The journey starts from the Titanic

Asia Petroleum Company is actually Shell Oil Company. Originally, it and Mobil Petroleum jointly carve up China's kerosene market.

In World War I, because it had to supply the European market first and once withdrew from the Chinese market, Occidental Petroleum entered the Chinese market and immediately filled most of the kerosene market gap left by Shell Petroleum, becoming the second largest ocean in the Chinese market. Oil supplier.

When Shell Oil returned to the Chinese market, it had to face an awkward situation, because the newly-emerged Occidental Petroleum Company was already full of wings and became the target of its pursuit.

Not only in China, but also in the world, Shell Oil is facing a powerful challenge from Occidental Petroleum, and it has fallen into a disadvantage.

Not only did Venezuelan oil in South America fall into a big fight, but in the face of the aggressive American oil company, it had to give up part of Sumatra's oil interests and temporarily saved the oil interests of its own territory.

Occidental Petroleum's acquisition of the Minas oil field in Sumatra was a turning point in the struggle between the two sides. The acquisition of the Minas oil field in Sumatra, to a certain extent, controls the largest oil market in Asia.

Occidental Petroleum’s oil tankers are now appearing more and more frequently in coastal ports such as Guangzhou and Shanghai. At the same time, they have penetrated into major cities along the Yangtze River, such as Hankou, Wuhu, Jiujiang, etc., and established Occidental Petroleum’s oil storage. Warehouses, and then through franchisees everywhere, dump a large amount of high-quality and cheap kerosene to major cities and villages.

In the era of lack of electricity, no one can resist the bright yearning. Even rural families have kerosene lamps or candles at home.Not to mention the bustling cities.

Forty million people need kerosene, and there are only three providers, Mobil, West, and Asia. You can imagine how big the market is.

Foreign oil has become one of China's most important imported commodities, only cotton imports, which account for 20% of China's import trade.

With the increasing number of cars in China, the demand for gasoline is gradually expanding, and the amount of gasoline and lubricants imported every year is also expanding, increasing at a rate of more than ten percent per year.

Last year, in 1919, customs statistics showed that the amount of foreign oil entering China from Shanghai reached more than 30 million taels of silver!

Well, silver dollars, which is more expensive than silver dollars!

There are mainly three people in this piece of cake, so Situ Nan has to be excited about Occidental Petroleum's achievements in the Chinese market.

Occidental Petroleum Corporation obtained a large amount of profits through foreign oil dumping. These profits were invested in expanding and rebuilding and importing various agricultural and mineral products from China, and the profits generated far exceeded the 10 million taels of silver.

Besides, Meihua Trading Company also sells other products!In addition to petroleum, sugar, cotton... also entered the Chinese market in large quantities, not to mention all kinds of machinery and industrial products.

If you want to comment on the several large foreign merchants who exploited China, the US-China Department will definitely be among the best, but this is the case in the market, and personal feelings are shifted.

Therefore, both emotionally and in terms of interests, Situ Nan has to pay attention to China. Although he does not want to intervene in other matters, as his industry expands in the Chinese market, he has to keep an eye on it.

"It seems that it was right to squeeze into Sumatra at the beginning. Now Occidental Petroleum has not only surpassed Shell Oil in the Asian market, but also has the strength to challenge Mobil. This feeling is really great!"

Situ Nan closed the report of Occidental Petroleum Company and looked at the brightly illuminated Huangpu River outside the window with a surge of emotion.

He knew that due to his greedy adventure, he immediately circled the world's largest oil fields. Occidental Petroleum has actually become the world's largest oil company. It is only a matter of time before it surpasses Mobil!

Although only a few people in the world know this fact, the impression of most people still rests on the two established oil companies, Mobil and Shell.

But soon they will find that once Occidental Petroleum's foreign oil crosses the Yangtze River and marches northward, after completing the strategic layout, it is a foregone conclusion that it will surpass Mobil in the Chinese market.Well, the next step is to increase investment in the north.

Because Occidental Petroleum Nanyang produces more oil than Mobil, this is still relatively advantageous.

If Mobil wants to ship oil from the Americas to Asia, then in the face of the rapid development of Western oil in the United States, Mobil's market share in the United States may also shrink.

Look for oil, look for oil, look for oil all over the world!This is what American oil companies are doing.The success of Occidental Petroleum's overseas ventures has stimulated other American oil companies to look overseas.

In Venezuela, Mexico, Brazil, India, Malaya, the Middle East, Africa, etc., exploration teams of American oil companies appear in corners of the world.

This Situ Nan was somewhat unexpected, but it is normal to think about it. In addition to a few major oil companies, the United States also has many powerful oil companies. The huge oil demand and the large enclosures of Western oil companies drive others. Oil companies have to go overseas.

The pressure on Britain is quite high because the British occupy too many colonies, and the clutches of the Queen of England hold all the best places in the world in their hands.

The traverser is not terrible, the horrible thing is the traverser with super strength!

Thinking that he could control part of the world's oil, Situ Nan was more excited and fascinated in a little panic.

Thinking of this, Situ Nan quickly flipped through another cooperation plan on the desktop, about the cooperation between Occidental Petroleum Corporation and Mitsui Trading Co., Ltd. of Japan.

Japan does not produce oil, but it is also a major oil consumer in Asia. Every year, Japan uses a large amount of foreign exchange to import oil.

The world's three major oil suppliers, Mobil, West, and Shell, are the oil sources that Japan has to choose.

Occidental Petroleum’s partner in Japan is the Mitsui Consortium.In the past few years, Mitsui has imported 13 million yuan worth of petroleum products from Occidental Petroleum, accounting for more than a quarter of the Japanese petroleum market.

Mitsui has always hoped to obtain long-term low-priced crude oil from Occidental, and they are developing their own petroleum smelting industry.

Unfortunately, Occidental Petroleum has never agreed to Mitsui's request, because buying products is more profitable than buying raw materials.

Occidental Petroleum has its own refinery, so it naturally refines the crude oil before selling it. It is impossible to sell crude oil to Japanese companies cheaply.

Regardless of whether Occidental Petroleum, Mobil, and Shell have reached a consensus on this point, Japan's popularity is irritating.

But there is no way. Who told them to search all over the world, they can only find these three companies that can provide a lot of oil.

The success of the Minas Oilfield excited Mitsui. They came to the door immediately and offered to participate in the development of Sumatra's oil.

After being flatly rejected, he still didn't give up and proposed other ways of cooperation.

Although he knew that Mitsui was secretly hoarding fuel for the Japanese navy, and even though he knew that Mitsui secretly bought part of kerosene to China, and also knew that they secretly engaged in geological exploration in Southeast Asia, Situ Nan agreed to sell a large part of the oil production every year. To Mitsui, who told them to pay more?

But as soon as Situ Nan opened up this cooperation plan, he immediately went crazy with anger.

Mitsui proposed to jointly establish an oil company with Occidental Petroleum to conduct oil exploration and exploitation in other parts of Southeast Asia, and the conditions offered were quite favorable, and expressed willingness to exchange high prices for shares in the joint venture.

They also expressed humbly that they do not want to hold a controlling stake, as long as 10%-30% of the shares are enough.

Of course, there is a small requirement at the end, that is, to train Japanese oil talents. The number is small, 20 is enough, but it covers several major links in oil production.

If Occidental Petroleum Corporation agrees to Mitsui's request, Mitsui is also willing to provide a 3 million yuan loan for oil construction in Sumatra.

Perhaps Occidental Petroleum thinks that Mitsui’s bargaining chips are not low, and that the limited cooperation with Mitsui will not harm Occidental Petroleum, and that it can also occupy the Japanese market through Mitsui.

Well, this is a big deal and there is no precedent. The senior executives of Occidental Petroleum (China) dare not neglect.It happened that Situ Nan was concerned about the business of the oil company, and this report also fell into his hands.

"Damn, it's really wolf ambition! Mitsui, really bad conscience, so cunning!" Situ Nan couldn't help cursing.

Of course, in terms of facts, this cooperation does no harm to Occidental Petroleum.It was a very common practice for Mitsui to lend money to Occidental Petroleum in exchange for long-term stable oil supply in Situ Nan's previous life.

Mitsui has obtained long-term stable iron ore below the international price by investing in large mining companies such as Brazil's Vale and BHP Billiton, and this is also true in the petroleum industry.

Japan's oil market is very attractive, and Mitsui's conditions are quite favorable. It is absolutely impossible for Japanese people to enter the Minas oil field.

There are a lot of things that can't be seen in Meihua Company, and letting the Japanese into Nanyang will definitely cause trouble.

Let's talk about training technical talents for Japan, which makes Situ Nan rush to the creamy.

After cultivating Japanese oil exploration talents, what if one day the nervous Japanese technician goes to the Northeast for exploration?

The Japanese who opened the Northeast Oilfield are even more terrible. Didn’t they become national sinners?

Even the American people will curse Occidental Petroleum!

It must be the Japanese exploration technology that is not good enough, otherwise, how could there be no oil fields in the Northeast?Situ Nan has always believed that the Japanese know more about China than the Chinese know about themselves. In fact, the reason for not discovering the Daqing oil field is probably because his exploration technology is not good enough.