In the southeast of Tianjin City, on the edge of the sea, this is the Dagang Oilfield in later generations.
At this time, countless tents were set up on the wasteland. From a distance, they looked like military camps.
If you walk in and look, it is indeed a military camp. The workers here all carry firecrackers and have swords around their waists.
A tall derrick stands on the wasteland. This is a salt-alkali land by the sea. Weeds grow sparsely, and there are patches of white salt-alkali on the ground. It can be as desolate as it is.
Many workers shouted slogans, and a group of more than a dozen people pushed the long steel pipe in circles. These derricks were driven by manpower to push the winch through the variable speed gear set to push the drilling rig for drilling.
The ground here is soft soil, so manpower is okay. If it is hard rock, it will be blind.
Yang Fan chose shallow oil wells buried more than 400 meters away. Even the first well was the shallowest well in the entire Dagang Oilfield, with a depth of only 223 meters.
However, now reciprocating steam engines will soon be put into mass production. From now on, whether it is a drilling rig or an oil pumping unit, there will be no need to worry about lack of power.
Han Xiaowu heard that enameled wire can be mass-produced. Generators are being stepped up research and development, and even wired telegraphs and wireless communications are being studied. Even the electrical appliance R&D team is still experimenting with electric lights.
They all learned about electricity in the academy, and even Teacher Yaoguang gave them simple circuit experiments, on-site demonstrations, coils wound around magnetic lines to generate electricity, circuit composition, small light bulbs to emit light, etc. during class.
With petroleum refining fuel, perhaps the age of electricity is coming soon.
Han Xiaowu looked at the sprayed crude oil. Although his whole body was black and smelly, he was very happy in his heart.
He knew that as long as oil was extracted and refineries were built, there would be inexhaustible energy.
The combustion value of fuel oil is much higher than that of coal. In the future, this oil field will become more and more important.
Three spouting wells have now been drilled, with a production of 5,000 barrels a day. The largest well produces 3,000 barrels a day.
The oil barrels are all old oil barrels sent from modern times by Yang Fan, which cannot be made locally yet.
The main reason is the lack of steel plate production equipment. It is necessary to purchase equipment to build a new workshop, and it is too late to build it yourself. Therefore, we first make do with old oil drums sent from Hyundai.
After a large number of oil-related well pipe factories, drilling rig factories, and oil barrel factories are established, they can be supplied locally.
Dagang Oilfield borders the Bohai Sea to the east, the Jizhong Plain to the west, Shandong to the southeast, and the junction of Tianjin and Tang Dynasty to the north, spanning the three provinces of Tianjin, Hebei and Shandong. It is 190 kilometers away from Beijing and 40 kilometers away from Tianjin Port. The transportation here is very good
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Yang Fan plans to pump oil and refine oil on site here. Daming Petrochemical will also build a refinery here.
The petroleum products produced here can be transported to the capital through canals or even the railways being built. They can also be transported to the sea from Tianjin Port to various places along the coast and rivers of the Ming Dynasty.
Yang Fan's plan to replace cooking oil with kerosene in the lamp oil business requires a refining base with convenient transportation.
This summer, more than 500 people from the newly established Petroleum Exploration Institute came here with drilling rigs, drill pipes, well pipes and other equipment specially developed and manufactured by Xinghe Iron Works.
Yang Fan has a modern oil well distribution map in his hand, so there is no need to explore at all. Once he reaches the place, he will definitely produce oil by drilling a well directly.
Drill bits are high-tech, but the oil here is buried shallowly and the soil is soft, so ordinary hardened steel drill bits are sufficient.
The principle of drilling pipe is also simple. It is to drill a hole on the outside of the steel pipe. As long as the formation containing oil is drilled, the crude oil will enter the well pipe under the underground pressure and then spurt out on its own.
Of course, after 5% of the reserves are mined, the self-effluent well becomes an ordinary well. At this time, a kowtow machine is needed to pump out the oil.
Modern kowtow machines all use electricity. Although there is no electricity now, reciprocating steam engines are mature, and it is possible to use steam engines as power. Coal and water are cheap anyway.
Han Xiaowu is a seventeen-year-old boy. After half a year of intensive study at Xinghe Academy, he received a diploma from the crash course. Then, he needed to choose a direction to continue his studies. He chose geology.
This is very popular, because Zunhua is a steel base, and Yang Fan's main business is steelmaking. Therefore, prospecting, prospecting, and mining are very important. Study subsidies are very high, and you can enjoy subsidies before graduation.
At that time, there were fifty students who chose this direction. Teacher Yaoguang gave them one class per week, and they spent the rest of the time studying on their own based on the study materials.
After a year of study, after graduation, some of these people went to coal mines, some to iron mines, and some to find copper mines. Han Xiaowu and a dozen classmates were transferred to the Petroleum Exploration Institute.
The exploration brigade under the institute is led by a veteran who has been disabled among the servants.
This veteran is called Lao Cangtou, and his nickname is Cang Tianye. He was originally disabled and retired because he lost an eye in the battle.
However, after working as a well house manager for a year, through taking night classes and constant physical exercise, he stood out in the recruitment of the internal exploration team and became the captain of the exploration team at the age of fifty-four.
Yang Fan finally chose him. In addition to the fact that he had indeed passed the cultural class, he also had explorations in the wilderness. Now that the Ming Dynasty is so chaotic, these veterans who have fought on the battlefield are more secure.
Technical matters mainly rely on students from Xinghe Academy. For physical work, these veterans are not a problem. They were the first batch of oil workers and also armed security personnel, so Yang Fan felt more at ease.
The old man’s second wife has given birth to a fat son. Now, his wife has taken over the job of guarding the well house, selling vegetables and raising children at home. He has become the captain of the first batch of oil workers.
The old man is strong, and although he is blind in one eye, he feels that he will have no problem working for another ten years. Oil workers are paid very well, and he wants to save more money for his son while he can still work.
As for working in the wilderness, hard work and so on, he is not afraid of hardship at all. He has never suffered any hardship in the first half of his life. If he hadn't made a fortune on the battlefield, there would be no good life today.
As for the master using veterans like them, he knew it in his heart. The master cherished these student children. How much money was spent on training them. The veterans like him were there to protect them.
Now that the Ming Dynasty is so chaotic, it can't do without some people who are skilled in the use of swords and guns. As for the gangsters, the old man sneered. After fighting with Jiannu, he looked down upon the Ming Dynasty's gangsters.
After arriving here, although it was very tiring and the work was very dirty, I made a lot of money. An ordinary oil worker earned three taels of silver a month. As a captain, he earned five taels of silver a month.
This large area of tents is the first oil base in Ming Dynasty. Derricks are being erected one after another.
Han Xiaowu is the chief engineer, and the other classmates are technicians. The master assigned them 500 retired veterans to form a team.
Han Xiaowu was thinking about the importance of oil. Maybe in a few years, a small town would be formed here.
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