Chapter 2099 The Predecessor of BP

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There is nothing to write about in the award ceremony, the focus is on the celebration banquet after winning the championship.

The team took the bus back to Liverpool overnight, and the fans who drove to Wales followed closely. The long convoy of hundreds of cars was spectacular. From the air, it looked like a golden dragon returning from victory. This scene was also photographed by the BBC helicopter. Live broadcast to audiences around the world.

While lamenting the enthusiasm of the Liverpool fans, everyone can't help but envy the relationship between the team and the fans, but this cannot be learned, it is the accumulation of emotions over the past few decades.

Liverpool's victory is also the face of the UK. How can the BBC let go of this opportunity to show off? After the live broadcast, they will arrange people to attend the celebration banquet, and then report on video.

Immediately afterwards, the players and their families met and flew to London together on a chartered flight. Yang Cheng generously arranged for the Ritz London as the venue for the celebration banquet. There were also a lot of London celebrities participating in the celebration banquet. Today, because it was too late, the championship parade Was put on the next day.

I didn't want to make such a fuss, but after asking around, there is no high-end hotel in Liverpool, so I might as well fly to London with some effort.

At the celebration banquet, Yang Cheng took out the championship ring carefully crafted by Cartier. Everyone in the first team has a share, and of course the coaching team.

However, there is still a difference between the rings of the main players and the substitute players. The difference is not big, but the number of diamonds is less.

Of course, the bonuses of the sponsors were cashed out on the spot. The main players each had at least 500,000 pounds in bonuses, and the least staff members also received 100,000 pounds in bonuses.

At the celebration banquet, there were countless top-quality ingredients and good wine to drink. At the beginning, the players who were wearing suits and leather shoes were a little bit over the top later.

But this kind of thing is really out of control, everyone is excited, do you want to spoil the fun? Besides, after a season of hard work, how can you not drink some wine when the harvest comes?

With the self-discipline of a professional player, drinking this once a year is really not a big deal. At worst, you can make up for it by practicing for a few more hours later.

But when everyone was having fun, Yang Cheng got together with Abu and Conrad.

"What's the situation?" Yang Cheng frowned and asked, because of the Champions League today, he didn't pay attention to BP's movements at all.

Conrad said,

"I received news that BP was going to develop a press conference to explain this incident, but it was stopped by their CEO at the last moment."

"CEO? Who is the current CEO?"

"Bob Dudley~" Abu whispered.

"He did it this time?"

"No, I heard that it was Bernard Rooney, the head of BP's upstream business, who first proposed it, and I heard that he is the main candidate for the next CEO."

Yang Cheng raised her eyebrows and asked, "What? Does he want to step on us?"

Conrad shrugged, "I don't rule out the possibility, but it's not important. The important thing is what BP will do next."

"It's nothing more than a game, let's see ZF's attitude~" Abu said disdainfully, he has a deep grudge about the relationship with ZF.

However, what he said has some truth. On the surface, BP is a private oil company, but in its 100-year history, it has been a state-controlled company for 73 years.

Of course, the British government does not interfere with the normal operation of the company, but due to the strategic significance of oil, the British government continues to use diplomatic, military and even 007-like methods to safeguard the interests of BP, which is the national interest, so from a certain level Generally speaking, BP and the British government are interdependent.

However, BP is indeed a private company, and its growth history is also related to a person, this person is William Knox Darcy.

On May 28, 1901, Aldin Khan, king of the Persian dynasty, signed a charter to give Darcy a privilege: allowing him to develop and utilize natural gas and oil in the whole of Persia except the five northern provinces within 60 years And other products, and can be shipped and sold, the Persian government can get 20,000 pounds in cash and 20,000 pounds in shares, as well as 16% of the net profit. Yunnan

Darcy immigrated to Queensland, Australia with his father in his early years, where he got his first pot of gold by developing the Morgan Hill gold mine. In 1889, his family moved back to England, where he bought properties in London and the countryside extensively, and gradually established contact with the upper class.

Out of the businessman's sensitivity, he noticed a report by the French geologist Jacob Morgan on the prospect of Persian oil very early. Taberge was reunited in Paris, who asked him if any British capitalists were interested in oil concessions.

After hearing the news, Darcy consulted the famous British oil expert Redwood in detail. Although he was cautious, he decided to seize this opportunity.

On the one hand, he quickly sent his cousin Marriott as his plenipotentiary representative to Tehran for negotiations; on the other hand, he asked Redwood to send experts to Persia for on-site investigation.

At this time, the Persian Empire was in a period of financial stress. The king was in desperate need of money, and Darcy paid 10,000 pounds to Kitaberge in private to help dredge the relationship between the government, so Marriott went very smoothly, and it took only five weeks to get it. The king's authorization and the experts' opinions are also gratifying: Persia's local geological conditions are favorable, and it is worth investing heavily in exploration, which will surely generate huge business opportunities.

However, the exploration process is full of twists and turns, and the presence of oil does not mean that there is oil, and the presence of oil does not mean that there is sufficient commercial value.

Oil exploration is like a big gamble, similar to futures market transactions. If you don’t have enough funds to cover your positions, you may not see a successful day. Even if you can continue to cover your positions, you may end up with nothing.

Darcy hired George Reynolds, an engineer who had worked at Royal Dutch Petroleum in Sumatra (the predecessor of Shell Oil), to run the exploration.

This person graduated from Asan's Polytechnic Institute. He has a reputation of frugality, restraint, dedication, professionalism, and can bear hardships. He arrived in Tehran in September 1901 and began formal drilling in November 1902. During the preparation work of more than a year , Reynolds encountered a lot of trouble.

First of all, the local feudal leaders did not agree with the king's concession arrangement, so they demanded high prices and kept asking for benefits. Secondly, high temperature, water pollution and mosquitoes seriously affected the health of the prospectors.

Reports in early 1903 indicated that exploration was going well, and Darcy decided to set up an oil exploration company and raised a share capital of £600,000, of which he personally took £350,000.

In fact, this oil well will soon have no stamina. In order to raise new funds, Darcy visited many people, including the British Admiralty. He told the Admiralty that if there is no money to continue exploration, this treasure land will belong to the Russians. .

The Navy did not help, and then Darcy used his Morgan Hill gold mine shares as collateral, hoping to get the support of the famous Rothschild family.

He met with Alfonso Rothschild in Cannes, France, and told him about the oil prospects in Persia. He deliberately concealed the fact that there was very little oil output.

But in fact, this is a trick in the face. As the largest financial institution in Europe, the Rothschild family has been involved in the polar bear’s Baku oil field as early as 1886. They did not support Darcy. This may seem wise at the time, but if If Rothschild intervenes in Darcy's business, most of the global resource map in the 20th century will belong to the Roche family. Until now, the Roche family still controls the world's iron ore industry. Every spring, the steel giants in country Z have to Bite the bullet and endure the price torture of Roche-controlled BHP Billiton.

No way, the oil expert Redwood introduced Burma Petroleum Company to Darcy. The company was founded in 1886 by several Scots including Cargill and headquartered in London. It mainly exploits oil in Burma and sells it to India and other Southeast Asian regions. , Burma is the old name of Myanmar.

After Redwood sold his patented technology for refining oil, he has been serving as a consultant to Burma. Out of respect and importance to Redwood and his desire for oil sources, in November 1904, Cargill quickly reached an agreement with Darcy. An agreement was signed to cooperate in the exploration of Persian oil.

Darcy is based in London, with only one secretary in charge of the overall situation, while Burma sends someone to take charge of the exploration and management of Persia.

Until the spring of 1908, after successive attempts in several places in Persia, there was still no progress in oil exploration. The Burma Company had no choice but to inform Darcy, "My buddy is really out of money, and you need to find a way to solve the rest."

After weighing, Darcy ignored Burma. He understood that Burma was already locked up like him. If he really had no money, Burma would have to continue if he bit the bullet and put it on his own.

Sure enough, Burma obediently took out 40,000 pounds to continue the exploration. On the morning of May 26 this year, when the drilling rig reached 1,180 feet, the oil well in Muskegad Suleiman erupted a 25-meter-high blast. Boiling oil flow, this is the first eruption of oil in the Middle East!

On April 19, 1909, the Anglo-Polish Petroleum Company was established, with 1 million ordinary shares and 1 million preferred shares (6% discount), of which 600,000 preferred shares and 600,000 corporate credit bonds were held in banks in London and Glasgow Open to the public for subscription.

Cargill wrote to Burma's partners the next day, claiming that he had never seen so many people flocking into the bank to wait for the purchase, and it took more than five hours to stand at the counter.

Burma owned almost all the common shares of Anglo-Persian and all the assets of the oil exploration company, and Darcy acquired 170,000 shares of Burma.

And Darcy obtained huge returns through this method of stock exchange, and gradually faded out of the new company's business. Charles Greenway, the director of Burma Company, served as the president of the British-Polish Company.

Thus, the commercialized oil era in the Middle East began. For a hundred years, around oil, countless entrepreneurs, entrepreneurs, businessmen, soldiers and ordinary people have been involved in this magnificent development of the world economy and industry. In history, BP Petroleum has gradually grown along with this historical process and has become one of the most powerful energy companies in the world!

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