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Chapter 178 Merger and acquisition of shipping companies

After staying in China for a long time, Jansen also had several contacts with Sucheng, which makes him better able to understand China's national system and battle system.

He thought for a moment and said, "Let's ask Sucheng directly."

Jansen left while speaking, and smiled and said, "Halliburton is also studying the positioning of power. If Dahua's system can be used in 100 days, we don't mind investing in buying it. In fact, although Dahua does not sell technology, it has always been very open to technology sharing, but it is a bit ruthless."

Simon snorted through his nose.

Jansen smiled and said, "Their technology has always been unique. If they can save two years, money is not a problem."

"The technology in the 1960s has been pioneered by the Chinese after 20 years of development. You are too bad. I haven't studied the power positioning much until today, right?" Simon shook his head repeatedly, quite dissatisfied. They have only studied some aspects of technology, and the rest has to be purchased from large service providers such as Halliburton. Now, seeing that Halliburton buys Chinese technology, all kinds of discomforts have come to their heads.

Jensen was not sure, and explained on the side: "Just you said, our drilling platform is not ready to enter the 1,000-meter deep sea... It is inevitable that the technical reserves are incomplete."

While speaking, Jansen headed straight for Sucheng and said what he meant.

Su Cheng said without comment: "Let's talk above."

Only then did Jansen notice that there was a row of offices on the second floor of the workshop, and people could be seen faintly.

Entering one of them, you can see a row of computers and three researchers using them.

Unlike the computers covered with red velvet that Jensen had seen, these open-air machines with belly-opening still have books and notes on the monitor and computer desk, which look like they are commonly used.

Simon noticed IBM's brand and found that they were all commercial models within three years, and there were a lot of them. He couldn't help but count them secretly. He also paid special attention to the number of computers in other rooms, but was driven out.

Even so, he was a little surprised and said in Jensen's ear: "They may have made all electronic graphics."

Jansen nodded extremely slowly.

Nowadays, there are two ways to make high-end machinery, one is to draw design drawings by hand, and the other is to make electronic version formats. There is no absolute difference in the effect of the two. If you really want to say that it is different, that is, the latter is commonly used in international bidding.

Because international bidding is global. Singapore shipyards may bid for projects in Venezuela. If you take the drawings over, there will inevitably be various modification requirements. These are all required to be returned to the Singapore headquarters for correction. Aircraft traffic is not only expensive and slow, but also has a great increase in risks, which is far less affordable than electronic versions.

Therefore, companies that are interested in participating in international bidding should consider using design drawings in full electronic format, and they cannot use Chinese. Otherwise, the shipowner's equipment will not be decoded in Chinese, and it will be garbled when printed.

China's current shipping companies and oil companies cannot even solve their own needs for offshore drilling platforms, so they naturally have no interest in international bidding. As a representative of Halliburton's China region, Jensen has been to many large companies, but has never seen Chinese people use full electronic design drawings. If it were another company, he would not have thought about it. However, considering that Dahua Industrial had just won the oil field in Abu Dhabi, Jensen's eyes changed.

Not to mention, the technology of power positioning and anti-leakage can form the core of an offshore drilling platform. For the rest, they can completely contract and outsource the entirety, so as to earn excess profits.

Jansen looked at the various equipment in the office and thought to himself: This guy from Sucheng is definitely not for us to take a look.

Thinking of the confidentiality system implemented by this guy in Dahua Laboratory, Jansen became more and more sure.

Su Cheng went to the side to pour water and smiled and said, "So. Do you want the technology for power positioning?"

"Yes." Jansen raised his neck and was about to be slaughtered, and said, "You offer it."

Foreigners in China in the 1980s were usually used to being slaughtered. When they visited the Forbidden City, Chinese people spent 10 cents, foreigners had to pay $2. But on the other hand, foreigners did not think it was expensive.

However, Sucheng did not engage in price discrimination this time, and looked vigilant when he didn't want to sell it, saying, "Our power positioning system is also under test."

"We understand, but if it is a systematic technology, we are interested even if it is not complete. You can offer a price." In terms of this technology, Jensen thinks spending millions of dollars is not a big deal.

Su Cheng chuckled and said, "You can first look at the technical documents of power positioning."

"May I?"

"It's okay to describe it. Besides, it's all the patented technology." Su Cheng smiled as if he was generous.

Simon thought in surprise: Chinese people are really easy to get along with.

Only Jansen was nervous, feeling that Su Cheng had buried some secret trap.

After a moment, a large amount of technical information was actually sent over, and some electronic information was also transferred to the room.

An old lady in her sixties operates on a computer system to help with the display.

Su Cheng introduced: "This is Ms. Shen Keyu, who retired from China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation, and is now responsible for our platform outsourcing business with China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation. By the way, our largest outsourcing supplier is China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation."

"Hello, Ms. Shen Keyu." Jansen looked at the wrinkles on the old lady's face and thought to himself: At such an old age, he can still work.

In fact, Old Lady Orange Peel’s computer level is better than that of all three people in this room.

I saw that I quickly entered a string of symbols and called out a three-dimensional diagram of the power positioning system, and eliminated all the data that should not have appeared. The entire action was simply unresponsive.

Simon said in surprise: "Is this a PDMS system? a three-dimensional layout design management system?"

"Yes." Su Cheng nodded.

"Well, only the offshore platform made in this way can fully reflect the collision resistance." Simon said these words in English, and it is not very clear.

Su Cheng smiled softly, without answering, but pointed to the screen and said, "This is the power positioning system we made, 6-thruster system. The environmental load, considering wind, flow, wave force, reference to the relevant information of the API and OCMF, and used the Norwegian Classification Society SESAM program to calculate it. The prime mover of the thrust uses a diesel engine and uses the throttle system to control the speed... It has been designed to simulate the thrust system."

"Isn't that the design part completed?" Jansen was completely surprised this time.

"It's almost the same. Now we're going to try processing." In order to complete this technology, the Institute of Ocean Petroleum has not only used the tracking and research conducted in the 1970s, but also borrowed all the researchers from central enterprises such as China Shipbuilding Corporation at high prices. In addition to the high-paid young people poached abroad and the direction determined by Sucheng, it was only possible to complete it.

The entire system costs nearly 10 million yuan, making it the highest investment project in Sucheng in history.

Even Halliburton Group dares not say that it has invested so much research funding in an immature technology. On the contrary, if the finished product can be purchased directly at the same price, Halliburton will be willing to be willing to buy it.

"Let's offer." Jansen didn't know how many times he said this.

Sucheng finally nodded and said, "We are preparing to come up with this power positioning system, anti-leakage system, and a fire protection system to form a new company, Dahua Shipping. Based on Dahua Shipping, we will acquire a small and medium-sized shipping company with international bidding qualifications. If Halliburton is willing to participate, we can use these technologies in the future through this company."

"Small and medium-sized shipping companies with international bidding qualifications..." Jansen chewed this sentence and glanced at Simon unconsciously.

Fenoer Shipping happens to be a shipping company that meets this criteria.

Simon quickly reacted, his eyebrows simply stood up, and said, "Fenor Shipping will not sell it."

"You don't have to buy Fenoer Shipping, any one that meets the standards can do." Sucheng didn't look at Simon. As an engineering salesperson, things have been out of his control.

Jensen didn't care about Simon anymore and said carefully: "It will cost a lot of money to acquire such a company."

"I can take out a part, plus investment in technology such as power positioning, and calculate it based on our 50% each..."

"For Dahua Industry, which is preparing for oilfield development, such capital investment seems to be not high..." Jansen asked in confusion.

Su Cheng smiled but said nothing. For him, as long as Halliburton acknowledged the technology of Dahua Industrial, the money could be borrowed extra. Taiwan is in a period of industrial transformation, and the major consortiums are too much money to use, which is the opposite extreme from the mainland.

Only after this year will the situation slowly turn around.

While Formosa Plastics dared to invest $7 billion in the mainland, it also tried to carry out six light construction in Taiwan. Its capital thickness can support the development of two or three oil fields alone, only whether it is necessary and whether Sucheng can win it.

After receiving a briefing, Jansen and Simon went back with different thoughts.

The shipbuilding industry in Germany and the United States is shrinking, or the world's shipbuilding industry is moving from Europe to the Near East, and Singapore, Malaysia and other countries are benefiting from this. Small and medium-sized companies like Fernor Shipping Industry are difficult to ignore large amounts of cash acquisitions.

When Su Cheng returned to the office, he immediately ordered: "Now draft a document and ask Minister Tang of COSCO Shipping if he would send someone to learn technology."

Huo Chang understood it and said, "I'll contact them right away. How about it in the name of technical communication?"

"Well, it's almost the same. Let them send more people here, and they need to take on the big role and live a lot of life."
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