Yao Yuan really wanted to use a visual probe to see what was going on underground, but the technology that would be readily available twenty years later had not yet appeared.
He placed his hope on the visual underwater detection technology project team, hoping that their miniaturization technology would succeed as soon as possible.
Without too much hesitation, Yao Yuan chose to log directly.
The drilling team got busy with a familiar routine.
Not long after, the first well logging report appeared in Yao Yuan's hands.
Gu Peiqiang took off his muddy gloves and put them under his ribs. He pointed at the well logging report and said, "The daily output of 7 tons is optimistic. No wonder the Soviets scrapped it."
This daily output cannot cover the mining cost. Mining a ton costs half a ton, so there is no other way but to abandon it.
"Mr. Yao, would you like to test a few more times?" Gu Peiqiang asked.
Well logging costs money, and one measurement is a one-time cost. Gu Peiqiang is a new generation of oil workers influenced by Wang Jinxi’s spirit. His purpose is to be able to do it without spending a penny. If it can be achieved through human efforts,
If you can do it.
For a person like him who is so "stingy", he takes the initiative to ask for more well logging. It sounds like a fantasy, but it actually makes sense. He knows what small money is and what big money is, and he also knows how to spend money wisely.
For example, when taking a bath, the temperature here is below zero at night. He encourages everyone to take warm baths instead of hot baths. Everyone knows that he is doing this to save some diesel for power generation.
In the past, Yao Yuan agreed without even thinking about how much it would cost to test the well a few more times. But this time, he smiled and shook his head and said, "The Soviet Union in the 1960s and 1970s wanted to drill the entire earth.
"It's not that they don't have deeper drilling technology, but they think it's not necessary. In other words, they don't think there is oil in deeper places."
Twenty years later, these related materials can be found in many national libraries. It has long been no secret, but now it is rarely known.
Yao Yuan said, "Let's just apply polymer oil flooding."
"Yes!" Gu Peiqiang subconsciously stood at attention, put on his gloves and started working with his brothers.
A considerable number of oil workers in this era had military experience. Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, the oil system has had a large number of soldiers who have left their jobs. This is an industry that places great emphasis on collective spirit, so it has inherited the work style of the army.
There are already oil wells, so there is no need to drill holes. Polymers are used to drill holes directly, which saves a lot of procedures. There is a reason for Yao Yuan's decision. According to the extensive character of the Soviet people, in such a big country, it can't be found anywhere.
For petroleum, why spend so much manpower and material resources developing secondary oil recovery technology?
They simply don't bother with secondary development of oil wells.
A little-known history is that the first time humans discovered oil was in what is now Azerbaijan, in the Baku region!
That was more than a thousand years ago!
It can be said that the Baku area is the earliest oil field discovered in the world. Before the oil fields were discovered in the Middle East, it was the largest oil field in the world. Even if oil fields are successively developed in the Middle East, the status of the Baku Oil Field has not been significantly reduced.
The status of the Baku region during the Soviet period can be seen through the naming of aircraft carriers of the Soviet Red Navy, one of which was called Baku.
Before the 1970s, roughly before the large-scale exploitation of the Tyumen Oilfield in Siberia, the Baku Oilfield was the absolute mainstay of the Soviet Union’s export of oil and foreign currency earnings.
After so many years of mining, half of the oil wells can still increase production without secondary mining operations. One can imagine how huge the energy in this area is.
This is just the Baku area. At that time, the Soviet Union had such a large territory. Would their explorers spend all their time in a small Bemut oil field?
Obviously impossible!
With the time cost and material cost, a new oil field can be developed. So with the Maksha Oil Field, the annual output is more than twice that of the Bemut Oil Field!
Therefore, Yao Yuan concluded that the Bemut Oilfield has not undergone refined development at all. It is between the Maksha Oilfield and the Caspian Sea, and it is the same land mass. The oil reserves will not be much less.
The cost of secondary extraction is high, which is expected by Yao Yuan. The cost of oil extraction in the Kashagan area is generally very high because of the great difficulty.
He clearly remembered that in the previous life, a certain barrel of oil united with several state-owned banks, and the state-owned capital company raised hundreds of billions of Chinese dollars to buy the Kashagan oil field. At that time, the Kashagan oil field had been confirmed to have huge reserves, but
Due to various reasons, including the difficulty of mining, Western oil companies did not dare to get involved, and were unwilling to get involved. In the end, they were won by China Petroleum Enterprises.
However, it was only in 2020 that the first phase of mining was completed. The plan is to conduct it in three phases. The difficulty of mining can be imagined.
But the Kashagan Field has also become a stable source of oil for China. Through the oil pipeline, it can transport 20 million tons of crude oil to China every year. It is China's first strategic crude oil pipeline.
Knowing that the price of crude oil will be at a high level of 80-100 US dollars for a long time after 2000, Yao Yuan really doesn't care about the cost of mining. On the contrary, investing a lot of money in the research and development of mining technology is a profitable thing.
In his account, the huge investment in R&D before 2000 will bring hundreds or even thousands of times in return after 2000.
The drilling team was busy carrying out polymer flooding, and Yao Yuan took out the map of the Kashagan area and looked at it carefully. The Soviet Union was really terrifying. Kazakhstan was surrounded by allied countries, and the only border was the civilized and friendly China.
They actually conducted a large-scale military survey and mapping of Kazakhstan.
There are more than fifty large-scale maps of the Kashagan area, the largest being a 1:5000 map. The level of detail is so outrageous that even a larger stone is used as a marker.
This is a large-scale military map suitable for combat use.
The map Yao Yuan is looking at now is the entire map of the Kashagan area. The scale is not large, but compared to the maps used by the private sector, it is much more detailed. It is precisely by relying on such a map plus the GPS positioning system that we can be so accurate.
Find your destination without getting lost in the desolate and uninhabited mountains.
Having said that, without the support of strong national power, it is impossible to carry out such detailed and accurate surveying and mapping of the country. The labor cost alone would daunt the Kazakh government after independence. In fact, it was not until twenty years later that the Kazakh government used
It is still a map drawn during the Soviet period...
Where is the g-spot of Kashagan Field? This is a question Yao Yuan wants to think about.
The Sedan oil field is very small. Compared with the vast Kashagan area, it is pitifully small. It is only a shallow sea area, the area outside the harbor. If looking for oil fields in the Sedan shallow sea is like finding a needle in a haystack, then in the Kashagan area
Finding the g-spot in the oil field is like fishing for people in the Pacific Ocean.
There is no point in pumping out oil. What is needed is an oil well that can pump out a lot of oil, such as a high-yield well with a daily output of tens of thousands of tons.
To put it bluntly, in the final analysis it is still an old problem, finding the g-point of the oil field.