We're building a super chaebol in Hong Kong

Telling Li Yihui in advance about what might happen in the oil industry in the next year or two was also one of Su Cheng's main tasks on this trip to Tuen Mun.

After all, although he said he was just coming to take a look because he hadn't been here for a long time, he couldn't come for nothing.

The earning power of the oil industry is no less than that of the technology industry.

Therefore, although Su Cheng usually doesn't pay much attention to Tianwen Petroleum Company, it doesn't mean that he doesn't value it.

It's just because Tianwen Petroleum Company has now entered a stable development track and no longer needs Su Cheng to pay too much attention.

With Li Yihui, a professional, managing Tianwen Petroleum Company, at least from the current point of view, he can rest assured.

After chatting with Li Yihui in the office for a long time, Li Yihui took him to visit the situation in the oil base, and a morning passed in the blink of an eye.

At noon, Su Cheng specially had a meal with Li Yihui and other senior executives of Tianwen Petroleum Company in the company, and by the way, he encouraged these senior executives who worked for him.

Currently, the entire Tuen Mun oil base has nearly 500 employees, not counting the construction workers who are building the second phase.

In the future, when the entire Tuen Mun oil base is completed, it will be a large base that can accommodate more than 5,000 people.

After the meal, Su Cheng did not rush back to the city center, but came to the pier of Tuen Mun oil base with Li Yihui and others.

Standing on the pier, Su Cheng could see that the pier in the distance that could berth 200,000 to 300,000-ton oil tankers was now in operation.

Next to that pier, there was an extremely large VLCC-class oil tanker docked.

"Boss, this oil tanker is one of the VLCC oil tankers we purchased from the Global Shipping Group. Its carrying capacity can reach 180,000 tons. This oil tanker has just transported crude oil from Brunei to our Hong Kong. It is now unloading crude oil. Every month, we will have such a super-large oil tanker transporting crude oil from Brunei. Today happens to be the day when the crude oil transport ship arrives at the Tuen Mun oil base. In addition, almost every few days, smaller oil tankers will transport finished oil out," Li Yihui said with a smile to Su Cheng when he saw Su Cheng's gaze towards the oil tanker pier in the distance.

"Is the amount of oil transported by one oil tanker every month enough to meet the refining capacity of our base?" Su Cheng asked in surprise.

"Boss, 180,000 tons of crude oil is already a considerable number. In fact, there are not many oil refineries in the world with an annual refining capacity of more than 5 million tons, and our Tianwen oil base has only completed the first phase of construction. The refining capacity has already exceeded 5 million tons per year, which is already a very good achievement. In the future, when the entire base is completed, it will be a refining base of more than 20 million tons, and our pier will be even busier!

In addition, our Tianwen Petroleum Company now owns many petrochemical refineries. For example, in places like Singapore and Malaysia, we have our refining bases. The largest refining base also has an annual refining capacity of more than 10 million tons. The base here in Tuen Mun is currently mainly for supplying the Hong Kong and Macau markets. Its position in these petrochemical bases is not very prominent."

Seeing Su Cheng so surprised, Li Yihui explained to him.

Su Cheng nodded, thinking that it was true. Although he didn't know much about the petrochemical industry, he also knew when Li Yihui acquired those petrochemical companies. For example, the Nanyang Refinery on Lamma Island, which he bought earlier, only had an annual refining capacity of 3 million tons.

However, the Nanyang Refinery on Lamma Island has now stopped refining operations.

Tianwen Petroleum Company has already reached an agreement with Hong Kong Electric Group to sell the site of the Nanyang Refinery to Hong Kong Electric Group, allowing Hong Kong Electric Group to build a new power station on it.

Now, demolition work is already underway there.

It is also because of this that Su Cheng has not been to the seaside villa on Lamma Island for vacation for a while.

As the two were chatting, a patrol boat drove over.

This Tuen Mun oil base is relatively strictly guarded to prevent anyone from deliberately destroying the base facilities. Even the coastline has special patrol boats patrolling at irregular intervals.

Last time, Su Cheng took a patrol boat out to sea here, looking at Shekou in the distance, planning to invest and deploy there.

As a result, it didn't take long for him to realize this idea. Now, Su's Group and Hutchison Whampoa Group have invested a lot of projects in Pengcheng, and they are already under construction.

This time, he also plans to go out to sea again to take a look.

It's a bit troublesome to go to Pengcheng. The road connecting Pengcheng and Hong Kong is still relatively backward, and it takes several hours to go back and forth.

Since he has come to Tuen Mun, he might as well take a patrol boat out to sea to take a look at the other side from a distance and see how the construction of the Shekou industrial base is progressing.

Although Yang Chaoye and Wei Li have reported to him on the progress of investments in the mainland, how can listening to other people's reports be as clear as seeing it with your own eyes?

"Boss, our boat can only go here. If we go further, the patrol boats on the north side will drive our boat away," the patrolman in charge of driving the boat said to Su Cheng when he was still a few kilometers away from Shekou.

Su Cheng nodded and said, "Then let's drive from west to east!"

He also knew that although his identity was special, the border patrolmen on the opposite side might not necessarily know him. If something unfriendly happened, he couldn't blame others.

After all, he didn't communicate with the relevant departments in the north in advance, so it was still a bit dangerous to go over like this.

Only a few kilometers apart, and the field of vision is wide enough, Su Cheng can probably see the situation on the opposite side, even the workers on the construction site can be seen.

The Shekou land purchased by Su's Group has now become a large construction site. Many workers are busy, and even several buildings have been built several stories high.

And the pier is also under construction near the sea.

In addition to these, the industrial park built by the Pengcheng local government is also under construction.

It is not difficult to see from the situation on these construction sites that Pengcheng is also actively cooperating in order to build these places, and a large amount of manpower investment can continuously accelerate the speed of the project.

"Boss, is the investment value in the north really that great? Should our Tianwen Petroleum Company invest in Pengcheng?" Li Yihui couldn't help asking, looking at the busy scene on the opposite side.

(End of this chapter)