Chapter 254 Eurasian Natural Gas Group
The independence of Lithuania set a very bad precedent among the republics of the Soviet Union, followed by the Estonian and Latvian Supreme Soviet Conferences also announced the start of the independence process. Therefore, for Gorbachev and the Soviet central government, the 28th Congress of the CPSU was already the last chance for the Soviet Union to unite the country.
Although Lithuania has declared independence, the Communist Party of Lithuania has split, and from the perspective of the Soviet Union's constitutional procedures, unilateral declaration of independence is invalid and must be officially recognized by the Supreme Soviet. Therefore, Lithuania still sent representatives to participate in the 28th Congress of the CPSU.
Sergey's electoral district is not in Leningrad. He was elected as a people's representative by the foreign economic and trade system. Therefore, the election of the people's deputies in the Leningrad area happened to leave a lot of vacancies for Sergey's team. Chuck, Yeltsin, Nastya, Gorman, and Pugachev were elected as people's representatives of the Leningrad region and thus entered the Leningrad Soviet Conference.
The original intention of this election was to allow the various political factions in the Soviet Union to temporarily unite and put conflicts on the table of the Supreme Soviet Conference for open discussion. As a result, many factions of the democratic establishment who have never held public office have appeared on the list of people's representatives. Based on this list alone, Seryozha could imagine what the 28th Congress would be like.
Although Seryozha's voice at the 28th National Congress is very high, and he is likely to make further progress in his official career, age has always been a blemish for Seryozha. Therefore, Yeltsin under Sergey's command has become a key support target. No matter in terms of age or resume, Yeltsin is a trump card in Sergey's hand. Now the cooperation between Sergey and Yeltsin has a good tacit understanding. Sergey can easily raise funds for various large-scale infrastructure constructions, and Yeltsin has rich experience in the management of these projects. It can help Seryozha deal with some trivial matters in the project process. Moreover, Yeltsin cherishes feathers very much now, and Seryozha will not worry that he will enrich himself. However, Sergei would not really deny the Yeltsin family some benefits. With his help, Yeltsin's daughter Tatyana now runs a board-building factory and is responsible for the huge natural gas pipeline of Sergesha. The project provides a part of residential boards to build houses. Because Seryozha's natural gas pipeline will run through the entire territory of the Russian Republic, the project is too huge, and it will have an immediate effect on stimulating the domestic industry of the Soviet Union. There are not many cubicle factories like this, so This small business of the Yeltsin family is not impressive at all.
The total investment of the entire natural gas pipeline project is nearly 200 billion U.S. dollars. After completion, the Gorky Financial Group will obtain the exclusive right to operate it for 50 years. This is a bot project that uses international funds to build. The so-called bot is the English abbreviation of buldoperatetransfer. Seryozha provided funds for the entire project through financial institutions under the Gorky Group, and then earned back costs and profits through operations, and finally transferred them to the Soviet government. The Soviet government did not need to spend a single penny during the whole process, but after 50 years, it will get a natural gas pipeline spanning the east and west of the Russian Republic, and areas including the Tyumen oil and gas fields and Siberia oil and gas fields will be connected by this pipeline. In addition, this pipeline will also extend northward in Leningrad, connecting the natural gas pipelines of Sweden, Finland, and Norway, and connecting southward with Central Asia and the existing natural gas pipelines in the Caucasus region. Finally, it will be connected to the completed pan-European natural gas pipeline project.
The whole project is so huge that even many European media call this pipeline the eighth wonder of mankind. In fact, the construction of this project has already started very early. The early stage exploration work of the project started when Sergey Shale went to Europe for financing. Later, because of the Georgian incident, European investors lacked confidence, so there was a large wave of divestment , the whole project was once in trouble.
At a critical moment, Columbia Bank took the initiative to revitalize the entire project. Later, Occidental Petroleum, Glencore, Enron Energy, British Gas, etc. all participated in it one after another. A brand-new company, the Eurasian Natural Gas Group, was also specially established subsequently.
In the future, Eurasian Natural Gas Group will be responsible for the pre-construction and post-operation work. Among the shareholders of the entire Eurasian Gas Group, Seriosha's Gorky Group directly or indirectly controls 60% of the shares, and the remaining 40% is mainly controlled by European investors. As for those investors who withdrew halfway, I am afraid that even their intestines are regretful now.
Because this is a bot project, completing the construction of the entire project one day earlier can generate profits one day earlier. Seryozha issued a death order for this, requiring that the main natural gas pipeline running through the east and west must be completed before the end of the year. It was under such harsh conditions that the entire natural gas pipeline project absorbed a large amount of labor at once, and even the engineering troops of the Soviet Red Army were invested in this project.
In Yeltsin’s hometown of Sverdlovsk, the Ural Heavy Machinery Plant, the pride of the Soviet Union’s heavy industry, is running at full capacity to produce steam turbines for the Eurasian natural gas pipeline project. In Ukraine, Dnepropetrovsk, Sufficient orders for the Eurasian natural gas pipeline project have revived many struggling steel companies.
Controlling natural gas has always been Seryozha's wish for many years, because oil resources have long been controlled by the Seven Petroleum Sisters. No matter how much Sergey fumbles, he can't make much waves, but natural gas is different. In the future, the electricity of the whole of Europe, The basic energy source of metallurgy and other industries is natural gas. Controlling natural gas is tantamount to choking the throat of the entire European industry. The stable profits brought by natural gas are incomparable to oil.
The Eurasian Gas Group has brought a glimmer of light to the precarious economy of the entire Soviet Union. Not only the whole of Europe, but even Japan and South Korea in the Far East are looking forward to the early commissioning of this project. Now Japan's desire for natural gas has reached an almost crazy level. It was precisely because of this bait that Seriosha obtained from Japan the natural gas pipeline production technology that the Soviet Union could not master for many years, and the key technology for the production of large gas turbines. Seryozha has now spread these technologies to the metallurgical industries of Ukraine, Russia and Poland. This has reduced the total cost of the entire natural gas pipeline project by a large margin. ...