When Xiao Feng saw Bella's posture, he could not understand what she meant, but it was not convenient to express his opinion here.

After chatting with Bella and Daliang about the construction of Ithaca City, Xiao Feng returned to the villa.

His villa was left by the Li family. After the Li family's power was removed from Ithaca, their family's property was taken over.

Many of the high-quality real estate properties ended up in Xiao Feng's hands. This villa is his and Jesse, who are now in the Ithaca area.

After resting in the villa for a night, Bella called the next morning and said that two tankers had come from the dock and asked him to go over and take a look.

Xiao Feng drove to the pier, and when he arrived at the pier, he found that there were two 10,000-ton tankers. The captain was a hairy bear named Andrei.

When I saw Xiao Feng, I was very polite and took out the satellite phone and called Liu Jin.

Liu Jin told Xiao Feng on the phone that these two ships were the oil he brought from Venezuela, and they were of relatively good quality.

Xiao Feng didn't understand very well, so he asked Bella to find someone to take a look on the boat. It was still the heavy oil from Venezuela, but the quality was quite good.

However, now he does not have a reserve warehouse at the dock, and there is no place to put the oil after it is unloaded.

Bella immediately took out the phone and contacted the people from Tongguo Petroleum Corporation. After the situation was communicated, Tongguo Petroleum immediately agreed to take over the heavy oil.

And they were asked to send the oil to the refinery in Aconcagua, and they also guaranteed that they would provide them with affordable diesel based on the output of the oil.

However, the other party will send someone to test the quality of the oil today and then finalize the contract.

Xiao Feng communicated with Captain Andre, who was led by Mao Xiong, and asked them if they could send the oil to the refinery in Akongcagua. The other party didn't care where the oil was sent. Anyway, as long as Xiao Feng gave the money, it would be fine.

According to the price of twenty dollars a barrel, Xiao Feng of the two ships had to pay about two million US dollars.

Two million US dollars are not much, the key is that this business is still profitable.

The Aconcagua Refinery is a subsidiary of Copper Country Petroleum and the closest oil refinery to Ithaca region, right between Ithaca region and Santiago.

At around 10 o'clock in the morning, the representative of Tongguo Petroleum arrived, and a team of more than a dozen people arrived in a helicopter.

The reason why they are so active is that they give Bella Chen a face, because they have worked with the Chen family before.

Secondly, it is because the Tongguo Kingdom is really short of oil. Even though Tongguo Oil Company is the largest oil company in Tongguo Kingdom, the United States' Chevron accounts for the majority of sales in the Tongguo market.

Tongguo Petroleum has always lacked its own raw material supply. Some time ago, due to the tight imports of crude oil, they even announced a price increase.

The takeover caused a series of chain reactions, the power plants also raised prices, the freight companies also raised prices, and the subways finally raised prices, which led to the previous major campaign.

Later, the government came forward to settle the big movement, but Tongguo Petroleum also fell into trouble and had to adjust the oil price back to its previous price.

But in this way, they won't make much money.

So some time ago, they had to sign an agreement with Ecuador to invest 37 million US dollars to increase the exploitation of oil fields in Ecuador.

But Ecuador's oil fields cannot produce any high-quality crude oil, which is similar to the heavy oil from Venezuela.

If they had been able to return to refine the low-priced heavy oil imported from Venezuela in the past, the problem now is that the United States has not succeeded in coup dating in Venezuela.

So he issued a policy to sanction the Investor State, which made no one dare to import the Investor State heavy oil, which would lead to higher costs of Copper State Petroleum.

Although I heard that Venezuelan Petroleum is now exclusively represented by Mao Xiongguo ROSNEFT, because I am afraid of the United States, Tongguo Petroleum dare not have any contact with ROSNEFT.

This time they heard that Bella could bring Venezuelan Petroleum, but they were very happy.

Anyway, they didn't go in contact with the Venezuelans, and their oil was not bought from ROSNEFT. Even if the Americans wanted to deal with them, they had no idea how to start.

The quality inspection personnel of Tongguo Petroleum quickly boarded the ship to check the oil on the tanker, which was indeed heavy oil from Venezuela.

This kind of inferior oil was used a lot in the past by the Copper Kingdom, so they also had a lot of experience in refining. It was nothing more than heating it at high temperature, then adding hydrogen to it, and then it became high-quality fuel.

However, the cost here will be higher, such as waste gas will be generated during heating, and the liquid hydrogen used for hydrogenation is not cheap.

But as long as mass production is produced, the cost can still be achieved.

After the quality inspection staff of Tongguo Petroleum completed the inspection, the person in charge of the negotiations started talking to Bella.

Xiao Feng did not show up in this negotiation, but he wanted to see Bella's negotiation ability.

Sure enough, Bella did not disappoint Xiao Feng. The price of a barrel of heavy oil was increased by ten dollars by her, and finally sold for thirty dollars per barrel.

Xiao Feng was stunned after hearing this. You must know that the price of buying these heavy oil from Liu Jin was only twenty dollars a barrel.

Now he earned ten dollars per barrel by reselling. He really didn't expect the consequences.

Xiao Feng was also very happy after knowing the final negotiation result, but he could only make so much money by changing hands. If this continues, it won’t take long to become an oil tycoon!

After Bella learned about his purchase price, she also exclaimed a few times. She didn't expect that Xiao Feng could get such a low-priced heavy oil.

After taking these oils back, Tongguo Petroleum was purified and refined in the processing plant, the cost per barrel was increased by another ten dollars.

But even so, the cost of a barrel of heavy oil rose to 40 US dollars, and Tongguo Petroleum did not lose.

Because the international crude oil price this morning, the New York Stock Exchange quoted 51 US dollars per barrel.

In other words, the profit per barrel of Copper Country Oil still has about eleven US dollars.

So no matter how you look at it, it is a transaction that makes money from all three parties!

So who lost money in this business in the end?

"Of course they are the people of the country? But this is also their own fault. They do not have the lives of the Americans, but they are also sick of the Americans!"

Bella finally analyzed to Xiao Feng that Xiao Feng didn’t know much about the situation in the Venezuelan country, but as a native of South America, Bella could not know much about the situation there.

"How do you say this?"

As soon as Xiao Feng asked, Bella explained to Xiao Feng.

"When General Cha came to power, he gave the people a lot of benefits in order to gain support from the people. The most important thing is that he greatly improved the people's welfare. At that time, international oil prices were at a high price. At that time, they could buy 120 US dollars per barrel of oil. At that time, even if the heavy oil produced by Venezuela was not of great quality, they would not have to worry about selling it."

Xiao Feng experienced that history. The reason why oil prices were so expensive at that time was entirely because of the international economy, which had just recovered from the subprime mortgage crisis caused by the Americans.

In addition, China's economic growth was very strong at that time, which led to consumption of all commodities in the world.

At that time, not only were the oil prices expensive, but iron ore, copper, soybeans, but all the commodities consumed by China were experiencing crazy prices.

Among them, the craziest price increase is oil, which can reach 120 to 30 US dollars per barrel when the price is the highest.

The high oil prices also dispelled Xiao Feng's idea of ​​buying a car at that time.

"But later, after the death of the President, the United States made breakthroughs in shale oil technology, the United States suddenly became a wealthy country from the world's largest crude oil importer, and even had to export large quantities of crude oil and natural gas. International oil prices were immediately defeated, and President Ma, who took over, was irritated. In order to maintain his rule, he could not reduce the welfare of the people, so he could only rely on borrowing foreign debts to maintain it, but in the end he could not maintain it. You would not have thought that a country that produces gold, non-ferrous metals, and various mineral resources would live like this..."

Bella was obviously not interested in the messy situation of Venezuela. When introducing him to Xiao Feng, she also explained the reason why Venezuela's economy was so bad.

Xiao Feng understood that as Bella said, Venezuela made such a fuss, it was entirely his own fault. He did not have the fate of the United States, but he had the disease of the United States.

Think about these countries in the South American continent, it seems that they have such diseases, such as Brazil and Argentina.

In order to take office, the president had to shout slogans during the election to improve the welfare of the people.

As a result, after taking office, in order to fulfill the benefits, we can only overdraw the country's future. A few years will be a cycle. In the end, if the country's economy cannot support it, it will have to collapse.

The most prominent example of this is Argentina. I don’t know how many times have I been going back and forth.

"Do you know how exaggerated the welfare of Venezuela is?"

Bella said, and Xiao Feng shook his head.

"In Venezuela, the price of a liter of oil is 0.095 bolivar, and 1 US dollar is about 6.30 bolivar. Let's put it this way, adding 40 liters of gasoline to a car is only equivalent to buying an egg locally, and it is even cheaper than a bottle of 355 ml of mineral water... You should know that the price of local water is 5 cents a gallon of about 3.79 liters."

"What? Damn!"

Hearing such a crazy oil price, Xiao Feng finally couldn't help but swear. Is this oil too cheap?

And then, Bella's words made him even more stunned.

"Yes, you heard it right. What's even more terrifying is that such gasoline prices have been maintained for nearly 20 years... The government not only did not make a penny profit from gasoline sales, but also had to subsidize nearly $20 billion in refining costs every year. No matter who wants to increase the oil price, even if it is to increase the oil price from the price of one egg to the price of two eggs, he will step down..."

“…”

Xiao Feng was speechless when he heard this. No wonder Venezuela's economy was so fucked.
Chapter completed!