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"The officials have already granted us the exclusive rights to manage the Baku oil, here are the related documents, as well as the relevant information.
In the early 19th century, this place was annexed by the Russian Empire, and subsequently, the Russians discovered centuries-old hand-dug oil wells here.
The locals merely regarded oil as a common resource, and the Russians didn't fully explore and utilize the oil resources.
Jiuding Energy Group is spending money to acquire all the local oil fields, and presumably, our people will be able to start drilling and refining directly once they get there," Fu Mengqiu reported to Zhu Wencong.
Zhu Wencong looked at the related materials. Many believe that the beginning of the modern oil industry was in 1859 when oil was discovered at the Drake Well in Pennsylvania, America.
In fact, ten years before the discovery of the Drake Well, oil had already been discovered in Baku, Azerbaijan.
