Oil Exploration

Ever since Carlo decided to develop the oil fields in the Persian Gulf region, the Spanish government immediately began making the relevant preparations.

Extracting oil was not so simple. First, oil fields had to be surveyed in the Oman Colony and their scale estimated before extraction could begin.

After the crude oil along the Persian Gulf coast was extracted, it would also need to be transported back to mainland Spain for processing. Local labor along the Persian Gulf coast was severely insufficient, making it impossible to establish an oil-processing industry of any scale there.

More importantly, the Spanish government absolutely did not want to establish its oil-processing industry far from the homeland. Although local processing could save transportation costs and time, an oil-processing industry far from the homeland would not be secure, exposed directly to the British.

There was another equally important point: the large number of jobs created by the oil-processing industry was also something Spain currently needed.

Carlo knew that the Persian Gulf coast possessed vast oil reserves, so he made arrangements for oil exploration there along two different lines.

The oil exploration team organized by the government had only one main objective: to find a large oil field. After finding a suitable large oil field, the exploration team would largely cease its work and release news to the outside world that there was only this one large oil field along the Persian Gulf coast.

The oil exploration team secretly organized by the royal family, however, was meant to truly survey all the oil reserves along the Persian Gulf coast. To ensure strict secrecy, every staff member allowed into the royal oil exploration team underwent rigorous investigation to ensure that no spies from other countries slipped in.

More importantly, after this secret oil survey team completed its mission,