Age of Dreams

In April of this year, when the Yushu Earthquake broke out, there was actually one more eye-catching thing in the world.

That is the famous Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

On April 20, a violent explosion occurred in a marine bomb in Louisiana in the southern United States.

Since April 22, there have been reports showing that there has been an oil spill in this area.

There was no alarm at that time, but by the beginning of May, the oil spill incident continued to expand, and the number and speed of oil spills reached new heights, and they continued to increase rapidly.

Looking down from the sky, the entire large area is covered with black oil pollution belts, which is shocking.

This offshore oil company and the nearby mining areas belong to the British Petroleum Company.

You may not be familiar with British Petroleum Corporation, but when you talk about their abbreviation - BP, and their most famous sun flower logo, everyone will suddenly understand.

The world's largest oil company is also the largest group company in Europe. Its stock value has reached 150 billion U.S. dollars. Its position in the oil field is very high. It often beats American oil companies to their heads. The British breathed a sigh of relief.

Their business is all over the world, and they have huge cooperation interests even within the scope of Huaguo. Even the Japanese can only lose out in this field of Huaguo.

Although they are not as intimidating as the current Internet companies that can easily reach 100 to 200 billion, but in terms of actual social influence, these Internet companies together cannot compare with BP, and even Xiao Qi's Fairy Company may not be able to Row.

This is the same as a country's industry and technology industry. You see that it is not so valuable and not so profitable, but it is the most important foundation of a country, and it cannot be done without it.

These values ​​cannot be measured by money at all.

BP is relying on its own influence to lay out in the global oil industry and oil derivative industries. Continuously integrate into the industrial production of each country to obtain such benefits.

The company's interests extended through its subsidiaries and holding companies are as high as tens of billions of dollars, and its influence exceeds 100 billion dollars. The value of this part. But not many people can calculate clearly.

But this time they still fell.

The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in the United States was beyond everyone's expectations. By mid-May, not only did they fail to control the speed and quantity of the oil spill, but it soared again. As a result, the coastlines of the five states of Louisiana, Florida, Mississippi, Texas, and Alabama in the southern United States have been severely affected.

Now the problem is really getting bigger, and the entire United States has started a crusade against BP oil.

In fact, there are many oil spills in offshore oil drilling and production, but they are in other countries, not in the United States. Oil spills on our Uncle Sam's side are just not allowed!

Obama in the United States personally called the British Prime Minister to put pressure on the British Prime Minister, and members of the US Congress even threatened to kill BP.

So until July 15th. BP Petroleum announced that the new oil control device has completely blocked the site of the oil spill, and no drop of crude oil has flowed into the Gulf of Mexico.

The first stage of the matter is over like this, and the rest is how to compensate the Americans. According to the temper of the Americans, this time BP oil will peel off its skin if it is not dead.

If it was BP before April, it would not be a big problem if they could afford such compensation.

But in just three months, BP's market value has plummeted by more than 70%, leaving only a market value of about US$40 billion.

It is estimated that the Americans will demand at least US$5-10 billion in compensation from the lion's mouth, so BP will have to sell a lot of company equity. Under other people's looting, BP may not be able to recover in 20 or 30 years.

The most hateful thing is the Yankees.

Originally, for such an oil spill, the US law stipulated that the maximum compensation was 75 million U.S. dollars, but it was on July 16. The day after BP Petroleum announced to plug the oil spill, the U.S. Senate held a meeting and voted to pass a specific bill, announcing the abolition of BP Petroleum’s compensation this time, until there is no limit.

Great, right?

Americans who kept putting pressure on Huaguo and asked Huaguo to act in accordance with the law. But can easily pass specific bills to change the law!

Such shamelessness, Huaguo should learn more about foreign trade and economic sanctions!

The British can't do anything about the shamelessness of the Americans. They can only swallow their anger and prepare to negotiate with the Americans slowly.

On the one hand, it can reduce a little loss, and on the other hand, it can also delay more time, so that BP can recover more vitality, so that it can have money to compensate.

However, because of the expectation of huge compensation, how do you let the stock price of BP Petroleum rise?

In desperation, BP Petroleum looked for helpers all over the world to see if anyone could help raise the stock price and give them a hand.

Now the bad results accumulated by the shit-stirring stick in the UK are reflected.

Dutch Shell, France's Total, these well-known European oil companies simply ignored their share swap agreement.

The American oil companies would love to, but they offered such a super low price that all the British wanted to beat them, so the business still couldn't be negotiated.

The same is true for Japan and South Korea. Not only did they offer low prices, but they also wanted to intervene in oil exploration and exploitation in Africa and the North Sea of ​​the United Kingdom. This was directly rejected by the British. If the oil interests in these areas are also sold, then BP will have to break at least one arm, which is not worth it at all.

The oil giants on the Chinese side are a little softer. They want to buy the oil interests of the British BP company in South America and the Australian waters. For the British, although it does not mean breaking an arm, it is also breaking. several fingers.

After bumping into walls everywhere, the brokers invited by BP Company thought of Xiao Qi.

If the richest man in the world announces the purchase of BP shares in a high-profile manner, expressing his confidence in BP Petroleum, then the stock price of BP Petroleum will increase by at least 20%, and with the continuous development of other businesses of BP, the stock price will also follow benign The rise of the cycle is not a good way to do so.

Xiao Qi is not very interested in BP oil, but the price offered by Goldman Sachs is very attractive.

BP is going to ask Xiao Qi to buy about 5% of the stock at the market price, and then they use this to make a lot of hype, and Xiao Qi will also have the right to buy 3% of BP oil stocks at the current price within the next 5 years s right.

Calculated, it is equivalent to Xiao Qi buying 8% of the shares of BP Petroleum Company with almost 3.2 billion US dollars, becoming the fifth largest shareholder and the second largest private shareholder of the company.

Calculated based on the normal price of BP oil, Xiao Qi can actually obtain assets of about 12 billion US dollars in this transaction, which can be regarded as very cost-effective.

But there is also a certain risk here, that is, within five years, if BP Petroleum cannot return to the normal price, then Xiao Qi may not exercise his right to purchase 3% of BP Petroleum stock, which means he will lose the benefit fee.

But no matter what, the price of BP oil shouldn't be about 40 billion US dollars now, so in fact Xiao Qi's business is at least doubling his profit.

Considering the stable profitability of BP Petroleum, as well as their various oil rights and interests around the world, Xiao Qi finally agreed to this condition, but it needs to be changed. He will directly buy 8% of BP Petroleum shares in the market, and BP The benefit given by the oil company is to sell 20 billion US dollars of oil to Xiao Qi at the price of 50 US dollars a barrel of oil, and the entire transaction will be completed in three years. .

When BP heard this, they were naturally relieved and wished for it!

With Xiao Qi's investment vision, since he dared to buy so many shares of BP Petroleum Company, it proved that he was optimistic about the future of BP Company.

And buying oil is even more welcome. Although the current price of oil has reached 65 US dollars, the price of 40 US dollars is 23% less than the normal price. The super large order in US dollars can completely create a good performance and offset people's worries about BP's huge compensation.

Anyway, oil is everywhere, and you can just dig it out. BP's mining costs in Africa are shockingly low, and they can earn 40 dollars!

They even actively proposed that the 20 billion US dollars of oil do not need to be taken back to China. You Xiao Qi bought the oil for the use of Xiaoyao Express, Xiaoyao Logistics and Qiwen Airlines?

We will refine all kinds of fuel for you in our own refinery, and you can just take the refined oil back when the time comes.

Xiao Qi couldn't help laughing at this, the British can see every stitch.

Buying oil is one way of making money, and refining oil is another way of making money. Although the profit will not be too high, the sales and turnover generated from it are real performance, and it can also greatly promote production. For them It's killing many birds with one stone!

In the end, the young man naturally wouldn't agree to this proposal. Although the refining level of Huaguo is a little lower, the gap is not that big. It's not the aviation industry, it's just civilian oil products, so they don't pay that much attention.

How can letting the British promote production flow be better than providing more orders to factories in their own country? (~^~)