The oil resources in the Middle East are irreplaceable. Many people who are not familiar with oil may think that as long as they find oil, everything will be fine.

Oil is often attributed to political issues, but it is an economic issue after all. You must make money by mining oil. If you have to obtain oil without considering your money, there are many better ways to exploit it at a loss.

In terms of economics, the Middle East is so unique that it is jealous.

Even after 20 years, the cost of oil extraction in the Middle East will not exceed US$6. In areas with well-built infrastructure such as the UAE and Saudi Arabia, the cost of oil extraction is only US$2, as if it had been picked up for nothing. In line with the complex geological conditions of Shengli Oilfield 20 years later, the cost of onshore oil production exceeds US$25, shallow sea oil costs more than US$30, shale oil costs more than US$50, and deep sea oil costs more than US$70. If Arctic oil is developed, it costs more than US$100.

Therefore, in 1988, Middle Eastern oil countries were absolutely profitable, and the onshore oil fields in other countries could only be said to have good profits. As for the crazy concepts of deep-sea oil, shale oil and gas, such as later generations, it was in the stage of technology accumulation until the 1990s. No one would ask for it, and the exploration fee was wasted.

From an economic perspective, oil in the Middle East is what people understand as real oil.

In comparison, resources such as Canadian oil sands were useless in 2000, but in 1988, they were not even considered as resources. There were also a lot of shale gas in China. It was less than 3,500 meters deep, which was 20 US dollars more expensive than those in foreign countries, and it would have accumulated in 2010. If Sucheng spends money to buy a piece, after 30 years, he will calculate the bank interest and regret it.

If the Middle East oil fields are compared to high-yield paddy fields that are ripe for three a year, the second-class areas such as the Gulf of Mexico belong to dry fields that are ripe for two a year. For example, onshore oil fields such as Daqing can only be regarded as slopes that can afford to live, and it is not an exaggeration to evaluate oil fields such as shale gas as unreclaimed raw land.

In the Middle East, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Iran are the best countries. Among them, Saudi Arabia does not allow other countries to invest, and Kuwait has a small territory and no room for exploration. Iraq and Iran have just ended the protracted Iran-Iran war. It is not safe. Only the United Arab Emirates, composed of seven emirates, has the most open environment and rich resources.

Su Cheng was weak and had no idea about the Middle East oil fields.

However, when an UAE oil field was in front of him and he had a slight advantage, Sucheng could no longer hold it back.

This is the shallow sea oil field in the UAE!

Although I don’t remember which one it was in Sucheng, the UAE oil fields did not have a mining cost of more than US$10 per barrel, and the daily output was superb. Oil wells with a daily output of 1,000 tons were just a casual time, and it was not uncommon for a daily output of 10,000 tons.

Shengli Oilfield has 20,000 oil wells, and only produces 30 million tons of crude oil in a year, with an average daily output of less than 100,000 tons, which is only equivalent to the output of a thousand-person oil zone in the UAE. However, the number of employees under its jurisdiction exceeds 150,000, so the yield and profit are naturally completely different.

Su Cheng estimated that if he could explore an oil field with a reserve of 100 million tons, even if he had only 30 years of mining rights, he could make at least one billion US dollars...

Thinking about this, the enthusiasm of Japan's Ministry of Occupy and Ito Business can be understood.

Two days later, Su Cheng came back from the negotiation venue and passed by the hotel lobby, someone suddenly gave him a book.

When I went back and opened it, it was indeed a microcosm of the bid that Ichiro Ozawa got.

Su Cheng was overjoyed. Because he lived in the same room with Wei Kong, he simply pretended to take a shower, turned on the shower, hid in the bathroom, read the full text of the bid, and then fell into deep thought.

This microscopic document is not so much a bid, but is obviously a notice, which is obviously sorted out, that is, it is likely to be information conveyed through oral statements.

There is neither the oil field address nor the mining time in the bidding document. The only thing that explains is three things: the official bid is released at the end of December, and there is still nearly one month. The relevant technical requirements and environmental protection requirements required for the shallow sea in the oil field.

3 messages, $30,000, are indeed not expensive.

This is golden time.

Su Cheng suddenly stood up and headed straight for the embassy.

If the official bid is released, it is known to everyone all over the world that only traditional super oil groups can prepare for competitive standards. The second and third-tier members, including Japan, China, etc., will definitely not be too late. As for technical enterprises like Dahua Laboratory, they will only transfer technology to earn 30% more...

If the winner is a European and American company, this 30% will be gone.

Su Cheng's heart was beating, desperately recalling the Middle East oil fields developed in the late 1980s, but he could not think of any answer for a while.

For Chinese college students, that piece of land is really too far away.

But this did not hinder his bidding intention. After finally getting through Liu Bing's phone call, he said the matter from beginning to end, and said: "Mr. Liu, we have an advantage now. The main requirement of the UAE is to ensure zero environmental pollution in shallow sea oil drilling, which is exactly in line with the technology we developed for the Chengdao Oilfield. Moreover, the shallow sea environment in the Persian Gulf region is very similar to Chengdao, with a water depth of no more than 90 feet. It is definitely within the working scope of our shallow sea oil drilling platform. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity."

"Which countries know?" Liu Bing's voice was heavy, but he was very serious.

Sucheng thought for a while and said, "I guess the UK must know, especially BP. They have strong strength in the Middle East and have developed the North Sea. France and the United States may also know, but they are not sure. The Japanese know that it is because they accepted a British oil field stake in the UAE in the late 1970s, which looks about 30%, so they established some relationships in the Middle East. However, they used the British technology and their shallow sea oil technology could not meet the environmental standards required by the UAE. If we do not sell technology to Japanese companies, they can only find European and American companies to cooperate. After the cost increases, the chance of winning the bid will be greatly reduced."

"Then what is the winning bid amount?"

"More than 30 million US dollars, more than 100 million yuan." Su Cheng said only the exploration rights. The subsequent mining rights must be bid for another bid. However, the latter must be collected after the oil well is explored. The funds can be recovered by selling crude oil. The main investment is the acquisition of exploration rights and the construction of an ocean drilling platform. If it is like the Chengdao Oilfield, the cost in the UAE is 50 million yuan. If you are not lucky, you have to make the sixth and seventh holes...

Liu Bing sighed and said, "For such a large sum of money, the chairman and general manager must nod their heads."

Su Cheng also knew this and said solemnly: "Mr. Liu, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. In addition to technological investment, our Dahua Industrial can also provide RMB 40 million. I hope you can consider it."

He doesn't have 40 million yuan at all, but if he sells all the domestic oil wells, it's okay to raise 40 million yuan.

Compared with the UAE oil fields, those high-grade oil wells are not worth mentioning.

Liu Bing hung up the phone with a "hmm".

Su Cheng didn't expect to convince Liu Bing with just one phone call. While notifying Lin Yonggui, he bought a plane ticket and went to find Ichiro Ozawa. He asked him to collect more information for use in case of returning home.

It became popular for Japanese politicians to accept bribes, and it was rampant in the late 1980s. Not to mention selling news, it was not new to even giving news to journalists for free.

One day later.

Sucheng once again set foot on China's land.

Goro prepared a carriage on the sea and picked him up, and asked, "Chenzi. Has something happened?"

"Um?"

"You came back from Japan alone and asked me to pick you up." Goro smiled and said, "If it weren't for an urgent matter, you should have come back in a few days."

"Well, it's a good thing, and it may turn into a bad thing. You will accompany me to the department these days." Su Cheng looked at the street scene of the capital, which is very different from Tokyo, and said in a deep voice: "After the shipping company's accounts are cleared, all the cash is handed over to me. In addition, if someone buys a ship, it's about the price to sell it."

Goro was shocked and asked, "The shipping company will not do it?"

"Do. But first, you must keep your main business." Almost all the cash accumulated by Sucheng was invested in Dahua Laboratory. Now that I want to raise working capital, I feel very short of money.

"Okay, I'll go back and sort out the accounts."

"Well, are you a fat man here?"

"I stayed in a hotel and didn't move anyway. In the past two days, I have been serving him."

Su Cheng nodded without saying a word, he knew why.

Xiaopang brought almost all his belongings, which was almost 5 million. In 1988, this was higher than the fiscal revenue of a county. He was in Beijing, where he was not familiar with his life, so how dare he go out to a hotel?

The car drove all the way to the Petroleum Corporation, and Sucheng went straight to Liu Bing's deputy manager's office.

Before he could wait, he went to the line to meet Liu Bing.

"I'm back." Liu Bing seemed to have known that he was going back.

"This is the original intelligence I bought." Su Cheng mainly brought these things back, and his briefcase also poked the embassy's diplomatic stamp.

Liu Bing still looked like a bald eagle. After reading it carefully, he nodded and said, "This news is very important. However, the above is still considering..."

"What else should I consider in the oil fields in the Middle East?"

"Political influence, the attitudes of other countries, and in addition, it is shallow sea oil fields. If we can't get out of oil, more than 30 million US dollars of precious foreign exchange will be wasted."

"Being able to enter the Middle East oil circle is a dream for countries around the world. As for whether the technology in Chengdao Oilfield can be used, if you see the attitude of the Japanese, you will understand. As long as you give them technology, officials from the Ministry of Industry and Industry will want to lie down and lick our feet."

Liu Bing smiled and said, "I don't have any hair on my feet, but we are different from Japan. The yen is on the rise, and they want to use it all to buy overseas assets. China is still a crude oil exporter. If the investment in the UAE cannot succeed, it will have a very bad impact."

"It's not good to do it." Su Cheng nodded clearly and said, "So, is the key to whether the Chengdao Oilfield technology meets the requirements?"

"That's right. The general manager will visit Chengdao Oilfield recently, and the specific time has not been decided yet."

"Okay, I'll prepare immediately." Su Cheng left Liu Bing's office, but thought to himself: I finally fought for less than 30 days and had to wait for the general manager's schedule... The upper class probably was still doubting the authenticity of the information. If there was no oil field auction in the UAE in the end, or if the content of the bid was different, they would be embarrassed. In this case, the investigation was meaningless, so I had to think of other ways.

Bidding for foreign oil fields has never been easy. With such huge benefits involved, Sucheng has already felt the spider webs stuck on his back.

Whether it is Liu Bing, the deputy general manager, the general manager of the Petroleum Corporation, the chairman, Shengli Oilfield, Japan's Ministry of Industry, or Japan Ito Commercial, these are all behemoths several times stronger and dozens of times stronger than him.

However, Su Cheng felt very motivated. He suddenly felt that he was preparing for this moment when he traveled through time for more than a year.

"I may only have tens of millions of assets, not even enough for exploration bidding, nor enough for exploration and drilling, but I already have a starting point..." Su Cheng thought passed by and said, "Wuron. Go to Dongzhimen, China Youth Daily."

The Beijing Street, which is free of traffic jams, is refreshing and spacious.

When I arrived at the place, it started drizzling in the sky.

Su Cheng shrank his neck, walked to the doorman, and pouted Liuzi.

After a while, the thin Liuzi floated out like a dough. Compared to the time in the same dormitory, Liuzi seemed to be thinner.

"Is the newspaper's food bad?" Su Cheng walked forward and hugged Liuzi heavily.

"The time for eating is not fixed. Whenever you go to a place to interview, you have to drink first and your stomach is over." Liuzi couldn't hide his joy and said, "Why are you free to come to Beijing? I heard that you have done a big project in Shengli Oilfield, called an ocean drilling platform, right?"

"Since you heard that, why haven't you come to visit?" Su Cheng smiled and pulled him, and whispered: "If you have something to do with you, can you go out?"

"Yes, go to the small restaurant in front."

Liuzi said that he took him to a small shop not far away, so he asked for beer and peanuts, and sat in the inner seat and smiled and said, "Why, do you have any inside information to reveal it? Or do you have political achievements to promote?"

"Everything." Since Su Cheng came, he did not hide it. He described the whole thing again, took out a copy and said, "I handed the original to the top. I now want to report on the Chengdao Oilfield to form a trend to offset the technical questions above."

Liuzi said in confusion: "What's the use of this? Even if we report that your Chengdao Oilfield has been successful, it cannot prove that you can produce oil in the UAE."

The transformation of this logical relationship surprised Su Cheng and said with a smile: "It is worthy of being a graduate of Peking University's Chinese Department. That's right, the successful shallow sea oil drilling and mining technology of our Chengdao Oilfield does not mean that we can produce oil in the UAE, or even meet their needs. However, if we can form an understanding through the media and say that our Chengdao Oilfield's technology has reached the world's advanced level, then leaders don't have to worry about this. Isn't this better than visiting and inspecting?"

"After visiting and inspection, if there is a problem with your technology, it is the responsibility of the leader. However, if the media reports that your technology is excellent and there is a problem with it, it is the problem of the media. You are helping the leader shirk responsibility." Liuzi looked at Su Cheng and smiled and said, "No wonder you are a high-ranking official, I am still a young reporter."

"If you want to talk about officials, I am now at the department level." Su Cheng took a sip of beer and said: "It's not okay not to help the leader shirk responsibility. Otherwise, they would have to consider their own position first and drag it around. The headquarters company has a big business, but I will lose. Moreover, the technology of our Chengdao Oilfield has indeed met the standard. If it were not for the urgent time, this method would not be used."

Xiao Liu believed Su Cheng quite well and nodded, "Please give me the information, but I can't guarantee whether the editor-in-chief can pass it."

Su Cheng coughed gently: "Do you editor-in-chief have any hobbies?"

"You guy is so bold that you still want to corrupt state cadres?" Xiao Liu snorted and said, "The editor-in-chief doesn't like money, corrupt him. You don't have to think about it. You corrupt me first for this meal today, and I'll go back to feed him."

Su Cheng smiled and said yes, "There is a lot of information. Thank you for your hard work, go to Chengdao to see it yourself."

"Aren't you snatching the time?"
To be continued...