Chapter 665
Words:1844Update:22/06/26 14:26:47
After some bargaining, Yerif finally reluctantly accepted Jiang Chen's proposal.
The two returned to the building and Jiang Chen took him to his office. At the same time, Xia Shiyu also placed the prepared agreement on Jiang Chen's desk.
No one wanted their drinking water to be controlled by others, but the price offered by Future Group was too attractive!
Currently, the average cost of desalination in Saudi was 1.53 USD per ton. This was because they were a large oil producer and the cost of thermal power was very low.
Based on the agreement reached by the two, Future Group would cooperate with the Saudi Royal Family's Beach Desalination Company.
The desalination platform produced by Future Heavy Industrial would be anchored near the Red Sea and the water pipeline would be laid by Saudi. Jiang Chen would be responsible for turning on the faucet while Yerif would drag the pipe to collect the water and pump the desalinated water into the reservoir. He would pay Future Group at the price of 1 USD per cubic meter.
In theory, as long as the seawater collection units around the platform and the desalination module on the platform were added, the desalination efficiency of a single platform could reach the terrifying figure of 4 million tons per day!
But the terrifying water throughput naturally meant the terrifying energy consumption. But it didn't matter. The platform was next to the oil tyrant port in Saudi. The cost of fuel was very cheap!
Yerif promised Jiang Chen that he would transport relatively cheap natural gas and fuel to the offshore platform. Based on the agreement between the two parties to supply 2 million tons of desalinated water per day, the price of each ton of water could be reduced to 0.37 USD.
If this currency unit was converted to RMB, it would be the cost of water treatment. It was clear to see how low the cost was.
By then, the offshore platform would bring Future Group 1.2 million USD in daily revenue. In one year, it would be more than 400 million USD!
And the Saudi Royal Family would save at least 600 million USD from the domestic water supply subsidy policy. At the same time, the new energy desalination base that was originally planned to be built on the Red Sea coast would be canceled. This would also save 1.5 billion USD in engineering investment.
Yerif had been holding on to this contract for three years. With the contract, Yerif boarded a private plane in high spirits and couldn't wait to return to Saudi.
He was looking forward to seeing the expression on his father's face.
While his brother was busy negotiating with the Matrix Corporation in the United States for a US $1.50 purification equipment and was prepared to spend US $1.5 billion to pay for the project, he quietly obtained a US $1/ton water supply contract from overseas.
He knew very well how much his father valued the desalination project.
Ha-ha, Rashid, my dear brother, just be an Arab prince. It was better for a capable person to be the King!
Regardless of how ecstatic Yerif was on the plane, as soon as Jiang Chen returned to Future Building, the desalination platform on the east coast of Coro Island had already completed the connection with CWW's pipeline and began trial operation.
When the cheap water filled CWW's reservoir, CWW immediately implemented the Xin government's order and lowered the water price.
On the basis of the original price, Xin's water price was cut in half!
The news spread across Xin through Coro Island TV, newspapers, and the internet.
[It is reported that the water output from the desalination platform will reach the drinking water standard! …]
"Oh my god! The price of water dropped! "
"A few days ago, my family was considering buying some plastic buckets from the supermarket. If the price continues to rise, we'll have to purify the rainwater ourselves … Thank god, the price finally dropped!"
"Do you see the desalination platform? It says Future Heavy Industrial! "
"Praise Future Group! Praise Jiang Chen! "
The entire country was in a carnival of water price drop!
Based on CWW's statistics, water consumption on the day of the price drop increased by 35% compared to the day before and only returned to rationality a week later.
At the same time, Future Heavy Industrial's desalination technology also attracted the attention of the world. It wasn't because of how cheap the water it produced was or how efficient it was, but because of the way the platform was deployed was too impressive.
Someone recorded the scene and uploaded it to YouTube and other video sites. On the first day of uploading, the video exceeded one million views!
Netizens around the world flooded the comment section. Half of the people were asking the person who uploaded the video which sci-fi film was the clip taken from. A lot of netizens in the know tried to clarify, "How is this a sci-fi film? Do you see the words' Future Heavy Industrial '? It's okay if you don't recognize it, call your Xiao Lin over! "
was the first to report on the incident, then , and other major media all reposted it.
Famous journalist Jim Lane, in an interview on a Columbia TV talk show, used an exaggerated tone to describe what happened.
"It's incredible. Have you seen Transformers? Of course, I'm not talking about the Transformers I saw, but the video that went viral on the internet! You can't imagine the expression on my face at the time … "
Compared to the chaos on the internet, after the first few days of celebration, the public opinion in Xin returned to calmness.
There was good news from Saudi. The Saudi king was pleased with the contract signed between Yerif and Future Group and expressed his welcome to a high-tech company like Future Group. Future Heavy Industrial already began the production of the parts for the second desalination platform. The produced parts would be transported to Saudi via the ship of Hua Ocean and temporarily stored in the warehouse at Yanbu Port.
The production of all parts was expected to be completed by the end of the month. By then, Future Group's engineering ship would sail through the Gulf of Aden and head to the Red Sea to complete the assembly of the desalination platform. Compared to the platform deployed east of Coro Island, the desalination platform manufactured by Future Heavy Industrial for Saudi had a higher production rate.
To supervise the production, Jiang Chen personally went to the high-tech park on Ange Island and found Lin Zhengyang, the director of Future Heavy Industrial responsible for the production.
"This project will be the model project for Future Heavy Industrial in the desalination field. I demand you to pay close attention to the quality of the project. Don't even make a single mistake!"
"Yes! Boss! "Lin Zhengyang yelled with his neck flushed.
Jiang Chen patted his shoulder and signaled him to return to his post.
Just as Jiang Chen planned to walk around the factory and inspect the production of Xiao Lin's production line, the phone in his pocket began to ring.
He took it out and saw it was from Xia Shiyu.
"What's up?" Jiang Chen answered the phone.
"'Blue Seagull' International Marine Protection Association released an announcement on their official website, claiming that our marine resource development activities in the Pacific Ocean have severely damaged the local ecological balance. They sent a lawyer's letter to our group, asking us to stop the destruction of the marine ecological environment."
Jiang Chen was stunned when he heard Xia Shiyu's words.
Destroying the ecological environment?
what the Fuck？
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