Volume of Changning Kingdom: Section 44 Oil Field Construction (2)
"So exciting!" Wu Tingwei became even more interested, "This is a good opportunity for us..."
"Don't say goodbye, we only have a small number of people, there is no chance." Cui Yunhong was afraid that the meeting would go astray, "We can just be spectators, why bother to muddy the waters?"
However, Sudan has reached relevant business agreements with them after all. If the political situation is really turbulent, it will also have a great impact on their oil development. Cui Yunhong also has to be concerned:
"Do you have any detailed information?"
"No definite news has been released, but some people say it may be related to Temengong." Huang Lu said.
"Tian Meng Gong? Isn't that the yellow guy..." Cui Yunhong was shocked.
"Huang Shibei! Mr. Huang's eldest son." Wu Tingwei added. His face was also full of astonishment, "How could this happen?!"
Huang Lu said: "The specific situation is still unclear. Mera merchants are also very concerned about this matter."
"This is strange." Cui Yunhong touched her chin, "As soon as Shanba Port fell, something happened in the big city. Could it be..."
"I think there is a conspiracy here." Wu Tingwei said.
"Do you want to inform Huang Shidong and Huang Qiyan about this?"
"No need, they were going to the big city. Even if we had to notify them, it would be too late." Cui Yunhong frowned. He had a bad feeling. "The current situation is unclear. We need to increase our alert level." He said.
He remembered something and asked Huang Lu:
"What's the current armed situation in our camp?"
"There is a naval detachment, four guns and gunners."
The camp itself is not very well-armed, as the gunboat "Wild Wind" protects the camp from the sea at all times.
“Are the laborers armed?”
"No... most of them have not received military training, and they cannot use guns... What? You mean..." Huang Lu said in surprise.
"The political situation is turbulent, and we must be on guard." Cui Yunhong nodded, "Huangjiazhai looks impregnable, isn't it possible that it was defeated? Although we have the navy to watch the situation, we cannot take it lightly."
At this point, the atmosphere was somewhat solemn. But the work still had to continue in the jurisdiction. Cui Yunhong announced that starting from tomorrow, Huang Lu would be fully responsible for the security work of the camp, while the rest would focus on infrastructure and exploration. Try to achieve a large amount within one or two months.
Producing oil wells.
For several oil wells that have produced oil, but whose oil production is unstable or whose expected reserves are small, it was decided to use manual excavation as the main method and mechanical-assisted oil pumping for extraction. At the same time, logging operations were carried out based on the data and on-site surface conditions.
Try to find oil wells that can meet certain industrial extraction requirements in areas closer to the coast.
The petroleum countermeasures team trained a group of exploration personnel during several years of almost "useless" "exploration and development". Chen Pengyu and Qin Xike organized this group of technical personnel to carry out mine exploration in the "old with new" model during the preparation stage.
Technical training was provided, and simulated exploration of groundwater resources in Lingao was also carried out.
Cui Yunhong has now organized four engineering teams with this group of people as the core, and started to dig 2*5 meter exploratory pits in the four confirmed pilot places, and then judged whether to continue drilling another 20 to 30 meters deep depending on the situation.
Well. If you are lucky enough, after clearing the earth and rocks on the surface, a large amount of oil will gush out from below along the suitable geological structure. This kind of oil well is of course the most suitable for their expectations and the current poor oil production equipment.
"Construct a three-kilometer simple road within a week to ensure normal construction of the four exploration points; complete the hardening of the road in the camp living area within a month. At the same time, we must also assist in transporting the exploration team's drilling rig to the designated surveying and mapping points. Do you think you can
Can it be done?" Cui Yunhong asked Chen Pengyu.
"Okay. But you have to give me the tractor."
"No problem, I'll give you the tractor - just don't wear it out."
"When it's worn out, we repair it. It was originally repaired by Lao Qin himself in the machine factory with his apprentice."
Workers finished cutting down trees in the exploration area, and the cut wood was transported to the banks of the Siriya River and sent to the wood processing factory. The wood factory was equipped with a drying furnace. The wood was fumigated and processed into building materials, and the processing leftovers
The scraps are used as fuel to drive the steam engine.
Road construction work is progressing very slowly. There is a lot of rain in Kalimantan, with heavy rain almost every day. Roads that have not been hardened become wet and difficult to travel after the rain. Road hardening projects are urgently needed.
Although many asphalt lakes have been discovered locally, asphalt itself cannot be used to harden the ground. Aggregates and mineral powder are required for mixing when laying. However, these gravels and slag are not readily available resources locally.
Fortunately, there is plenty of wood here, so Chen Pengyu revived a common practice in Europe in this time and space, using wood to pave roads.
The felled logs are laid directly on the soft ground to form a road, which is then filled with sand and branches. Not only can it withstand pedestrians and vehicles, it can also allow steam tractors to pass through without any problem.
This approach greatly saved road construction time. Within a week, 1.5 kilometers of road exploration was completed.
Based on the test drilling results of the four exploration pits, Cui Yunhong selected one of the most promising locations for oil production. An area of 4*5 kilometers was designated for test drilling centered on the exploration pit.
The purpose of this time is to comprehensively explore the underground conditions and outline the structure of the mining area. It would be better if we try our luck to drill an oil well that can be produced.
There is rich oil in the ground here. Even without perfect exploration technology, a simple and rough method of drilling an exploration well every three hundred meters can produce stable oil wells without waiting for the ground to be made into honeycomb coal. However, this is predatory.
Development will cause serious damage to the veins and bring great trouble to later exploration.
The safe production of mines also requires the latest underground conditions. Therefore, he decided to drill only twenty shafts 50 meters deep and 40 mm in diameter to survey the stratigraphic distribution map of the core area where oil is most promising.
Workers used ox carts to transport the first mechanical drilling rig into the operation site. Because this was the first time a steam engine was used to drive the drilling rig, Qin Xike took control of it himself.
The ground at the working site was scorched black. This was the trace left after workers cut down the large trees at the working site and burned the remaining thatch. In order to prevent wild beasts, mosquitoes and operational safety, every working site has
The area cleared should not be less than 300 square meters. However, plants grow very fast in tropical areas. Within a few days, vegetation sprouted on the originally charred ground. Qin Xike asked the workers to clean the ground and ordered the foreman to direct everyone.
Put the drill rig up and set up the stand.
The boilerman had already put the boiler on fire. Seeing Qin Xike's order, he immediately put in more fuel. As the fuel crackled violently, a stream of green smoke rushed out from the furnace. The boilerman
He used a stick to push the furnace and continued to fill it while paying attention to the pressure gauge. Ten minutes later, the steam pressure reached the requirement. Qin Xike pushed the valve and let the steam engine start driving the drilling rig. The oil development team began to drill the first
A well was drilled.
The drill made a rumbling sound and turned around to quickly drill into the ground, bringing out a large amount of soil and plant roots. Qin Xike rushed from one construction site to another every day. Because the soil layer contained less sand and gravel, the stratigraphic structure was simple, etc.
According to the situation, the drilling of several drilling points is progressing fairly smoothly. Although the original strength of the drill bit is not enough, it still maintains an excavation speed of about 2 meters/hour.
"Lin Qianchi, come and measure the resistance!" he ordered his apprentice.
It was not Qin Xike's purpose to divide the geological profile of a single well, but for the purpose of familiarizing himself with the equipment and training his team, he still asked his "chief apprentice" Lin Qianchi to conduct capacitance and resistance measurements around the well.
Lin Qianchi first fixed an electrode at the wellhead, and then fixed another electrode at various measuring points around the wellhead. He applied a certain voltage to the electrode and measured the capacitance and resistance response of the formation between the well and the measuring points.
Qin Xike will then infer the distribution of underground formation water based on changes in capacitance and resistance. This can provide a reasonable basis for identifying the properties and migration direction of formation fluids and evaluating oil and gas geological storage.
After obtaining the first-hand data, Qin Xike taught his apprentices to practice drawing. Qin Xike found that they could barely adapt to the two-dimensional surface and draw pictures, but they could not understand the three-dimensional level abstractly. He could only shovel one
He piled soil into a small mound on the table. Then he picked up a wooden stick and poked it in from the top to represent the drilling machine, and then taught them how to map the received two-dimensional data to the three-dimensional level.
This is really a very difficult teaching task. Not to mention prospectors like Lin Qianchi, who actually only have a junior high school education. Even middle school students in the old time and space, there are many people who are skilled in solid geometry. Qin Xike lectured for several days.
, these guys still couldn't get the point. Qin Xike could only continue to teach reluctantly.
After two days of drilling in the No. 1 exploratory well, the first 50-meter well has been completed. The drilling results showed no signs of oil and gas except for water and sand. Of course, Qin Xike did not expect his luck to be good enough to test drilling for the first time.
An oil well that can be commercially exploited can be discovered.
In this way, test drilling of wells was carried out to collect data. However, so far, except for a small amount of oil produced in a few wells drilled in the early days using Dun drills, there have been no more discoveries. Several veterans of the exploration team began to
An anxious mood permeated the air.
The entire Silia Oilfield project is currently the most expensive overseas project of the Senate. If it cannot bear fruit soon, the entire oil countermeasures team, Nanyang Company and them will face tremendous pressure.
Everyone knows that there are rich oil resources here, but Silia seems to be joking with them, giving them a little hope from time to time, but not easily opening his treasure house to them. The elders are overworked, and the soil and water conditions
Not convinced, everyone got angry, with swollen faces and swollen and painful gums. They drank hay grass tea every day.