Juarez, Mexico, where the headquarters of the International Risk Advisory Firm is located.
Not long ago, Ivankov received a new order from Seryosha, who asked him to send some elite soldiers and special combat personnel who had participated in the Battle of Guantanamo to the Red Sea to escort the tankers of the Mediterranean Trading Company.
Yuri and his wife, Telkina, who had returned from their honeymoon a few months earlier, also came to Juarez, and as Ivankov's old partner, they have always worked together tacitly.
Moreover, Yuri and Ivankov have a good cooperative relationship with drug traffickers in Latin America, and with Yuri in charge, the two of them can divide the work of Aztec Bank and international risk consulting firms.
Seryosha attaches great importance to international risk consulting firms, because when dealing with drug dealers, there is no armed force in his hands that can suppress the formation, and it is absolutely impossible to gain a foothold in Latin America.
However, Seryosha's positioning of the international risk consulting firm is not an armed force to protect its own security, and now Ivankov and Yuri have a legal status recognized by the US government, they are high-ranking cadres of the Polish opposition that the US government has vigorously supported, and Yuri and Ivankov can use the US policy of supporting militants in the Polish opposition to establish a mercenary company for the Gorky Brotherhood.
Seryosha's position as an international risk consulting firm is to deal with some thorny issues of international security, just like the famous Blackwater company in later generations.
The most difficult thing facing Seryosha now is the attack on the oil tanker of the Mediterranean Trading Company.
The Iran-Iraq war is now in its eighth year, and both sides are now even using chemical weapons.
Under these circumstances, there is nothing incomprehensible about the ship attack launched by Iraq.
In the Iran-Iraq war, both the Soviet Union and the United States favored the Iraqi side, but because of the American hostages in Iran's hands and other issues, the United States and the Soviet Union did not directly intervene in the war.
In this case, oil tankers in the Red Sea are directly exposed to risk.
The government is inconvenient, so it can only be handled in the form of a company.
As a U.S. government-backed project, the international risk consulting firm hired retired officers from the Delta Special Forces as daily training instructors, and the source of soldiers was not only Soviet soldiers who defected from Afghanistan, Polish immigrants, but also a part of Mexicans.
Most of the weapons were purchased from US arms companies, and in just a few months, this contingent has now begun to take shape and has a certain combat effectiveness.
For this escort mission, Ivankov selected about 100 experienced veterans from an international risk consulting company.
A special plane was hired to transport them to Italy.
They will board ships in Italy to escort tankers.
Not long ago, the world's longest oil tanker, the Knock Nevis, was sunk by the Iraqi Air Force with a Exocet missile, leaving many tankers passing through the Suez Canal in a shadow.
In order to complete the escort mission, international risk consulting companies can only spend a lot of money to buy advanced air defense weapons from the United States.
However, the weapons that can deal with Exocet missiles are usually complete sets of anti-missile systems, and it is impossible for the United States to sell this kind of thing to the international risk consulting company, so the air defense missiles injured by the international risk consulting company are mainly used against the planes of the Iraqi Air Force in an effort to nip the danger in the bud.
When the employees of the international risk consulting firm arrived in Italy, they were quickly assigned to escort the Panamax class ocean-going tankers of MSC.
Each tanker will be assigned five escorts, who will carry a set of anti-aircraft weapons with them across the Suez Canal and the Red Sea, and when the tankers leave the danger zone, International Risk Consulting will send a helicopter to pick up their employees and return to Italy for the next escort mission.
Seryosha knew that the current strength of the international risk consulting company was really not enough to deal with the Iraqi Air Force, but he could not bear the fact that his oil tanker was blown up and sunk, and he did not even have the ability to fight back.
As for how much security can be guaranteed by the escort of international risk consulting companies, it is difficult to say at this time.
Glencore's spot oil business fundamentally dictated that even if the Red Sea was a tiger's den, Glencore would have to risk passing through it.
After learning of the public sale of the Samotrol oil field, Macriech's deputy, Green, could not wait to apply to the Soviet embassy in Switzerland, and with the approval of the Soviet authorities, Green came to Moscow smoothly.
In order to avoid suspicion, Green did not take the initiative to visit Seryosha, but Seryosha still did Green a great favor, he got a detailed assessment report of the Samoterol oil field from Chernomyrdin, all the data on this report are basically true, and now the daily production of the Samoterol oil field is about 1.5 million barrels, although this production is still among the best in the world, but it has fallen by half from the record of 3 million barrels of crude oil per day at the peak of the Samoterol field.
And the worst thing is that the water cut of the Samotallol oil field is still rising, and now it has reached 70%.
In other words, only 30% of the underground liquid that comes up is oil.
According to this report, Glencore's oil exploration experts are not particularly pessimistic, and the Samoterol oil field is still saved, but it needs to invest another five billion US dollars to solve the problem of excessive water content in the field, and during this period, the production of the Samotrol oil field can only be maintained to the level of 300,000 barrels.
Green and Macridge agreed that the deal would not be a loss, if it were not for the Soviet government's financial strain, and the fact that there was a more well-developed Baku, a second Baku as an alternative.
The Soviet government would not give up the oil field.
The risks and uncertainties faced by spot oil are too great, and with the Samotallol field, Glencore will have a sustainable supply of oil in the future, so that Gorky Financial Group can even buy refineries and enter the oil refining industry.
After combining various opinions, Seryosha has already made up his mind to take the Samotrol oil field.
However, before the tender was officially launched, Seryosha had to find a few weak oil companies to participate in the tender with Glencore, which would make the tender look like an open, fair and fair business competition. t1706231537: