The rise of nanometers

When Aramco's Chairman Arthur, President Amin, Senior Advisor Dowling and others stepped into the Energy Alliance headquarters building.

The three of them had the illusion that they were in another world. They actually witnessed history. Twenty years ago, the pole fell. Twenty years later, the blue planet returned to the era of two poles competing for hegemony.

And this time, it is the re-emergence of the ancient world hegemon, a world hegemon with extremely strong resilience.

Gently pushing the door open, Arthur saw Luo Tuo, the rotating chairman of the Energy Alliance, Li Yangling, the president of United Petroleum, and others.

The two parties have sat at the negotiation table many times, but the relationship between the two parties in the negotiations is that Aramco has the initiative, and United Oil is very passive and helpless.

At this moment, the relationship between the two parties in the negotiations has completely reversed. The Energy Alliance has the initiative, while Aramco has fallen into a passive and at the mercy of others.

Regardless of whether they accept it or not, Arthur, Amin and others can only accept this reality and start this negotiation.

"Everyone from Amei Company, what do you want to talk about?" Luo Tuo asked casually.

Arthur also knew that what was supposed to come would always come, so he said: "President Luo, President Li, our company comes here with sincerity. Regarding the last misunderstanding, our company is willing to compensate you for 5 million tons of crude oil to make up for it." Your loss.”

"5 million?" Li Yangling was noncommittal.

Apparently Aramco had heard about some of Lucia Petroleum's situation and planned to lose money and avoid disaster, but the Energy Alliance did not give a reply.

Arthur, who was a little anxious, said again: "President Li, how about 6 million tons?"

"I'm a little worried about your sincerity. After all, some things are always full of surprises." Li Yangling said coldly.

Arthur, Amin, and Dowling discussed quietly for a while before speaking out another condition: "We agree to use Chinese dollars to settle part of the crude oil and natural gas."

"How much is a portion?" Luo Tuo raised his eyebrows.

"Up to about 30%." Amin replied.

Luo Tuo shook his head: "Too low."

Amin smiled bitterly and explained: "President Luo, we are also very embarrassed. After all, if the proportion is too high all of a sudden, it will be difficult for North America to deal with it."

Luo Tuo, Li Yangling and others naturally knew that Aramco's settlement in Chinese dollars would be a very big risk. They could only settle part of the money in Chinese dollars while continuing to settle in rice dollars, so that they could continue to ride on the wall.

After discussing for a while, Luo Tuo nodded: "A ratio of 30% is okay, but it's time for you to reserve some money."

Arthur understood immediately and said with a smile: "We will purchase a batch of debt worth 300 billion yuan and reserve another 150 billion yuan in foreign exchange."

The two sides talked for a long time. On behalf of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Aramco compensated the Energy Alliance for 6 million tons of crude oil, purchased 300 billion yuan in bonds, and used crude oil to replace 150 billion yuan in foreign exchange reserves.

In addition, there are many conditions attached, such as allowing the Energy Alliance to develop oil and gas fields in Saudi Arabia.

Then, the seawater desalination plant project that had been delayed before was also signed into five projects at once, all of which are seawater desalination projects with an annual output of 500 million cubic meters of pure water.

It also signed a 30 million-acre desert transformation contract with the Food Alliance to prepare for the development of desert agriculture in the Kingdom of Sand.

It is basically a package of cooperation plans, and even includes an arms sales contract of 3.5 billion yuan.

After the Energy Alliance restored the Kingdom's crude oil import quotas, as soon as the news came out, the price of global crude oil futures rose immediately.

The price of Dubai sour crude oil futures on the Tianshi City Exchange has been soaring, from 6.42 meters per barrel to 33.81 meters per barrel.

London Brent crude oil also followed suit, rising sharply to 31.5 meters per barrel.

Finally, there is the New York Stock Exchange, but the price rise here is not fast. This may be related to the recent restrictions on overseas account trading in the New York Stock Exchange and the high margin. The price of New York crude oil futures only rose to 26.7 yuan per barrel that day.

Over the next more than a week, the Energy Alliance successively negotiated with crude oil producers around the world and allocated them some quotas.

Although the import volume has not returned to the peak of 250 million tons, the purchase volume of successive quotas has reached about 160 million tons, and the prices are between 150 and 250 Chinese yuan per barrel.

In addition, Linlin received 15.7 million tons of free crude oil compensation and signed a large number of subsidiary cooperation agreements.

This includes cooperation plans for two crude oil pipelines and the lease of a port in Oman as a strategic base in the northwest Ceylon Ocean.

This strategic base, located on Masirah Island in Oman, will not only serve as a supply and maintenance base, but will also become the home port of the escort fleet. The base plans to station a team of 1,500 security personnel.

Through this crude oil competition, the Energy Alliance has gained huge benefits for the country. It has transformed from a big fat sheep that was left to be slaughtered to a player in the global energy chess game.

As negotiations were completed, Chang'an Energy Exchange also launched spot contracts and futures contracts. However, unlike other international crude oil futures, futures purchased on Chang'an Energy Exchange must be based on physical goods.

In addition, when the futures contract expires, both parties must deliver the futures. This delivery is the delivery of crude oil, not the delivery of nothing.

The trading design of Changan Energy Exchange is actually based on the Dalian Ore Exchange. If it is separated from the actual goods, then futures will really become a financial game.

After bundling physical goods, the futures price fluctuations of Dalian Exchange are usually maintained below 5% every day, and there will be no outrageous skyrocketing or plummeting that is far from reality.

At the same time, the restrictions on leverage and overseas accounts are very strict. After all, the New York Exchange has learned from the past and there are already many bloody examples there.

The essence of finance is not to go public and cash out, nor to spread the word, nor to harvest investors.

At the beginning, the essence of finance was actually to serve the development of the real economy and provide funds for the real economy.

Huang Xiuyuan has already set the tone in the design of the Ore Exchange and the Energy Exchange, that is, finance must combine entities and service entities, rather than playing virtual financial games.

Therefore, the design of ore exchanges and energy exchanges are simple physical futures, futures with physical guarantees.

In the memory of the future, the crude oil futures on the New York Exchange had a mind-boggling negative price. However, investors who purchased these crude oil futures were unable to obtain real crude oil through these crude oil futures contracts.

This is a bad manifestation of finance being divorced from reality. Since you are futures, you must have real goods. Even if the investor loses money by shorting, as long as he still holds these contracts, he must take out the corresponding goods when they expire.

If you can't deliver the goods, what's the point of calling it futures?

Wouldn't it be more appropriate to simply call it virtual goods gambling price?

Only returning to the simple finance of the real economy is the original intention of finance. Those fancy financial investment plans deliberately complicate simple problems and then facilitate those vampires who use the rules of the game to suck blood and eat people.

In fact, Suiren Group has recently been preparing to list some of its subsidiaries in China. However, negotiations with the two A-share exchanges have been extremely slow. The reason is that the two parties have been unable to reach an agreement on some fundamental issues. consistent.

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