Start with a Cat and Mouse Game

Chapter 1280: fall back

The latest website: While the many worried desert tyrants who were involved in the Iran-Iraq war were dying of envy, they flew private jets one by one to London with the negotiating team.

Now Qatar began to worry again.

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

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

Although many countries and companies are short of oil, they are slowly starting to be unable to withstand the surge in oil prices, and can only turn to alternative energy sources and research new energy sources. However, it is basically impossible to use natural gas as a substitute in a few years.

Problems with plumbing, gas generators, heating equipment, etc. technology research also takes time.

Coupled with the lack of capacity, this has limited the increase in natural gas prices.

Although the cartels are 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 cartels, and some belong to Iran.

Maybe one day they will be beaten or swallowed, which is the main reason why they are willing to negotiate with the England Electricity and Gas Company.

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

In the future, in the event of disputes in offshore oil and gas fields, there is no need to feel that there is no security guarantee as before.

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

600 million buys 30 Grumman Apaches, 3 billion buys 24 Grumman F14s, and Boyin directly earns money from 24 F14 engines.

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

The remaining US$3.4 billion was directly deposited in Citi to ensure the life of the sheikh’s family in case they really want to leave Qatar.

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

But the two Iraqis have been fighting for more than a year, but they have no intention of ceasefire at all. The reality has forced the chief to find a way out and protect himself.

Just as the outside world was speculating about where Li Changheng got the money, the England Electricity and Gas Company took advantage of the suspension period to start the official plan to exchange one share for ten shares.

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

At this time, Li Changheng has no time to manage how shareholders and institutions see it, and he is busy receiving one after another local tyrants.

Nasser simply moved into the 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 they bought the house, they didn't have much money, and he and Anne only wanted it to be close to Kensington Palace.

In the future, the increase will not only be large, but it will also become the most expensive residential area in London and even the world.

And let Nasser live in, because the gifts he gave were roughly more than 10 million US dollars, and the reason why he was thick-skinned enough to stay.

After meeting Angela and Louis, Nasser sighed a little, "We've known each other for almost 10 years, and 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 and were later nationalized by Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.

Although the real action is a few years later, it has been more than three years since 1978, let alone oil fields, there is no sign of negotiation.

Even if Li Changheng had told Frank and Taylor in 1979, this would only be possible after the war between the two Iraqis began.

But the longer he waited, the more impatient and resentful he couldn't help waiting.

Because of this, Nasser has avoided him all these years.

Fortunately, it was agreed that Citi's agreement to deposit oil profits every year has remained unchanged even after the second oil crisis.

The relationship between the two has also eased from the point of almost tearing their faces to the point where they are waiting for each other to make concessions.

"Henry, you understand, even if my father and I wanted to, you wouldn't be able to get even 1% of the 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 people inside tomorrow.

When the oil price was only 2 US dollars, the local tyrants dared to forcibly nationalize it. At this time, the oil price fluctuated at 39 US dollars, let alone returning it, it was impossible to buy it with their own money.

And I really can't afford it myself.

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

But the value of a super oilfield that has been mined for more than 20 years without reducing the oil yield at all, and there is also an oil pipeline, is directly calculated by tens of billions or hundreds of billions.

Under no circumstances, Li Changheng could only retreat and say, "If you want to discuss cooperation with me, first return half of the natural gas ownership of the Getty Oilfield to me."

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

And because of cars, industry, warships and planes, oil has a political purpose in addition to money.

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

The reason is just like the people in the 1980s, who could not have imagined that in less than ten years, the United States would be the first to start the third industrial revolution due to the rapid development of information technology.

In addition to the opening of the two Iraq wars ~lightnovelpub.net~, besides Kuwait, the most worrying thing is Saudi Arabia, which has the largest oil reserves.

Nasser thought for a while before saying, "Give me a few days, but you have to do me a favor."

Li Changheng smiled, and he probably understood Nasser's thoughts.

Even though Sartre deposits tens of billions of dollars in cash with Citi every year, he thinks that they can buy American weapons at will.

But the reality is to gain the support of the people. The desert tyrants are basically implementing high welfare policies, which is equivalent to raising all the people in vain.

For 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, the cartel got a price of $36 million because of the matchmaking itself.

As for the F15, let alone Sartre, even the cartel never thought to buy it because Ilang was using it.