That's the brutality of oil exploration, and if it goes well, it's like the Southern African Oil Company, where a single well produces tens of thousands of barrels of crude oil per day, and the high production for months has not diminished at all.

The bad luck was that the Persian Oil Company did this, drilled an oil well, and then everyone rushed to it, and the oil well quickly dried up.

Either because of other factors, even oil has not been found, and the previous investment has been lost.

Compared to the Persian Oil Company, the Southern African Oil Company is steady, relying on the oil of Port Elizabeth, the Southern African Oil Company has established a foothold in the Persian Gulf, and tens of thousands of barrels of oil are transported to Nyasaland every day.

Although Roque is not planning to expand oil production in the short term, the relevant exploration work has been carried out, and this work has of course been entrusted to Christian Exploration, for which Christian Exploration has sent its chief geologist, Ted, to Port Elizabeth.

Ted, a student of Professor George Eugene, Dean of the Faculty of Geology at the University of Nyasaland, came to Nyasaland with Professor George Eugene ten years ago to start working for Roque, where he developed motorcycles with Bobby Holt and is now a shareholder in the Johannesburg Motorcycle Company.

It is said that Ted can now live a rich and leisurely retirement life with a stake in Johannesburg Motorcycle Company, but Ted is still working hard and now holds a part of the shares of Christian Exploration and is a shareholder of Christian Exploration.

The geological exploration work is still very hard, sometimes it takes a month or two to go to the field, but Adan Company took good care of Ted, not only sent mercenaries to protect Ted's safety, but also sent cooks and servants to Ted, so Ted's condition is not bad.

"We went to Baling Island this time, the situation on that island is similar to the Elizabeth oil field, there are oil seedlings, if you want to be further sure, you can drill one or two wells to try first, but the biggest surprise comes from Dammam and Baling Peninsula, we found a geological formation in Dammam, and in Baling Peninsula we found multiple oil seedlings, where there is probably a huge oil field, probably more than all the oil fields that have been discovered so far combined, even if we don't develop the oil fields in Daman and Baling Peninsula now, We should also buy the land there first and ban it from other oil companies, and we met a couple of colleagues this time, who are probably working for other oil companies, and I think it's important to pay attention to that. "As soon as Ted got back to Port Elizabeth, he went to Carl Fox, the managing director of Southern African Petroleum.

Baling Island is Bahrain in another time and space, and now this island is also the property of Adan Company, and the Baling Peninsula is the future Qatar, which is now under the British sphere of influence, but Britain does not attach importance to the Baling Peninsula, and there is not even a British tax officer on the island.

This is a good indication of the economic value of the Baling Peninsula.

"Counterparts from other oil companies?" Carl Fox smirked, and immediately rang the bell to call the secretary over: "Call Mr. David and tell him that the Baling Peninsula needs some strong men." ”

This kind of thing is familiar to the umbrella company, because of the continuous tribal vendettas and natural and man-made disasters, in fact, there are no indigenous tribes living on the Persian Gulf coast, including the Daman and Baling Peninsulas, and all the indigenous tribes are either forced to move inland to the peninsula, or they are miserable, and the areas where the desert robbers pass are basically barren.

"It's rude, you should choose a more civilized way." Ted didn't approve of Carl Fox's actions, but he didn't disagree much either.

The rules of survival in this era are like this, back in the city, everyone is a civilized person, once you leave the city, the gentle gentleman will become a demon who eats people and does not spit out bones, this kind of thing Ted has seen a lot over the years, if there is no mercenary protection, Ted is estimated to have been dead for a long time.

"There is no civilization in front of interests, and there can only be one oil company on the peninsula, and that is our Southern African Oil Company." Carl Fox is domineering.

"It's hard—" Ted said with a solemn expression, and it was a bad sign that his peers had already appeared on the Baling Peninsula.

"As long as they're not afraid of losing their money, then come on." Carl Fox laughed, and the Persian Oil Company was a good example.

Although oil is tempting, it must always be profitable, like the Persian Oil Company, the derrick was blown up and lost all its money, not to mention the average small business, even if it is a large company and a large enterprise, it will not be able to hold up a few times, and only an enterprise like the Southern African Oil Company with the full protection of the umbrella company can not care about the threat of these "accidents".

Later, Carl Fox hosted Donn and Reed, and Ted attended.

At the dinner, Ted introduced the basic situation of oil storage along the Persian Gulf coast to Don and Leed, which immediately attracted the attention of Don and Leed.

"We have to control all the land along the coast of the Persian Gulf, even in areas where oil has not yet been discovered, there may be countless oil in the ground, but it cannot be exploited due to the current technical conditions, so it cannot be exploited - but it cannot be exploited now, it does not mean that it cannot be exploited in the future, ten years ago we still relied on manpower to dig oil wells, and now we have begun to use derrick drilling, and we now have oil wells at the deepest depth of only 500 meters, and there is no oil in this range, it does not mean that there is none, maybe drill down a little more, drill to a thousand meters, two thousand meters, you will find oil fields. "Ted can only judge empirically now, and many things cannot be verified due to technical conditions.

Don and Li De glanced at each other, and both could detect the greed in each other's eyes.

"Then now it's Dammam and the Baling Peninsula." Don was eager to try, and the Umbrella Company's thousands of mercenaries in the Persian Gulf always stayed in the barracks and did nothing.

"Don't worry, keep the secret first, and then let the Lord decide." Li De is quite reasonable, the Persian Gulf coast is now the British sphere of influence, under the jurisdiction of the Egyptian governor, and the umbrella company is not easy to do on its own.

Still, some small actions are okay, such as gradually clearing the Persian Gulf coast of indigenous people, banning oil explorers from other companies, or anyone unrelated, from entering the Persian Gulf coast, and sealing off the area.

It is not difficult to do this, the ports along the Persian Gulf coast on the peninsula are now under the control of the Adan company, except for Port Elizabeth, the Adan company has closed all other ports and prohibited any ships from entering and leaving, so it is not easy for the oil exploration personnel of other companies to go ashore smoothly, after all, oil exploration requires tools and equipment, and it is also necessary to hire some locals as guides, and also to hire security personnel to ensure safety, so oil exploration is not something that one or two people can complete, on the Persian Gulf coast, If the umbrella company and the Adan company do not cooperate, it will be difficult to do this.

This is the advantage of early layout, now other oil companies want to develop oil on the Persian Gulf coast, all have to look at the face of the Southern African Oil Company, if the Southern African Oil Company does not agree, then even the British domestic oil companies, can not survive on the Persian Gulf coast.

Gulf Oil is a good example.

"The Lord's work is too busy, and we should share the Lord's worries as much as we can." Don En has his own plans, even if he stabs the basket, he is not afraid, but it really can't be done, and Roque will come forward to end up.

While Don and Reid were discussing how to occupy the Persian Gulf coast, Roque and Viscount Gladstone were in Ulysses in the North Sea.

At present, the North Sea is still nominally half of Nyasaland and Tanganyika's family, but Tanganyika is unable to develop the fishing resources of the North Sea, and the only gunboat, the "Weissman", has not dared to leave the port for a long time, so the North Sea is under the actual control of Nyasaland.

"With a total area of 33,000 square kilometres, the North Sea is rich in aquatic resources, and the Rhodesia Canning Company has a canning factory in the North Sea, which produces canned food not only for the southern African market, but also for sale to Europe, and is also widely praised in the European market." Roque doesn't care about the profit of canned food, after all, the raw materials are still provided by the Nyasaland Aquatic Products Company, so everyone makes money.

Viscount Gladstone did not speak, and his attention was still mainly focused on the "Viscount".

Previously, the ship was called the "Lord", but after Roque was promoted to Viscount, the ship was renamed "The Viscount".

The size of the "Viscount" is about the same as the flagship of the Beihai Sea Police, and according to British standards, it is close to the destroyer level, but because of the situation in the North Sea, the "Viscount" is not equipped with artillery and torpedoes, only four large-caliber heavy machine guns and four 40 mm naval rapid-fire guns on the port side, this firepower level is already second to none in the North Sea, and the naval police ships equipped with artillery are only a threat to the "Viscount".

"How many people are there near the North Sea now?" This was Viscount Gladstone's first visit to the North Sea.

In the past, all the impressions of Viscount Gladstone on the North Sea came from the internal information of the federal government, although Viscount Gladstone also knew that the area of the North Sea was more than 30,000 square kilometers, but only when he came to the North Sea, Viscount Gladstone could really realize how big a 30,000 square kilometer lake was.

It's no wonder that Roque insisted on using the name "North Sea".

"25,000 people, the largest city on the entire North Sea coast is Ulysses, with a permanent population of more than 10,000, and the rest are distributed in more than 20 settlements on the North Sea coast, they are not all dependent on the seafood of the North Sea, and there are now 400,000 hectares of land on the North Sea coast that have been developed into fertile land, and millions of people can be resettled here in the future." Roque is still very proud, that is, in the hands of the Chinese, Beihai can shine with real brilliance.

400,000 hectares, about 1 million acres, 6 million acres, sounds like a lot, but in fact, it is about 5 percent, or a little more, 10 percent of the developable land around the North Sea.