The journey starts from the Titanic

Gulbankan looked at Hengda Brown with regret.

Henda Brown snorted coldly and gave the Englishman coldly.

Others saw it in their eyes and laughed secretly. Chevron Oil Company hated Gurbankan who led the meeting.

The meeting unanimously agreed that, with the exception of Chevron Oil Company’s No. 1 oil field, the oil resources within the red line described by Gulban are jointly owned by all member companies, and all oil extraction operations in the red line area are under the responsibility of Iraqi Oil Company.

This is the famous "Red Line Agreement" later!

Several large companies drew a few strokes on the map with a pen, and then divided a region or country, which is very in line with the tradition of the pope to give Portugal the eastern hemisphere and Spain to the western hemisphere!

The oil giants of Britain, the United States and France competed for the Middle East for nearly ten years, and finally came to an end, and opened a new chapter in the prosperity and bloody history of the Middle East.

Different from history, this version of the Red Line Agreement has a smaller scope and does not include Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Egypt, but the British have a larger share than in the original history.

"I don't feel like I got anything, it feels like I'm back empty-handed!"

The car went out of the gate, and Henda Brown looked back at Archinakari Castle, feeling in his heart that he would leave Britain and go to Italy to run around for the Chevron oil empire.

Is it really nothing?

Who is a fool?

Situ Nan received the negotiation result from Britain and sneered.Did not account for the Iraqi oil company's share, but saved the No. 1 oil field, this is victory!

Robles learned of the results of the negotiations passed back from Archinakari Castle. He laughed and said: "With the discovery of Libyan oil in the Middle East, all major oil fields in Asia and America are increasing production. In order to make profits, the major oil companies will definitely Unscrupulous exploitation of oil will definitely lead to disorderly competition in the commodity oil market, so oil prices will fall!"

He concluded that the smile on his face smelled of money.

"In less than a year, these guys are going to close the door and have a secret meeting again, saying that everyone produces too much oil, and all of a sudden the price of oil is knocked down. This is not good, that bad, believe it or not?"

Situ Nan smiled.

"Of course, I know the temperament of those guys! They will get together again. In order to create established facts and occupy more market share in the next round of negotiations, Chevron Oil and Occidental Petroleum will continue to grow wildly! "

Robes asked with a smile.

Situ Nan nodded.

Before OPEC, these oil giants did not know how many years and times these oil magnates had manipulated oil prices between their hands. In addition to the Soviets who spoiled the situation, it was indispensable for them to plot bloody coup wars and other elements.

As Robles said, after the signing of the "Red Line Agreement", the oil giants immediately built a pipeline connecting Iraq's Kirkuk region to the Mediterranean, and built an oil depot port terminal and an oil refinery in Haifa.

At this time, Haifa, a small coastal port in Palestine under British rule, is about to rise due to Middle East oil.I don’t know if there are Jews. If there are, there are certainly not many.Ha ha.

Chevron Oil Company is actively participating in the construction of this oil pipeline and hopes that this pipeline will be completed as soon as possible, because the oil produced in the No. 1 oil field will be transported to Europe through this pipeline.

At the same time, it also recommended high-quality and inexpensive Chinese oil engineers to join the pipeline and port construction. The Iraqi Oil Company adopted this suggestion.

Chapter 201

Perhaps the French, Italians and even Germany can become partners. Compared with the overbearing British, the European countries generally lack oil. Even France imports a certain amount of oil from South China every year, let alone the weaker Italians and Sadly reminded the Germans.

Situ Nan sent this idea to Europe via telegram for Henda Brown to negotiate with the Italians.

At the end of the Akina Kari oil secret meeting, in the hot and dry Kuwait, Frank Holmes, a British New Zealand engineer, was in frustration. He had just returned from the desert in Saudi Arabia, and he was so exhausted and unspeakable.

Recently, oil fields were discovered in Iraq and Libya. As a businessman who obtained oil exploration rights in Saudi Arabia, he was originally encouraged.

However, his adventures in the desert for several years have not been discovered. Now the capital chain is broken, and the oil lease rights in his hand are becoming less and less valuable.

The attitude of Saudi King Ibn Saud, who had high hopes for him, has also changed, and he is ready to take back the oil lease rights from him and hand it over to more capable engineers.

In order to get away, Frank Holmes sold the lease to the British bp oil company, but was rejected, so he was going to try his luck with the Yankees.

After tossing around, he found Duncan firm.

"Sir, the asking price of fifty thousand dollars is unreasonable! In fact, I very much doubt the legality of your lease contract!"

Duncan, the owner of Duncan's firm, smiled and declined Frank Holmes' offer.

Duncan Firm is the largest land investor in the Middle East. It not only owns large cotton fields in Egypt, but also a large desert in the Persian Gulf. The owner of Iraq’s No. 1 oil field is Duncan Firm, which is only entrusted to Chevron for development. .

"The contract is completely legal. It was signed by the King of Saudi Arabia." Frank Holmes distinguished.

"No, no, no! In fact, the area covered by your contract includes the land of our firm, and we are the owner of the land. Fortunately, you didn't succeed, otherwise you would work for us like bp oil company!"

Duncan reminded with a smile.

"What? You guys..." Frank Holmes looked at Duncan in surprise, "Do you think there is oil under the desert? How else would you buy so much land?"

"Oil? You are too naive and optimistic! What if there is oil in the vast yellow sand? How can you extract oil if you can't even get in? Instead of searching for oil, you might as well look for a well. If you find a freshwater oasis, it will be more profitable than digging for oil!"

Duncan smiled and shook his head. Seeing Frank Holmes a little puzzled, he explained, "Oil exploration is not the business of Duncan Firm. Our business is trading and researching desert governance.

Over the past few years, we have opened up many farms in Kuwait, Egypt, to grow cotton, and then sell it to Asia, with good results."

"Then why sell large deserts?"

"Because it is cheap enough to realize my dream of becoming a big landlord. I exchanged a large piece of desert with a gun. Although I am a little stupid, you know, sometimes arms are very cheap in the United States, and the Arabs have no money. I want to do business with them again, so I collected a lot of dates from them. They still can't pay the bills, and they can't get the money. I will simply repay the debt in the desert!"

"Oh! You are still an arms dealer!"

Frank Holmes was in awe. The Yankee arms dealers were notoriously bad, not only selling arms, but also selling mercenaries, a group of dead merchants.

I thought: Although you don't admit that you have an attempt to black gold underground in the desert, will I believe it?Forget it, I won't expose the other party's inferior excuse.

"Since Mr. Holmes is so convinced that there is oil in the desert, will you find it for me?" Sure enough, Duncan asked with a smile.

To be honest, Duncan didn’t know whether there was oil in the desert. As an agent of the William Foundation, he bought a large piece of land and desert according to Situ Nan’s orders, but he didn’t care much about whether there was oil below. The attitude of the United States was the same. Did not urge Duncan to explore oil.

Commercial firms usually trade in cotton arms and various other commodities.

With the development of industries in China and South China, the sale of industrial products to the Middle East and Africa has gradually become one of Duncan's main businesses. Last year, its turnover reached 10 million South China dollars, making it one of the well-known international traders in the Middle East and Africa. .

Of course, it would be even better if someone helped themselves to explore the oil under the desert for free!

Duncan, who was originally unconcerned about this, changed his attitude after the Iraqi No. 1 oil field was discovered. He was so powerful that he quickly found the engineer who dared to eat crabs.

"This……"

"Personally advise Mr. Holmes not to reject our friendship! We need someone like you who likes to deal with sand!" Duncan laughed.The smile was polite and kind, but Frank Holmes shuddered.

"Okay!" Frank Holmes nodded and had no choice but to do so.

When he walked out of Duncan Firm, his mood was complicated. On the one hand, he sold the illegal oil lease rights to Duncan Firm for $20,000 to avoid bankruptcy. At the same time, he was hired by Duncan Firm to continue to explore for oil in the desert area. Relying on the Chevron Petroleum Company, which has a close relationship with Duncan, the new oil exploration team is technically improved.

Duncan's actions did not hide from Situ Nan. After Situ Nan learned that Duncan had hired Frank Holmes for oil exploration activities, he secretly dissatisfied. These guys are self-righteous. What if the oil fields are discovered in advance and the British are brought in?