Chapter 206 Warm current

Director Ram held several reports in his hand and walked into the Prime Minister's office.

In the small suite at the door, there were two or three senior cadres waiting. When they saw him, they greeted him happily, and then did their own things. Secretary Xiaojing made tea for the director of the ram, which was the director of the ram's favorite Biluochun.

The director nodded with a smile and thought to himself: Young people nowadays are really awesome. It seems that they remember the hobbies of every cadre who has come...

In a blink of an eye, Director Gongyang unconsciously thought: Su Cheng seems to be 10 years younger than Secretary Xiaojing. Now he is not only alone, but also needs to acquire deputy ministerial-level factories. He is also an independent director of China National Petroleum Corporation. If he is placed in the system, a main hall can't run away... The world is a little confusing.

Director Gongyang simulates those old and eighty old deputy halls and old halls in his head. How to visit Sucheng, that is, it is just a pure simulation. Dahua Industry requires all the senior officials of Jinshi General Factory to resign. From the perspective of system reform, he agrees - Jinshi General Factory can retain the status of state-owned enterprises. Workers retain the status of employees of state-owned enterprises, but all administrative levels will be abolished and transferred to positions within state-owned enterprises, which is also the development trend.

Taking advantage of the tea drink, the director of Ram smiled slightly, picked up the document with him again, and turned it over again to enhance his memory: "International Oil Price Trends".

World Industrial Transfer and Offshore Oil Equipment.

Dahua Industry's Acquisition of Tianjin Petroleum Machinery General Plant.

These three reports are the main contents of his explanation. All the reports were born out of Sucheng, but they were different. At least 20 comrades of the Sports Reform Commission participated in the revision of the report. Every sentence in it has its source. He only allocated 30 minutes of time, and the reasonable allocation of time and focus was a very important thing. Director Ram closed his eyes and thought silently.

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When Sioux arrived in Abu Dhabi, it was first welcomed by UAE dignitaries.

Not every company that bids for the oil field can get oil. It costs a lot of dollars, but in the end, there are countless companies that fail to find oil during the exploration period. Arab countries close a number of oil companies every year.

"Only oil companies that can get oil are oil companies worth interacting with." This idea is very much more so in the Middle East. UAE officials have long since abandoned the reserve of the bidding period, and the invitations to various banquets and dances have come like snowflakes. The oil minister of the United Arab Emirates alone. He signed two different events. A year ago, his attitude was completely different.

For a whole day. Su Cheng only had time to call Sha Mingyin for 10 minutes. It was not until 10 p.m. that he found the opportunity to leave early and fell into the hotel tiredly.

"Bamp, bang, bang, bang".

The door knocked as if it had been pinched by time.

Su Cheng got up in **, and finally got up helplessly to open the door. At the same time, Shiro in the opposite room first opened the door and asked, "Who are you?"

Standing in the corridor are two Chinese people, 30 or 40 years old, wearing ordinary blue suits. Wear gold-rimmed glasses. From the perspective of China in the 1980s, it is fashionable, but from the style of Abu Dhabi, it is a little behind the times.

The attitude of the two was kind, and they turned around a little. He smiled and said, "I'm Dai Xu, the business counselor of the embassy, and this is my Wang Lin. We are here to visit Mr. Su Cheng.

"What's the matter?" Silang replaced the five and three thick Goro and became half of Sucheng's followers. Of course, Jingshan people are all in the shape of five or three thick, and there are many big arms that are thicker than the head, even if it is a normal tone. It also carries a natural threat.

"We are here to visit Mr. Su Cheng, and we want to ask him for some help." Dai Xu was fine, but Wang Lin was a little nervous and took a small step back.

Su Cheng listened silently for half a minute, and then opened the door from behind.

Wang Lin was so scared that he almost jumped up.

Dai Xu slapped him, pressed him on the shoulder, and said with a smile, "Hello, Su Dong, I'm the business counselor of the Chinese Embassy in the United Arab Emirates. I wanted to come earlier..."

"Hon, you." Su Cheng guessed that they had been waiting for a long time.

"Can you go inside and say it?" Dai Xuxian is very comfortable.

Su Cheng let the two people in.

Dai Xu was polite. He entered the living room, looked around, and then smiled and said, "Dong Su has received a lot of invitations today."

"Huh?"

"I said directly that we want Su Dong to bring a few people to these banquets together."

"What do you mean?"

Dai Xu said with a little embarrassment, "We have established diplomatic relations with the United Arab Emirates for several years, but in terms of non-governmental exchanges, the situation has not yet opened up, also because our country does not have much economic exchanges with the United Arab Emirates. These people in Western countries pay attention to the economy.

Sucheng understands that his Setan oil field is undoubtedly China's largest project in the United Arab Emirates, so he and Dahua Industry are more popular than the Chinese Embassy... Maybe it is much more popular.

"What banquets are you going to attend?" Su Cheng waved his hand and called Silang and said, "Go and take out all those invitations."

"Thank you so much." Dai Xu rubbed his hand with a smile and said, "We can participate in the detailed invitation together. On some occasions, you may want to take us in. As long as you go in, you can move freely."

"No problem." Su Cheng poured water for the two of them, and his expression was very indifferent.

After a while, Silang came in with a black plastic bag thicker than his arm.

Dai Xu opened his eyes and asked, "Is it all?"

Shiro shook his head and said, "It's not all."

He then bent down to the bar in the room, directly took out a trash can, and then pulled out the same black plastic bag.

Dai Xu wondered, "What is this?"

"Oh, we threw the invitation as garbage before." Silang put on gloves and found one wet and sticky invitation after another.

Dai Xu's expression was strange like baked bread.

Wang Lin coughed hard twice and said, "Su Dong didn't plan to go to these banquets?"

"There are hundreds of banquets. The time is all within a week. I picked a few, but I'm not going to go all.

"So that's it." Dai Xu smiled awkwardly and felt a little strange when he saw the invitation he asked for in the trash can.

There are all kinds of invitations, as well as bronzing and wooden ones. Because of the large number, Su City soon put on gloves. Clean up together. There are remnants of beer and breadcrumbs in the trash can, which stick to the invitation letter. Just wipe it and it will be clean.

for a while. Dai Xu divided the invitations into categories and explained the capital, background and other information of each company to Su Cheng.

His channel is completely different from that of Sucheng to obtain information, after some explanation. Suddenly, Sioux City has a new understanding of Abu Dhabi's oil companies.

Dai Xu also became more and more excited. This is a rare opportunity for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It is also a rare opportunity for Dai Xu himself. As a business counselor, his job is to enhance the economic and trade cooperation between the two countries. If he can promote the large number of imports from the United Arab Emirates to China, it will be complete.

Su Cheng smiled. These companies are all attracted to the oil and gas resources in the Sultan region, just like most enterprises in the Middle East. Some companies even rely entirely on new oil companies to survive. Therefore, his demand for expanding inter-company exchanges is not as strong as Dai Xu.

Classify all the invitations, and Dai Xu will naturally take them away. At this time, he was a little embarrassed. After thinking about it, he said, "I heard that Su Dong is going to hold an international petroleum equipment exhibition in Abu Dhabi?" We have received this news, and the department's request is to go all out. On this visit, we can also talk about the oil equipment exhibition as the main topic. Yes, this kind of discussion. It's better than simply talking about the economic and trade cooperation between the two countries, right?

"That's right." Su Cheng was not surprised by Dai Xu's words. The importance of the oil equipment exhibition can be easily upgraded to strategic, especially for the UAE embassy. China now urgently needs diplomacy to break the ice, and with history as the axis, civil behavior with an official background is the most suitable. In 1954, the Chinese Red Cross went to Japan to break the ice, and in 1970, the American table tennis team was invited to visit China. They were all classic ice-breaking trips. As long as the Abu Dhabi Petroleum Equipment Exhibition can stick to the edge, it will immediately get unlimited preferential treatment.

Dai Xu left a list of oil companies before leaving. Su Cheng roughly turned over, and they were all Middle Eastern companies related to China.

Compared with the domestic version, the revision in Dai Xu's hand is more complete. Su Cheng nodded secretly and handed it to Silang and said, "Fac Fax back to China and let the country send someone to contact. In addition, find a car. Let's go to the construction site tomorrow morning.

"Are you going tomorrow? What about those banquets?"

"Just get up early and try to come back in the afternoon. When it's done, you can go to rest."

Silang said "Oh" and quickly added, "I went to bed after doing 200 push-ups, or I can't sleep."

The next morning, Sucheng got up at 5 o'clock and took the rented SUV to the Setan construction site.

Three hours later, I saw the sand seal under the fiery red flag. The long sandstorm made his rough skin like frosted paper, black and rough.

The subsidiary is the third offshore drilling platform built by Dahua Industry. It stood in the shallow sea with eight feet, suppressing the oil well below. On the work surface cast by the upper steel, there are people coming and going.

Su Cheng took a commuter boat, jumped on the drilling platform, and looked around. The industrial machines at work and the steel beasts just produced in the workshop have completely different temperaments.

After helping to tuck the boat, Sha Mingyin smiled and said, "The crude oil production on our platform is still unstable, and there is no way to hold the welcome ceremony."

Su Cheng patted Sha Mingyin's shoulder and said with a smile, "There is no need for those empty ones. On the contrary, you have worked hard to explore oil abroad. How are you all in?

"I'm happy to have mined oil, of course." Sha Mingyin held the walkie-talkie in one hand and said happily, "We usually hand over the shift at 7 a.m. At 6 a.m. this morning, the shift changers are almost there."

"Are there any people who live in the desert camp?"

"Some people are not used to living on the sea. However, they got up earlier. Some workers had to get up at 4 o'clock for dinner. While it was not hot, they took a car for more than an hour to the seaside, and then boarded the boat to work. We stipulate that we have to work 6 hours in a row in the morning to rest, and this time is also the time for maintenance. Sha Mingyin said it naturally, as if it were at brunch.

If it is in China. Su Cheng may not feel it yet, but standing in the shallow sea near the desert, Su Cheng felt that he was going to be cooked and couldn't help saying, "In this case, you have to work for 6 hours in a row?"

Sha Mingyin was stunned for a moment and said with a smile, "You speak like those foreign experts. Now is the most comfortable time. By noon and afternoon, the iron railings of the drilling platform could not be grasped, which was hot.

"What do foreign workers do?"

"They work for 4 hours in the morning and have a rest. Normally, I should work another 4 hours in the afternoon, but recently. The highest temperature at noon is 50 degrees Celsius, so they take it for granted to rest. Sometimes they have to wait until the sun is about to set before they work for another 2 hours. At the end of the day, the total working hours are only 6 hours. Shaming's Indian language is disdainful.

In fact, even if it is 4 hours, it is not easy in Sioux City. It is estimated that those well-fed Abu Dhabi workers are unwilling to go to the well.

Seeing that Su Cheng didn't think so, Sha Mingyin said again, "Don't see that their working hours are only two hours less than ours. Over time, the work efficiency has been reduced by more than 30%. In fact, if you get up two hours early, all the problems will be solved, when it is the hottest day. We only send inspectors, and we won't send workers in large quantities.

Su Cheng hesitated for a moment and said, "Is the output stable?"

"The daily production is 30,000 to 35,000 barrels, and there is no trend of attenuation."

Su Cheng nod his head and said, "In this case, why don't you add more workers?"

"You can't add additional workers. The number of people living on the drilling platform is limited. The speaker is not Sha Mingyin, but a young worker eavesdropping. He is about 20 years old. He only wears work clothes on his upper body, without a sweatshirt inside, and his hair is extremely short, which shows that he is afraid of heat.

Seeing that Su Cheng was not unhappy, Sha Mingyin introduced, "This is Han Wo. It was recruited by Dahua during the national recruitment. It can endure hardships and is very flexible. There is no place for him to go to our drilling platform."

The whole platform has a height of 20 floors. Like a building in the middle, there is a seven- or eight-story steel structure, which is very complicated. How to touch the pipeline during maintenance is a rather complicated topic.

Seeing that he was only a few years younger than himself, Su Cheng couldn't help but soften his tone and said, "You can't add more workers. How do you think you can reduce the work pressure on the drilling platform?"

Han Wo jumped off the top carelessly and said, "Workers live on the drilling platform every day. Whoever works overtime doesn't work overtime. How can he care so much? If you have time, it's better to send more living materials..."

"Don't you have enough living materials?" Su Cheng's face was full of seriousness.

"There's enough food, but it's useless. The magazine is delivered every two months, and the TV has no signal. The worst thing is that there is no phone." Han Wo counted his fingers, and there was still expectation in his eyes.

Sha Mingyin smiled bitterly and said, "Don't listen to him. The drilling platform can only use satellite phones. Except for emergencies, who can use it? It costs a few yuan a minute!"

"Pull a telephone line to the drilling platform." Han Wo's words are children's words.

He also seemed to know that it was a little unrealistic, so his tone was quite frustrated.

Sioux City is silent. It is more than 200 kilometers away from the offshore drilling platform to Abu Dhabi. With the technology of this era, the one-time investment in pulling telephone lines is too large, and Emirates Telecom will not provide such services.

The main problem with satellite phones is that they are expensive, because it is not uncommon to make calls through satellites for $10 a minute. Although the salary of Chinese workers has been raised to the standard of 1,000 yuan, it is not enough to consume phone calls.

"Can you go back to the city in batches?" Su Cheng searched for a solution.

Sha Mingyin whispered, "The drilling platform is too far to the city. It takes most of the day to go back and forth. If you miss work, if you don't have time at night, you have to live in Abu Dhabi. It's too expensive. Moreover, many workers can't speak a foreign language and have to be followed by a translator. After we came to the platform, we never went out again.

Su Cheng's heart trembled when he heard it.

Oil is always buried in areas with inaccessible and poor natural conditions, such as Sha Mingyin and others may have long been used to this kind of simple life. In fact, they also know that the prosperity of Abu Dhabi was far better than the flashy capital of Beijing in 1989. The fact that these workers can't stand it represents a mentality.

"I offer oil to my motherland!" It is far from a slogan. The reason why the word "offering" is used is that the hard work requires lofty reasons.

Su Cheng's hand grabbed the hot railing and asked Sha Mingyin, "How long haven't you been home? How's your family?"

"I made so much money in a month, and my family is doing well. It's just that the child is still young and ignorant. Sometimes I ask my father... In fact, I'm used to it. When I was in the exploration team, I still ran day and night. Sha Mingyin's black face is rough like sand and stone, occasionally showing a gentle look, which is quite astringent.

"When you are in the exploration team, you can at least call home." Su Cheng sighed and said, "Well, let's get a satellite phone on the drilling platform. Each of our workers can call home for 10 minutes every month. The company pays the bill, and the time is optional.

Sha Mingyin was stunned, grabbed Su Cheng and said, "Do you know how much it costs?"

"10 minutes of phone call, 100 dollars a month, that is 400 yuan..." Su Cheng pretends to be relaxed. The rise in labor costs is a serious problem that no company does. It is not wise to take the initiative to raise labor costs. However, sometimes things in the world can't be too wise.

Sha Mingyin said, "I use US dollars to make satellite phone calls. It's real US dollars. Isn't it just to dig oil overseas to earn some US dollars? How can it be so bad?"

It's Han Wo. Although he was looking forward to it, he still clenched his fist and refused, "If you take 100 dollars home, you can exchange it for 700 yuan. It's too expensive. It's the same for us to write letters."

Su Cheng disapproved and said, "It feels different to write a letter and make a phone call. We don't have the Internet now... Alas, just treat it as company benefits."

"No way!" Sha Mingyin said, "Do you know which country is the richest in the Persian Gulf?"

"America?"

"The richest people are the Japanese, and the best welfare is the French. They don't dare to let workers make satellite calls for free. At most, they go home more than we can and give more subsidies. They are still developed countries. Sha Mingyin gritted his teeth and said, "At worst, I organize people to go to Abu Dhabi every month to make a special phone call. Even if long-distance calls are expensive, they are not as ridiculous as satellite phones..."

"You don't have to count so clearly." Su Cheng could see that everyone actually wanted to make a phone call. If you think about it carefully, compared with the oil production of 30,000 barrels per day, the welfare investment of tens of thousands of dollars per month is nothing.

Seeing that there were more workers in front of him, he thought about it, looked up and said word by word, "Dahua Industry thanks everyone for your high-quality service overseas. Every overseas worker is paid by the company, and he can make a satellite phone call for 10 minutes a month. If the call is not finished in the same month, it can also be kept for the next month. In the future, no matter where the business of Dahua Industry goes, this benefit will be guaranteed as a basic guarantee!"

The cheers suddenly rose. Although Sha Mingyin felt it was a waste, the warm current between his chest and abdomen made him speechless.