After some haggling, Nayef 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 wants their drinking water to be controlled by others, but there is no way, the price offered by the Future People Group is really too attractive!
The current average cost of desalination in Saudi Arabia is US$1.53 per ton. This is because they are a major oil-producing country and the cost of thermal power generation is very low.
According to the agreement reached by the two, Futureman Group will cooperate with the beach desalination company controlled by the Saudi royal family.
The desalination platform produced by Future Renmin Heavy Industries will be anchored near the Red Sea and the water pipeline will be laid on the seabed by Saudi Arabia. Jiang Chen was responsible for turning on the faucet, while Nayef dragged the pipe to collect the water, pumped the desalinated water into the reservoir, and paid the Futureman Group at a price of US$1 per cubic meter.
Theoretically, as long as the seawater collection units around the platform and the seawater desalination module on the platform are added, the seawater desalination efficiency of a single platform can reach the terrifying figure of 4 million tons per day!
However, the terrifying water throughput naturally also means terrifying energy consumption. But it doesn’t matter, the platform is right next to the port of Saudi Arabia, the oil giant, and the cost of fuel is very cheap!
Nayef promised Jiang Chen that he would deliver relatively cheap natural gas and fuel oil to offshore platforms. According to the agreement between the two parties to supply 2 million tons of desalinated water per day, the price of fresh water per ton can be reduced to an ultra-low price of US$0.37.
If this currency unit is converted into RMB, it is almost the same as the cost of tap water treatment, which shows how low the cost is.
By then, this offshore platform will bring a daily income of US$1.2 million to Futureman Group, which is more than US$400 million a year!
The Saudi royal family will save at least US$600 million in the domestic freshwater supply subsidy policy. At the same time, the new energy desalination base project originally planned to be built on the Red Sea coast will be cancelled, which will also save it US$1.5 billion in engineering investment.
Nayef had been holding this contract for three years. With that contract, Nayef happily boarded the private plane and couldn't wait to return to Saudi Arabia.
He was looking forward to the expression on his father's face.
While his younger brother was busy recruiting the American Matrix Company, negotiating for purification equipment costing US$1.5, and preparing to spend US$1.5 billion to pay for the project, he quietly obtained US$1.5 billion from overseas. US dollars per ton of water supply contract.
He knew very well how seriously his father valued the desalination project.
Haha, Rashid, my dear brother, just be your Arab prince. It would be better for a capable person to be this king!
No matter how ecstatic Nayev was on the plane, Jiang Chen had just returned to the Future Man Building. The desalination platform located on the east coast of Coro Island had completed the connection with the pipeline laid by Group C and had begun trial operation.
When cheap fresh water filled Group C's reservoir, Group C immediately implemented the document issued by the New Zealand government and lowered the water price.
On the basis of the original price, the water price in New Zealand has been cut in half!
The news spread throughout the new country through Koro Island TV, media newspapers and the Internet.
[Future Heavy Industry’s first seawater desalination platform has been completed. Group C announced a 50% reduction in water prices and will continue to reduce prices by 17% next month on the basis of the reduced water prices.]
[Jiang Chen, chairman of Futureman Group, announced that water prices in New Zealand will return to rationality so that every Singaporean can drink cheap fresh water!]
[It is reported that the fresh water output from the seawater desalination platform will meet drinking water standards!… ]
"Oh my God! The price of tap water has actually been reduced!"
"Two days ago, our family was considering wholesale some plastic buckets from the supermarket. If they continue to be so expensive, we will have to purify the rainwater ourselves...Thank God, the price has finally been reduced!"
"Did you see that desalination platform? It says Futureman Heavy Industries on it!"
"Praise the Future People Group! Praise Jiang Chen!"
The whole country is in a frenzy of water price cuts!
According to statistics from Group C, water consumption on the day of the price reduction increased by 35% compared to the previous day, and it took a week to gradually return to rationality.
At the same time, the desalination technology launched by Futureren Heavy Industries has also attracted the attention of the world. It's not because of how cheap the fresh water it produces or how efficient it is, but because of the cool way the offshore platform unfolds, which is really impressive.
Someone filmed that scene and uploaded it to a video website. On the first day it was uploaded, the number of views on the video exceeded one million!
Netizens from all over the world flooded the comment section, and half of them were asking the person who uploaded the video which science fiction film the clip was taken from. Many well-informed netizens continued to clarify: "How is this a science fiction movie? Did you see clearly the big words 'Future Man Heavy Industries' above? It doesn't matter if you don't know me, just call your Xiaolin over here!"
The Washington Post was the first to report on the incident, and then the New York Times, the Los Angeles Daily News and other major media outlets reprinted it.
Well-known journalist Jim Lane described the situation in an exaggerated tone during an interview on Columbia Television's nightly talk show.
"It's really incredible. Have you seen Transformers? Of course, what I want to say is not that I saw Transformers, but the video that went viral on the Internet! You can never imagine the expression on my face at that time..."
Compared with the turmoil on the Internet, after the first few days of carnival, public opinion in the new country has returned to calm.
Good news has come from Saudi Arabia. The King of Saudi Arabia is very satisfied with the contract signed by Nayef and Futureman Group, and has expressed his welcome to high-tech enterprises such as Futureman Group. At present, Futureren Heavy Industries has begun the production of parts for the second seawater desalination platform. The produced parts will be transported to Saudi Arabia via ships of China Ocean Shipping Company and temporarily stored in the warehouse at Yanbu Port.
It is expected that the production of all parts will be completed by the end of the month, at which time the Futureman Group's engineering ship will sail through the Gulf of Aden and head to the Red Sea to complete the assembly of the desalination platform. The desalination platform built for Saudi Arabia by Futureren Heavy Industries has a higher output than the one deployed east of Koro Island.
In order to supervise production, Jiang Chen personally went to the high-tech park on Anga Island and found Lin Zhengyang, the director of Futureren Heavy Industries who was in charge of production.
"This project will serve as a model project for Renmin Heavy Industries in the field of seawater desalination in the future. I ask you to pay close attention to the quality of the project. Even a single screw cannot make a mistake!"
"Yes! Boss!" Lin Zhengyang shouted with a red neck.
After patting his shoulder, Jiang Chen motioned for him to return to his post.
Just when Jiang Chen was about to walk around the factory and inspect the production conditions of Xiaolin's production line, the phone in his pocket rang.
I pulled it out and saw that it was Xia Shiyu calling.
"What's going on?" Jiang Chen asked after answering the phone.
"'Blue Seagull' International Marine Conservation Association issued an announcement on its official website, claiming that our marine resource development activities in the Pacific have seriously damaged the local ecological balance, and sent a lawyer's letter to our group, hoping that we will stop destroying the marine ecological environment. ."
Jiang Chen was stunned when he heard Xia Shiyu's words.
Destroy the ecological environment
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