Chapter 947 Black Gold (first update, please subscribe)
In January, on the shores of the Persian Gulf, the sea breeze gently blew across the sea with a faint salty and humid atmosphere. The rippling blue waves seem to be the reflection of the sky, and also like a huge emerald inlaid on the earth.
In this tranquil sea area, a majestic offshore drilling platform stands. A group of seabirds are hovering in the air, sometimes flying over the offshore drilling platform. Perhaps they will look at the people on the drilling platform with curious eyes. People are curious about what they are doing.
“Okay, let’s start.”
Zhang Lun started the drilling rig. The "Persian Gulf No. 1" drilling platform began work again.
Although they did not know whether there was oil underground, work began after arriving in the Persian Gulf and completing the installation of the platform.
“Continue,” Chen Lei said.
“Continue,”
Zhang Lun repeated.
With the operation of the machine, the drilling machine began to work, and it made a unique roar of the machine. Although the offshore drilling platform seemed to be very strong, it even seemed to be shaking a little as the drilling machine worked. .
In fact, this is just a feeling, just a feeling. After all, this drilling platform is the most advanced in the world. In the past ten years, Nanyang Petroleum Company has introduced the most advanced offshore drilling platform through cooperation with American oil companies. Drilling platform technology and developed its own offshore platform based on it. Now Nanyang's technology is no less than that of the United States.
The drilling rig was working roaringly there. Whenever a section of drill pipe was used up, they would install another section and then start it again. In this way, with their efforts, the drilling rig continued to drill. Towards deeper underground.
“We should be able to drill 300 meters today!”
Zhang Lun shouted to his colleagues.
After several months of preparation, the offshore drilling platform finally started working today. As for whether it can find oil... it all depends on luck.
"It must be possible to drill this deep!"
At this moment, a voice came from the bottom of the sea along the drill pipe.
At the sudden sound, everyone was stunned. They heard a loud noise.
“What is this sound?”
Then there was nothing but the sound of the drilling machine running.
There was silence on the platform, just before everyone figured out what was going on.
Then there was a sound they had never heard before. A low rumble from the center of the earth. This rumble was followed by other rumbles, which gradually converged into a continuous thunder.
“Smoke,” Zhang Lun shouted,
“Quickly put out the cigarette.”
People frantically stamped out the cigarettes in their hands, and they even ran , turn off some unused lights. They both knew what was likely to happen next.
There can't be any fireworks on this platform. Otherwise, what awaits them is likely to be a dead end.
Then it came out.
Oil.
Then a fountain sprayed out of the platform thirty-four meters into the air.
Thick, black, wet, smelly, sulfurous oil spewed out like a fountain.
People on the platform were sprinkled with it. Their hair, clothes and eyes were covered in thick oil.
It's all black oil.
In fact, they had no expectations at all today, but the oil just spewed out a dense flow of oil through the pipeline when they drilled through the 150-meter seabed rock formation without any warning.
Although a lot of the oil that spewed out flowed to the sea, they were all shouting excitedly and did not care about the oil at all.
Just by looking at the height of the fountain, these skilled oil workers understood that they had discovered a large oil field with high production!
The technicians and drillers on the platform danced like maniacs in the black fountain. They splashed this magical substance on each other. They were wallowing in the oil. They caught it with both hands and sprinkled it into the sky.
The sun shines on the black oil, and the oil glows with a layer of silver, even with some golden brilliance. Under the sunlight, it even takes on a magical color.
Golden!
It's like a golden spring emerging from the bottom of the sea, just gushing out.
This day is January 23, 1956, a very ordinary day.
There is a difference between an oil well and an oil well.
Some oil wells blow people's hair away, others just seep out of the ground. While everyone loves to see a gushing well, this scene actually misses the point. When oil is dug out, oil is dug out. What matters is how many barrels and how much money it costs.
When oil decides to gush out, it gushes out. When it gushes out, everyone knows that what is spouting out now is money.
When the people who tried to make it happen then try to stop it - well, sometimes it's hard to know which is harder to do.
For twenty-one days, oil gushes out unstoppably.
At first, Zhang Lun and others only controlled the blowout as normal, installed guide pipes, and introduced oil into the oil storage tanks. Soon, they had to face the reality that all their efforts were in vain. . Oil spewed out of the ground so quickly that storage tanks capable of holding 5,000 tons of oil were filled in just a few days.
“Damn, this oil well is crazy!” After the oil storage tank was filled with self-exploded oil, Zhang Lun and others were stunned and frightened - after all, they had never I have never seen such a self-effluent well.
"What to do now?"
"What to do? Block it!"
"But the pressure is so great, if it cannot be blocked, the pipeline will rupture and the oil well will be useless!"
No one dares to take this risk, and now they can only try to control the blowout.
Just when they were trying their best to control the blowout, finally, an oil tanker came - a 20,000-ton oil tanker.
So Zhang Lun and his colleagues immediately connected the oil tanker to the pipeline of the platform. With this oil tanker, Jiu didn't need to consider putting oil into the sea in vain.
At least there is no need to worry now.
But what happened next made everyone dumbfounded - in just seventeen days, the 20,000-ton oil tanker was almost full.
At the same time, another 50,000-ton oil tanker arrived - this was even a temporarily hired Aramco oil tanker. With the arrival of this large ship, everyone was finally Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
But in fact, they couldn't relax for long at all, because the oil wells were spewing out oil at a rate of more than 9,000 barrels every day.
Now, there is no need to consider such and such issues. For Nanyang Persian Gulf Oil Company, they now have only two options, to send larger and more tankers to the "Persian Gulf" "Platform No. 1", for a while, a special scene appeared near the Persian Gulf - oil tankers gathered towards "Platform No. 1 in the Persian Gulf". At the same time, they are doing their best to contain the blowout.
At the same time, a seaplane flew from Nanyang, and as the manager of Nanyang Oil Company, Herman came here.
"General Manager, below is the "Persian Gulf Platform No. 1"..."
Du Yuanzhi, the general manager of Nanyang Persian Gulf Oil Company, said with emphasis.
"The sea below is ours, our oil field!"
"Our oil field!"
Lowering his head and overlooking the bay, in the setting sun Under the illumination, the Persian Gulf completely turned into a golden color, which seemed to be a way to tell these people who came from afar that this was a sea area containing a lot of wealth.
The owner of this sea area is neither Saudi Arabia nor Kuwait, but these people who have come from afar.
Looking at the offshore oil field belonging to the company, Herman smiled.
He knew where they should go next. They want to build more platforms here and extract more oil, which will eventually be turned into money.
“Currently, more than 9,000 barrels of oil are gushing out every day. Because the pressure is too high, we can only let it spurt out on its own, and then control the blowout after the pressure drops..."
The engineers on the side explained their specific plan. Thousands of tons of oil gushed out every day. They had never encountered such a large self-flowing well.
But no matter what, they succeeded.
“Do you know what this smells like?”
Standing on the drilling platform, breathing in the faint smell of sulfur in the air, Herman said with some pride.
“This is not just a big oil field, but a big oil field that belongs to us!”
When he said these words, Herman’s eyes turned to the coast not far away.
Some Bedouins wearing white robes and leading camels can be seen on the coast. They seem to be attracted by this offshore drilling platform.
"Will they agree?"
This idea suddenly came to Herman's mind. The answer is very clear, those people will never agree with his view.
For those people, this offshore drilling platform may belong to Nanyang Persian Gulf Oil Company, but in their view, the oil does belong to them, and they will definitely covet this oil field. San Chi will definitely do everything possible to steal the wealth belonging to the company.
Looking at the people on the coastline, Herman muttered to himself.
"Okay... now here comes the new question."
Question, what kind of question?
This question couldn't be simpler - how to ensure that this giant oil field will always belong to Nanyang in the days to come, or that the profits generated by this oil field will not be taken away by those guys riding camels. Walk.
For Herman, he will never allow anyone to get involved in this oil field. After all, it belongs to Nanyang.
At this moment, the staff on the side said.
"General Manager, Riyadh sent us a congratulatory message, congratulating us on the discovery of a large oil field."
Okay!
What is supposed to come will always come.
(End of this chapter)