The story of an oil trader in an international business company

Let the spirit of oil fly across the ocean and light up the most beautiful youth with struggle. “On June 28, international business companies held the second "Listen to your Heart" event, in which oil traders told of their heroism and commitment to "go forward without flinching".

Among these oil traders, some have worked hard for more than a decade to make the trade scale and profits grow by leaps and bounds; some have moved their partners with professionalism and professionalism; some have long stayed on the front line far away from home and relatives...

It is precisely because of the pioneering and unyielding spirit of the company that the international trade of China's petroleum industry is on the rise. Hundreds of such young people are making new achievements in the international operation of CNPC with their youth and sweat.

Qingming Meng, London Company

Meng Qingming, a young employee in London who is struggling at the forefront of international crude oil trade, has joined the international business company for 10 years. He was sent to London company for 5 years, experienced the low ebb, overcame the setback, created the gratifying performance, dedicated the wonderful youth.

In 2011, Meng Qingming graduated from University and came to the crude oil Department of the International business company. In less than three years, he was authorized to trade both physical goods and paper goods, becoming one of the youngest traders and paper goods traders in the company.

In 2016, at the age of 27, Meng was transferred to the company's crude oil division in London due to his outstanding performance. During his busiest and most intense hours, he crossed five business groups. He was talking in his sleep at night doing deals, buying and selling. “The high-intensity, high-pressure, fast-paced work experience was really overwhelming. “But thinking of the trust of the company leaders, colleagues' understanding and support, Meng Qingming withstood the pressure, through the difficulties.

London is the world's most active energy trading platform and the largest crude oil pricing center, where established oil companies and traders gathered, 虎踞龙盘.These companies have accumulated resources and market share over the years. As a young man in a young company, Meng Qingming regards challenges as opportunities and tries to attack and conquer each link and task one by one. The most difficult days also become his fastest growing days.

As a trader, Meng Qingming should analyze and judge the fundamentals, capital and technical aspects in his work. He took every practical operation as his own experience, exercised his ability to resist pressure in real combat, accumulated experience and methods, and grew up to be the youngest transaction team leader in the company.

At the beginning of last year, under the dual challenges of the spread of COVID-19 and low oil prices, Meng Qingming led the North Sea Trade Group to survive the test, realizing the leap-forward growth in the scale and profit of north Sea crude oil trade, achieving the company's goal of improving quality and efficiency, and realizing his own life value.

"Achievements belong to the past," Meng said. "The road is still long."

Hong Kong company Mo Ao Xuan

Hong Kong is not only a shopping paradise, but also the largest aviation hub in Asia, with more than 400,000 aircraft taking off and landing every year. The total consumption of aviation coal reaches 6.56 million tons, of which 40 percent is supplied by international companies in Hong Kong.Mo Ao xuan, manager of light oil Department of International Business Hong Kong Company, led the team to maintain the position of the largest oil supplier to Hong Kong Airport for 10 consecutive years, and built a marketing network covering 13 countries and 33 airports.

In 2006, Mo ao xuan led the team to take over gaolan Island aviation coal depot in Zhuhai, which became the strategic base of aviation coal business of the company, and officially opened the oil supply business of Hong Kong airport.In 2010, the Hong Kong government opened the Aviation coal depot in Tuen Mun. Mo took the opportunity to meet with various airlines to develop tailored fuel supply solutions.It took her and her colleagues 10 years to make the 37-kilometer journey from Central Plaza to Hong Kong airport. Gradually, in the Hong Kong aviation fuel circle, it is known that when there is a problem, CNPC's Mo Ao xuan team will give the most professional advice.

In the summer of 2012, mo was more than seven months pregnant and preparing for the birth of her third child when she got a call from a Hong Kong power plant. The worst typhoon in a decade had damaged the coal pipeline. The power plant is very anxious to urgently purchase diesel oil to generate electricity, but it is very difficult to find the right price, quality source of goods, but also to ensure that the logistics capacity to deliver. “We are the national oil company, and we have this responsibility to protect people's livelihood. This is a task that must be accomplished. “Mo said.With the support of the headquarters, Mo and his team worked hard for more than two months, and hundreds of ships of diesel fuel were supplied to the power plant, which helped Hong Kong avoid a power failure crisis.

Soon after, her third child was born. Colleagues nicknamed the baby "TEAM B," after the tanker that was rushing diesel to Hong Kong. Every time the name is mentioned now, Mo recalls that unusual summer.

South China company mo Lizhen

In early July, summer arrived in Beijing. MO Lizhen felt that the temperature of 35 degrees Celsius "is nothing”. He spent more than 10 hours in a sweltering protective suit on an oil tanker at Qinzhou port in Guangxi Province. This is the norm for Mo Lichen during the COVID-19 outbreak.

The ship dispatching post is the core of the ship business operation and the information hub of the import and export of goods. Last year, when the epidemic started to spread, it coincided with the Spring Festival and had a particularly severe impact on the import and export of oil products. On the one hand, the Qinzhou port implemented vehicle and personnel control, mo Lizhen's ship freight forwarding 8 colleagues cannot return to the station; On the other side is the refinery and temporary emergency additional export task. In addition, the strong cold air is about to pressure, the need for personnel to go to sea barge operations. Suddenly "three mountains" let mo Li zhen pressure doubled immediately.

While he was busy, his lover called: "Mom is seriously ill and needs to be hospitalized at once. “However, the refinery production cannot be stopped during the outbreak, and additional tasks must be completed. MO Li Zhen anxious, but the work cannot stop. He quickly reformulated the personnel plan to ensure smooth work, and then contacted the refinery to arrange the implementation of export tasks to ensure smooth export of refinery oil. See mo Li Zhen again to go to sea barge, love wronged ground to cry. MO Lizhen wiped the tears on her lover's face and comforted her, saying, "Now is a special time, I will arrange the hospital, also will do a good job of protection. Our family and work matters are not delayed."

After completing the transit, there was no time to rest, so Mo Lizheng worked out epidemic prevention and control measures for boarding, docking, inspection and customs clearance. The colleagues who stayed in the station for rest knew that the refinery had additional export tasks, and they also returned to their posts voluntarily Min is responsible for onshore business and epidemic prevention and control Lihong will communicate with the personnel on the way to sea and take safety measures...

After 9 days of fighting side by side, Mo Lichen and his team successfully completed the urgent task of oil export, ensuring the timely customs clearance of goods, avoiding demurrage fees, and saving costs for customers.

Since the spread of the epidemic, Mo and his colleagues have operated more than 30 oil tankers every month, with crew members from more than a dozen countries. There has not been a single case of infection, and not a drop of oil has been delayed.

Nelson Yurken of the Northwest Company

"There are no birds in the air, there is no grass on the ground, the wind blows the stones away, mosquitoes shift three shifts. “This is a true picture of the working environment at Northwest. Under the harsh environment, the entire staff built northwest Company into an outpost of the western energy strategic channel with the adult trade volume exceeding 45 million tons.

Remember when he just entered the office, a senior said to Him: "He said, our northwest employees are never only stuffy in the office to do business, entering the port, Gobi, snow mountains have to experience, you must be prepared. “What does the oil and gas trade have to do with Gobi travel? I a study of accounting, and the snow mountains have what relationship? “At first, also some surprised son, later listened to the colleague Xu Jinhua story, only to understand the advice of the predecessors.

On a winter day, xu Jinhua, a trader, and His driver, Master Yan, drove to Takes ken, a port on the Border between China and Mongolia, to export gasoline no. 92 to Mongolia. The winding mountain highway leading to the port is full of dangers. Accidentally, the car slipped into the ditch beside it, the window was broken, and the bitter wind rushed into the car instantly. In the distance was a vast expanse of whiteness and no habitation. The clock is ticking. If the company cannot get to the port before it closes, it will suffer great losses. They shivered in the snow, and though they were both afraid, they comforted and encouraged each other.

Fortunately, Uighur armed police soldiers patrolling the mountain found them, and local Kazakh herdsmen pulled and pushed the car back to the road. Armed police soldiers advised them to return, but in order to complete the task, they decided to continue to set out, 3 hours later finally reached the Tashkent do more explanation and drink water, heating, Xu Jinhua and Yan master rushed to the port office. With the gasoline export declaration and inspection process of No. 92 successfully completed, their heart was finally relieved.

At Northwest, the story goes on and on. A package of naan and a few bottles of mineral water, facing the rising sun and wearing the sunset, rushed to various ports -- through hundreds of kilometers of Taklimakan desert, over the peaks of the Pamir Plateau, the Gobi Desert backed by tamarisk to avoid rolling yellow sand, Alaskan mountain mouth hold the telephone pole and fight against the ten-force wind...

Jingjing Zhao, American Company

Jing-jing zhao remember very clearly, this year on February 14, during the Chinese lunar calendar day of the first grade, as she was with the domestic family immersed in a happy and peaceful holiday atmosphere, who also did not think of, a rare cold wave swept America company in Houston area, the temperature plummeted to minus 20 degrees Celsius in just one day, accompanied by blizzard.The city was plunged into silence and darkness as millions of residents were cut off from electricity, water and power.

The American company immediately activated the emergency mechanism.Wang Feng, the manager of the financial department, stepped forward and volunteered to go to the missing colleague's home to check the situation.The phone signal was interrupted and the map navigation was not available. Wang feng had to grop his way forward by memory, slowing down and driving carefully to the destination.

Not knowing the exact location of his colleagues' homes, Wang Feng knocked on three of them one by one. He found the homes dark and cold as ice, and the usually lively children curled up in the quilt.Wang took 10 colleagues, their spouses, elderly people and children to his home in three batches and provided them with food and lodging for four days.Zheng Xingyang also lent a helping hand.Although the conditions are difficult, but everyone's heart is warm.

The impact of the freezing disaster has also caused a ripple effect in the oil and gas market.American companies in the United States bay of natural gas storage can not be planned to trade out of storage, the value of the market is facing the risk of huge unilateral losses.On the one hand, the risks of the company's operation, on the other hand, the difficulties of family life. Li Shuai, an expatriate employee, and two local employees devoted themselves to the emergency handling of the business 24 hours a day without any hesitation.We communicate at any time in the wechat group, who is out of power, who is coming back, according to the signal situation at any time to transfer the work position.Creating it is with this kind of "no conditions on" the spirit of Houston and Canadian natural gas joint team timely handle the beautiful bay gas storage risk events caused by force majeure, the first comb exposure and emergency disposal of the market, will eventually disasters minimal impact on American business.

In times of trouble, friendship and responsibility are shown.Local staff such as Brian Kelly and Satya in the shipping department, Sammer Wehaib in the Information department, Amber Susan and Danielle McCollum in the legal department have volunteered to do a lot of work to keep the business running.In the face of this sudden disaster, the Chinese and foreign employees of the American company unite and help each other to overcome the difficulties, showing the great love across the borders.

Zhang Xiaojing from Singapore

In Singapore, the oil and gas trading center which does not produce a drop of crude oil, international Business (Singapore) has been engaged for 20 years, the crude oil products business is becoming more mature, and the natural gas business is developing rapidly.This is a group with more than 95% of employees in 4 countries. They think in one place across languages and cultures.

The young team of the Ministry of Natural Gas expanded the market to all parts of Asia and Europe, achieving many "firsts"."You should keep a low profile," says Huang Yingchao, a gold trader sweeping the gas market. "The most important thing is to do things well."

Huang's natural gas team members come from eight different countries, with an average age of 37.They united as one, asia-Europe linkage, logistics innovation, optimization of resources, a single negotiation, a single procurement......Every time I can turn in a satisfactory paper.

Like the gas team, the whole Singapore company is an international family.The 1000 employees of different skin colors, different countries and different cultures are woven together to form an integrated and diverse corporate culture that shines the oil spirit in Singapore, India, Australia and other places.

Ms Zhang's first stop overseas was working on a start-up Australian company.Once, the company organized Chinese and foreign employees to learn the Spirit of Daqing together. The shot of Wang Jinxi jumping into the mud pool not only brought tears to her eyes again, but also deeply shocked her local colleagues.Risk control post Fiona did not think that China's oil was once so extracted, in the phone to a friend, she was particularly proud to say: "I work in China's oil, ah, is the world's top 500 China's oil!"

Operating gas stations 24 hours a day during the pandemic is a challenge for Companies in Singapore.The company operates 40 gas stations in Singapore, with more than 600 employees, including 87 Malaysian employees who usually travel between Singapore and Malaysia. Now they can't work normally, so they have to rely on the on-duty employees to cover the shift.Shenggang gas station is a 10,000-ton station. Malaysian employee Hafiszul took the initiative to stick to his post and did not return to accompany his wife who was about to give birth.Saleha, the manager of the oil station, took the lead. She followed the station during the day and worked as an oiler at night.Hisham of the Federal Gas Station, who is Muslim, spent more than a month at the station during the outbreak.

In this way, the Singapore company gathers the strength of Chinese and foreign employees with the spirit of oil, and makes the gem flower shine brightly on the "Belt and Road".