Admiral City is a key oil investment city in the south. Of course, it cannot be as simple as Neuquen City, and a very professional oil exploration team is already stationed here.
Saint Jose saw the office rented by Southern Petroleum, looked around and nodded. There were only a few people working on site and doing logistics in the office of a thousand or several hundred square meters.
"Well, this office area is pretty well decorated."
The weather in General Admiral is much cooler than that in Blanca.
The population is also relatively small, and there are very few two- and three-story buildings in the entire city. The most eye-catching one besides the city hall is the YPF office building.
Currently, there is no other oil company in Admiralty City except the state-owned oil company YPF. In the end, Standard Oil Company of California only existed as an importer. Bilong's negotiations failed.
Negotiations and compromises with American oil companies were one of the reasons for Bilon's resignation. This seems to be the reason for the resignation of Radical Party leader Frandisi.
This is also the cornerstone for Southern Petroleum to exist in Argentina. No matter how bad it is, it is Argentina's national company. In an era when nationalism is prevalent, San Jose has to take advantage of public opinion. This also has the support of a number of domestic military and political leaders. They will be in the South Petroleum receives a considerable amount of consulting fees every year.
In addition to some old faces from Thunder Mining, there are also many locally recruited exploration employees. As a state-owned company, YPF has also laid off employees, which has given Southern Petroleum some advantages.
Doing oil requires a lot of money, a lot of talent, and a lot of equipment. The difficulty of developing a decent oil industry is actually comparable to building warships and launching satellites.
Saint Jose has never been as dedicated as it is to the petrochemical industry. News from Rome is communicated once a day, and it seems that some negotiation results have been achieved with the Fiat family.
This was also the first time that he felt struggling. Even the ammonia fertilizer plant, the La Plata Steel Plant, the Uruguay iron ore project, the potassium triangle tobacco industry, and even the arms export in Nanyang were all going smoothly and smoothly, just because of the reasons behind the scenes. They all stand for the military, but the petrochemical industry is a little different.
And it is also accompanied by huge economic output. Southern Petroleum can win the oil mining rights in Neuquén and Chubut provinces. In addition to inheriting the mining rights of Thunder Mining, once the oil is actually dug out, it will cost a lot of money. Binding the two provinces and making some commitments for development and construction, as well as employment.
Saint Jose does not believe in so-called friendship, but believes that as long as there are enough benefits, these local officials can be won over.
This time, we were able to reach cooperation with Italy's ENI, and had the construction experience of the La Plata Steel Plant, as well as the well-trained steel plant engineering construction team, and some unemployed people from the Argentine National Petroleum Company, so San Jose dared to carry out the project. It is so big, at least Argentina currently has some oil industry foundation.
Sanjesé has recruited hundreds of technical personnel who lost their jobs from Argentina's state-owned oil company and added them to Blanca City, the headquarters of Southern Petroleum.
San Jose has moved forward with various plans to continue to expand the Western Industrial Zone, the industrial zone left by Mayor Otto.
The development is still very backward, and the scale is not enough to cope with such a huge investment.
There is a big difference between Blanca City and La Plata City. The steel industry in La Plata City can borrow talents from the capital Buenos Aires, but Blanca City is attracting talents. The conditions are naturally lacking. After all, Saint Hesse has only been in this city for one year.
To develop the chemical industry in Blanca City, the talents needed are beyond the capabilities of ordinary workers.
Dr. Truston is one of the leaders of Southern Petroleum and is also responsible for the most important oil exploration and cooperation projects in Admiralty City.
He is the most important exploration person in charge except Juan Nelson, President of Southern Petroleum. He once worked for the exploration team of Mobil Oil Company in the United States. He has 25 years of outdoor exploration experience and has worked in Venezuela, Colombia and Mexico for most of his time. He was named by Juan Digging it over.
The exploration team in Admiralty City is also the largest exploration team in Southern Petroleum, with a huge exploration team of more than 100 people.
Saint Jose and Dr. Traston shook hands and said nothing more.
"Boss, the current oil exploration environment in Argentina is very pessimistic. Our exploration team has discovered a total of 3 oil-producing wells with approximately 7 million tons of reserves."
"This is far from enough. I hope to discover more oil fields."
Although he had seen the exploration report on the train, Saint-Jesse still did not give up and hoped to explore a large oil field with more than 100 million tons.
Falcon Intelligence intelligence shows that state-owned oil companies have explored at least 30 million tons of oil reserves in Patagonia.
Of course, this does not fully explore Argentina's oil reserve potential.
Exploration costs money, and drilling wells is actually very expensive. Drilling an oil well in a rich oil and gas accumulation area currently costs an average of 15,000 US dollars, and equipment costs are not included. The investment allocated by Saint Jose to Admiralty City has exceeded 500,000 US dollars. , almost 19 oil wells were drilled, and only 3 produced oil. The Neuquen team was actually very lucky, and they drilled 4 wells and secured 1 oil well.
Chubut Province is indeed a province with great prospects for oil reserves, and the results of this exploration are actually relatively optimistic.
"Boss, I actually found a very large gathering area, but it is on the seaside. Our technology is not yet up to it. I have evaluated it with the geological expert Dr. Yuri and found that there is at least a large oil field of 200 million tons in the bay."
Traston thought for a moment before speaking.
"There is no need to consider offshore oil fields for the time being. Not only are exploration funds expensive, but the current construction costs are also too high. The main focus is to explore onshore oil fields."
Saint Jose shook his head again. Offshore oil fields are indeed good, but if he can't wait until that day, Southern Petroleum will probably go bankrupt.
"You must grasp the timing of exploration here and drill holes accurately."
He reluctantly moved the corner of his mouth: "Eat first, and talk while eating."
Admiralty City is not far from the Antarctic region. The seafood restaurants here have a lot of local specialty aquatic products, especially lobsters, sea crabs, sea cucumbers and other aquatic products.
Saint Jose saw several fishing boats on the pier. Not surprisingly, they were produced by Sanhai Shipbuilding.
The price of diesel and gasoline in General Admiral is one of the lowest in Argentina. There is a refinery with an annual output of 500,000 tons, supplying gasoline, diesel and other petroleum products to the southern region.
"Boss, we are currently only preparing to exploit land oil, right?"
St. Hesse was silent for a while: "Yes, that's true. Only land oil can meet the needs."
He picked up the crab claws and took a bite. It tasted very delicious. The salt-baked crab had an original taste.
Saint Jesé finally spent two days inspecting the oil mining area. It must be said that the quality of the oil here is very high, a level higher than that of Neuquén.
He finally decided to increase investment in oil exploration near Admiralty City, investing US$1.5 million to continue exploration and drilling wells.
Oil is the future of the 20th century, not only considering the automobile industry, but also other products are needed.
If Argentina can take advantage of the opportunity and become an oil exporter, it can also make a lot of money.
Of course, the most important thing is to develop the heavy and chemical industry to lay the foundation for future development.
Because some bad news is coming,
He had to end the inspection early. On June 22, 12 national universities in 8 cities in Argentina launched a strike, and the National University of the South was also affected to some extent.
The junior colleges, which are preparing to open in a few months, have also suffered some impacts.
This inspection was somewhat anticlimactic, but the overall situation was still good.
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Speaking of products such as petroleum diesel, Saint-Jesse couldn't help but think of one of the most failed investments currently, the Rennes tank factory.
For the Rennes Industrial Tank Factory, which has continued to invest but has not developed significantly, Saint-Jesse has finally made clear its next development goals in its mind, introducing a truck production line and retaining the second-generation main battle tank research and development project, but will fully shift to civilian industry development of.
Truck production lines are not easy to find, and car production lines are also very rare.
The automobile factory is a more difficult target, but since the motorcycle factory and the tractor factory have slowly become profitable, of course, Saint-Jesse is also confident in the truck project.
He took tanks for granted. How many tanks could the Argentine army eat? But trucks were different. Trucks were a civilian industry, and as Argentina's economy developed, a large number of trucks would be needed.
Through Sequoia, Saint-Jesse investigated several automobile manufacturers such as Ford in the United States, Volkswagen in Germany, Peugeot, Renault and Citroën in France, as well as the Leyland Automobile Factory in the United Kingdom, trying to acquire a complete automobile production line.
The British automobile industry is at its peak, and the negotiations are not going smoothly.
The four major American car companies, General Motors, Ford, Chrysler, and American Motors, have all been in contact, but there has not been much progress. For example, Ford still retains a production line in Argentina, but it is the Model T 20 years ago. The car production line has completely fallen behind.
The most impressive thing, and even the deepest negotiation, is the bankrupt automobile production lines in the United States, including the currently famous Studebaker Motor Company. There are currently only one or two thousand people left in the factory.
Studebaker faced fierce competition from Ford, General Motors and Chrysler. In fact, all three companies were engaged in a price war, and Studebaker was inadvertently affected.
Coupled with increasing labor and production costs, as well as some quality control issues, the once-mighty Studebaker Automobile Factory began to decline.
Argentina's automobile consumer market has not been stimulated at all.
Of course, in any era, there are many poor people, so the car market that San Jose considers starts with cheap cars. Mini cars such as vans and Beetles are his targets.
American large fuel-guzzling vehicles will slowly decline in the future oil crisis, and will be overtaken by Japan and Germany, not to mention the United Kingdom.
The economic situation in Europe, the United States and Japan in the past two years has not been very good. In addition to the economic crisis, it has been in the adjustment stage and is about to enter the second explosive development stage. This is also an opportunity for Argentina.
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