The journey starts from the Titanic

People are better than people, better than dead people!If you have such a big oil field, you still jump up unhappy?

Robles can no longer feel jealous of Situ Nan. He knows that Situ Nan has discussed with him on such a big matter. Obviously he values ​​himself. Although Robles has participated in some major projects in Standard Oil, he has the right to decide. Not in his own hands, he dreams of a chance to show his ambition.

"I plan to set up an oil development company to develop Texas oil. The general manager has found it. How about you, Robles?"

Situ Nan looked at Robles Mellon sincerely.Although Robes Mellon is younger, isn't he also a young man?

The problem of experience can be accumulated slowly. The key is that Robles has a lot of ideas that coincide with him. He has targeted Situ Nan's taste!Situ Nan is very optimistic about Robes Mellon's potential. He is confident that under his own guidance, even if the new company develops some setbacks, it will gradually succeed.

"Okay, I agree." Robles is not a Chinese, and he does not have so much hypocritical modesty. He bluntly agreed. He is very confident in himself.Is there anything better than being able to be the general manager of a company with seemingly unlimited potential at a young age?

Seeing that Robles finally "joined", Situ Nan smiled happily, and the two of them were discussing the new company for the next two days.Both Situ Nan and Robles are good at asset investment management rather than specific operation managers, which echoes Situ Nan's positioning of the company to provide planning solutions for oil development.

At the end of 1913, a company named Texas Petroleum Development Company was established in Houston, referred to as Texas Development Company.The chairman of the company, Stoneny William, and the general manager is Robes Mellon. In addition, the company has three employees, namely Gudas Hughes, Hayes Chuck and one named He Wenxiu At the same time, these five people are also shareholders of the company. The majority shareholder is Stony William, who accounts for 93%. The minority shareholders Robles, Guadas, Hayes, He Wenxiu and their shares are 5%. 1%, 0.5%, 0.5%.

He Wenxiu is completely a soy saucer, but Situ Nan mischievously appointed him as the head of the company's security department, a bachelor commander.

This is a leather company. It has nothing but Situ Nan's house in Houston, but it secretly controls more than half of the oil fields in Texas.At that time, no one thought that all major events in the oil industry in Texas in the next few decades would have the shadow of this Texas oil development company behind the scenes.

Chapter 13 Occidental Oil Turned Out

"The new official has three fires." Unfortunately, this is completely inapplicable to the brand-new Texas Petroleum Development Company. There is not even a firecracker. Oh, there is not even a card at the door.But what does it matter?

In order to strengthen the company's strength, Situ Nan transferred a few finances from Los Angeles to join the Texas Petroleum Development Company, Hayes recruited a local oil exploration engineering team, and Guadas acquired all over Texas. Land or land oil exploration lease contract.

He Wenxiu, the head of the security department, is competent, as before, with Situ Nan.

Robles quit his job at Standard Oil and devoted himself to the affairs of the new company. He is busy planning a wonderful project to win a hit.

Originally, Situ Nan wanted to copy the model of the Sunda Branch, but after discussing it with Robles, he gave up this idea.

Situ Nan’s plan at the Shengda Branch was really good at the time, but now it is not suitable for the new company. The average oil merchant in such a large oil field cannot afford to eat. The development of Texas needs to accommodate more funds. Robles suggested to find a bank. A plan has been prepared.

After Situ Nan watched it, he immediately agreed to let Robles let it go.

At this time, the First National Bank of the Mellon family had a branch in Texas with a loan business dedicated to oil exploration and development.At the same time, Gulf Oil, which is controlled by the Mellon family, also has operations in Texas.Cooperating with giants like the Mellon family is a risk, but it’s not so bad. If you want to make your business bigger and stronger in the United States, it’s impossible not to contact such giants.

However, the overlord of the oil industry is the Eastern Standard Oil Company. Gulf Oil is at best a small role. Although Gulf Oil is also a behemoth for the newly born Texas Petroleum Development Company, Stuart is not worried about Gulf Oil Company, Texas. It's so big that the giants are too busy.

In the past few years, his own Texas oil development company has grown up, holding a large number of oil fields in Texas, Situ Nan need not be afraid of any opponents.

Because of the butterfly effect or something, the Buckburnett town oil field in North Texas was discovered a few years earlier than the original history. Those crazy "wildcat prospectors" gathered in the small town of Buckburnett, but discovered The nearby land was bought half a year ago.

What's wrong with this?They are like monkeys who can't eat fruit and are rushing around under the tree. Many oil companies have also received news and are doing everything possible to inquire about the owners of these lands.

At this time, a Texas oil development company approached the First National Bank. Since the Buckburnett oil field has been confirmed, Robles easily obtained a loan of $1 million from the bank. Similarly, Texas Petroleum Development Company has also entered the sight of Gulf Oil Company.

The bait has been released and the fish will soon be caught.According to Robes’ plan, the Gulf Oil Company will soon come.At the same time, California Petroleum Company came to the door.

Since the establishment of California Petroleum, with the financial resources of the Brown family and the Fort Rolls family, a large amount of oil reserves, and the shrewdness of Hengda Brown, California Petroleum has grown a lot and has a good strength in California.

The ambitious Hengda was trying to further develop California oil. After receiving the telegram from Situ Nan, Hengda was surprised and happy later. After he discussed with Bot, the two hurriedly set off to Houston.

Yes, Situ Nan said in the telegram that Buckburnett in northern Texas has discovered a large oil field and he owns a large area of ​​land in Buckburnett. Everyone knows what this means.

Originally, the two old foxes, Hengda Brown and Bot Fort Laus, expected to take the opportunity to annex Situ Nan’s 30% California shares after the failure of Situ Nan’s investment, but now...

It’s hard to say, California Oil has no influence in Texas. Texas Oil Company has more. Hengda only hopes that Situ Nan can take care of California Oil. After all, he is also one of the shareholders of California Oil.

"Hi, Hengda, Bot, it's been a long time." Situ Nan hugged the two brothers proudly.

"Stoney, when you said you wanted to invest in steel, I didn't expect you to come to Texas all at once. Oh my God, you still found oil. Can your nose smell underground oil? Tell me, is it?"

Although Hengda was smiling, Situ Nan heard the envy in the words and still had some sourness.

Bot stood aside, chuckling, as if Hengda said his heart.

"This is my partner, Robles." Situ Nan knew the thoughts of these two old foxes, but he didn't answer their words and directly introduced Robes.

"Robos Mellon. Now I am the general manager of Texas Petroleum Development Company. I am glad to meet both of you." Robes stepped forward and said.

Situ Nan has his own oil company in Texas?!

Hengda was shocked and felt that things were not as simple as he thought.

But he and Bot are both tried-and-tested old foxes, and no matter what they think, their appearances are still smiling.

After learning that Texas Petroleum Development Company had a large number of oil fields in North Texas, Hengda immediately requested the transfer of the oil fields held by Texas Petroleum Development Company to California Petroleum.This request was immediately rejected by Robles.

Situ Nan wanted to get a controlling stake in California Petroleum, but he couldn't save his face. The negotiation work was handed over to Robes. Robes clearly understood Situ Nan’s thoughts, so he put forward this condition in the negotiation, but Hengda Refuse.Hengda invested so much effort and obviously refused to hand over the control of the company. For a while, the negotiations fell into a deadlock.

Situ Nan had expected this result long ago. After two days, Gulf Oil Company finally came to the door. They also coveted the oil fields in the hands of Texas Petroleum Development Company.

Gulf Oil’s entry into the competition is bad news for Hengda. In Texas, California Oil really can’t compare with Gulf Oil unless Hengda wants to stay in California. It is certain to make concessions to Robles.

The straw that overwhelmed Hengda's heart was a conversation between Situ Nan and Hengda Brown.

"Hengda, I have oil fields in my hand, many oil fields, much more oil fields than Buckburnett town. If I can't control most of the company's equity, I can only cooperate with others, or start anew, only Only in this way can my interests be guaranteed.

The general manager of the company is still you, and Robles and I will not fight for the management rights of the company. Although once I follow my plan, your and Bot’s shares will be reduced, but the company’s strength will be improved. Your interests will not be lost, but will increase."

Hengda was thinking about gains and losses. If it was really like what Situ Nan said, he could only give in for the benefit.

"Okay! You won! But I have to talk to Bot." Brown finally made a decision. "I just didn't expect you to grow so fast. I'm really curious about how you did it!"

Situ Nan finally relieved his heart. To be honest, his relationship with Hengda Brown has been very good. He received a lot of help from Brown at the beginning of his career. He really didn't want to part ways with Hengda Brown as a last resort.Besides, it is not easy to find a CEO like Hengda.

The next day, Hengda and Bot unanimously agreed to Stuart’s share adjustment request. Texas Petroleum Development Company used the oil field in their hands to buy 50% of California Petroleum, and Hengda Brown and Bot Fort Laus’s California Petroleum shares fell to 20%. , 15%, Situ Nan successfully controlled 65% of the California Petroleum Company through Texas Petroleum Development Company and the 30% of the original California shares.

There are gains and losses. Although he is no longer a major shareholder of California Oil, Hengda is excited after knowing that the company now holds so many oil fields in his hands. Losing a trace of loss in his heart, he wants to extract all the oil immediately.

For this result, Bot is also satisfied. After all, the petroleum business is not the main industry of the Ford Rolls family. Wouldn't it be nice to be able to sit and pay dividends?

The general manager of the newly established California Petroleum Company is still Hengda, but now the company's work focus has shifted to Texas. It is not very nice to call California Petroleum Company, so everyone agreed to change the name of California Petroleum Company to Western Oil company.

Well, this appeared earlier than the original Occidental Petroleum Company in history. Similarly, this Occidental Petroleum Company is now much stronger than that in the original history.

The newly-established Occidental Petroleum Company’s negotiations with Gulf Oil Company were not effortless. According to Stuart’s instructions, Occidental Petroleum’s deputy general manager Robles reached an agreement with Gulf Company. The Tezhen Oilfield was sold to Gulf Oil Company. Gulf Oil Company paid a price of 30 million U.S. dollars, and provided technology and equipment in cooperation with Occidental Petroleum in pipeline construction and refinery.Of course, such a large sum of funds cannot be taken out at once, and must be invested gradually in installments, but the financial resources of the Mellon family are fine.

In order to exploit its own oil field, Occidental Petroleum decided to develop the company's oil field in Ranjie Town.This is an oil field with good oil quality and production. In order to raise more funds, Occidental Petroleum is going to borrow a large amount of US$50 million from First National Bank to build the company's refinery and terminal in Houston.

This is a big deal!Now the war in Europe is looming and the price of oil continues to rise. The senior officials of Occidental Petroleum have always believed that the war will start soon and the price of oil will rise at that time. Now, if you invest heavily, you are not afraid of losing money.

Since the deal between Occidental Petroleum and Gulf Oil Company spread out, there has been an uproar throughout Texas. People have inquired about which gully Occidental Petroleum came out of.

After being intervened by a large company like Gulf Oil, the shrewd wildcats finally knew that the Buckburnett town oil field did not belong to them, so they gradually left.However, they were not disappointed. The discovery of the Buckburnet Township oil field encouraged them even more. For a while, traces of "wildcat prospectors" could be seen everywhere in other areas of northern Texas, and new discoveries in North Texas were reported from time to time. oilfield.

After Occidental Petroleum entered the sight of Texas oil industry players for the first time, everyone knew that a new giant was about to emerge, although he was still very young now!