蒋氏为当年台湾经济发展之贡献

经三年洽商（1958-1961）终与中国石油公司签订合作契约，美国驻台大使,美援总署署长

及中方经济部长等要员均亲临观礼，乃空前盛举。对日后台湾经济起飞贡献重大。

蒋氏于1958年奉母返台定居，并应台湾政府邀请进行探采石油等经建计划,迭蒙当年总统蒋

公召见嘉勉。复于慈母朝夕鼓励及殷切期望下，锲而不舍，努力克服当时有关外人投资法令及环

境之诸多困难。1961年9月20日与中国石油公司签订合作契约，创引进外资及技术合作之先例。

图示左起：中方律师蔡六乘、中油董事长凌鸿勋、经济部长杨继曾、中油总经理胡新南、美国亚

美公司董事长兼总裁蒋一成、美国大使庄莱德、经济合作总署长赫乐逊及美方律师陈汉清于签约

时合影。

China Post,September 21,1961

An agreement signing ceremony yesterday at the China Petroleum Corp. office culminated year-long negotia-

tions between the CPC and Asiatic-American Inc. on the latter's investment in Taiwan's oil exploration. CPC

President Jeromjs S.N.Hu (I.center) and Jimmy I.C.Chiang, President and Chairman of Board of AAI (r.center)

signed for CPC and AAI respectively. Economic Minister C.T.Yang (left to Hu) and U.S. Ambassador Everett

F.Drumright (seated at right end of the table) are among witnesses at the signing rites.

CPC - AAI Sign Final Agreement
For Petroleum Exploration Here

Final agreement was signed yesterday for petroleum exploration in Taiwan by a U.S.firm.
The agreement, the result of negotiations which began in july 1960 , was   between the   Chinese   Petroleum Corporation and Asiatic-American Inc. Mr. Jerome S.N. Hu, president of CPC and Jimmy I.C. Chiang,  President and Chairman of Board of AAI,signed the agreement at CPC Headquarters in Taipei.
  Asiatic-American began in the summer of 1958 to investigate local   geological conditions and   to   see possibilities of negotiations with Chinese Petroleum.The main Points of agreement are:
1)AAI shall organize a "Chinese Company"according to the Chinese Company Law.
  2)AAI shall spend a minimum of one million U.S. dollars for petroleum exploration in each twelve months period in conducting their exploration work either on one hunderd thousand hectares prospecting area in the western plain area or on three stuctures in foothills as selected by mutual agreement.The cost of purchase of any equipment for drilling or for completion of service paid by AAI shall be addition to this amount. If AAI selects the prospecting area larger than one hundred thousand   hectares   or   more than three structures, then   amount   of investment   shall   be    increased accordingly.

   3)AAI shall have the right to select the prospecting area or structure as agreed by CPC but shall in no way interfere with the operations of CPC.
  4)Before AAI commences to drill the first well at the selected structure, such structure shall be previously delineated in checkerboard divisions at 100-hectare tracts. When AAI selects and drills the first well at a certain tract, they will gain all alternate tracts, and CPC will retain the remaining tracts at the structure. In the event that AAI gets production from their tracts, AAI shall pay to CPC a royalty in kind of one eighth or 12.5% of all oil and gas produced at the wellhead.
CPC shall develop the remaining half of the alternate tracts retained by herself.
  5)CPC shall have the priority to purchase the oil and gas produced by AAI.
  6)If   AAI   fails to take action,   as stated   in the agreement,it shall be automatically terminated.
  According   to terms of the agreement ,   AAI shall relinquish and surrender to CPC the non-productive districts and/or structures which have been tested by AAI. CPC shall carry out its own exploration without any restriction from the agreement.
  Main office of Asiatic-American, Inc. is at   2803 Liberty Bank Bldg., Oklahoma City,Oklahoma.

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蒋氏为当年台湾经济发展之贡献