The 100 million tonnes of crude oil purchase plan went more smoothly than Li Mingyu expected, but Saudi Arabia put forward an additional condition.

They said they wanted to exchange crude oil for high-purity olefins, which could increase the price of high-purity olefins by 30% from the market selling price, but must prioritize the supply to Saudi Arabia.

In the absence of a new design for the cracking furnace, only Wakaba can produce high-purity olefins in the world.

Many research institutes have completed tests on the application data of graphene composite materials, and the new materials were first applied to the construction of the sixth generation fighter, and the air strike force is the decisive factor in whether or not to obtain air supremacy, and in modern warfare, air supremacy is crucial to the direction of the war situation.

For this reason, Li Mingyu hesitated for a long time, and finally agreed to the additional conditions proposed by Saudi Arabia.

Just two days after Lee Ming-woo signed the electronic contract and sent it to Bounier, Saudi Arabia and country E simultaneously announced that they would bring forward the OPEC+ meeting to Wednesday of the same week.

There was only one agenda on the agenda: all organizations voted on whether to increase oil production by 200% in the next quarter.

This kind of proposal has never been put forward at a meeting in the history of OPEC+, and in the past, when crude oil production was discussed, a 10%-20% increase in production was already a very large increase.

However, the current situation is different, in the past, oil was only used as an upstream product in the energy field, and in addition, the chemical industry needs some ancillary products of petroleum smelting as raw materials.

Since olefin-3 type has been widely used in the energy field, in fact, the demand for oil in the energy field has declined, but the wide application of olefin-3 type in industry has led to an increase in the demand for oil in the industrial field.

In addition to this, the replacement of strategic olefin reserves has further exacerbated the surge in demand for crude oil.

In the past, crude oil reserves have always been a vital part of the strategic material reserves, and most of the world's industrialized countries have huge strategic crude oil reserves, but now the situation has changed somewhat.

Compared with unrefined crude oil, the wide application of olefin-3 type has more strategic reserve value than crude oil, and various countries have no longer stored strategic crude oil, but changed to store more cost-effective olefin-3 type, and the original strategic reserves have been put into the market for consumption.

The OPEC+ meeting was not the same as the previous quarrels, with most of the participating countries voting in favor of the decision to increase production.

The oil market did not react too drastically to the decision of the OPEC+ meeting, even if it was a 200% increase in production, which is still a bit conservative for the current market demand.

Increasing production by oil-producing countries is certainly a good thing for Li Mingyu, but the current port capacity in the Gulf of Guinea is somewhat insufficient, and the construction of a new large port has become a top priority for the new base.

The port of the Gulf of Guinea is an old-fashioned port, built in the sixties and seventies of the last century, and the port takes full advantage of the natural deep water area of the Gulf of Guinea, and is in operation with some basic loading and unloading facilities.

Before the construction of the new base, the ports in the Gulf of Guinea can basically meet the needs of neighboring countries for port cargo transportation, after all, the surrounding countries are some underdeveloped industrial areas, at most some merchant ships transporting mineral raw materials or timber.

Merchant ships transporting mineral materials and timber generally do not have overly demanding requirements on the depth of the water in the port, and the Gulf of Guinea relies on natural deep water areas to allow these ships to dock.

However, as the demand for crude oil at the new base increases, the current port is unable to accommodate large offshore tankers.

At present, the world's crude oil is still mainly transported by sea tankers, and the construction of land-based pipelines is expensive and takes longer, and the pipelines need to pass through the national borders of many countries, and there are also geopolitical risks.

Li Mingyu plans to build a new port on the southwest coast of Wakaba: Linchuan Port.

Linchuan Port is located on the south side of the Kilimanjaro Mountains, where because of the frequent activities of the earth's crust, all coastal areas have a lot of deep water, and the entire coastal continental shelf seems to be a steep dagger straight into the seabed, providing good geographical conditions for the construction of deep-water ports.

The only obstacle is that there are large areas of deep-water reefs in the vicinity, and if these reefs are not cleared beforehand, it can easily cause oil tankers to run aground and sink.

Li Mingyu didn't have anything too worried about this, and arranged for the construction robot to carry more than a dozen particle cannons.

The particle cannon has a great advantage for dealing with rocks or reefs, and the high-temperature particle stream can directly bombard the reef on the seabed into powder, and apply a layer of waterproof glue to the surface of the particle cannon, and the workers at the new base use small ships to drop the particle cannon into the designated sea area.

Because it is an underwater operation, the particle cannon must be close enough to the reef, and the power of the high-energy particles under the water will be weakened, which is almost like slamming the muzzle of the cannon into the face of the coastal reef.

Fishermen in the surrounding waters were evicted by the Wakaba government, for which Lee paid $10 million for the resettlement of the fishermen.

When all the preparations were ready, Li Mingyu stood on the seashore of Wakaba, looked at the calm sea and gave the order: "Let's start!" ”

The engineering robot on the bottom of the sea aimed more than a dozen particle cannons at the huge reefs, and as the energy storage was completed, the huge energy of the particle cannons poured towards the black-brown reefs.

"Boom!"

A column of water tens of meters high erupted on the calm sea, and at the same time, the ultra-high temperature water vapor rushed to the sea surface with the rise of the water column, bringing up bursts of clouds and mist.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”

The bombardment of the particle cannons had just begun, and more than a dozen particle cannons were arranged horizontally like uniform soldiers to advance towards the reef, and the ultra-high temperature brought by the shelling melted all the reef into black-brown particles.

The operation efficiency of the seabed is not as efficient as imagined, the evaporation of seawater will absorb a large amount of heat energy of the particle cannon, and the fluid medium can not fully exert the energy released by the particle cannon.

But compared to traditional high explosives, this method is fast enough.

The reason why the traditional construction method is not used is because the geological structure here is very complex, the Kilimanjaro Mountains are a young mountain range, and the geological activities have been very frequent over the years, if the traditional operation method is used for blasting, then the vibration caused by the explosion is difficult to predict what irreversible impact on the surrounding strata.

The impact of the particle cannon is more to use the high temperature of the particle stream to melt down, which can not only minimize the damage to the geological structure, but also avoid the occurrence of associated geological disasters.

There are too many undercurrents and coral reefs on this long-unexplored seabed, and it will take time for the particle cannon to clean up the reef.

The fishermen who used to live here are sitting on the shore watching this strange scene, they have lived here for generations, relying on this sea area for a living, and the small sea area holds all their emotions, but now they can only watch Li Mingyu transform the sea they once relied on for survival.

"Little Boss Li's methods are very powerful, old man, I have never seen such a fierce explosive in my life, if I have such a fierce explosive, I don't know how many fish I can blow up every day." A skinny old man with a fishing hat and a scrawny old man sighed with emotion while covering his ears.

Little Boss Li is the name of Li Mingyu by the locals, and the local people know that he is rich, and he is very, very rich, but seeing his young age, he simply called him Little Boss Li, this little refers more to age.

When the fishermen on the side heard the words of the thin black man, they pursed their lips and said, "If you have such a powerful explosive, you are still fishing here?" If I had such a powerful explosive, I would have gone into the mountains to blow up the mines, and if I blew up a lump or two of diamonds or gold bumps, I wouldn't have to worry about it in my life, but it's a pity that my new net has been raised for months, and this cannon will up. ”

"You can pull it down, you don't say that the net is okay, as soon as I talk about it, I get angry, why are you 30,000 yuan more than me when you compensate? Is your broken net worth $30,000? Old man, I haven't ever sold any fish for $30,000 in my life. The old man of the black and thin fisherman replied.

The fisherman who was scolded didn't squeak, just smiled innocently.

After all, it was Lee Ming-woo who gave the money, and President Wuma basically gave the subsidy according to the standard of $300,000 per family, and at the same time won them the right to resettle in the new base, which is also an important factor for Lee Ming-woo's large-scale construction in this sea area without being opposed by the fishermen.

The speed of the particle cannon on the seabed is very fast, and in just four or five hours, it has advanced from a depth of 700 meters to a position about 500 meters from the coast.

This is not limited to the reef, but also some other irregular cliffs.

In order to maximize the shipping capacity of Linchuan Port, the 1,000-meter coastline near Linchuan Port will be re-leveled, and the geomorphological structure of the entire coastal continental shelf will be rearranged to ensure that the coastal currents will not form eddies or surging undercurrents due to the topography, so as to ensure the safety of ships entering the port.

More than a dozen particle cannons are like machines that open mountains, hitting the coastline one by one, and some of the coastlines that originally stretched forward have become neat cliffs under the arrangement of the particle cannons, which will become the natural harbor of Linchuan Port.

After two days of continuous shelling, the leveling of the seabed was finally coming to an end, and then the construction of the port on the coastal land began.

With the experience of building a large base such as a new base, the construction of Linchuan Port is no longer a tricky project, and the polymer material wall of the port has already been printed, and only the engineering robot needs to transport these heavy walls to assemble them.

Seeing that everything had gone on the right track, Li Mingyu had no intention of continuing construction, and returned to the central building of the new base in a bubble car.

On the way back to the central building, Li Mingyu received a call from China, and the name of the caller ID surprised him a little.

"Qin Siyao? I haven't seen this chick in months. ”