Chapter 223 Oil Crisis (7K chapter, please subscribe~)

  On the plane from Xiangjiang to New York, Cao Yunshang was sitting next to Chu Huan, with some worries between his brows.

   "Sister-in-law is still very sad."

Chu Huan sighed, and said: "There is no way. If I don't do this, people like Chu Duanjing will definitely make progress after the first time. Short-term pain is worse than long-term pain. Cut the mess with a sharp knife!"

  Cao Yunshang nodded slightly and said, "I understand the truth, but I'm still a little worried when I see my sister like that."

Chu Huan said: "Don't worry, with what I said, Chu Duanjing should not dare to look for my sister-in-law again, otherwise, Chu Duanjing would have to cheat me out of my little sister-in-law's money in the end! "

  Why did Chu Huan say those things to Chu Duanjing when they were in the cemetery? It was because Chu Huan understood how Chu Duanjing was. If she couldn't get money from her, she would definitely make decisions on her sister-in-law.

   With my sister's character, she will be deceived by Chu Duanjing within a few times.

   "If she really dares to go to my sister-in-law, what will you do? Will she really do it?" Cao Yunshang looked at Chu Huan curiously.

  Chu Huan chuckled, "Chu Tianxiao has already gone in, and if another Chu Duanjing goes in, do you think I will have any psychological burden?"

  Cao Yunshang shook his head and said: "With Chu Tianxiao's lesson, I think Chu Duanjing is really afraid to go to my sister-in-law."

  Chu Huan nodded and said: "Okay, don't talk about these unhappy things, and get a good night's sleep. You didn't sleep well last night because you were so noisy!"

  Cao Yunshang's expression turned red instantly, and his small fists fell on Chu Huan's shoulder like raindrops: "Who made the noise last night?"

   "It's you, I asked you to call me daddy, but you didn't call me daddy, it's not making noise, what is it?" Chu Huan said as a matter of course.

  Cao Yunshang's face turned red into a monkey's ass, and then bit Chu Huan's shoulder fiercely.

  New York International Airport!

  Chu Huan, Cao Yunshang, Lin Feng and others walked out of the airport and saw Kelly waiting for them in the lobby.

   "Dear Yunshang, Huan, congratulations on the two of you completing the engagement ceremony!"

   After seeing Chu Huan and Cao Yunshang, Kelly immediately greeted them, and then sent her "sincere" blessings!

  Cao Yunshang did not suspect him, and hugged Kelly with a smile.

   When Chu Huan and Kelly hugged, Chu Huan clearly felt the other party pinch her back hard.

   "The hotel has been prepared for the two of you, let's go to the hotel first."

  After the hug, Kelly preached to Chu Huan and the others.

  Chu Huan and the others naturally had no objections. They walked out of the airport lobby, got into the car Kelly had prepared and headed straight to the hotel!

   "Huan, when you came to New York last time, you didn't take a good look around this paradise on earth. This time you come with Yunshang, do you want to take a good look around?"

  In the car, Kelly asked Chu Huan with a smile.

  This is not heaven, it's just your own ATM machine. Who would wander around next to your own ATM machine if you have nothing to do?

  Chu Huan rejected Kelly's invitation.

   "Wow, Huan, you are too confused. How can you not have a good time in New York with Yunshang?" Kelly muttered loudly.

   There is no need for Chu Huan to answer this, Cao Yunshang smiled and said: "The paradise here is not our paradise, and we can't stay here for a few days. We will go back after finishing our business!"

  Kelly said enviously: "Yunshang, you are too indulging Huan, you will be manipulated by him in the future!"

  Chu Huan looked up at Kelly and said with a smile, "Maybe I should consider changing the manager!"

  Kelly laughed quickly and said, "Dear boss, I hope that from now on, you will be able to hold me tight!"

  Cao Yunshang didn't understand Kelly's code words, but felt that Kelly was very interesting, so she couldn't help chuckling.

   When they came to the hotel suite, Chu Huan said to Kelly: "Okay, bring me the materials I asked you to prepare, I need to take a good look!"

  Kelly was in her bag, and took out all the materials that Chu Huan called and asked her to prepare before coming.

  Although he knew exactly when the oil crisis would officially break out, he still had to do what he had to do, so Chu Huan took the information that Kelly handed over, sat aside, and looked at it seriously.

  The current world crude oil market is no longer the era when the Seven Sisters of Petroleum ruled the world. Uh, that’s not right, the name Seven Sisters of Petroleum should not have come out yet.

   This title will not be proposed by a British reporter until 1975.

  Since then, "Seven Sisters" has become synonymous with the Western oil industry, also known as the International Oil Cartel.

  These seven companies are Exxon Oil Company, Mobil Oil Company, Chevron Oil Company, Texaco Oil Company, Gulf Oil Company in North America, and Persian Petroleum Company (BP) and Shell in England!

   Among them, the predecessor of Exxon Petroleum Company was Standard Oil of New Jersey, the predecessor of Mobil was Standard Oil of New York, and Chevron was Standard Oil of California.

These three companies were originally subsidiaries of North American Standard Oil. In the 1980s and 1990s, North American oil production accounted for 70% to 80% of the world's total production, while Standard Oil controlled 30% of North American oil production, 80% More than 85% of crude oil pipeline transportation and more than 85% of oil refining and oil production and export.

   Such a monopoly position aroused the dissatisfaction of the North American government, and then in 1911 of this century, under the direct intervention of the then North American president, Standard Oil disintegrated.

  By the way, the founder of Standard Oil is called Rockefeller!

But even after the disintegration of Standard Oil, in the remaining time, the Seven Sisters obviously became a community of interests. By the 1950s, the seven major oil companies had already woven an intricate network of relationships and formed a "marriage" The kinship network of the parent company has formed a community of interests in which there is me in you, and you in me, where everyone prospers, everyone loses, and co-exist and co-prosper, a real cartel.

   Cartels, also known as monopoly interest groups!

  At that time, the seven sisters jointly developed oil in the Middle East and made a lot of money, which was even enough to influence the local political arena.

   But where there is oppression, there is resistance!

   In 1960, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, namely (OPEC), was established. At that time, the member countries of this organization were only Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Kuwait, and Venezuela!

  See, do these countries often appear in your sight because of wars?

At the Caracas meeting in 1970, the number of OPEC members had increased to 13. At that time, for the first time, OPEC members were so closely united, supported each other, and fought against foreign oil companies headed by the "Seven Sisters", demanding that the price of crude oil reflect the exchange rate Changes, higher tax rates, and increased profit sharing.

In order to fight against OPEC, the Seven Sisters organized 23 foreign companies in the Middle East into a "United Front" to jointly fight against OPEC members. International companies formed a group to negotiate with OPEC, and each company did not negotiate with the governments of oil-producing countries alone. .

  If any company is cut or even shut down by an oil-producing country, other companies will provide it with crude oil.

   But this strategy completely failed as the OPEC Caracas meeting popularized the Libyan experience.

  The Gulf oil-producing countries first forced international companies to sign the Tehran agreement, and Libya and other Mediterranean crude oil exporters forced the companies to accept the Tripoli agreement.

  In the end, the price of crude oil was increased, and the tax rate was increased. The controlling position of the "Seven Sisters" in various oil-producing countries was shaken, and their privilege of controlling oil prices was also deprived.

   It can be said that this period is the era when the Seven Sisters confronted OPEC.

   It is precisely because of the confrontation between the two sides that the price of crude oil has risen from the previous US$1.5 to US$1.8 to US$3.011 per barrel!

  Because the major oil-producing countries in the Middle East have not yet entered the era of complete nationalization, the price of oil is still stable at $3.011 per barrel.

   If Chu Huan wants to profit from this oil crisis, there is one most important issue now, that is, there is no crude oil futures in the futures market at this time

   This is a bit embarrassing. Chu Huan has a huge amount of money, but the futures market has no trading options for crude oil. So how can Chu Huan profit from this crisis?

  Before coming to New York, Chu Huan already knew this, so naturally he already had a way to deal with it, which is why Chu Huan chose to come to New York 7 months in advance.

  If you can’t operate the futures market, you can only operate the spot market!

   Moreover, the spot trading market at this time is quite different from the spot trading market in later generations. A computer in later generations is enough for people to complete online spot transactions more quickly.

  But there is no computer network now, so it is impossible to be so short in time.

In addition, the current oil spot trading market is more of a means for major oil companies to adjust the surplus and exchange oil products with each other. The oil spot trading volume only accounts for less than 5% of the world's total oil trade, and the spot price only reflects the long-term contract overproduction sales price.

   Therefore, the oil spot market at this stage is called the "residual market".

  So, if Chu Huan wants to profit from the oil crisis at this time, he can only cooperate and negotiate with the five major oil companies in North America!

  Then Chu Huan, the chairman of Jiahu Textile is not enough at this time.

   "How's the connection with the Big Five?"

   After reading the report, Chu Huan asked Kelly who was chatting with Cao Yunshang.

  Kelly replied immediately: "The five major companies have already responded, but they are not very positive about the cooperation intention!"

  Chu Huan's identity is not enough, so he can only operate this matter in the name of Wanbang Shipping.

It is understandable that the other party is not active. Although Chu Huan prepared 112 million Hong Kong dollars for this transaction, in fact, based on the current exchange rate between Hong Kong dollars and U.S. dollars, if converted into U.S. dollars, it is only 19.9 million U.S. dollars. The cooperation with the five major oil companies in China is only 3.98 million US dollars each!

   "It doesn't matter if you are not active, as long as you can cooperate in the end!"

  Chu Huan didn't care about the other party's attitude, he only cared about whether the transaction could be successful or not.

  Kelly said: "I have already made an appointment with the heads of their major companies, Huan, you can continue to negotiate with them, I believe this transaction will definitely be successful!"

After finishing speaking, Kelly said with a little worry: "Is it really so troublesome? Now the international oil price is very stable. Even with the establishment of OPEC, they want to fight against the seven major oil companies and do not It's not that easy!"

  Kelly's thoughts are actually the thoughts of most North Americans. They always believe in the strength of their country and their control over oil, especially now that the relationship between the dollar and oil is gradually being established.

   No one will believe that someone dares to challenge them at this time.

  This is why there is no oil in the futures market!

  Chu Huan traveled thousands of miles to North America, and even made spot transactions in a tortuous way. In the end, the price of oil did not change, so Chu Huan's behavior this time may not only not benefit, but also cause losses.

   Facing Kelly's questioning, Chu Huan did not explain because it was unnecessary.

   "Help me arrange a meeting with their manager!"

  The so-called person in charge, of course, cannot be the person in charge of their company, but the person in charge of this transaction!

   Seeing that Chu Huan had made up his mind, Kelly could only nod helplessly in agreement.

   "Okay, I'll call them now and agree on a time and place for the discussion!"

  Chu Huan nodded in satisfaction.

This time when he came to North America, although Chu Huan was accompanied by Cao Yunshang and protected by Lin Feng and others, Chu Huan still had no idea to hang out in New York. Protection, it is inevitable that some things will not happen.

  Chu Huan came here to make money, not to make himself uncomfortable.

   Maybe when Chu Huan comes to North America next time, he might take a good look around, but at that time, Chu Huan did not come to New York, but to Los Angeles!

Judging from the responses of the major oil companies, it can be seen that they are not enthusiastic about this deal. Kelly has already negotiated with them for a round in advance, but now that Chu Huan has come to New York, when Kelly meets with them again At that time, Texaco Petroleum, who first agreed to meet Chu Huan, was also on the third day after Chu Huan arrived in New York!

  Texaco Petroleum was in charge of negotiating with Chu Huan was a middle-aged white man named Clark, thirty-five or sixteen years old.

   "Mr. Clark hello!"

   Facing Chu Huan's initiative to say hello, Clark just sat there and nodded briefly.

   Seeing such a situation, Chu Huan simply smiled and sat down.

   "I didn't expect that Wanbang Shipping would send such a young person to trade with our great Texaco oil. It seems that you don't care much about this transaction!"

  Clark saw that Chu Huan took the initiative to sit down, and he was dissatisfied when he preached.

  Facing the contempt of the other party, Chu Huan was unmoved, and still asked with a faint smile: "I don't know what kind of position Mr. Clark holds in Texaco Petroleum?"

   "The third manager of the sales department!"

  Clark preached proudly.

   That is, a salesman.

Chu Huan's complexion suddenly changed: "It's just a mere branch manager, you dare to pretend to be a big-tailed wolf here, I am negotiating with Texaco this time for a business of four million dollars, four million dollars For Texaco, it may not be a big deal, but for a branch manager like you, it is a big deal, how dare you speak arrogantly in front of me now?"

   Facing Chu Huan's sudden reprimand, Clark was obviously a little stunned. He didn't expect that Chu Huan would dare to treat him like this.

  Thinking of this, Clark became angry.

"If you get up, I will immediately contact the managers of other sales departments of Texaco. I don't believe that all the sales managers of Texaco will be as ignorant of the four million dollar business as you! "

  Chu Huan sat there, but looked at Clark with a condescending look.

   But even though Chu Huan’s face turned livid, he still didn’t get up and leave. As Chu Huan said, Texaco may not care about the $4 million business, but Clark can’t.

  The generous business share made it impossible for him to ignore this deal.

  The haughty attitude just now is nothing more than looking down on Chu Huan's age and wanting to take the lead in the next negotiation.

   "Haha, hello, Mr. Chu Huan, I am Clark from the third sales department of Texaco Petroleum Company. Nice to meet you!"

  After being silent for a while, Clark suddenly laughed loudly, as if the unhappiness just now had never happened.

   Cheap, is cheap!

  Looking at Clark's performance, Chu Huan directly labeled him, and then smiled, as if the unhappiness just now had never happened.

   "Chu Huan, nice to meet Mr. Clark!"

  Subsequently, the negotiations between the two parties entered a see-saw time.

  Although the international oil price is now transparent, there are still too many things that can be negotiated, such as delivery time, freight, and payment methods, etc. A series of things.

   "Four million dollars"

  Chu Huan interrupted Clark and said, "It's $3.98 million!"

  Clark was already overwhelmed by Chu Huan's momentum at this time, so he could only correct it: "US$3.84 million, according to the current international price, is a total of 180,000 tons of oil. Our company needs a certain amount of time to arrange these oils!"

Chu Huan shook his head and said: "Mr. Clark, you are wrong. Our company can buy 3.98 million US dollars of oil from your company at one time. I believe this is not a small order for Texaco Petroleum Company. I know that you are not the only oil company in North America, if you can't give our company some preferential treatment, I'm sorry, I still need to think about this deal!"

Clark raised his eyebrows slightly, and then said with a smile: "Mr. Chu, the price of oil is transparent, and it is different from other commodities. In terms of price, it is already cheap enough, and the current international oil market is also different from previous years. Different!"

  Chu Huan chuckled and said, "So, Mr. Clark can't make the decision on this matter?"

  Clark took a deep breath and said, "Naturally, we can make the decision. It's just that Mr. Chu proposed a discount on the price. This is an impossible thing."

  There is nothing impossible in this world, and Chu Huan also understands that this is just an excuse for the other party.

   Then the two sides entered into a state of tension again on whether to offer a discount.

  After an hour and a half of negotiations, Clark could only say that he needed to return to the company to have a meeting with his colleagues to discuss this matter.

  Chu Huan naturally did not continue to oppress Clark.

  In the end, after the negotiation that almost tore their faces, the two sides ended the negotiation with smiles on their faces.

  In the next few days, Chu Huanyou met with the heads of Exxon Oil, Mobil Oil, Chevron Oil, and Gulf Oil respectively, and negotiated.

This process is actually not much different from the meeting with Clark. Some company leaders are modest and cautious, and some company leaders are arrogant and proud, but it is all because their person in charge of this negotiation is at the same level as Clark. This order from Chu Huan is needed.

  Unknowingly, Chu Huan took the initiative in the negotiation.

   After meeting with the heads of these five companies, it was already a week later.

   "How about it, do you think they will give you a cheaper price?"

  Cao Yunshang stood behind Chu Huan, gently pressing Chu Huan's head.

  Although Chu Huan took the initiative to a certain extent during the negotiation process, this does not mean that the whole negotiation process was easy for Chu Huan, on the contrary, it was a very laborious process.

"It should be cheaper, but don't expect it to be much cheaper. The advantage we have now is that this amount of orders has not yet reached the point where their headquarters is responsible, and Clark and the others urgently need this amount of orders to increase their reputation. The prestige of the company, so they will be very proactive in helping us get the best price from their company.”

  The reason why Chu Huan chose to cooperate with the five major oil companies in North America at the same time, instead of signing a single contract of 19.9 million US dollars with one oil company, actually has many considerations.

Although the $19.9 million order will attract the attention of the oil company headquarters, Chu Huan will be facing the management of these oil companies at that time, and trading with them will mean that his opponents will become more powerful, which is not conducive to Take the initiative in negotiations.

In addition, a shipping company suddenly reserves nearly 20 million US dollars of oil, which will also attract the attention of these oil companies. Chu Huan is still small at this time, and does not want to have too many intersections with these companies at this time. This is not conducive to Chu Huan's future business plan.

   At the same time, there is also a plan to avoid risks. After all, it does not mean that they are a big company, so they will not play hooligans. After all, in this regard, North America has a tradition of hooliganism from top to bottom.

  Chu Huan neither wants to get this batch of oil too early, nor does he want to get this batch of oil too late. The best time to get this batch of oil is at the end of August or early September!

   "By the way, have you found the warehouse you were looking for?"

In order to protect his rights and interests, Chu Huan will not be threatened by the other party's identity and status during the transaction. Therefore, Chu Huan must keep this batch of oil in his hands. He would rather find a warehouse in North America to store it for a period of time. You must also never simply sign a sales contract with the other party and wait for the price of oil to rise!

  Finally, rely on another contract to trade with the other party!

   It can be seen that Chu Huan is still very careful.

  Cao Yunshang nodded and said: "We have already contacted, the other party has been doing business with Wanbang Shipping, and has agreed to our lease terms!"

  Wanbang Shipping has freighters coming to North America every month. With the help of Wanbang Shipping in this regard, Chu Huan is still very relieved!

   This is another reason why Chu Huan brought Cao Yunshang to North America.

For Chu Huan's behavior of hoarding oil, Cao Wenjin did not show too much surprise. In his opinion, Chu Huan actually wanted to obtain certain benefits through quantity this time. Now oil is the hard currency of the world. .

  Combined with Chu Huan's previous series of operations in Xiangjiang, Cao Wenjin had 100% trust in Chu Huan's business behavior.

  Of course, this kind of trust is relative. If there are some deviations in Chu Huan's business behavior in the future, Cao Wenjin's trust will also be discounted.

   "That's good, with a warehouse, you don't have to worry about the storage of these oils!"

  Chu Huan breathed a sigh of relief, finally something went very smoothly.

   Just after Chu Huan and Cao Yunshang discussed the success of the future transaction, when the oil storage situation, Clark and other major oil companies were also reporting the transaction with Chu Huan to their superiors.

  As Chu Huan expected, the amount of the transaction he chose was not too high or low, which could attract the attention of the oil company, but would not make them pay too much attention.

   "Hehe, people in the East are said to be cautious. This time I felt it firsthand. The establishment of OPEC made them worry about fluctuations in the price of oil, but they never thought about it. How could we allow such a thing to happen?"

   Clark's superior smiled speechlessly after receiving Clark's report.

As I said just now, the Seven Sisters are still in the global oil market and have the absolute right to speak. Although OPEC was established, the arrogant Seven Sisters did not take it seriously, even if there were some minor problems in the middle , In their view, it also appeared within the scope of their permission.

  So the deal Chu Huan proposed this time seemed to them nothing more than an act of unfounded worry.

   "Then what offer did they propose?"

   Clark asked tentatively.

  Although he hated Chu Huan who was negotiating with him, he still very much hoped that this deal could be completed.

"Just do as he said, 50% off, this is the biggest discount the company can give him, and the delivery time, he said July, and the delivery was extended to mid-August, he can't say anything That's what it is!"

  Clark's superior sermon.

  After getting this answer, Clark immediately smiled and said, "Understood, I will discuss this matter with the other party immediately!"

"Ok!"

  The internal discussions of the remaining four oil companies are similar to Texaco, and the reply time is also almost the same.

   After getting all the replies from the companies, another week passed.

Chu Huan finally breathed a sigh of relief. As for the remaining details, Kelly needs to stay here to continue negotiating with the other party, and Chu Huan can also return to Xiangjiang with Cao Yunshang, and come to North America again when the official contract is signed. up!

   But at that time, Cao Wenjin will come with Chu Huan!

   Not today, the next chapter will be at twelve o’clock tomorrow morning~Thank you everyone~

  

  

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