The journey starts from the Titanic

"The specific location has not yet been determined, probably in the Suez Bay area, engaged in some construction or agriculture." Situ Nan looked at Ahmed on the opposite side calmly?Fuad.Of course he can't tell the other person, hey, I'm here to dig oil, sell it to me!

"Mr. William has also fancyed Port Suez?" Ahmed?Fuad glanced at Situ Nan suspiciously, and thought: Whether it is British or American, they are all coming for that canal, right?It's a pity that the river zone is in the hands of Britain and France, and it has nothing to do with the Egyptian government. If you fight this doctrine, you will find the wrong person!

Thinking of this, Ahmed?A trace of sarcasm appeared on Fuad's face, he would not offend the British.

"I see the value of Port Suez naturally, but the British are not that easy to talk about, haha. I just want to grow some cotton outside of Port Suez, open a building materials factory or something."

Situ Nan shook his head and explained with a smile.

"Oh! That's a good idea."

Ahmed?Fuad's heart was relieved.Apart from the Port of Suez, there is almost no industry along the coast of the Gulf of Suez, agriculture is not developed, and sparsely populated. To put it bluntly, it is a barren land. It has never been an important land of the Egyptian government.

"I don't know how much land Mr. William is going to buy?" Ahmed?Fuad asked.Although he knew that the other party was coming from Europe on a luxury cruise ship, he had not seen Situ Nan's financial resources.

"10,000 hectares or more, the better!" Situ Nan didn't even want to answer.

"What?" This scared Ahmed a bit?Fuad.Although the royal family also owns large tracts of land and is very wealthy, but like Situ Nan, who has to buy 10,000 hectares of land casually, has to let Ahmad?Fuad was surprised.

Situ Nan is satisfied with Ahmed?Fuad’s expression, he smiled in his heart, finally suffocating you.

"Now that international cotton prices are rising, my economic adviser told me that the cotton industry here in Egypt is worth investing in. Haha, I didn't dare to invest too much in my first attempt." Situ Nan said seriously.

This all involves hundreds of thousands of dollars in land transactions. Still a small investment?

Ahmed?Fuad said.

It seems to be just an ordinary deal, Ahmed?Fuad didn't realize it was wrong, so he agreed to Situ Nan's request.Of course, such a large area of ​​land cannot be easily sold to Situ Nan.In the end, Situ Nan got only 4,000 hectares of land, which is quite a lot.In order to deceive others, Situ Nan opened an agricultural company in Egypt and planted 500 hectares of cotton. The rest of the land is sandy and cannot be planted.

Due to the lack of food in Egypt, when Situ Nan offered to exchange food for land, Ahmed?Fuad thought for a while, and immediately agreed.

Ahmed, who has benefited hundreds of thousands of dollars?Fuad was in a good mood.When Situ Nan asked him to introduce other Arab chiefs, he readily accepted.

This poor man still didn't know that his momentary generosity had given Egypt's most precious oil field to Situ Nan.

Chapter 24 Middle East Petroleum, a maddening noun

In Situ Nan’s memory, the Gulf of Suez area is the most important oil producing area in Egypt, accounting for 78% of Egypt’s oil production. Controlling the oil fields in the Gulf of Suez also controls Egypt’s oil.

The oil contained therein cannot be completely covered by a small 4,000 hectares of land.Situ Nan only knew the approximate location, so the vast land he bought from the Egyptian king only had a portion of the land containing oil.Situ Nan was very satisfied with this result, but because of the damned British, Occidental Petroleum was unable to conduct oil exploration and exploitation in the Gulf of Suez.

If an oil company is registered in Egypt, there is no support from a major American company, and its power is weak. I am afraid that once the oil is released, the British will swarm over and will not be able to keep the oil fields in the Gulf of Suez, so Situ Nan can only "occupy" Mao Keng does not shit", and still suffocating quietly!

Fortunately, he is empty with treasures and can't show his eyes. Situ Nan has already experienced it in the East Germany Keshasa Super Oilfield. After a long time, he will get used to it. As time goes by, he is also used to such a quiet "occupying".

In any case, I finally planted the first nail in the Middle East. After a few years, I will come back and pull up the black gold underneath. The things that belong to me will definitely not run away."Situ thought of South America.

If it were not for fear of attracting attention, he would also like to buy the waters of the Gulf of Suez.Now that the war is over, there is no large-scale arms trade, except for finance, the oil is coming soon.

International oil prices have not fallen since last year’s US$2 per barrel and exceeded US$3 per barrel. They have been hovering at high levels. How can this make Situ Nan not crazy about Middle East oil?

With the frenzied investment of Occidental Petroleum, the oil industry in the Maracaibo Lake region has developed rapidly. Exploration wells have been erected on the oil fields, and thick oil pipes have been extended from the Maracaibo port to the Bolivar on the lake shore. In large oil fields, tens of thousands of tons of crude oil are transported to ports through pipelines, injected into tankers with 10,000 tons, and finally transported back to refineries in Texas and California.

Since the successful development of the Maracaibo Lake oil field, Occidental Petroleum's production capacity has been greatly improved, and has surpassed Exxon Petroleum, one of the standard oil systems, and is close to the largest oil company in the standard oil system-Mobil Oil The 7 became.

According to the current situation, Occidental Petroleum's extraction in the Maracaibo Lake Oilfield will reach the maximum in five years. It is not impossible that Occidental Petroleum will surpass Mobil Oil Company by then.Ten years later, if the East Texas Oilfield and North Houston oilfields are developed, Occidental Petroleum will surpass Standard System Petroleum.By then, the William Consortium will overwhelm the Rockefeller Consortium in the oil field.

This is not impossible. In history, Standard Oil was divided into giant oil companies after being dismembered. Among them, Mobil and Exxon were the largest.At the beginning of the twentieth century, there was an oil boom in California and Texas. At that time, oil merchants were scattered and unable to rival Mobil and Exxon, so Mobil and Exxon obtained most of the oil fields in California and Texas.

Due to the unexpected appearance of Stuart, the oil fields that originally belonged to the two companies Mobil and Exxon became Occidental Petroleum, which greatly weakened the monopoly of Standard System Oil on the US oil industry.After several years of development, Occidental Petroleum has become an existence that can compete with Mobil.

For others, oil is a high-risk and high-return investment, but for Situ Nan, it is a golden finger one after another.Hundreds of times the profit margin is the reason for Situ Nan and Occidental Petroleum's soaring wealth. It can be imagined that this company will expand at a geometric rate in the next few decades. Therefore, it is possible for the William Consortium to surpass Rockefeller in the oil field.

After the successful test in Suez, Egypt, Situ Nan's confidence has been inflated. He decided to take up more pits, even if he didn't shit, he would still disgust the British.Even if the British stepped on dog feces one day and dug out an oil field, they would also share part of the score with Situ Nan, because that piece of land belonged to Situ Nan.

I want to open oil on the land of Situ Nan, okay, let's join stock!what?sell to you?You want to swallow it alone?Don't think about it!It would be nice to let you be a minority shareholder!If it doesn't work, just pull it!It’s a big deal to wait for the influence of the United States to reach the Middle East in a few years, and our American company mines it alone, without your British points.

Where do I start?Ghawar Oil Field in Saudi Arabia?The Burglycerin field in Kuwait?Rumaila oil field in Iraq?Or the Zakum oil field in the UAE?

Situ Nan was facing the map of the Middle East, with large and small circles drawn on it, especially along the coast of the Persian Gulf, which was densely circled by Situ Nan with a red pen.

Each circle is equal to a huge shiny gold mine. Situ Nan felt that there were countless gold in front of him beckoning to him, his eyes were clear, and his saliva kept dripping.

"Oh my God, I'm going crazy, I really can't stand it!" Situ Nan put aside the map, grabbed his hair hard, trying to calm himself down.But so excited, how easy is it to calm down?

His previous experience of working at Mobil gave him a good knowledge of the world's major oil fields. Situ Nan can easily tell the approximate locations of dozens of major oil fields, just like finding big cities like New York and Los Angeles on the map.

This is also the result of Situ Nan's continuous enhancement of memory. Over the past few years, he will review his "homework" every once in a while, so the memory is so profound.

After the war, BP stepped up its oil exploration in the Middle East, but they did not have Stuart’s sky-defense. It was not so easy to drill oil wells in the vast desert. Sometimes it might be a few hundred meters away. Because of the shortage of funds, the oil adventure had to be abandoned.

The oil fields in the Middle East are shallowly buried, and generally have to be drilled to a depth of two kilometers, which puts forward more severe requirements in terms of technology and investment.After all, this was in 1919, not 1999.It is not easy to drill two or three kilometers underground, and the manpower and material resources are expensive.Even if a large company like Shell Oil chooses the location of exploratory wells, it must be determined after repeated consideration.

Most of the oil fields in the Middle East have not yet been discovered, and they will be "hidden" strictly in the next ten years. This gives Situ Nan an opportunity to take advantage of this big cake. Pick the "sweetest piece"!

The power of the "prophet" is great, and Situ Nan has the ability to pick and choose.After thinking about it for a while, Situ Nan made a shameless decision. He divided the major oil fields in the Middle East into two grades. The first grade is oil fields that are large, easy to exploit, and relatively stable in politics. It must be monopolized; the second level is large but not easy to exploit oil fields, (for various reasons), these oil fields are going to be used in joint stocks with other companies, or the oil fields are divided into shares like the California Petroleum Company did. Take it for auction, just like selling land, let other oil companies bid.

Thinking of this, a crazy voice sounded in Situ Nan's mind.

"Haha, so you can control the world's oil! I will distribute the oil in the Middle East, the United States, Latin America and other regions! I don't care about you, Rockefeller, you can't move!"

This is really a shameless idea!Even considering two-thirds of the world's oil reserves as his own, there is no such arrogant person in the history of the earth.Do you want to control the world?

Asking himself, Situ Nan felt his ambitions swelled to the point where he was surprised.He can almost appreciate the arrogance and domineering that Rockefeller founded the Standard Oil Company in one fell swoop to monopolize American oil!

After calming down for a while, Situ Nan finally woke up, except for drawing a bunch of circles on the map, he didn't get any of the big oil fields in the Middle East!

Really think of yourself as Deng's designer, can you make oil come out of paper by just drawing circles?Even if you get it, will the Arabs take it back after decades?OPEC is just the OPEC of the Arabs!

Situ Nan smiled mockingly, carefully picked up the map on the desktop and hid it!

The gossip is about the situation in Egypt. Although the British swallowed Egypt and turned it into their own colony, there have always been voices of opposition in Egypt.

Independence and democracy are the common pursuit of all nations, and the Egyptians are no exception.During World War I, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia and other regions were originally the territory of the Turkish Ottoman Empire.

This is only a nominal territory, and the actual power is in the hands of the British consulate. Well, more than half of the senior members of the Egyptian government are British.After the war, the British used the Turkish Ottoman Empire to join the Allied Powers (also forced by the British!) and turned Egypt, Iran, and Iraq, which belonged to the Turkish Ottoman Empire, into an international trusteeship dominated by the British.

Oh my God, you know, the Egyptians had been cooperating with the British in order to fight for independence from the Ottoman Empire in Turkey. How can they turn their faces from an ally to a master and a slave?

During the war, Britain requisitioned more than 1.5 million Egyptians, of which 1.17 million were "labour forces" and "convoys" serving the war.Two-thirds of livestock and a large number of transportation vehicles were also recruited.

The Egyptians paid so much, but in the end they were treated as a defeated country by the British. Isn't this feeding the Egyptians to cats?It's so deceiving!

Therefore, a movement for the independence of Egypt began since the end of the war.Leading this movement was the Waffle Party led by Chai Luer.Like most national revolutions, they started peaceful demonstrations, gradually confronted the authorities, and finally embarked on armed resistance.

Although Cairo is still very calm, Situ Nan can feel the undercurrent surging, and only a little spark can ignite the war.

This had nothing to do with Situ Nan, but it involved an arms trade. I don't know how this Chai Luer found Situ Nan.Later, Situ Nan learned that it was a senior official of the U.S. Department of Foreign Affairs who wanted Chai Luer to suggest that he could ask Situ Nan for arms.