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"Please come on deck." Sioux City didn't shy away from someone seeing the state of the offshore drilling platform.

Representatives of the two companies disembarked after looking around.

Needless to say, the Japanese Inpex Company participated in the bidding in Azerbaijan, and participated in the competition for the No. 6 oil block. Although they failed in the end, they still participated in and obtained part of the shares of the other two oil fields.

Sumitomo Corporation is even more powerful. It is an old-fashioned financial consortium with total assets of 3000 billion U.S. dollars and an annual profit of more than 30 billion U.S. dollars. Dahua Industrial Co., Ltd. is unattainable.Slightly different from other Japanese or American consortiums, Sumitomo Corporation is a company deeply involved in financial products such as futures trading. The famous "Mr. 5%" is a copper futures trader of Sumitomo Corporation in the City of London.

This is a large financial company with the ability to make a profit of 5 million US dollars, and even more capable of losing 50 billion US dollars. It is probably correct to regard it as a collection of banks, insurance companies and securities companies.

In a typical Japanese image, Shigeru Nishioka bent over to the deck of the drilling platform, greeted with uninterrupted bows, and slyly looked at the workers around him with small but flexible eyes.

Hidetomo Hirano of Sumitomo Corporation seems to have a higher degree of Westernization. After a quick and light bow, he introduced himself in fluent English: "I am Hidetomo Hirano who just arrived in Azerbaijan. Because I often participate in the financing of oil companies, I have a good understanding of the crude oil market. I knew a little bit about it, so I was sent to Baku. Well, traders are saying that the future direction of the crude oil market will be decided by the chairman of Sioux City.”

Although he knew it was a compliment, Sioux City was still "Long Yan Joy", and said with a smile: "Even the Pan-Asia Fund has no strength to determine the direction of the crude oil market, let alone Dahua Industrial, which has a small share. I personally think that crude oil The direction of the market will ultimately be determined by the market.”

"Futures do have an extraordinary charm." Hidetomo Hirano obviously understood the market mentioned by Sioux City as a financial market.Like most consortiums of this type, in the eyes of members of Sumitomo Corporation, manufacturing and resource extraction industries are second-class affiliated companies, and their superior eyes will always be concentrated in the pure financial field.

Su Cheng didn't explain, and nodded slightly: "You can visit as you like, as long as you don't interfere with other people's work."

Seeing that he was about to leave, Shigeru Nishioka quickly stopped him and said, "Su Dong, how is the situation in the oil field?"

"It's the current situation, Yang Ming will introduce it to you in detail." Su Cheng didn't mean to entertain him seriously.

Hirano Hidetomo saw it, he laughed twice, and before Su Cheng left, he said, "Chairman Su Cheng, is Pan Asia Fund looking for financial support now?"

"Do you want to take out a loan?" Su Cheng gave him a strange look.

"No, it's not a loan, it's a capital injection." Hidetomo Hirano shook his head and said, "We are very optimistic about the professionalism of Pan Asia Fund. The fund company formed by oil companies must have a very detailed understanding of the crude oil market... However, you probably still lack one A professional financial company, I mean to participate in the core decision-making, should have the participation of a financial company, so that it is easy to gain in the financial market... Therefore, Sumitomo Corporation hopes to invest in the Pan-Asia Fund, which is a good thing for mutual benefit. "

"You don't know the constituent companies of the Pan-Asia Fund, do you?" Except for Dahua Industrial and Kangle, which made an unexpected appearance, other companies are still more willing to hide in the shadow of offshore funds.

"I learned some peripheral information."

"Ah."

Hidetomo Hirano smiled and said: "You may need some time to discuss, but what I want to explain is that Sumitomo Trading Co., Ltd. is very sincere. Once it enters into specific negotiations, the President will personally preside over the matter."

With the Japanese company's strict hierarchical system, the merger or purchase of shares by the president is the most important business operation of the trading company. Hidetomo Hirano believes that a businessman like Su Cheng will be able to understand the meaning of it.

Shigeru Nishioka coughed twice, and said: "Sumitomo Trading Co., Ltd. owns part of the shares of the company. If Sumitomo Trading Co., Ltd. joins the Pan Asia Fund, we can also have further cooperation."

"I see." Su Cheng's expression was indifferent.

Hidetomo Hirano is the backbone of Sumitomo Corporation, and has participated in many similar financial activities. He immediately asked: "Can we set a time for the discussion? Sumitomo Corporation is willing to conduct the first round of discussions in China or Japan."

"no need."

"It's just a negotiation. Sumitomo Corporation has abundant funds and is familiar with the crude oil market. Joining the Pan-Asia Fund can increase everyone's profits."

"Unless you want to do more business." Su Cheng simply interrupted Hidetomo Hirano.

Hidetomo Hirano rubbed his eyebrows, then adjusted the tie on his shirt, and said slowly: "This is not the time for the trading company to invest in the Pan Asia Fund. We can cooperate in various aspects. Regarding the rise and fall of crude oil prices, everyone can sit down and discuss further. Discussion, Dahua Industrial has not discovered a super oil field, right? The world market has no new news to change the relationship between supply and demand..."

"Although I can explain your question, if Sumitomo Corporation doesn't join the Pan-Asia Fund, we can all save some trouble." Su Cheng issued an order to evict the customer.

Hirano Hidetomo was silent for a moment, and said, "Can we walk around casually?"

After obtaining Su Cheng's consent again, Hidetomo Hirano and Shigeru Nishioka went below the deck.

Shigeru Nishioka observed the employees of Dahua, and said softly: "It is impossible for the No. 6 oil block to have a super oil field, he is bluffing."

"Inpex also evaluated the No. 6 oil block that day? What's the conclusion?"

"Valuable oil reservoirs are worth exploiting, with reserves of tens of millions of barrels, or maybe hundreds of millions of barrels." Shigeru Nishioka said unhappily: "Later, Dahua Industrial adopted a model with high signing fees, and we failed to Winning the bid."

"Now? How do you judge?" Hirano Hidetomo said not very politely.

"It's not just a few hundred million barrels, but it won't be a super oil field." Shigeru Nishioka snorted, thought for a while, and said, "Suecheng is doing so big now...it will definitely lose money."

Hidetomo Hirano glanced at him with a half-smile. From the current point of view, Dahua Industrial's high signing bonus strategy will earn them hundreds of millions of dollars in greenbacks. Shigeru Nishioka's decision at the time was obviously wrong.

However, Hidetomo Hirano didn't need to continue laughing at him. Instead, he nodded and said, "Dahua Industrial's investment in Azerbaijan exceeds what is necessary, and it is possible to lose money."

The two Japanese went around on the offshore drilling platform and returned to Baku.Here are representatives of the oil companies and their clubs. The former Soviet Union in 1994 was like China in the late Qing Dynasty. In every country that can be counted, there are always people who want to take advantage of it.

Hirano Hidetomo and Nishioka Shigeru, like their predecessors, exchanged information in the Baku area, or sought out more information.The actions of the Pan Asia Fund are headlines in the oil and financial circles, and there are many people who observe them, oil companies, financial companies, media companies, government agencies...

Li Shirong and his security department were more nervous than ever. While allowing the drilling platform to visit, they blocked a certain drilling platform for three days, not only blocking access, but also blocking news, or for a day or two, or a week or two. .

At the beginning, some journalists were indeed skeptical and excited about this, but the subsequent loosening of control made them disappointed again. After going back and forth, fewer people stared at the drilling platform to block the news.

Some reporters guessed the reason, but there was nothing they could do. In the mid-90s, there were still many professional oil journalists who had seen countless intrigues in oil transactions, but this open approach was the most difficult to obtain information.

The only thing Li Shirong was worried about was that when someone boarded a certain drilling platform, oil would come out just in time.

Fortunately or unfortunately, such a thing did not happen.

Because the second round of drilling turned up nothing.

This is not surprising in oil exploration. In the case of crude oil gushing, oil companies are very optimistic about this, and dry wells will appear at any time.

It takes a lot of time to change the jack-up drilling platform. Dahua drilling platform, which has doubled its manpower, finally chose a new location after many twists and turns.

The good thing is that after half a year of analysis, the accuracy of the drilling location and depth given by Qin Shiwei and others is getting higher and higher.

On June 6, the Pan Asia Fund decided to hold a plenary meeting a week later.

The Pan Asia Fund began to communicate more and more frequently.

June 6rd.

Li Shirong once again announced the closure of drilling platform 505.

... (To be continued.)