Chapter 85 Terminal with berthing capacity of 50,000 tons
Now that Wentian Oil Company has been established, it is time to start construction on the Tuen Mun side.
After finding Weili, with a wave of his hand, all 7 million square meters of land were leased to Wentian Petroleum Company, and the lease signing period was three years.
Hutchison is an independent group after all. Especially since the privatization process has not yet been completed, it is impossible to give the land to Wentian Oil Company for free. It is definitely best to buy it.
Even if Tuen Mun is now a Shankara, land prices are very low, and 7 million square meters is not a small amount.
Therefore, just rent it first. Both sides have their own companies, and the land cannot be escaped. Wentian Oil Company can just buy it later.
On July 15, Sioux City brought Zhou Zhou, the director of Nanyang Refinery, the person in charge of Hutchison Real Estate Design Institute and the person in charge of asset management of Hutchison Whampoa Group, to Tuen Mun.
Tuen Mun is located in the western New Territories of Hong Kong, bordering Yuen Long to the north, Tsuen Wan to the east, and the Pearl River Estuary to the west. It is one of the areas in Hong Kong that is relatively far away from the urban area.
This place has been developed into a new town since the 1960s. However, because it is far away from the urban area, most of the locals have gone to work in Xiangjiang City, so there are not many locals.
Su Cheng and others set off from Xiangjiang Central in a car and traveled for almost two hours before arriving at Tuen Mun.
They first went to Tuen Mun New Market. Although a small town has developed here since the 1960s, due to the small population, the entire street is not big and there are no high-rise buildings. If you walk to go shopping, it will only take ten or twenty minutes at most. , you can visit the few streets in the entire fair.
On the streets, it is obvious that there are very few young people to see, and most of them are old people and children.
After passing the block, the car continued to drive westward. At this time, the original cement road had turned into a yellow mud road. Going west, you occasionally saw some warehouses and the like, which looked more and more... The more desolate it is.
“Boss, starting from that stone monument, all the territory to the west belongs to us.” The person in charge sent by Hutchison Whampoa introduced to Su Cheng.
Seven million square meters is very large, equivalent to an area of 7 square kilometers, which is about half the size of Lamma Island.
The car continued to drive forward, and after about ten minutes, we finally arrived at the beach.
In the vast Lingding Ocean, the other side cannot be seen with the naked eye.
The sea water on the west bank of the Pearl River Estuary was extremely turbid. On the contrary, the east bank where Su Cheng and others were standing was relatively clear. At least the sea water they saw was green.
“How big a terminal can be built here?” Su Cheng asked the person in charge of Hutchison Whampoa.
The person in charge is a foreigner who specializes in managing Hutchison Whampoa's assets, so he knows these very well.
"Boss, if the shore extends a few meters, we can only build a 1,000-ton wharf at most. But if we extend it 100 meters away, we can build a 10,000-ton wharf at most. If we extend it 500 meters, we can even build a 50,000-ton wharf." The responsible person. the man replied.
After listening to the person in charge, Su Cheng felt that it was quite good. International oil tankers can carry tens of thousands of tons or more. Although this terminal cannot handle 100,000 tons for the time being, it can handle 50,000 tons for the time being. .
And if there are enough funds, it should be no problem to clear the seabed and build a port with more than 100,000 tons.
However, these are also follow-up matters. The construction of a port with more than 100,000 tons will not only increase the funds, but also the construction period. Sioux City cannot afford to wait for now.
Now, let’s build a 50,000-ton wharf first and use it first.
Because Su Cheng once worked in Pengcheng opposite Pengcheng in his previous life, he understood that Pengcheng Port's maximum berthing capacity is 75,000 tons. Tuen Mun is located further south than Pengcheng Port and is not like Pengcheng Port. Belonging to the inner port, the berthing capacity must be stronger.
Throughout the whole day, Su Cheng led people around this 7 million square meter site, while the person in charge of Hutchison Real Estate Design Institute also drew and wrote.
Designing an oil base with an area of 7 million square meters is not that simple.
Of course, currently we only need to design the pre-planning and warehouse part. The amount of crude oil that Sioux City plans to store is very huge. He plans to store about 100 million to 200 million barrels of crude oil.
Internationally, a barrel of crude oil is equal to 158.98 liters, so a lot of oil storage tanks must be built.
He plans to design the volume of each crude oil storage tank to be 50,000 cubic meters, which means that each crude oil storage tank can store 50 million liters of crude oil.
With this design, more than 600 crude oil storage tanks need to be built to prepare for the maximum 200 million barrels.
Of course, the two oil refining bases in Singapore and Lamma Island can share a small part of the storage capacity. Therefore, it is enough to build about 500 crude oil storage tanks at the base in Tuen Mun.
There is not much time left, so the project progress is relatively tight.
"Boss, the most suitable location for building the warehouse is near the dock. As long as the location of the dock is determined, we can indirectly determine where the oil storage tanks will be built." The person in charge of Hutchison Real Estate Design Institute told Suzhou City .
"Okay, let the survey team survey the land as soon as possible. I hope that the drawings of the dock and warehouse will be available as soon as possible." Su Cheng said.
“It’s just a matter of surveying where the several kilometers of coastline are more suitable for building a dock. It doesn’t take long. Our survey team can just survey the seawater depth of this coastline.” The person in charge of the design institute replied.
"How long will it take?" Su Cheng asked.
"If we rush the work, the survey results will be available in two or three days, and the first draft of the dock and oil storage warehouse design drawings can be completed within a week." The person in charge of the design institute replied.
MacLehose has promised that the government will be responsible for the facilities and terminals nearby.
It is not difficult to pave asphalt roads. Sioux City believes that the government can improve the nearby roads in a short period of time.
As for the wharf, Sioux City did not dare to expect that the Xiangjiang government would help build it. Although MacLehose said that he would help build the wharf, MacLehose only wanted to build a wharf with a few thousand tons. .
If he knew that Su City wanted to build a 50,000-ton berthing capacity terminal, he would definitely regret it, because building a 50,000-ton terminal would be impossible based on the funds of this era. It is not easy for Hong Kong's finances to approve this amount of tens of millions of Hong Kong dollars.
What he wants is for the government to come forward and find someone to do it. As for the money, he can provide it.
Tens of millions of Hong Kong dollars, not to mention a lot, is nothing to him. There is no need to make things difficult for MacLeho. The most important thing is to maintain a good relationship with MacLeho.
After the terminal construction location is determined, the terminal and oil storage warehouse can be constructed at the same time.
The size of the wharf to be built in Sioux City does not need to be too large. It can accommodate two oil tankers at the same time. Therefore, as long as the construction team is strong enough, it can be completed within two months.
After the inspection, it was already evening, and everyone took the car back to the city center again.
Whether it is the refinery in Lamma Island or the refinery in Singapore, construction of crude oil storage tanks has begun.
Director Zhou also asked Su Cheng about why so many large-capacity oil storage tanks should be built, but Su Cheng just told him that the refinery would need to carry out large-scale refining, so it needed to store enough crude oil.
Before the oil crisis came, Sioux City would naturally not tell them the real reason.
I took everyone to have dinner at a hotel in the city. When Su Cheng returned to the villa, it was already ten o'clock in the evening.
Next, he just waits for the news.
(End of this chapter)