Volume of Changning Kingdom: Section 16 Drilling Team (5)
While Chen Pengyu and Qin Xike were rushing back and forth from Lingao, the "manual drilling team" of the Silia exploration team had already started their first test drilling.
The Senate's oil exploration still uses the drilling technology that has been passed down for a long time in our country. As early as the pre-Qin era, Li Bing, the prefect of Shu County, started the history of human beings digging wells to extract salt to obtain underground resources. By the Tang Dynasty, shallow wells were used in Sichuan.
In a place where brine mining is prosperous, every time a well is dug, hundreds of people build the well around the opening of a possible brine source, and the scene is spectacular.
During the Song Dynasty, there was a major breakthrough in the well-drilling technology of well salt, and a whole set of techniques for drilling small deep wells (Zhuotong wells) was formed. The first over-kilometer-deep well in human history was the Shenhai drilled in Zigong in the 1830s.
Wells are also the product of drilling technology.
In the mid-19th century, missionaries returned reports from China about the drilling technology of Zigong salt wells, which aroused great concern in the European and American industrial circles at that time, because before that, no mine had achieved the drilling technology of more than 1,000 meters.
This triggered a series of innovation patents for improved drilling technology.
In order to develop oil, the Senate also recruited dozens of salt well drillers from Zigong, Sichuan, to form the first drilling team. Of course, this was also the most suitable choice under the current technical conditions. They participated in many
Experimental drilling is considered the most professional team in the hands of the Works Energy Commission.
Before starting drilling, this group of miners originally had to set the dragon veins for the leaders according to the rules of their ancestors, but now that the coordinates are available, this step is naturally omitted, and the tradition of burning incense and praying is still carried out in accordance with the requirements of the Sichuan drillers.
It also gave the Sichuan driller a little more confidence in his successful oil production...
Wang Dali, the Sichuan drilling foreman of the drilling team, and Li Tianfu led the workers to the first well without hesitation. Obviously they wanted to show off their ancestral skills to the leader. The other groups surrounded them and wanted to take a closer look at what these Sichuan rats were doing.
Drilling holes.
The casual workers first cleared out about 20 square meters of flat land at the drilling site and set up well-drilling equipment. This set of well-drilling equipment was basically copied from the salt well equipment, except that some parts were "steelized" and "standard-priced."
"Chemical" improvement. It becomes more durable and saves manpower.
Its main structure is a truss frame and a flat car. There are two columns at the front and rear of the truss frame. Two pieces of wood and two wooden boards are used to connect the front and rear columns into a whole. The overall height is about 175 cm, the length is 165 cm, and it is narrow at the top and wide at the bottom.
.The truss is used to support the pedal. The pedal is 150 cm long and 11 cm wide. It has a resistance arm and a power arm. The resistance arm is 32 cm long and the power arm is 105 cm long.
Regardless of the equipment, it fully reflects some mechanical knowledge that craftsmen have summarized based solely on practical experience without the guidance of scientific theory. However, this knowledge has stayed at the "technical" level for a long time and has not been summarized.
If a scientific theory is developed, it cannot be widely used.
In the middle of the crane frame, there is also a handrail made of two bamboo poles with a diameter of 4.5 cm. It is a support for workers when stepping on the crane - a flat car with a diameter of 160 cm - which is used to lift the fan drum for lifting and lowering the drilling tools.
device.
After setting up the truss, it is time to dig the wellhead. First, the well foundation is shoveled and leveled, and a solid flat dam is built for drilling the well. Then the well is dug and a large opening is dug. The large opening is dug manually. Generally, the diameter of the large opening is 0.9 meters.
Depending on the stratum, the depth will be several feet, until you reach the hard rock layer. The geology in Silia is soft, so the construction period of digging the big well will naturally be delayed for a few days. In the days of waiting for the well head to be opened,
, workers from other groups have already erected seven or eight cranes on the beach to speed up the development progress.
The entire set of equipment is not only crude, but also contains almost no iron products except for the drill itself. It is such a simple and primitive well-drilling equipment, but it can penetrate more than a thousand meters underground. This can be regarded as a small geoengineering miracle.
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The high-profile development activities of the exploration team in Silia were loud enough to be seen by people as far away as Cotabato. The merchant ships and fishing boats passing by from time to time were also curious to watch the weird behavior of this group of Australians at sea. The Senate
Unexpectedly, it also brought popularity to this land that had been neglected for thousands of years. The fleet and workers needed supplies, so the vendors in Cotabato rowed boats to do business with the Australians.
Australians have a variety of silver coins in their hands, including Spanish pesos, Dutch guilders and Necker dollars, as well as the newly emerged Australian silver dollar. The people responsible for purchasing are certainly smart, but they are also generous and willing to pay for goods from afar.
Pay a higher price.
Therefore, it didn't take long for a small market to be formed near the oil field exploration area. The first ones to arrive were naturally Chinese traders everywhere in Nanyang. Six or seven Chinese businessmen set up their own markets, built sheds, and operated various businesses.
Food and daily necessities. Then came the indigenous vendors, who brought specialties and catches from their hometowns.
As the market took shape, Chinese and indigenous vendors from Cotabato set up their huts early in the morning and started selling mangosteens, mangoes, durians, rambutans, and fish they collected from everywhere...
Tropical fruits are the most purchased commodities by the exploration team. There is no large-scale vegetable cultivation in the local area, so fruits have become a suitable substitute. They can not only replenish the nutrients and water lost by workers after hard work in the tropics, but are not as harmful as meat products.
There are no worries about hygiene. The various fruit platters and fruit juices accompanied by greetings directly made Huang Lu express that she never wanted to eat fruit again when she returned to Lingao.
Unfortunately, the tropical fruits in the 17th century had not been comprehensively improved by later seed companies, and their texture and taste were much worse. Fortunately, the Senate had white sugar, so the amount could be adjusted.
Cui Yunhong is not afraid of sourness and even tends to eat fruits as his staple food. In order to "build a strong body", he prefers to add less or no sugar.
While drilling the well, Cui Yunhong was not idle. He led the geological exploration team around. That day, the exploration team discovered another asphalt lake. Asphalt lakes often mean that there is shallow oil nearby. Therefore,
Cui Yunhong focused his exploration within a few kilometers around the lake.
The group of people dragged their leather boots, which were already full of sweat, back to the camp, only to find that the workers on the beach were not working. They gathered together in a big circle, and from time to time there were shouts from the crowd...
Cui Yunhong became nervous when she saw this situation: "Oh no, did Old Wu and the others have a conflict with these natives?"
Looking back, he saw that the navy team members who were escorting him and Cui Yongfang were all loaded and ready for battle. Cui Yunhong observed from a distance in a bush to confirm that there was no violence before slowly approaching the crowd.
As soon as he showed up, a "security guard" came up and saluted: "Report to the chief!"
Although this "security guard" is not wearing a uniform, he is actually a sergeant of the "Siriya Marine Special Forces". Although he appears to the outside world as a "company employee", he is actually a member of the navy.
"What's going on?"
"A stowaway was discovered during a routine inspection of the supply ship."
"Is this worth making a fuss about?" Cui Yunhong said dissatisfied. This is not the first time that people stow away on a boat. It's just that those who are willing to stay serve as laborers, and those who don't want to stay leave on their own.
"Yes...it's a woman!"
"What happened to the woman?"
"This, this woman is different..." The sergeant didn't know what to say, "See for yourself."
Cui Yunhong pushed aside the crowd and saw a woman sitting in the crowd. He was shocked when he took a closer look:
"Anna!? Why is it you?! Why are you here??"
Anna was sitting on the ground wearing a blue cotton overalls worn by an exploration team worker. The large clothes looked very ill-fitting on her body. Next to her, Wu Tingwei was squatting and asking her patiently. Anna's blue eyes were looking at a bunch of big shoes.
Under the gaze of the gentlemen, there was a look of fear...
At this moment, when he suddenly heard Cui Yongfang's voice, it was as if he had grasped a life-saving straw. He quickly turned around and called for help: "Mr. Cui... are you here..."
"What? Lao Cui, do you know this girl?" Wu Tingwei asked.
"Well, this is the daughter of Mr. Ba's family."
"Old Ba??Who is it?"
"That's Van Basten."
"His daughter? When did he have a daughter? This Dutchman's daughter looks almost like Chloe Bennett. What's going on?" Wu Tingwei was completely confused.
Cui Yunhong then briefly explained to Wu Tingwei the process of his previous encounter with Anna.
"Viagra, you are blind, you look like Jennifer Connelly!" Huang Lu exclaimed
"Who is that? I don't know. I am blind to the appearance of these foreigners." Wu Tingwei waved his hand.
"Damn! Gay Cui, why didn't you tell us earlier that Basten had a daughter who looked like Jennifer Connelly? She is my goddess!" Huang Lu also lost her composure at this time.
"It doesn't matter to me that I look like Jennifer Connelly. I will only think it's important if I look like Daniel Wu. Let's not talk about it for now. What is the situation now?"
"This little girl hid in the cargo hold of a cargo ship that came here and followed her. These workers just found her while unloading the cargo. Aren't I going to interrogate her now?"
"Anna, what's going on? Why are you here?" Cui Yongfang couldn't wait to ask Cui Yunhong before she could speak.
"After you left, my father whipped me again and beat me until I couldn't get out of bed for several days. Then he locked me up and refused to give me bread and water. I really had no choice but to
I escaped." Anna suddenly flashed her big eyes and pretended to be pitiful, "But who can I find if I escape? I saw your ship being loaded, and I heard that you all arrived in Silia, so I thought I'd better come to Mr. Cui and you.
Already..."
"Mr. Basten hit you again, how could he do it?" Cui Yongfang was filled with indignation. Finally, he saw his master's displeased expression in time and managed to control his emotions in time. This chapter has been completed!