The rise of nanometers

2012, February 6.

Lantern Festival.

The Spring Festival holiday has just ended, and people have begun to return to normal work. Thousands of miles of snow in the North has drifted, and there are signs of melting.

Guanzhong, Chang'an.

This thousand-year-old capital has once again ushered in a new page.

In the northeast corner of Chang'an City, near Xiewang Bridge and opposite Qihang Park on Gangwu Avenue, after more than a year of construction, around the middle of last month, a 33-story new building was finally completed.

Only the seven big characters on the top floor have been covered with red cloth, and the entire building and attached areas are surrounded by colored steel tiles. People around them only know that a new building has been built here, but they don’t know the specific details. use.

It wasn't until the beginning of spring a few days ago that the staff began to remove the colored steel tile walls, revealing some of the conditions inside. However, the security personnel were already in place, and pedestrians passing by could only look at it curiously.

With the arrival of the Lantern Festival, the place becomes lively.

As one of the hosts, Luo Tuo, the president of the United Group, and the local person in charge of Chang'an, entertained the major groups that arrived one after another.

Song Shijia from the Suiren Department came to participate in this conference on behalf of Blue Star Mining and Blue Times.

In addition, there are the Mining Alliance’s Beijing Enterprises Group, Minmetals, Electricity and Mining Consortium, and Southern Rare Earth; the five major power generation groups, the major collectives of the Coal Alliance, Two Barrel Oil, China National Offshore Oil Corporation, Yanchang Petroleum, Southern Petrochemical, and Northern Petrochemical.

The reporter group at the door watched the arrival of each domestic heavyweight group, and the cameras and video recorders in their hands never stopped.

Many foreign media were also invited to participate in this conference.

It's just that reporters at home and abroad are confused because there is no specific content on the invitation letter, just a very vague name "The Third China Energy Summit."

This third time has aroused the imagination of many people.

After all, there is no "first time" or "second time" in the public information. This time it was done publicly, and many people secretly speculated that it might be related to the recent international supply cuts of crude oil and natural gas.

At around ten o'clock in the morning, everyone who was supposed to come arrived, and Luo Tuo, as one of the hosts, gave an opening speech.

The protagonists of this energy summit are naturally the companies in the Energy Alliance. In addition to hundreds of domestic and foreign media, there are also local people from all walks of life in Chang'an. In addition, through online live broadcasts and television broadcasts, the attendees are also broadcast to the whole country and even the whole country. The contents of this meeting will be made public to the world.

"Dear guests, colleagues, and friends at home and abroad, this year is an unusual year. Many changes have taken place at home and abroad. Therefore, our Energy Alliance has decided to hold a global press conference to make a plan for future development. A brief explanation.”

Luo Tuo's words surprised many people. In recent years, there have indeed been many industry associations in China that have been very strong, such as the Ore Alliance and the Semiconductor Alliance. However, this is the first time that the Energy Alliance has appeared in the public consciousness. within sight.

"The security and singleness of global energy supply threatens oil and gas-poor regions, and we are one of the oil and gas-poor regions and the largest energy consumer region in the world."

“As the world’s largest energy consumer and the largest crude oil importer, we have always been in a passive and embarrassing situation. In oil and gas trade, we have no pricing power and cannot use Chinese yuan for settlement. This is our shame. "

Luo Tuo's voice was like that of Huang Zhong Dalu, which made many people present look shocked.

Reporters from foreign media even recorded this scene completely because they sensed the smell of big news.

Dong-A Ilbo reporter Kim Dae-gwang mocked with some disapproval: "Are they kidding? It's strange that those oil tycoons would agree, and they still use Hua Yuan for settlement. Are they challenging Uncle Sam's patience?"

"Keep reading, don't draw conclusions too early." Hasegawa Ken had a serious look in his eyes.

However, the Western Union's BBC, Mirror, Western Union, and the United States' Fox News, CNN, Wall Street Journal, etc. had different expressions, but none of their reporters spoke.

"Today, on behalf of the Energy Alliance, I unveil the Chang'an Energy Exchange." After Luo Tuo finished speaking, he pressed the button on the podium.

Suddenly, the red cloth covering the signboard on the building was revealed to be the true face of Mount Lu.

Changan Energy Exchange.

This shining sign appears in everyone's sight, and the emergence of the energy exchange seems to indicate its ambitions.

Due to the previous ore exchange, Hua's voice and pricing power in ore trade were established, and the establishment of the Huayuan-ore system was established.

The energy exchange launched by the Energy Alliance this time is probably an attempt to replicate the ore exchange.

It’s just that many people don’t take it seriously and think that the Energy Alliance is fanciful.

After all, the success of the Ore Exchange lies in the fact that in the previous global ore trade, each region did not have an absolute advantage. Even companies such as Rio Tinto, BHP Billiton, and Vale could only control the pricing power of iron ore, and dozens of other ores. , each has its own advantages.

This situation of fragmentation and a few small cores gave the Ore Alliance an opportunity to directly use technical means to crush the global ore producers.

In the eyes of most people, the current energy exchange does not have the confidence to challenge the dollar-oil.

The core reason can be seen from the global oil resource reserves.

The current oil reserves and proportions in each region are:

West Asia and North Africa 112.9 billion tons, accounting for 48%; Latin America 50.9 billion tons, accounting for 19%; North America 36.3 billion tons, accounting for 14%; Central and North Asia and Eastern Europe 19.8 billion tons, accounting for 8%; Southern Africa 166 billion tons, accounting for 7%; Asia-Pacific region 6.1 billion tons, accounting for 3%; Western Europe 1.9 billion tons, accounting for 1%.

Petroleum resources are highly concentrated. The total reserves in the Americas total about 87.2 billion tons, accounting for 33% of the total.

Coupled with the rich shale oil resources in North America, remotely controlled West Asia and North Africa, and controlled maritime transportation routes, the US dollar oil system controls about 81% of the world's oil.

To shake up this system, relying on the little oil resources that the Energy Alliance controls is tantamount to hitting a rock with an egg.

Without its own oil resources, what if it is the world's largest crude oil importing region?

It's not just a cash machine for oil tycoons, a big fat sheep that can be slaughtered by others.

But is this really the case?

After the unveiling, Luo Tuo continued calmly: "Chang'an Energy Exchange will use Huayuan for settlement. Starting from today, all imported crude oil, natural gas, and coal will be settled in Huayuan."

Among the participants below, the foreign media and the international crude oil producers watching the live broadcast either disagreed or ridiculed.

Because they know that there are several prerequisites for being used as a settlement currency for oil trade. The Huayuan does not have these advantages now.

If international crude oil producers do not recognize it by then, the Huayuan settlement plan of Changan Energy Exchange will become a big joke.

Moreover, major international crude oil producers have already planned to cut off the supply of crude oil, so how can they come to Chang'an Energy Exchange to sell oil.

Luo Tuo had a panoramic view of the weird expressions of everyone present. He smiled and said: "Everyone thinks it is impossible, but they don't know the power of science."

The words just fell.

Many people's expressions suddenly changed, because Luo Tuo's words reminded them of the ore trade dominated by technology.

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