Chapter 175 Escort Operation
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Juarez, Mexico, where the headquarters of the International Risk Consulting Company is located. Ivankov received a new order from Sergey not long ago. Sergey asked him to select some elite soldiers and special forces who had participated in the Battle of Guantanamo to go to the Red Sea to escort the tankers of the Mediterranean Trading Company.
Yuri and his wife Terkina, who finished their honeymoon a few months ago, also came to Juárez. As Ivankov's old partner, the cooperation between them has always been very tacit. Moreover, Yuri and Ivankov have a good cooperative relationship with drug dealers in Latin America. With Yuri in charge, the two can work together to do a good job in the business of Aztec Bank and International Risk Consulting Company.
Seriosha attaches great importance to international risk consulting companies, because dealing with drug dealers, without an armed force that can suppress the battle, it is absolutely impossible to gain a foothold in Latin America. However, Seryozha’s positioning of the international risk consulting company is not an armed force to protect its own security. Now Ivankov and Yuri have legal identities recognized by the US government. They are members of the Polish opposition vigorously supported by the US government. The senior cadres, Yuri and Ivankov, can build a mercenary company for the Gorky Brotherhood under the US policy of fostering militants of the Polish opposition. Seriosha's positioning of the international risk consulting company is to deal with some thorny issues of international security, just like the famous Blackwater Company in later generations.
The most difficult thing facing Sergei now is the attack on the tanker of the Mediterranean Trading Company. The Iran-Iraq War has entered its eighth year, and now both sides have even used chemical weapons. Under such circumstances, there is nothing incomprehensible about the attack on ships launched by Iraq. In the Iran-Iraq War, both the Soviet Union and the United States were biased towards the Iraqi side, but because of the American hostages in Iran's hands and other issues, the United States and the Soviet Union did not directly intervene in the war. In this case, tankers traveling in the Red Sea are directly exposed to risk.
It is inconvenient for the government to take action, so it can only be handled by the company. As a project supported by the U.S. government, the International Risk Consulting Company specially hired retired military officers from the Delta Special Forces as daily training instructors, and the sources of soldiers included not only Soviet soldiers who defected from Afghanistan, Polish immigrants, but also some Mexicans. Most of the weapons are also purchased from American arms companies. In just a few months, this team has now begun to take shape and has a certain combat effectiveness.
For this escort mission, Ivankov selected about 100 experienced veterans from the International Risk Consulting Company. A special plane was chartered to fly them to Italy. They will board the ship in Italy to participate in the escort work of the tanker.
Not long ago, the Nok Nevis, the longest oil tanker in the world, was sunk by the Iraqi Air Force with an Exocet missile, which made many oil tankers passing through the Suez Canal feel shadowy. In order to complete the escort mission, the international risk consulting company can only spend a lot of money to purchase advanced air defense weapons from the United States. However, the weapons that can deal with Exocet missiles are usually complete sets of anti-missile systems. It is impossible for the United States to sell this kind of thing to the International Risk Consulting Company. Therefore, the injured anti-aircraft missiles of the International Risk Consulting Company are mainly used to deal with the aircraft of the Iraqi Air Force.
Try to nip the danger in the bud.
When the employees of the international risk consulting company arrived in Italy, they were quickly assigned to escort duties on the Panamax-class ocean-going tanker of Mediterranean Shipping Company. Each oil tanker will assign five escorts, who will carry a set of anti-aircraft weapons to cross the Suez Canal and the Red Sea with the ship. When the oil tanker leaves the danger zone, the international risk consulting company will send a helicopter to pick up their employees and return to Italy. Next escort mission.
Sergesha knew that the current strength of the International Risk Consulting Company was not enough to deal with the Iraqi Air Force, but he couldn't bear the fact that his oil tanker was bombed and sank without even being able to fight back. As for how much safety the escort of the international risk consulting company can guarantee, it is still hard to say. Glencore's spot oil business fundamentally determines that even if the Red Sea is a dragon's pond and a tiger's den, Glencore has to take the risk of passing through it.
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After learning the news of the public sale of the Samotloor Oilfield, Mark Rich's deputy, Greene, couldn't wait to apply to the Soviet Embassy in Switzerland. With the official approval of the Soviet Union, Greene came to Moscow smoothly. In order to avoid suspicion, Green did not take the initiative to meet with Seryozha, but Seryozha still helped Green a lot. He got a detailed assessment report on the Samotlol Oilfield from Chernomyrdin. All the data are basically true. Now the daily output of the Samotlore Oilfield is about 1.5 million barrels. Although this output is still number one in the world, it is far from the peak of the Samotlore Oilfield. The record production of 3 million barrels of crude oil per day has fallen in half. And the most terrible thing is that the water content of the Samotloor Oilfield is still rising, and it has now reached 70%. That is to say, only 30% of the ground liquid that comes up is oil.
After Green received the report, he immediately sent it to Glencore headquarters through secure channels for evaluation. According to this report, the opinions given by Glencore's oil exploration experts are not particularly pessimistic. Samote The Lore Oilfield is still salvageable, but another five billion US dollars needs to be invested to solve the problem of high water content in the oilfield. During this period, the output of the Samot Lore Oilfield can only be maintained at the level of 300,000 barrels.
Green and Mark Rich agreed that the deal was not a loss, if it weren't for the financial situation of the Soviet government, and there was a more well-developed Baku, the second Baku as an alternative. The Soviet government will not give up this oil field. The risks and uncertainties faced by spot oil are too great. With the Samotlore oil field, Glencore will have a sustainable oil supply in the future. In this case, Gorky Financial Group can even acquire an oil refinery Enter the petroleum refining industry.
After summarizing various opinions, Seryozha has made up his mind to win the Samotloor Oilfield. However, before the bidding is officially launched, Seryozha still has to find several oil companies with no strength to participate in the bidding meeting with Glencore. Only in this way will the bidding meeting look like an open and fair one. , Fair business competition.