Chapter 2875
Niujiazhuang, located on the west bank of the Daliao River, is one of the areas currently undergoing drilling surveys. According to Chen Yixin, there are about two hundred households in this village. The large fields outside the village are mostly rice fields, stretching far across the Linhe plain with spectacular crisscrossing roads.
But the most eye-catching thing here is not the several tall derricks standing in the fields outside the village, but the people who immediately knelt down and saluted when they saw Chen Yixin and his entourage being defended by a large group of people.
No matter men, women, old or young, when they saw the arrival of this armed Haihan Army Brigade, they all knelt down on the roadside and did not dare to say anything. This shows that the local people are extremely respectful to the government.
"The people here should all have moved from outside, right?" Bai Kesi asked Chen Yixin upon seeing this.
Chen Yixin nodded and said: "Seventy percent were moved from the Ming Dynasty after we occupied this place. The remaining 30% were captured by the Qing army from North China in the early years. As long as they are willing to stay and settle here, they can be allocated land and be naturalized. Haihan. However, it has not been under the rule for a long time. They still retain the habits of the Manchu rule. It will get better in a few years. ”
Chen Pingliao added from the side: "Although this place is called Niujiazhuang, there is actually no family named Niu for a long time. When the Manchu Qing Dynasty occupied this place, they had already plundered all the original residents to other places. ”
Places like Niujiazhuang are not uncommon in Liaodong. During the Manchu rule, in order to facilitate management, Han people in many places were forcibly removed from entire villages, and then the settlements were redistributed after being dispersed. However, this saved Haihan, who took over, some trouble. When allocating land to new immigrants, most of the time there was no need to consider the original ownership of the land.
The exploration team stationed here is affiliated to the Mineral Exploration Bureau of the Mining Department of the Ministry of Industry. Although it is a subordinate of the Ministry of Industry, these field operators usually have little opportunity to meet senior officials like Bai Kesi. It is even more important to be met on the construction site. Treatment that I can’t even imagine.
"The hardships you are experiencing now and the fatigue you are suffering are all for your contribution to the country! The prosperity of the country depends on your hard work! The day when the Liaohe Oilfield is put into production in the future will be the time for you to make contributions and receive awards! Bai hereby represents The Executive Committee would like to say thank you to everyone who is working on the front line of exploration! ”
Bai Kesi said some words of encouragement and then asked the leader of the exploration team, only to find out that this captain was also one of Tian Yeyou's direct disciples. In recent years, he had been engaged in field exploration work in Shandong and Liaodong, which was also quite hard. . It wasn't until the exploration team moved to the vicinity of Niujiazhuang at the beginning of the year that it became more convenient to obtain supplies and the living conditions became slightly better.
This exploration team actually only has about twenty people, most of whom are technicians. However, there are currently nearly a hundred people working on the construction site. The extra manpower outside of this establishment is the laborers hired from the nearby Niujiazhuang. For local people, this is equivalent to getting an extra job during the off-farm season.
Although these farmers do not understand exploration technology at all, the construction site is full of iron lumps, and it requires a lot of effort to move it around. For example, dismantling and moving the steel drill pipes that weigh hundreds of kilograms each requires the cooperation of several people. . In addition, there are also some employees who are responsible for logistical matters on the construction site, such as laundry and cooking.
With the help of hired workers, the work efficiency of the exploration team has also been significantly improved, and technicians can focus more on exploration work instead of manual labor. At present, the exploration team has drilled more than ten wells near Niujiazhuang. Although the underground oil field has not been found yet, analysis of the core and soil samples obtained from the drilling indicates that the target should not be far away.
Bai Letong asked curiously: "If there is really an oil field underground, why do we need to drill so many wells nearby? Wouldn't it be enough to open up the oil field in one place?"
This may be a question in the minds of many people present. Bai Kesi personally explained this problem: "Drilling is not as simple as you think. In order to meet the needs of different stages and tasks, the nature of drilling is also different. To put it simply, you can They are divided into benchmark wells, profile wells, parameter wells, structural wells, exploratory wells, data wells, production wells, water injection wells, inspection wells, observation wells, adjustment wells, etc. The exploration team stays in one place for a year and a half, drilling. It is common to have dozens or hundreds of wells. In this process, we must constantly improve the data and accumulate experience to find the oil fields buried deep underground.”
Bai Letong said in astonishment: "So, it's still far from official mining!"
Bai Kesi nodded and said: "Of course, a long series of construction procedures such as well logging, well logging, cementing, well completion, and perforation need to be completed before the oil production step can be reached."
Although Bai Letong didn't understand this series of professional terms, he could still imagine that the complexity was extraordinary and that only professional operators with specialized training could complete these tedious production processes. And this is just the preparation work before official mining. It can be seen from this that the initial investment and time required to exploit an oil field are huge.
Haihan currently has only two main oil-producing areas, one is the Chusangkeng Oilfield in Miaoli, Taiwan, and the other is the Dumai Oilfield on Sumatra Island in Malacca.
Chusangkeng Oilfield has relatively limited reserves and production capacity. Haihan uses the area more as a technology verification site and personnel training base for the petrochemical industry, and does not expect the local area to provide Haihan with sufficient crude oil in the long term.
Although the oil fields in Dumai are rich in reserves and have the conditions for long-term exploitation, due to their remote location, the cost of transportation back to the country is extremely high. Therefore, although they have been in production for five or six years, they have not yet officially entered large-scale exploitation. stage. Perhaps we will have to wait until the petrochemical industry is upgraded to the next stage, with the ability to complete more processing processes besides refining locally and increase the value of the output, before the scale of mining can be gradually expanded.
Compared with the two previously developed oil fields, one of the advantages of the Liaohe Oilfield is that there will be a large industrial center in the nearby area in the future, which will gradually have the ability to produce various industrial equipment. By then, the petrochemical industry can be developed nearby, and petroleum products will not be needed. After being sent all the way to the south, it can be used as industrial raw materials in Liaodong itself.
From a long-term perspective, the cost and operational efficiency of the Liaohe Oilfield will be much better than the other two oilfields, both in the exploration stage and in future production and production. After this area is developed, it will also provide Liaodong with a steady stream of high-grade energy and chemical raw materials in the future, which will greatly promote the industrialization process in this region. Therefore, despite the huge investment and long construction period, the executive committee has made it a key industrial project in the future without hesitation.
(End of chapter)