Reborn South Africa as a police officer

Chapter 659 Ten Percent

Such is the cruelty of oil exploration. If it goes well, it is like the Southern African Oil Company. One well produces oil smoothly, producing tens of thousands of barrels of crude oil per day, and the high production that lasts for several months has not declined at all.

Bad luck is like the Persian Petroleum Company, which drilled an oil well, and then everyone swarmed in, and the oil well dried up quickly.

Either because of other factors, even the oil was not found, and the previous investment was lost.

Compared with the Persian Oil Company, the Southern African Oil Company is steady and stable. Relying on the oil in Port Elizabeth, the Southern African Oil Company has established a firm foothold in the Persian Gulf, and tens of thousands of barrels of oil are shipped to Nyasaland by sea every day.

Although Rock is not planning to expand oil production in the short term, related exploration work has been ongoing. Of course, this work is still entrusted to Christian Exploration Company. For this reason, Christian Exploration Company sent chief geologist Ted to Port Elizabeth.

Ted was a student of Professor George Eugene, Dean of the School of Geology at Nyasaland University. He came to Nyasaland with Professor George Eugene ten years ago and started working for Rock. De developed motorcycles with Bobby Holt and is now also a shareholder in Johannesburg Motorcycles.

It is said that Ted can now live a rich and leisurely retirement life with the shares of the Johannesburg Motorcycle Company, but Ted is still working hard, and now he also holds a part of the shares of Christian Exploration Company and becomes a shareholder of Christian Exploration Company .

The geological prospecting work is still very hard, and sometimes it takes a month or two to go to the field, but Adan Company takes good care of Ted, not only sending mercenaries to protect Ted's safety, but also sending a cook to Ted and servants, so Ted is in pretty good shape.

"We went to Baling Island this time. The situation on that island is similar to that of the Elizabeth Oilfield. There are oil seedlings. If you want to be sure, you can drill one or two wells first, but the biggest surprise comes from Dammam and the Baling Peninsula. , we discovered a geological structure in Dammam, and a number of oil seedlings in the Baling Peninsula. There is likely to be a huge oil field there, which may have more reserves than all the oil fields that have been discovered so far. It’s because we don’t develop the oil fields in Dammam and Baling Peninsula. We should also buy the land there first and prohibit other oil companies from entering. In addition, we met a few colleagues this time. They may work for other oil companies. I feel the need to pay attention to this.” As soon as Ted returned to Port Elizabeth, he went to see Carl Fox, the general manager of the Southern African Petroleum Company.

Baling Island is Bahrain in another time and space. Now this island is also the property of Adan Company. The Baling Peninsula is the future Qatar. Now it belongs to the sphere of influence of the United Kingdom. However, the United Kingdom does not attach importance to the Baling Peninsula. None of the officials.

This can explain the economic value of the Baling Peninsula.

"Peers from other oil companies?" Carl Fox grinned, and immediately rang the bell to call the secretary over: "Call Mr. David and tell him that the Baling Peninsula needs some strong men."

This kind of thing is familiar to the umbrella company, because of the continuous tribal vendettas and natural and man-made disasters, in fact, there are no indigenous tribes along the coast of the Persian Gulf including Dammam and Baling Peninsula. Migrate to the interior of the peninsula, or you will suffer misfortune. The areas where the desert bandits pass are basically barren of grass.

"That's rude, you should choose a more civilized way." Ted didn't approve of Carl Fox's behavior, but he didn't disapprove much.

The law of survival in this era is like this. When you return to the city, everyone is a civilized person. Once you leave the city, the gentle and elegant gentleman will become a demon that eats people without spit out bones. Ted has seen this kind of thing a lot these years. Without the protection of mercenaries, Ted probably would have been dead for a long time.

"There is no civilization in the face of interests. There can only be one oil company on the peninsula, and that is our Southern African Oil Company." Carl Fox was full of domineering.

"It's hard——" Ted's expression was solemn, and his colleagues had already appeared in the Baling Peninsula, which was a very bad sign.

"As long as they're not afraid of losing their money, come on." Carl Fox laughed. Persian Oil Company is a good example.

Although oil is attractive, it must be profitable. Like the Persian Petroleum Company, the derrick was blown up and lost everything. Not to mention ordinary small companies, even large companies cannot survive a few times. Only companies like the Southern African Petroleum Company, which has the full protection of the umbrella company, can ignore the threat of these "accidents".

Later, Carl Fox hosted a banquet for Tang En and Li De, and Ted also attended the dinner.

At the dinner, Ted introduced the basic situation of oil storage along the Persian Gulf coast to Tang En and Li De, which immediately attracted the attention of Tang En and Li De.

"We must control all the land along the Persian Gulf. Even in areas where oil has not been discovered, there may be countless oil underground, but it is limited to the current technical conditions that cannot be exploited, so it cannot be used-but it cannot be exploited now. We will not be able to mine in the future. Ten years ago, we still relied on manpower to dig oil wells. Now we have begun to use derricks to drill wells. Our current oil wells are only 500 meters deep. If we can’t find oil in this range, it doesn’t mean that there is no oil. It may go further down. Drill some, drill to 1000 meters, 2000 meters, and you will find oil fields." Ted can only use experience to judge now, and many things cannot be verified due to technical conditions.

Tang En and Li De looked at each other, and both of them could see the greed in each other's eyes.

"Then it's Daman and Baling Peninsula now." Tang En was eager to try. The Umbrella Company had thousands of mercenaries in the Persian Gulf, and it was impossible to always stay in the barracks with nothing to do.

"Don't worry, keep the secret first, and then let the lord make a decision." Li De is still rational, the coast of the Persian Gulf is now the British sphere of influence, under the jurisdiction of the Governor of Egypt, and the umbrella company is not easy to act on its own.

However, some small actions are still possible, such as gradually clearing up the indigenous people along the Persian Gulf coast, prohibiting oil exploration personnel of other companies, and even any unrelated people from entering the Persian Gulf coast, and closing this area.

It is actually not difficult to achieve this. The ports along the Persian Gulf on the peninsula side are now under the control of Adan Company. Except for Port Elizabeth, Adan Company has closed all other ports and prohibited any ships from entering or leaving. Therefore, other companies It is not easy for oil exploration personnel to go ashore smoothly. After all, oil exploration needs tools and equipment, and some local people need to be hired as guides, and security personnel must be hired to ensure safety. Therefore, oil exploration cannot be completed by one or two people. Along the coast of the Persian Gulf, if the Umbrella Company and Adan Company do not cooperate, it will be extremely difficult to achieve this.

This is the advantage of planning in advance. Now other oil companies want to develop oil along the Persian Gulf, all depends on the face of the Southern African Oil Company. Survive along the bay.

Gulf Oil is a good example.

"Your lord is too busy with work. We should try our best to share his worries with you." Tang En had his own plan, even if he got caught, he wasn't afraid. If it didn't work, Rock would come forward to end it.

When Tang En and Li De were discussing how to occupy the coast of the Persian Gulf, Rock and Viscount Gladstone were in Ulysses in the North Sea.

The current North Sea is nominally half of Nyasaland and Tanganyika’s family, but Tanganyika is unable to develop the fishery resources of the North Sea. It is under the actual control of Nyasaland.

"The North Sea has a total area of ​​[-] square kilometers and is rich in aquatic resources. The Rhodesia Canning Company has a canning factory in the North Sea. The canned food produced is not only supplied to the southern African market, but also sold to Europe, and is also widely sold in the European market. Well received." Rock doesn't care about the profit of canned food, after all, the raw materials are provided by Nyasaland Aquatic Products Company, so everyone earns money.

Viscount Gladstone didn't speak, and his attention was mainly focused on the "Viscount".

In the past, this ship was called "Lord". After Rock was promoted to Viscount, the ship was renamed "Viscount".

The size of the "Viscount" is about the same as the Beihai Police's flagship "Beihai". According to British standards, it is close to the first class of destroyer. Four large-caliber heavy machine guns and four 40mm naval rapid-fire guns, this level of firepower is second to none in the North Sea, and only marine police ships equipped with artillery can pose a threat to the "Viscount".

"How many people are there near the North Sea?" This was Viscount Gladstone's first visit to the North Sea.

In the past, all Viscount Gladstone's impressions of the North Sea came from the internal information of the federal government. Although Viscount Gladstone also knew that the area of ​​the North Sea exceeded [-] square kilometers, only when he came to the North Sea could Viscount Gladstone truly realize that a How big is the [-]-square-kilometer lake?

It's no wonder Rock insists on using the name "Beihai".

"There are 5000 people. The largest city along the North Sea coast is Ulysses, with a permanent population of more than 20. The rest are distributed in more than 40 residential areas along the North Sea coast. Not all of them live on the aquatic products of the North Sea. Now [-] hectares of land along the coast have been developed into fertile land, and millions of people can be settled here in the future.” Rock is still very proud, that is, in the hands of the Chinese, Beihai can shine with true brilliance.

40 hectares is about 100 million acres, or 600 million acres, which sounds like a lot, but in fact, compared to the developable land around Beihai, it is about 5.00%, or a little more, [-]%.

(End of this chapter)