one hand, selling Thor to Yue Ben violated the principles that Su Ming had set for himself, and on the other hand, he wanted to see if he would lower the conditions again, so Su Ming's refusal was not as blunt as the first time, and his attitude towards Mihoko was much better.
Although Su Ming did not agree to the conditions this time, the loosening of his attitude made him see hope, so when Mihoko came for the third time, the conditions were changed to two sets of plans, one was to buy Odin, but he was still rejected by Su Ming, and he said that he had no other party on land, and if he sold them 100%, he would still be transformed into an empty version, which was different from selling them directly to Thor.
Therefore, Su Ming chose the second set of plans, this plan is three conditions, one is that the two sides carry out cooperation in aviation power, the F-2 fighter developed on the basis of F-16 has been officially mass-produced, because it is based on F-16 to do the enlargement, F-16 original engine F110 is a bit insufficient in thrust, plus this does not want to put all the technology in the hands of the Americans, so I want to cooperate with Su's power in this regard.
Now Su's power in the aviation power industry has become famous, whether it is the SS series engine, or the PW-S dual-energy engine, have aroused great interest among aeronautists, the SS series engine has been proven to be a very good engine on the Thunderbolt fighter, and it is said that the follow-up model has been close to the level of F119, as for the dual-energy engine, it is even more unacceptable, except for some parameters, whether it is the internal working principle or the working mechanism there is no public information, It's just that Su bought the patent for the rotary engine in advance, and speculated that it may be a rotary engine.
The second condition is that the company can enjoy the same treatment and rights as Chinese companies on the territory of Su Ming, Namibia, because the company was defeated by Chinese companies in the bidding for several projects in Dream City, so the company suspects that Su Ming is discriminating against the surname treatment, and there are still several big projects in Dream City that have not yet been built, and they still want to get a piece of the pie.
Don't look at this treatment is nothing, but if you want to calculate from the estimated investment scale of Dream City, even if you can get one-tenth of it, it will be terrible, because just from the first phase of the design of Dream City, the expected investment scale has reached 300 billion US dollars, of course, this money is not Su Ming can take out alone, many projects are in the form of cooperation, Su Ming only provides land, others invest, and then share the benefits.
Construction projects are China's strength, and I won't do this kind of hard work, but I am good at other projects that cooperate with funds, technology or services, but without exception, no matter what kind of advantages they have, in the current project, they have all encountered failure, so they ask Su Ming to treat them fairly.
The third condition is financial, I hope that Su Ming's African Standard Bank will carry out strategic cooperation with Sumitomo Bank, and provide financial services for the development of the company in Africa, this condition is very simple, that is, there is no such thing, if they put it forward, Su Ming will also agree, so this is Su Ming's first condition to agree.
Regarding the issue of equal treatment, in fact, Su Ming restricted the entry of foreign capital, and at present, Su Ming still wanted to take care of domestic enterprises, so when bidding, Su Ming directly threw aside the bids of companies from other countries, and didn't even look at them.
This condition is not a problem, no matter how equal, in the end it is Su Ming who has the final say, whose bid can't find something wrong, and several later projects, such as the design and planning of the water supply and drainage system of the entire Dream City, this Su Ming will never do it for domestic companies, and although he is not at the top international level in this regard, he is also first-class, as well as the garbage disposal and recycling of the entire city, which is also his strength, so this condition was also agreed by Su Ming.
It's the first condition, Su Ming asked suspiciously, didn't it mean that I was restricted from cooperating with other countries in military science and technology, Mihoko said over there that the restriction was a decision made by myself, so I could bypass this restriction in the form of a special approval.
Su Ming thought about it, there is nothing bad about this, SS200 will definitely not be given to them, if the SS100 series can be fancied, of course Su Ming is willing, as long as he is willing to purchase and grab the jobs of Americans, Su Ming is still desperate.
When Su Ming signed and approved the three different agreements, he said that due to the recent high oil prices and frequent fluctuations, in order to avoid further deterioration of the situation, he was ready to increase oil reserves.
Affected by this news, coupled with the Sumitomo consortium behind the fuel, Brent oil prices went all the way up, and soon rushed above thirty-one dollars, and although the price of oil in New York was strongly suppressed, but the impact of many news, plus Soros and others were not idle, and they were also working hard in the back, so the price of oil in New York also hit a new high, when Su Ming saw that after the closing, the average price of the two places exceeded twenty-six dollars, Su Ming couldn't help laughing, and at this time, the end of the contract, It's only one day.
(To be continued)