“Welcome to Captain Cook’s Project Committee!”

"Mr. Matsk, it is a pleasure to meet you."

"I have long heard of Mr. Feng's name, and I am very much looking forward to working with Mr. Feng."

“That’s what we expected.”

“I think the cooperation between us would be very pleasant!”

“I think it will.”

The atmosphere when the two sides met was very harmonious.Matsk's face was very bright smile, which made people feel that this was a very warm and very sincere European uncle.As for Feng Xiaochen, he seemed very kind most of the time, and he could not see any sharpness, at least in Matsk's eyes.

After greeting each other, Matsk greeted Feng Xiaochen and his party to the conference room, the guest master took a seat, and after saying a few more scenes, Matsk introduced the head to the topic.

"Mr. von, Mr. Steyer of the British Fidelman Company, has told me that you have some interest in our Captain Cook project.In addition, Ms. Feng Shuyi of the Rutenberg Patent Office in Bonn, Germany, also entrusted our committee staff to convey this to me, saying that she was entrusted by you to convey the message.”Matsk said.

Feng Xiaochen nodded and said, "Yes, I entrusted Mr. Steyer to contact you."As for Ms. Feng Shuyi, she is my aunt, and I have also entrusted her with expressing to your committee the intention of cooperation.”

"That's great!Several of our committee's member companies have worked with Chinese companies and have been very impressed, and they have given very strong attention to Mr. Feng's intention to cooperate with us."

Matsk said beautiful words.He said in his heart, I am not lying, Heinzl gang, for the cooperation with China is indeed very impressed, they are also very concerned about this cooperation, um, although they are a strong rejection, but this can also be a concern ah.

Feng Xiaochen is not idle these days, he through the relationship between Yan Loqin, Feng Hua and others, the composition of the committee to make some understanding, Matsk said the member units, Feng Zhichen also knows what.Is there anyone else in a company like Pumay who is more aware of its attitude toward cooperation with China than Feng Zhichen?The traditional market of Pu Mai has been robbed by Chinese companies, and their impressions are not very strange.

I know in my heart that this is the case, but since Matsk is so vague, Feng Xiaochen will certainly not be picked up in a big way, and everyone is confused with understanding.Feng gave Matsk a smile and said, “Thank you very much Mr. Matsk and your colleagues, and we very much hope to be able to carry out new cooperation with you.”Mr. Matsk, if you can, may you first introduce us to this project and how to participate in it.”

“Of course, I am very happy to introduce you to our project.”Matsk said.

Everyone opened the small book and prepared the record.Matsk lit up the conference room projector and began to play the PPT of the project introduction, while explaining to the crowd.

The process of deep-sea oil exploitation is to collect oil and accompany the anger through multiple wellheads, to bring these oil and gas together, and then to carry out production treatment such as oil and gas separation, dewatering and purifying water, and finally storage and transportation.According to the different wellhead settings can be divided into underwater wellhead and water wellhead methods, according to the different production and treatment methods can be divided into offshore production and onshore production, according to the different storage and transportation methods can be divided into tanker storage and transportation and submarine pipeline transportation, in addition to different operating platforms.The combination of all these approaches creates different solutions.

Captain Cook's solution is to use underwater wellheads, semi-submersible operating platforms, the production of storage tankers, shuttle tankers, the advantages of this approach is that it is more adaptable, the experience is more mature, is the most popular design in the world.And China's own planned drilling platform, just like this.

“Very well, Mr. Matsk, your programme and the one we are currently working together, and if possible, we are willing to combine our research with you in order to reduce the duplication of work between us, to improve the efficiency of research and development and to speed up research and development.”After listening to Matsk's statement, Feng Xiaochen said.

“I’ve heard that China is also working on a sixth-generation offshore rig, and I want to know how you are progressing.”Matsk asked.

While Feng Xiaochen was learning about Captain Cook's project, Matsk was also learning about China through his own channels.China's National Development and Reform Commission is organizing the development of the sixth generation of offshore drilling platforms, which is not a secret matter, so Matsk easily knows the situation, but it is not clear the details.Since the two sides want to talk about cooperation, he naturally has to ask in depth.

Feng Xiaochen said: "Our country in the 1980s, it designed and built a semi-submersible drilling platform called Exploration No. 3, and the water depth of the operation was 200 meters.Since then, we have not built a similar platform ourselves, but the research on related technologies has not been interrupted.With regard to the construction of floating production storage tankers, that is, the construction of FPSOs, we have a lot of experience, and more than ten FPSOs we have built independently have been used in the development of offshore oil.In terms of wellhead devices, we have designed and manufactured a complete set of underwater equipment in the 1970s and successfully applied it to shallow oil development, and we have some technical accumulations in underwater wellhead equipment used in deep-sea oil development, but there is still a lack of application experience.

We started the sixth generation of the platform about 10 years ago, and we have made a lot of progress in platform design, wellhead devices, seabed conditions, and shallow flow conditions.If we can work together on progress in these areas, we will report in detail to the Committee in order to share the results of these studies with other partners.”

"I understand."Matsk nodded his head.The situation that Feng Xiaochen said was similar to what he had.He was originally misled by Heinzl and others, that China's offshore oil development technology is completely blank, after reading some data, he found that the Chinese have actually had a lot of accumulation, over time, the independent development of the sixth generation of platform technology is also completely possible.

Recognizing this problem, he was more eager to include China in the Captain Cook project, the purpose of which, in addition to the funds that China might provide, would be to put the Chinese people’s research under their own control, so as not to threaten the interests of European companies.

Later this point, of course, Matsk will not say Feng Xiaochen, he will say another way: "Mr. Feng, after listening to your introduction just now, I feel very excited, I once again feel that absorbing China to become a member of Captain Cook's project is a very wise measure."You have done so much valuable work in the early stages, and these experiences will certainly be of great help to our project.”

"Is it?"If that is the case, I feel very honored.”Feng replied with a smile, then asked, “Then, Mr. Matsk, what would the committee do if we were interested in joining the project?”

“What do you think about yourself?”Matsk asked.

Feng Xiaochen said: “We come with a learning mentality.Whether it is a wellhead device, an offshore platform, a production facility, a storage facility, we are interested in participating in the research.We can set up a research center in China and ask our European counterparts to work in China.At the same time, we can also send technicians to the European research center to work.In addition, we can arrange for no less than 200 equipment manufacturing enterprises to undertake specific equipment manufacturing work, and because China has very low labor prices, I think our participation can effectively reduce the cost of the entire project."

“Mr. Feng’s wishes are very good, and we very much welcome the full participation of Chinese enterprises in the project.”Matsk smiled very sincerely, and then said: "However, in order to improve the efficiency of the entire R & D project and shorten the research and development cycle, our consideration is to make full use of the advantages of each member institution, each institution mainly undertakes what it is good at."The Committee will hold project coordination meetings from time to time, with the respective subsystems undertaking units presenting each other ' s progress so that the subsystems can work together perfectly.”

“Do you do what you’re good at?”Wang Weilong, who came with Feng Xiaochen, was stunned and said subconsciously, “If so, then why should we participate?”

As a result, the Chinese people laughed dumbly.Matsk did not understand Chinese, so he did not respond for a moment, and after hearing the words of the translator, his face showed an embarrassed look and said, "This, this...this is our practice."

Feng Xiaochen frowned slightly.Matsk's words, in fact, is justified, the purpose of cooperation is to learn from each other, each responsible for their own good aspects, together, is a strong union.But the problem is that the purpose of China's participation in this project is not to contribute to world peace, but to obtain the technology that they lack by participating in this project, and ultimately achieve complete independence.If you are just doing what you are good at in the project, then why should we participate, as Wang Weilong said?

“Mr. Matsk, it makes sense to do what you do well.However, we are involved in this project not as a subcontractor, but as a collaborator.Since we are collaborators, we hope to make progress in cooperation, and I think Mr. Matsk should understand that?"Feng Xiaochen said politely.