Start with a Cat and Mouse Game

Chapter 1280: Best second best

Many desert tyrants who were worried because of the Iran-Iraq war were envious to death, and at the same time, one after another, private jets flew directly to London with the negotiating team.

Now Qatar began to worry again.

Compared with oil, it has skyrocketed from around US$14 in 1979 to US$39 in 1980.

The price of natural gas has risen a lot because of the oil crisis, but relatively speaking, the increase is only about 15%.

Although many countries and companies are short of oil, and gradually cannot bear the soaring oil price, they can only turn to alternative energy and research new energy, but it is basically impossible to use natural gas as a substitute in a few years.

Research on plumbing issues, gas generators, heating equipment, and other technologies also takes time.

Coupled with insufficient capacity, this limits the increase in natural gas prices.

Although the Cartel is much safer than Kuwait, which is next to Iran, their territory is too small, and some of the offshore oil and gas fields belong to the Cartel, and some belong to Iran.

Maybe one day they will be beaten or swallowed, and this is also the main reason why they are willing to negotiate with England's electricity and gas companies.

In addition, this contract has nothing to do with oil, which means that the biggest interest is still in his own hands. To get the support of Li Changheng is to get the support of the United States and England.

In the future, when there are disputes in offshore oil and gas fields, there is no need to feel that there is no security at all.

Of the US$9 billion contract, US$2 billion was used to purchase 32 F16s with a unit price of US$36 million.

600 million will buy 30 Grumman Apaches, 3 billion will buy 24 Grumman F14s, and Boyin will directly earn money for the engines of 24 F14s.

Of course, 40% of the US$5.6 billion contract is used to buy supporting weapons, maintenance equipment, training courses and after-sales services.

The remaining 3.4 billion U.S. dollars was directly deposited in Citigroup to ensure the life of the sheikh's family in case they really wanted to leave Qatar.

That is to say, the chief didn't actually get half of the money. He exchanged half of the natural gas shares for 62 fighter jets, armed helicopters and weapons.

But Iran and Iraq have been fighting for more than a year, but there is no intention of ceasefire. The reality has forced the chief to find a way out and protect himself.

While the outside world was speculating about where Li Changheng got the money from, England Electricity and Gas Company took advantage of the suspension period to officially start the previously planned plan of exchanging ten shares for one share.

Now there are more worried and confused people, and it is inevitable that there will be a bearish momentum of the two companies in the market.

Li Changheng doesn't have the time to care about the views of shareholders and institutions at this time, and he is busy receiving one after another local tyrants.

Nasser even simply lived in a villa on Garden Street.

Li Changheng directly drove his entourage and other members of the negotiating team out of the house, otherwise he would not be able to live at all.

When buying this house back then, one reason was that there was not much money, and the other reason was that he and Annie only thought it was close to Kensington Palace.

Not only will the increase in the future be huge, but it will also become the most expensive living area in London, and even the world. I never thought that one day I would not be able to live in it.

Moreover, Nasser was allowed to live in because the gift he gave probably exceeded 10 million US dollars, and the reason why he was thick-skinned enough to stay.

After meeting Angela and Luis, Nasser sighed, "We have known each other for almost 10 years, time flies so fast."

Li Changheng pouted, "I want to know when the oil field that belongs to me will be returned to me."

Since 1974, he has been eyeing the oil fields that belonged to the Getty family before and were later nationalized by Shater and Kuwait.

Although the real action was a few years later, more than three years have passed since 1978, and there is no sign of negotiations, let alone oil fields.

Even though Lee Jang Hyung had told Frank and Taylor in 1979, this matter would not be possible until after the Iran-Iraq war started.

But the longer he waited, the impatience and resentment in his heart.

Because of this, Nasser has been avoiding him all these years.

Fortunately, the agreement to store the oil revenue in Citigroup every year as agreed in the past has not changed even after the outbreak of the second oil crisis.

The relationship between the two has also eased from the point where they were almost torn apart, to the point where they are both waiting for the other to make concessions.

"Henry, you understand that even if my father and I are willing, it is impossible for you to get even 1% of the shares in that oil field, otherwise,,."

Of course, Li Changheng understood the hidden meaning of these words. If he really agreed, Nasser and his son might be overthrown by internal people tomorrow.

Back then when the oil price was only US$2, local tyrants dared to forcibly nationalize it. At this time, the oil price was fluctuating at US$39. Let alone returning it, it was impossible to buy it with their own money.

And I really can't afford it.

When oil is still underground and has not been discovered, when you only buy land, prospecting, and mining rights, the price is hundreds or tens of thousands of times cheaper than gambling on stones.

However, the value of a super oil field that has been exploited for more than 20 years without any reduction in oil production rate and has an oil pipeline can be directly calculated in tens of billions or hundreds of billions.

Unable to do so, Li Changheng could only settle for the next best thing and said, "If you want to discuss cooperation with me, first return half of the natural gas ownership in the Getty Oilfield to me."

This time, Nasser did not refuse outright. Compared with oil, which is much easier to transport, the utilization of natural gas did not seem so important and profitable in the age when the technology was immature.

And because of automobiles, industry, warships and aircraft, oil has political purposes besides money.

But natural gas is used more in this era, and it is still used in the stage of cooking and cooking, and even if it is used for heating, the price of coal can lower the price of natural gas.

Nasser and many experts and companies can certainly see that the use of natural gas will increase in the future, but the limitations of the times will make people unable to determine how long it will take, and then subconsciously ignore it.

The reason is the same as people in the 1980s. They never imagined that in less than ten years, the United States would take the lead in starting the third industrial revolution due to the rapid development of information technology.

In addition to the opening of the Iran-Iraq war, UU Reading www.uukanshu.com is most worried about Kuwait, which is Sat, which has the largest oil reserves.

Nasser thought for a while, and then said, "Give me a few days, but you have to do me a favor."

Li Changheng chuckled, probably understanding Nasser's thoughts in his heart.

Don't look at the tens of billions of dollars that Sutter deposits in Citigroup every year, you think they can buy weapons from the United States at will.

But the reality is that in order to gain the support of the people, the rich countries in the desert are basically implementing high welfare policies, which is equivalent to supporting all the people for nothing.

And an upgraded version of the F14, the export price is still 70 million US dollars, because the F16 is a single-engine fighter, the price is still more than 40 million US dollars.

This time, Cartel only got the price of 36 million U.S. dollars because of the matchmaking by himself.

As for the F15, not to mention Shater, even Cartel has never thought of buying it because Iran is using it.