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- The weather in Europe is particularly cold this year. In December, the average temperature is only 2 degrees, and many places are covered with ice and snow.
?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? The weather is getting colder and colder. For Europeans, the cold makes them even less willing to do things, so they usher in the beginning of the year lazily, feeling a little unmotivated about anything they do.
But it was at this time that Europeans also ushered in another cold spell.
After the natural gas price increase in early 2009, Russia officially announced on January 3 that the price of natural gas supplied to Europe will increase by another 18% this year, reaching 420 US dollars per thousand cubic meters!
As we all know, Europe is an energy-poor place, especially in developed countries such as Western Europe. Basically, all the resources they should have have been mined, so now they are basically rooted in Africa and absorb various mineral resources from Africa. For own use.
But natural gas, a resource related to national economy and people¡¯s livelihood issues, is not available in Africa. European countries need to import natural gas resources from the Middle East and Russia.
European countries¡¯ own natural gas self-sufficiency rate is about 30%, the remaining 30% is imported from several major oil-producing countries in the Middle East, and 40% is imported from Russia.
In fact, Russia is not the country with the largest natural gas reserves in the world. Iran does. They have 47.80 trillion cubic meters of storage. Russia has 47.57 trillion cubic meters, which is slightly inferior, while the United States ranks fifth.
However, Iran has always been sanctioned by the Western world, so their oil resources and natural gas are generally unable to be sold to European countries. Instead, they are sold to Asia. In the past two years, China's demand for Iranian energy imports has increased significantly, so it allows them to produce Excess natural gas and oil resources have been fully alleviated.
Although the United States has a vast territory and rich resources. Natural gas reserves are absolutely sufficient, but the key is that the United States implemented an "energy export ban" in the 1970s, prohibiting the export of energy, especially natural gas, because this would cause the price of their domestic resources to rise. Previous life to Xiao Qi in 2013 At the time of reincarnation, the price of energy such as natural gas, oil, electricity, water, etc. in the United States. Compared with China, it is simply too low, and it relies on the protection of this "energy export ban"!
Therefore, the only thing European countries can rely on is Russia, which is closest to them and most convenient for transporting natural gas. Therefore, the natural gas transported by Russia to Europe in recent years has basically been about 130 billion cubic meters every year.
Look at the dependence of European countries on Russian natural gas: Germany imports the most natural gas from Russia every year, with 34.5 billion cubic meters, accounting for 42% of their total consumption; Turkey follows closely with 400 million cubic meters, accounting for 42% of their total consumption. 67%. Italy is 22 billion cubic meters, accounting for 28% of total consumption, the United Kingdom is 15.2 billion cubic meters, accounting for 16% of total consumption, and France is 10.1 billion cubic meters, accounting for 24% of total consumption.
Except for these developed countries, the total import volume of other small European countries is not large, but their dependence on Russian natural gas is very high. Hungary is 63%, and Jack is 80%. Poland imports 52%, while Croatia, Slovakia, and Bulgaria import almost 100% of Russian natural gas.
And Russia¡¯s natural ally is Ukraine. That is to say, the future will vacillate between the EU and Russia. Experts predicted at the end of 2013 that either a huge change or a war would break out next year. The country's dependence on Russian natural gas is 36%.
It can be said that as soon as Russia says it wants to increase natural gas prices, the natural gas markets in these countries will have a huge shock.
The EU is very dissatisfied with Russia¡¯s rogue behavior of increasing prices every year. They immediately lodged a protest with Russia.
However, if protests are useful, then armies and strength are useless.
Especially natural gas is hard currency and an energy source that everyone must use, and these are all shipped from Russia. Do you like it or not? Anyway, I¡¯m going to raise the price. If you want to buy it, just add more money.
Seeing that Russia's attitude was so resolute, the first and biggest reaction was the three natural gas companies in Germany. On the one hand, they sent negotiations to Russia, and on the other hand, they made an emergency announcement. From now on, the price of natural gas will rise by 18%, all of which will The pressure has been passed on to the users.
Of course the Germans are not happy. Why do you raise prices just because you say they will?
But on the one hand, the Germans don¡¯t like to cause trouble, and they are more amenable to strict social systems. On the other hand, they also know that Russia is causing trouble, so large-scale protests did not occur.
But the UK, France, Spain and Italy, which announced price increases at the same time, are not having it so easy.
Especially in Spain and Italy, the treasury is already so poor that public expenditures have been cut to the extreme, and even pensions have been delayed. When the price of energy, which is necessary for life, rises again, it is still this extremely cold winter. ,This caused protests of hundreds of thousands of people to erupt again in several countries, with great momentum.
Developed countries like the UK and France are not having it easy either. In recent years of economic downturn, their natural gas operations have been in trouble. Now that Russia has raised prices again, they have no choice but to follow the price increase, but they have been directly affected. The government's harsh criticism has left us in a state of disarray.
It was at this time that Li Dachao, with a group of entourage, walked majestically into Northern and Yorkshire Gas Network Co., Ltd., one of the British natural gas terminal giants.
The British natural gas market is basically a monopoly mechanism. Natural gas is transported to every corner of the UK from offshore gas fields and underground transportation pipelines by British Gas Company and others.
By region, the UK is divided into eight natural gas supplier networks, namely Scotland, North and Yorkshire, Central and East England and East of England, Central and West England, Wales and South West, South and South East, and East London.
All British natural gas users, whether you are a company user or an individual user, can only purchase natural gas from these eight natural gas suppliers, because the natural gas coming from various channels will only be transported to their warehouses and pipelines, and it cannot be purchased again. There is a ninth company that can provide natural gas.
But such a monopoly has not brought much good luck to the eight major natural gas suppliers. Most of them have been losing money in recent years. The only one that can make money is the natural gas network provider in east London, backed by the essence of the United Kingdom. In London, their natural gas prices are the most expensive and they have the largest consumer market.
Apart from that, everyone is competing to see who loses more.
The largest loss maker last year was Northern and Yorkshire Gas Networks Limited, with a net loss of ¡ê42 million.
¡°But the natural gas network is a semi-public utility and part of the infrastructure. The profit margin is limited, so if they want to sell it, they can¡¯t find anyone to take it over.
And the current pressure to increase prices has put them under even greater pressure. Protests in their subordinate regions are very serious, making everyone in their company panic.
When Li Dachao walked into this company, he could clearly feel the panic in their hearts, and the joy in their hearts when they saw him coming to negotiate.
Qi Shao is really insightful!
Li Dachao couldn't help but sigh.
It¡¯s no wonder that Dad asked him to have a good relationship with Qi Shao. Even if Qi Shao has a better relationship with his second son, he still needs his intelligence, power and wealth to help him. That¡¯s why there is such a Changyu Group.
Originally, in Europe, Britain, Australia and other countries, the Li family had been doing preliminary preparations. If Xiao Qi intervened like this, it would of course reduce the Li family's profits.
Li Dachao was a little unhappy. You, Xiao Qi, are so rich and yet you are taking advantage of us!
But through his first negotiation with Duke Sage and others, Li Dachao realized Xiao Qi's huge influence, which could help him integrate into British investment more easily.
And Branson of the Virgin Group also took great care of Li Dachao. He specially sent people to help him sort out all aspects of the relationship in the UK, so that Changyu Group's treatment in the UK was quite high and many detours were avoided.
This is even more true now. If Qi Shao hadn¡¯t told him about the natural gas accident, he would probably have bought this company that he had already taken a fancy to last year.
In that case, the price will not be today¡¯s cheap price!
Of course Li Dachao, who sighed, would not have known that if Xiao Qi had not told him this in advance, he would have reached an acquisition agreement with Northern and Yorkshire Natural Gas Network Co., Ltd. at the end of last year, and the acquisition price was US$1 billion.
Because the time to enter is very urgent, this price is much more expensive than the US$900 million paid by Li Dachao to acquire Wales and South West Natural Gas Network Co., Ltd. two years later.
Now Li Dachao can buy it for up to 800 million US dollars, and because the debt ratio of Northern and Yorkshire Natural Gas Network Co., Ltd. is too high, maybe 600 million can be bought. After all, because of the recession in the past two years, they owe The debt exceeds $500 million!
Of course, when Li Dachao acquired Wales and South West Natural Gas Network Co., Ltd., in addition to US$900 million in cash, their company's debts were as high as US$1.8 billion, so it is still cheaper now.
Before Xiao Qi was reincarnated in his previous life, the Li family only bought these two natural gas network companies and controlled the gas consumption of 30% of British residents. People exclaimed that he controlled the British gas consumption.
In Xiao Qi¡¯s view, this is not enough. If the most elite East London Natural Gas Network Company in the UK is added to it, reaching about 50%, then it will really have enough capital to gain a foothold
It is even better to buy a part of the upstream exploration, production and gas supply company British Gas, so that half of the industrial chain is occupied, which is a better resource allocation.
To achieve this goal, Li Dachao must continue to work hard! (To be continued.) - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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