Pirates are robbers on the sea, no different from the well-known robbers. They are just riding a horse and the other sailing. They do things that are not bad for having children. It doesn’t mean that if they drive the boat and hire hackers, they are no longer robbers, but still!

But they put on a luxurious suit and packaged a hooligan as a cultural person. They looked like a human being, but they were still dirty in their bones.

Yang Cheng only then did she play the trick of scheming after seeing the essence. Arik obviously also agreed with this approach. If you don’t get revenge, you’re not a gentleman.

"Actually, you are not lucky," Arik said.

"What's the meaning?"

"A few months earlier, these pirates would never spend too much effort on this, because crude oil is not worth the money."

Yang Cheng smiled, "That's right~"

“I heard you invested in a farm in Nigeria?”

"To be precise, it's a chicken farm, which is a charitable investment."

"I thank you on behalf of Nigeria~"

Yang Cheng took a sip of wine and asked, "I heard from Mohammed, do you have something to talk to me?"

Arik said seriously, "Yes, I'm going to invest in a large oil refinery in Nigeria~"

Yang Cheng has read this news on the information and is not surprised, and this may be the only area where both parties can cooperate.

Regarding such cooperation, Yang Cheng couldn't find a reason to refuse, so he said simply, "We have experience in managing refineries and can cooperate completely, but can I know your goal? How big is your ideal refinery~"

He thinks it's too small and boring.

Unexpectedly, Arik opened his mouth and said, "My goal is the largest oil refinery in the world. I want to solve the oil shortage problem in Nigeria at one time!"

When he said this, his face was filled with indignation. Yang Cheng suddenly felt that this black man was completely different from the so-called black elite he had seen before. Maybe he was really thinking about his compatriots. Of course, there must be huge benefits in it, which is understandable.

But what he does is his business, Yang Cheng doesn’t care about it. What he cares more about is the second half of the sentence: is there a shortage of oil in Nigeria?

What a joke, as one of the world's largest oil-producing countries, is there a shortage of oil?

However, this is not a joke. The oil shortage did indeed happen, and it happened after the general election that should have been riots but was stable and excessive. This should have been a news that would have made Nigerians happy and foreigners feel at ease.

But this good news seems to have temporarily numb people's nerves, because no one expected that the oil shortage that gradually appeared after the general election continued until now and was not fundamentally resolved.

In Arik's words, "This is one of the largest, widest range and most influential oil shortages since its founding."

While he said this, Yang Cheng saw on the TV news that the long queue in front of the gas station had been lined up for several kilometers and the entire auxiliary road was no longer accessible.

The full set of equipment that seems to be going out for a picnic is actually to come on a 7-8-hour "come trip" every day tests the patience of Nigerians.

As the oil shortage intensifies, it is not only the lack of oil that tests Nigerians' sentiment, but the more serious problem is that they cannot afford to add oil. Now, in the whole country of Nigeria, except for the capital Abuja, the market is not sold at the guide price, vicious competition in the market, speculation and other violations are spreading wildly. Some gas stations obviously have oil, but the price is too expensive and ordinary people cannot afford to add it.

For this oil-producing country, oil shortage is not unfamiliar with it. However, compared with the past, the impact of this oil shortage on the aviation industry is definitely unexpected.

News reports say that Nigeria's largest airline has now grounded two-thirds of its flights, with planes consuming dust on the airport apron, and the second largest airline has been directly grounded.

In addition to aviation, the already sluggish economy has suffered another impact due to the arrival of the oil shortage. Due to power supply issues, companies in some regions still need to rely on diesel generators as the main energy supply.

Because there is no oil to add, some radio stations, banks, enterprises, and ZF agencies in Nigeria got off work early on Monday and some schools were closed because base stations rely heavily on diesel, and some telecom operators were preparing to strike together.

"No oil or energy, Africa's largest economy has retreated ten years directly." Arik said self-deprecatingly.

No wonder he was full of anger when he said he wanted to build the world's largest oil refinery. He probably was more unwilling to accept it. Yang Cheng thought so.

As a major oil-producing country, its lack of processing capacity has made Nigeria rely heavily on imports of oil.

Now it is in a trough of international oil prices, Naira has depreciated sharply, and the conflict between oil suppliers and ZF have become the fuse of this oil shortage.

In fact, what Nigeria lacks is not only oil refining capacity, but also transportation capacity. The oil pipelines underground in Nigeria are probably not as good as a state in the United States. The daily transportation of refined oil can only rely on oil tankers to replenish supplies everywhere.

This oil shortage also caused the oil tanker drivers to be owed a large amount of wages, and their strike also further worsened the situation.

Yang Cheng was curious on the way to come. Why did Lagos, which was originally congested, become so smooth? At first, he thought it was the influence of the Dangot family team, but now it seems that it is because everyone has no fuel to add, and the cars are all stuck.

To be honest, even though he knew that Nigeria, as an oil-producing country, often had a shortage of oil, Yang Cheng still felt that things were not that simple.

Nigeria's oil refining capacity is basically negligible, but why hasn't it changed after decades?

Can't Nigerians see the benefits of having oil refining?

Don’t think that Lao Hei is a fool. Black people who really have high positions are very smart, especially those guys from Africa who can stand out from a group of illiterate people, which shows their ability.

How could this group of people not know how beneficial it will be to this country to have independent refining capabilities?

Unfortunately, a series of giants and even ZF officials involved in the powerful industrial chain of exporting crude oil and importing refined oil have caused Nigeria to be unable to have its own refining capabilities. And because of the intervention of these rights class controllers, Nigeria's imported refined oil is operating in an almost pathological manner. ZF has to subsidize all companies that import refined oil every year, but the money is left without a trace, and you can imagine the degree of corruption in this country.

The poorer the country, the more serious the corruption problem is, and this is almost proportional.

The reason why the oil shortage broke out this time was, in Arik's words, was entirely because the new general manager tried to move the imported oil merchants' cakes.

How are capitalists willing to make concessions? If you don’t give me a subsidy, I will stop supplying oil and kidnap imported refined oil from the entire country and threaten ZF. Of course, kidnapping is kidnap, and the money has to be transferred as usual. It cannot be sold on the surface, so I will sell black oil. The price will only increase by about 5 times, and the wealthier places will increase by 10 times, not much, right?

Of course, this is just gasoline, you can still buy it as long as you have money, but as for diesel, you can't buy it at all!

Sure enough, compared to being crazy, capitalists around the world are not willing to give in.

However, for Yang Cheng, this is a good opportunity. Joint venture with the richest man in Nigeria can not only reduce costs, but also further penetrate a country's livelihood and economic field. The most important thing is to have security guarantees, which is suitable for every transaction.

"Your goal is great. I am willing to help you. Let's talk in depth?" Yang Cheng said with a smile.

This answer is obviously what Arik Danget wants to hear the most. He was originally worried that Yang Cheng would refuse, after all, Nigeria's investment environment is not good.

Arik was excited to describe his plan. Even if the butler came to say that the dinner was about to begin, he didn't care. He waved his hand and asked the butler to go down to host the dinner.

Of course Yang Cheng wouldn't mind. Anyway, he was not interested in getting to know a group of old black guys. They all looked similar, and it was very tiring to remember names.

“My plan is like this: to build an integrated refinery that can develop petroleum products to the greatest extent possible, with a total investment of more than 10 billion yuan. My goal is to build it into a milestone in the Nigerian oil and gas industry.

According to experts' advice, the refinery will produce 650,000 barrels of refined petroleum products every day to meet the demand for refined oil in Nigeria across the country, and even have the spare time to export to other countries without production capacity.

Once completed, this will be the largest industrial construction site for fertilizers, petrochemicals and refineries in the world.”

Yang Cheng waved and interrupted, "Wait, why are there still fertilizers?"

He knew that in Dangerte's commercial territory, there was a field of fertilizer production, but it was made in oil refineries?

Arik spread his hands, "I said, this will be a comprehensive refining factory, not only its refining capacity, but also 1.5 times that of today's four state-owned refineries in Nigeria. I mean that when they operate at full capacity, they can only last half a day of production.

In addition to refining crude oil and producing petroleum products, it will also have petrochemical plants and fertilizer plants.

The petrochemical plant will process 1.3 million tons of petrochemical products every year, the fertilizer plant will produce 2.8 million tons of various fertilizers, and the natural gas plant will produce 3 million cubic meters of natural gas every year.

At the same time, the refinery will also have the world's largest subsea pipeline infrastructure, which can handle 3 billion cubic meters of oil every year."

After listening to Arik's introduction, Yang Cheng gasped. This ambition is too great, right? Shouldn't a facility of this size take it step by step?

Judging from his meaning, he was preparing for one step, but Yang Cheng could feel his ambitiousness.

"Where is the location? Have you found it?"

He did not doubt whether there were so many open spaces in Nigeria.

"There are several options, but I am optimistic about the Lekki Free Trade Zone. According to the plan, the project will cover an area of ​​2,200 hectares, which is eight times larger than Victoria Island."

“Where is the planned start time?”
Chapter completed!