Chapter 190 Enron Group
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Since Seryozha invested in Blackstone, he has never interfered with the company's operations. However, Mikhail will always receive company management reports from Peterson every few days. These reports are not only an important channel for Seryozha to supervise the operation of Blackstone, but also an opportunity for Seryozha to learn investment philosophy from Peterson. .
Seryozha's days as the Minister of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation of the Soviet Union are not short. However, because the Soviet Union was not a country with a market economy after all, he had a lot to learn from a senior person like Peterson who had served as the Secretary of Commerce of the United States. In addition, investment geniuses like Schwarzman are also the objects of Sergey Sha's study.
Over the years, Seryozha relied on the knowledge brought by his previous life and his foresight ability to get along like a fish in water, and avoided crises time and time again, all thanks to his career as a junior officer of the border guards in his previous life. . At that time, the only opportunity for Seryozha to get in touch with outside knowledge was the news broadcast besides books and newspapers. Thanks also to Serezha's good memory, many things have more or less an impression in his mind.
In the report just sent by the Blackstone Group, Seryozha saw a name that impressed him a bit—Enron. This company is an investment target that Peterson strongly recommends in the report. However, in Seryozha's impression, the company will go bankrupt after two thousand years because of financial fraud, the stock price will drop directly from 90 US dollars to 60 cents. At that time, Enron was a super large company that could rival energy giants such as ExxonMobil and BP.
However, the current Enron is not as large as it will be in the future. It is just an energy company with a reasonable scale. Enron's current business mainly involves the natural gas and electric power industries. It has several thermal power plants and 37,000 kilometers of natural gas pipelines in the United States. But their boss and founder Kenneth Ray is not satisfied with the current operation, and he has bigger ambitions.
Kenneth Ray is actively seeking investors on Wall Street. He has a brilliant idea of making money, which is to convert the thermal power plants in his hands into natural gas power plants, and at the same time look for low-priced natural gas in the global market to meet the needs of these power plants. In Lei's view, the price of natural gas is significantly lower than that of coal, and natural gas is a clean energy that basically does not cause any pollution to the environment. Ray believes natural gas represents the future of the U.S. electric power industry.
However, renovating power plants, expanding natural gas pipelines, and finding natural gas resources all require a lot of money. At present, there are few power plants that use natural gas as energy in the United States. The reason for the expansion is that the transformation of the power plant requires a lot of money. Many people are unwilling to take on heavy debts or dilute their shares for this.
However, Peterson still saw the bright spot in Kenneth Ray's business plan. He not only let the Blackstone Group invest in Enron Energy, but also invited Columbia Bank to provide financial support for Kenneth Ray's plan. Now even Seryozha is paying attention to the investment.
Among the Gorky-affiliated enterprises led by Sergei Sha,
Now there are four companies involved in the natural gas industry. They are Mediterranean Trading Company, Glencore Group, and Occidental Petroleum Company, which has just acquired a controlling stake. Partial interest in the pipeline. It can be said that Seryozha has plenty of cheap natural gas to meet the needs of the Enron Group.
Seryozha only considered for 30 seconds before agreeing to Peterson's proposal in the report. He told the Blackstone Group through Mikhail's mouth that investment is possible, but a controlling stake must be obtained.
After making a difficult decision, Kenneth Ray finally agreed to the request of Columbia Bank Holdings Enran Group. There is no way. With the economic downturn in the United States now, industrial capitalists cannot say no to financial capitalists. Even if the conditions are harsher, Kenneth Ray has no choice but to agree. So, after a series of market manipulations, the Gorky Brotherhood once again took control of a future energy giant. But more importantly, Seryozha gained access to the U.S. power generation industry and also owned 37,000 kilometers of natural gas pipelines in the United States.
The investment in Enron has opened a new window for Sergey Sha, and Sergey's previous layout of the European natural gas industry has finally come into play. Sergey once wanted to control the British electricity market, but now it seems that the American electricity market is more attractive. Most of Enron's current assets are located on the east coast, where the United States was first developed. There is a mature market here, and it is a major electricity consumption area in the United States. The eastern states of the United States are generally rich and have a huge demand for clean energy. It can find a market for the large amount of natural gas in the hands of the Glencore Group, which has a huge boost to the entire Gorky Brothers.
At this very moment, Seryozha is sitting in his villa in the village of Gork, monitoring his business in the Americas, while at the same time he is also concerned about the official turmoil in Georgia. Seryozha does not intend to return to Moscow during this time. The conflict between Shevardnadze and Ligachev is becoming more and more intense, which makes Moscow's officialdom very dangerous. It is wise to avoid the edge Besides, Seryozha finally had the opportunity to move to Gork Village, so naturally he had to relax.
The reason why the villa in Gork Village is so loved by Sergei is because living in Gork Village has a symbolic meaning. This is where Lenin lived with his wife Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya in his later years. After his death here, Lenin left a political will that was extremely hostile to Stalin. It is recommended that the Central Committee of the CPSU remove Stalin from all positions. This order is said to have originated from the pillow wind that Krupskaya gave Lenin. Krupskaya told Lenin that Stalin lacked respect for him, which made Lenin have a lot of opinions on Stalin. Less than a year after Lenin's death, Krupskaya was expelled from the village of Gork. And Gork Village has also become a sanctuary for the highest level of Soviet politics. Being able to live in Gork Village represents a kind of status and strength. Although the rank of Sergesha is the lowest among the residents of Gork Village, his villa is second only to the level of Politburo members in Gork Village.
Father Petrov now stays in Gork Village every day and is unwilling to go out. He said that he is the only commoner who has lived in both the Gulag and Gork Village since the founding of the Soviet Union. After sleeping for one night, he will have no regrets in his life.