Chapter 1028 Hope Oilfield (2)
Drilling an oil and gas well is not as simple as drilling a water well. Due to different factors such as depth, geological softness and hardness, pressure, well length, etc., different technical measures will be taken during the drilling process. Drilling well holes, running pipe casing, oil layer positioning, cementing, and post-condensation pressure testing, these steps all require a certain amount of practical experience. Haihan currently does not have relatively mature technical capabilities. Even Tian Yeyou and Liu Shanxia can only be regarded as With only half a grasp of theoretical knowledge, all the experience of the construction team came from drilling artesian wells on Hainan Island for two years. Therefore, although the approximate location of the oil field has long been determined, everyone still has some doubts about whether it can be successfully exploited in the future.
However, the Chulunkeng oil field has a feature that is more beneficial to novices, that is, the burial depth is extremely shallow, and there is no need to consider too much the impact of geological conditions. Therefore, Tian Yeyou and others do not need to formulate complex drilling plans. Basically Just follow standard oil and gas drilling procedures. Under the condition that the personnel, equipment, and materials are fully in place, Tian Yeyou dares to claim that he is 60 to 70% sure that the oil field can be found in the predetermined area.
However, most of the soldiers and civilians who were transferred to Miaoli by Haihan for the oil project had no idea what kind of treasure they were looking for in this mountain ravine. They were all given a strict silence order before departure, and were not allowed to mention their mission to non-participants, including family members. Of course, even if someone wanted to say it, not much information could be leaked. The specific tasks assigned were only informed after they arrived in Penghu.
The next morning, Liu Shanxia and Morgan gathered all the local labor force and began to clean up the area designated by Tian Yeyou. Yesterday, a company of the army arrived here with the fleet. Together with the construction team and drilling technicians from the Ministry of Construction, the total number was less than 200 people. However, the migrant workers who were actually transferred to take charge of the infrastructure project are still here due to limited transportation capacity. If you are stationed at the coastal camp, you will have to wait at least a day or two before arriving in this ravine in batches. Therefore, for the time being, you can only let the troops go up and use the army soldiers as cheap labor.
Of course, the soldiers did not complain much about this, but many people were curious about what treasures were buried in the mountains and forests, so that so many chiefs were gathered here to serve as supervisors. However, the slippery ground in the forest caused by continuous rainfall has also brought a lot of trouble to the cleanup work. Whether using an ax or a big saw, it is difficult to maintain the balance of the body, and the progress of felling trees is very slow. , Morgan was so anxious that he wanted to directly use explosives to blow up the tree.
Tian Yeyou looked at it for a while, then shook his head and said to Bai Kesi: "At this rate, it will take at least two days to finish."
The area designated by Tian Yeyou for exploration is not large, just a fifty-meter square area, but there are quite a few big trees in this area that two people can hug, which is indeed a bit troublesome for non-professional loggers. Although these soldiers are in good health, they are not very powerful in this field. There are only one or two hundred people busy, but they cannot achieve the expected results.
But this situation is not the fault of the soldiers. After all, no matter how thorough the plan is in advance, the actual situation will still be different. Morgan considered transporting armed personnel into the mountain first under the condition of limited transportation capacity to ensure supplies and The security of the station should not be a big problem if we temporarily replace the migrant workers with soldiers in the past few days. But the actual situation did deviate somewhat from Morgan's expectations. The army could not well replace the lumberjacks. And this slow step will lead to slower steps, which will directly affect the subsequent exploration and mining work. The relevant responsibilities naturally fall on Morgan, so it is no wonder that he is so anxious.
Bai Kesi understood Morgan's difficulties better: "It doesn't matter if you go slow. Anyway, the oil is buried underground and will not escape. Sooner or later we will dig it out. But if he gets the migrant workers into the ravine first, he will be attacked by the natives and something will happen." , the consequences would be much more serious than delaying the construction period.”
The "serious consequences" that Bai Kesi said did not just mean the loss of human life. In the context of a large project such as oil exploration, even war methods are allowed, so who cares about the slight loss of life. However, if people are attacked by natives, it will cause panic, which will affect the stability of local people and even the development process of oil fields. From a stability point of view, Bai Kesi would rather the development process be slower than to have the local workers and people be distracted from work due to safety issues.
Fortunately, Liu Shanxia had been in the Ministry of Construction for a long time and knew some knowledge about logging. He instructed the soldiers to use poles and wedges during the logging process to speed up the falling of trees. Although the proficiency is still not as good as that of professional lumberjacks, it is at least much faster than the previous progress.
But perhaps it was Bai Kesi's prophecy that came true. Not long after, a sudden situation proved that Morgan's striving for stability was the most correct decision.
While they were busy in the valley, a gunshot suddenly came from the hillside. Everyone immediately stopped what they were doing. The soldiers who responded quickly had already dropped their tools and immediately went to sort out the piled rifles. .
The deployment of security posts outside the camp was personally arranged by Morgan. Listening to the direction of the gunfire, he knew it came from a hidden sentry on the hillside. There are only two to three soldiers at each of these peripheral secret posts. During the guard period, they need to maintain concealment and a high degree of concentration. They have high requirements for the quality of individual soldiers. Therefore, Morgan assigned himself to the only two secret posts. A sniper trainee brought here from Sanya. Being able to perform actual combat missions in such an unfamiliar environment and harsh weather conditions is an excellent training for these students.
Of course, another very important point is that the potential enemies faced in Miaoli this time are relatively weak. Even if these sniper trainees who have not yet graduated are deployed to the front line, there will not be too much risk. Morgan was convinced that with their individual strength and the seven-shot rifle in hand, the firepower input of a hidden sentry was enough to deal with five to seven times the number of enemies, and the distance from the camp was only two to three hundred meters. As long as a signal was sent, reinforcements would be sent here. A matter of minutes.
And Morgan also gave them the power to fire at their own discretion in emergency situations, such as encountering some predatory beasts, or an emergency requiring immediate rescue, or finding armed men with malicious intentions near the camp.
After the gunshot, Morgan immediately handed over the command of the scene to Bai Kesi, and led a squad of soldiers to the place where the gunshot was heard to check the situation. The reason why there was no large-scale dispatch was because Morgan was convinced that this was only a single gunshot, indicating that the soldiers with secret sentries had controlled the situation, otherwise there would be more gunshots in the future.
This secret post is located on the hillside to the south of the camp, with a drop of about 30 meters from the river valley. From its position, you can have an unobstructed view of the camp area that has been opened up. When Morgan came here to inspect before, he chose it as a hidden sentry to prevent uninvited guests from peeking into the valley camp from this location. Morgan stationed two soldiers at this security point, changing them every three hours to ensure that security and surveillance tasks could be performed normally.
It took Morgan three minutes to lead the team to the location of the secret sentry. At a glance, he saw that the originally planned lurking point was empty. The small shack camouflaged with tree branches had been opened, and the two soldiers were nowhere to be seen. However, Morgan did not panic because of this. This was a normal tactical action. One of his requirements for his trainees was to try to avoid firing multiple shots at the same position during field operations to avoid being targeted by the enemy with superior force. Presumably after firing a shot earlier, the two soldiers quickly moved their positions according to their daily training content. Morgan picked up the copper whistle hanging around his neck and blew it twice briefly, which was a pre-agreed signal for safety. Sure enough, two soldiers soon emerged from another bush. They were the ones Morgan had deployed here. The hooded cloak raincoats worn by these two people are different from the oilcloth raincoats of ordinary soldiers. Not only does it use a more waterproof rubber coating, but the base fabric is rendered in jungle camouflage color, and the matching Wearing camouflage bottoms, gloves and a mask, it is indeed difficult to distinguish the figure when immersed in the forest.
This set of equipment was also developed under the leadership of Morgan and was specially distributed to snipers in the military. Originally, there was a set of sniper combat uniforms for use on sunny days, which would provide better concealment, but this weather was not able to be used for the time being.
The special clothing used by snipers when fighting in the field is called Ghillly Suit. It is said to have been invented by a Scot named Ghilly. The basic structure is a coat made of dyed strips of cloth and linen. By simulating natural plants, it provides a three-dimensional appearance for camouflage clothing, thereby visually segmenting the outline of the human body and achieving the purpose of concealing the movements of snipers in the wild environment.
The production process of this kind of ghillie suit is not very difficult, but the concealment effect is very good. After Morgan took charge of this unit, he received ample training funds and equipment support, so he asked the logistics department to make some ghillie suits. This mission in Taiwan is the first time that this kind of individual soldier equipment has been put into actual combat. Unfortunately, this period happens to be the rainy season. Morgan can only let the soldiers wear camouflage rain-proof cloaks, and there is no way for the new soldiers to wear them yet. The equipment came in handy, but he was already planning to put forward new requirements to the logistics department to see if he could develop a rainproof version of the ghillie suit.
A jungle environment like the Miaoli Mountains is indeed very suitable for sniper field training, and Morgan directly used combat as training this time, which also gave full trust to his group of people.
"What happened when the shooting happened just now?" Morgan felt a lot more relaxed when he saw that his two subordinates were safe and sound, and then asked about what happened just now.
These two soldiers were not new recruits, but veterans selected from active service personnel. They both had experience in performing combat missions, so their emotions were very stable. They reported to Morgan the reasons for their shooting in a leisurely manner.
Just about a quarter of an hour ago, the two soldiers discovered that several natives armed with bows, arrows and spears appeared nearby, and they were quietly approaching the camp in formation. Originally, they had to wait and see for a while, but when they saw that one of the natives had already fired his bow and arrow and pointed it in the direction of the camp under construction, they took the initiative to shoot because they were worried about hurting their compatriots.
"Hit?" Morgan asked.
"It was hit, only about ten meters away, and it hit the chest." One of the soldiers responded: "The remaining natives were scared away immediately, and they didn't even have time to drag away the bodies of their companions."
The two soldiers immediately pulled out the body of the native from a bush. After killing the native, they were worried that the other party would come back to snatch the body, so they dragged it into the bush and hid it. . In order to prevent the exposed hiding spot from being targeted by the other party, the two took the initiative to change their hiding positions. However, they also knew that reinforcements would arrive quickly after the gunshot, so they did not hide too far away. After hearing the sound of the copper whistle, they immediately came out to meet Morgan.
Morgan knelt down and looked at the corpse. He shot him in the center, probably killing him at that time. There were no identifying items on the body, and the bows and arrows used were all made of bamboo. However, compared to the several reckless natives caught in the coastal camp before, the bow and arrows used by this native who was killed were all made of bamboo. Made of iron, it seems that the level of armament is higher.
Whether this native and his accomplices happened to be passing by here suddenly and suddenly had evil thoughts, or whether they came here premeditatedly to cause trouble. Their purpose cannot be verified for the time being, but Morgan thinks that these are not important. He is more concerned about the consequences of this incident. consequences. According to the two soldiers, several others had already taken advantage of the chaos to escape, which meant that Haihan's move to station here had been exposed. If these natives came here to cause trouble, they will definitely come back. The top priority is to strengthen defense and leave no opportunity for their opponents to take advantage of.
Morgan was far more excited than uneasy about such emergencies. Only when such an unexpected situation occurred could he and the armed forces under his command truly come into use and gain military exploits by performing combat missions. If the local natives are like those in Kaohsiung Port, who are bribed with some benefits in a few moments, then the Haihan Army can only play an insignificant supporting role in the Miaoli project, and this is not the case that Morgan traveled thousands of miles. The original intention of coming here to go on a mission.
Morgan asked the soldiers to take the corpses of the natives down the mountain, and showed the results of the battle to Baikes and others: "These are the natives who came to sneak attack on us. One of them was killed, and the rest escaped. I don't think this matter will end there." Ending, for the sake of safety, I suggest that local infrastructure projects be slowed down for a while, so that the soldiers can return to their posts. ”
Baikes thought for a moment and agreed with Morgan's opinion. Although it is important to seize the time to implement the project, in this strange environment, safety is actually the first priority.
(End of chapter)