The sun sank in the west.
Bangkok's sunset brought a touch of coolness to the fiery city, and stirred the restless hearts of some people into action.
Inside the secret base.
Chen Jianxiong and his subordinates were analyzing intelligence from inside the entire Riverside Hotel. Their focus was the business center on the top floor, but that didn't mean they were ignoring the other rooms and areas.
Watching Yang Tianci and the others talking on-screen and signing the cooperation documents, Chen Jianxiong quickly learned the details.
"Kam oil field?" Chen Jianxiong turned to glance at the map.
He soon found the oil field's exact location using its coordinates.
It wasn't over in Borneo, but in the waters east of the Malay Peninsula, roughly at latitude 5.3 degrees north and longitude 105.4 degrees east.
There were already quite a few offshore oil fields being developed in that area.
He recorded the relevant intelligence and continued reading.
Based on the information available so far, this so-called cooperation was likely the result of Yang Tianci and the people behind him exchanging favors to persuade Thomas Morgan to let them in.
Of course, Chen Jianxiong knew that nothing in this world came for free.
The Malaysian government wouldn't have to put up a single cent for this deal, while Temasek Holdings, which had acted as the broker, had secured a 7% stake for just 130 million US dollars.
As for the real heavyweight, the Morgan family had gotten a 25% stake without paying a cent. Thomas was simply getting something for nothing.
The exploration report had established the field's approximate reserves, but until they actually extracted oil and natural gas, nothing was certain.
The 1.75 billion US dollars raised this time was the real operating capital for the Kam oil field. If they spent