Chapter 821 Oil and food

To say which thing is more important, of course, it is still oil, Pamela Mountbatten just let her assistant Marina to pay attention to the women’s movement can be, the main focus is still on the Brent oil field above.

The first priority is to determine the quality of the Brent oil, which needs to be done by the British Ministry of Scientific and Industrial Research, under the jurisdiction of the National Fuel Research Institute, can be from the oil and cost, to give the three major oil companies a piece of mind.

Britain’s Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, which has twenty industry industrial research associations, was founded in nineteen seventeen. It can be said that if the British Department of Scientific and Industrial Research is not optimistic, then the future of Brent Oil will have twists and turns.

At the headquarters of BP in London, Phil Brown came down in person to greet Pamela Mountbatten, and Ekberg, the president of Shell Oil Company, which was founded in eighteen ninety and was given special authorization by the Queen of Holland, and therefore named Royal Dutch Petroleum Company.

In order to compete with Standard Oil of the United States, which was the largest oil company at that time, the company practiced a two-headquarter holding system, in which the Dutch capital accounted for sixty percent and the British accounted for forty percent, and the two headquarters were located in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and London, the United Kingdom, respectively.

So for Britain, Shell Oil Company is of course also their own people, the three greeted each other, and walked into the headquarters of British Petroleum.

“Pamela, it’s been a while, you’re still looking so radiant.” Phil Brown said as he walked, “Your business sense is a model for the whole world, even in the United States on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, there is also your business story.”

“Mr. Phil is too polite, compared to the two gentlemen who have been in the business field for decades, there is still a lot I have to learn.” Pamela Mountbatten responded politely, showing that she had a great deal of respect for both BP and Shell.

“Thank you Alan for your help during the Iranian oil crisis and getting a good result for our company.” Phil Brown opened her mouth to express her gratitude.

The two sides had actually formed a good karma before, and BP was actually the previous Anglo-Iranian Oil Company.

When the Iranian oil crisis occurred two years ago, it was Allen Wilson who traveled to the Middle East to go negotiate and finally let things fall smoothly.

Although the United Kingdom backed up BP, but the Iranian oil crisis of a year, BP is also really heavy losses, as long as the confrontation began, it is sure to pay the price.

Compared with the two oil giants that have been renamed BP and Shell, the history of Mountbatten Oil Company is terribly short, counting less than five years. But that short period of time is completely incomprehensible in the eyes of others.

Pamela Mountbatten first discovered oil in Libya, then took advantage of the Iranian oil crisis to squeeze into the Persian Gulf, and before that discovered high-quality oil in Algeria.

This is still the oil sector that Phil Brown and Ekberg are familiar with, and no one will ever forget that the Mountbatten Group previously discovered iron ore in Western Australia. If the emergence of the Mountbatten Group can be explained by luck, this is too lucky.

Entering the conference room the three of them took their seats and discussed how to distribute the benefits of Brent oil.

“We all know how important oil resources are to the country, especially to Europe.” Pamela Mountbatten explained softly, “Truth be told, with the current news, it’s not a secret that the government wants to nationalize an important industry.”

Both Phil Brown and Ekberg nodded, Prime Minister Adderley’s manifesto of combining the virtues of socialism and capitalism was not new to anyone.

And since the discovery of Brent oil, which the Labour government claimed was the new economic growth point for Britain, it was still hard not to worry, with all the enthusiasm of the Labour Party, about whether or not they were going to nationalize Brent oil; after all, many industries had already been nationalized.

“What we certainly want is to combine the best of both systems.” Phil Brown said meaningfully, “Pamela, I’m sure you feel the same way.”

The last round of British nationalization of major industries had not harmed the interests of the general public, and Labour’s nationalization had been bought with money, with a cumulative investment of two billion pounds, before the last round of nationalized industries was completed.

If that was the case, all three would not object, bearing in mind that the complexity of sea conditions in the North Sea additional costs are quite high. The storm surges of the last few years could have tossed London and Holland around.

In the eyes of Phil Brown and Ekberg, nationalization is the state to buy oil shares as shareholders, will be some private individuals can not undertake the difficult task to complete, when the time comes to share the money, they all of these people a pound no less, this is called the combination of the advantages of capitalism and socialism.

“Our three companies must take a stand against the government.” Ekberg said nonchalantly, “It’s the only way to preserve maximum profit, and the upfront investment is best made with state funding.”

Pamela Mountbatten, and Phil Brown nodded in approval, an outcome both hoped would occur. Let the state get the toughest things done, and everyone get their hands on the benefits before swarming in.

In fact, Pamela Mountbatten thought more, Brent oil can serve Europe in addition to supplying Britain. Using this to increase the economic influence on Europe.

If Alan Wilson were here, he would be very relieved that the little girl who was hit by a handful of diamonds and dizzy, has grown up.

Unfortunately, he is in Juba and the fight against the disease, according to his idea, this kind of small cold to take some analgesic medicine sweat will be finished. Things did go that way, but the process didn’t go that fast.

After Grace arrived in Juba with a group of Chetniks, Allen Wilson was still holding up inside the house, his head resting on Hedy Lamarr’s long legs, lying down to express his gratitude for Grace’s arrival.

“Mr. Wilson, it’s still very different from what I thought it would be, and I really don’t think it’s serious enough.” Grace had met Hedy Lamarr and wouldn’t have failed to recognize the other woman just because she was wearing an Arabian robe.

“Oh, my friend, it’s heartbreaking to see you like this; I’ve been pretty good to the Slavs, I guess. Can’t say I’ve been gracious, but I’ve been helpful.” Alan Wilson said as he reached up and rubbed his still slightly warm forehead, “Given our closeness, it wasn’t too much to ask you to make a trip over to help.”

“You’re certainly good at this sort of thing when it comes to settling the independence movement.” Grace nodded, “But it doesn’t seem to matter to us, we stay well in Northern Rhodesia.”

“How is it not relevant, in the future, the maintenance of British influence over Africa will need to be done through you in Northern Rhodesia.” Alan Wilson retorted, “Whether it’s a crown territory or a self-governing territory, it’s politically incorrect for you, a predominantly white place, to be in the middle of a black country. But by defending the blacks and stirring up conflict between blacks and Arabs, Christianity and the religion of peace, it might just be a change of heart for Northern Rhodesia, which is under siege.”

Grace bristled, he didn’t think Alan Wilson’s words would come true, it was just an excuse to get him to help, and went straight to the point, “Alan, you know. I’m a very busy man.”

“There’s really one thing for you to help with, something about India.” Alan Wilson thought for a moment and said, “Although the Bandung Conference has left both London and Washington dissatisfied, but at the moment with respect to India, the free world is still mainly pulling the strings. But as you understand, the Labor government tends to spend a little to do a lot.”

“So do what?” Grace frowned slightly, thinking back and not seeing any connection between the two places.

“An agricultural revolution, Pamela has been making a push in agriculture recently, and according to our intelligence, agricultural development in India has not improved after the first five year plan. Nehru’s strategy for the development of the country was mainly amongst industry. There are still famines in India nowadays. Helping India in this field would export British agricultural technology and hold India hostage from seed.”

Even in Africa, Alan Wilson was still mindful of whether the people of India would have enough to eat. It is simply touching that the colonizers did this.

At the same time that Nehru was presiding over the Bandung Conference, India was importing large quantities of American foodstuffs to sustain the needs of the Indians.

This was not good for Britain; India’s imports and exports were settled in pounds sterling, and the link with the United States became so strong that it would weaken the pound and increase the share of the dollar in circulation.

For Alan Wilson, who had only just gotten his wife to invest more in agriculture, a testing ground was now needed. India, with which the Mountbattens had excellent relations, was more appropriate.

Nehru period, India from time to time on the famine, its daughter Indira Gandhi took over as Prime Minister of India, in the face of India’s food crisis, she changed her father’s heavy industry light agricultural ideas and policy measures, accepted the agricultural experts and the World Bank’s views, the establishment of the implementation of agriculture in India, “Green Revolution” policy guidelines.

Such as to countries around the world to introduce a large number of high-yield food seeds, large-scale measures to take scientific farming, strengthen the investment in agricultural water conservancy and irrigation systems and construction, but also set up a variety of incentives in all of India, full support for farmers to use new modern agricultural technology to improve food production and crop motivation.

Pamela Mountbatten’s path to grain merchants, the Isthmus of Krakatau is just the beginning, and Northern Rhodesia is not the focus. He wanted his wife’s grain merchant’s path to lead to India.

“All right!” Grace thought for a moment and said, “Actually, we, and the Rhodesian side, are also working on developing agriculture. If Pamela is interested in cooperating, we can mutually benefit.”

“Absolutely mutually beneficial, you may not believe it when I say it, the one I trust the most in the whole of Africa is you guys.” Allen Wilson took a little less spirit and continued, “We’re going to combine the best of both worlds.”

Finally, under the careful care of Hedy Lamarr, Allen Wilson was well enough to have a deep conversation with Joseph Agu about the future of South Sudan, during the time he was sick, I believe that Joseph Agu should have thought a lot about it, and he had a premonition that something fruitful would come out of it this time.