Chapter 1026 Strategic Oil Reserve

After Liu Tao developed the anti-stealth radar, he left the radar factory.

After returning to Panshan Group, Liu Tao formed a joint inspection team and went out to inspect the strategic reserve oil depot of China Petroleum Group Corporation.

After so many years of construction, the strategic reserve oil depot of China Petroleum Group Corporation can store a total of 1.5 billion barrels of oil, equivalent to 205 million tons, which can be activated to balance oil prices and respond to emergencies when necessary.

Strategic oil reserves are a means to deal with short-term oil supply shocks.

This system originated in the 1970s, when the Middle East War was in progress. OPEC oil producers were dissatisfied with the support of Western developed countries for Israel and began to impose an oil embargo, which caused panic in developed countries, so they joined forces to establish the International Energy Agency to respond to the crisis through oil reserves.

The International Energy Agency requires member countries to reserve more than 90 days of oil.

Of course, there are not many countries that can meet this standard.

Strategic oil reserves serve national energy security, ensure the uninterrupted supply of national oil in wars or natural disasters, and at the same time play a role in stabilizing abnormal fluctuations in domestic oil prices.

In the past, the United States had the richest strategic oil reserves.

But now, it is China.

In the 1980s, China was still an oil exporter, and the sense of crisis of shortage or interruption of oil supply was not strong, and the proposal to establish a strategic oil reserve was not taken seriously.

It was only after Panshan Group spent a lot of money that Huaxia Petroleum Group established a strategic oil reserve. After more than ten years of uninterrupted construction, the current strategic oil reserve of Huaxia Petroleum Group Corporation has reached 1.5 billion barrels.

In recent years, Huaxia Petroleum Group Corporation has continuously imported oil from the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America. In addition to its own oil, it has entered the strategic oil reserve.

Before this, Huaxia Petroleum Group Corporation inspected its strategic oil reserves every two years.

With the storm coming, Liu Tao will strengthen the inspection of the strategic oil reserve.

Even now, he has never speculated on the evil of human nature with the greatest malice.

Since ancient times, whenever a granary is inspected, the granary will catch fire.

If he did not attach importance to the inspection of strategic oil reserves from the beginning, perhaps a fire would occur when the strategic oil reserves were inspected.

For this kind of thing, the most stringent measures must be taken from the beginning, and a high-pressure attitude must be adopted. Once a problem occurs, it must be severely punished, even executed, and even their families will be implicated, which will truly deter people.

Otherwise, blindly lenient will only lead to a large number of rats. After all, one person will bear the responsibility and benefit three generations, and many people will take risks.

For things like reserve grain and reserve oil, it is too easy to breed a gray interest chain!

In addition to the severe punishment mechanism, when Liu Tao established the national reserve oil, he used modern electronic technology to develop a system with functions such as real-time detection of changes in oil conditions during oil storage, analysis and prediction of oil condition data, and early warning and forecasting of abnormal oil conditions, thereby providing technical guarantees and scientific basis for scientific and safe oil storage.

But even so, inspection teams must be formed regularly to check one by one.

Even so, every year there are still people who take risks and fall for huge profits.

Hundreds of people have been sentenced to heavy penalties, and hundreds have been shot. Even the management of Huaxia Petroleum Group was organized to personally go to the scene of the execution, and the video of the execution was also reported within Panshan Group to deter people.

As time entered 2001, Liu Tao had already begun to make some preparations.

Strategic reserve oil, strategic reserve edible oil, strategic reserve grain, etc. were all being inspected.

Liu Tao even went to the Red River Delta and Cambodia to inspect in person, because these are large granaries and are related to food security.

The rice bowl must always be firmly in the hands of the people, and it is necessary to ensure that China's grain can be self-sufficient in the most unfavorable situation.

The largest importer of Chinese grain is Nanyang, followed by the United States, Brazil, Argentina, and then the big Mao and the second Mao!

A large amount of grain is imported every year to improve the food on the table of the Chinese people.

With the implementation of a series of water conservancy projects on the Red River, Mekong River, Chao Phraya River, Salween River and Irrawaddy River, not only the shipping conditions have been improved, but also the irrigation conditions have been improved, the flood control and waterlogging resistance have been enhanced, and the development and utilization of water resources have been strengthened. With the supply of hydropower to the South Seas, the grain output here has also increased significantly, and a large amount of grain can be exported every year.

Part of the grain exports from the South Seas are exported to China, and part are exported to the Middle East.

Thailand, Cambodia, etc. are major grain-producing countries, and they are also major grain exporters.

In addition to grain, there are also major fruit exporters. The fruits here are exported to the world in large quantities, especially to China.

For example, durian is very popular among the Chinese people. Tens of millions of durians are imported every year, and the Chinese eat 91% of the world's durian. Durian can also be made into durian pizza, durian cake, etc. China is changing durian with the attitude of a foodie empire.

And durian is just one of the representative fruits. There are also a large number of other tropical fruits, such as bananas, coconuts, mangosteens, mangoes, etc., which are exported to China in large quantities.

In the future, this kind of import will only increase and not decrease.

Just when Liu Tao was conducting his inspection, a major event occurred. The International Space Station welcomed the first batch of long-term astronauts, marking the official operation of the space station.

Speaking of the International Space Station, we have to talk about China's pain. China has not thought about joining the construction of the International Space Station, but even if China wanted to join with money, it was rejected on the grounds that China did not want to learn space station-related technologies.

This also shattered the naive ideas of many people and forced China to carry out space station research on its own.

Liu Tao looked at the news and his heart was quite complicated. The International Space Station can be said to represent the highest level of world science and technology and is the crystallization of human wisdom. No matter how it is evaluated, it is not an exaggeration.

Unfortunately, due to the selfishness of a certain country, the International Space Station has been tainted with political atmosphere from the beginning, and this political atmosphere will become more and more serious in the future.

But some will regret it in the future, because facts will prove that China can do space exploration on its own, not only can it do it, but it can also do it better.

The Chinese are always full of unyielding spirit. The more you want to suppress the Chinese, the more obvious their unyielding spirit becomes.

Soon, China's aerospace feast will kick off.

Manned space flight, space station, lunar exploration and even manned lunar landing, China will have them all and will realize them one by one.

After so many years of accumulation, China has accumulated enough national strength!