Spring Breeze 1991

After a week of rest, maintenance and supplies, and added several 6 Kamaz heavy trucks and several road surveying and mapping personnel, Zhou Fei led the reconnaissance team on the road back to China, all the way from the Bemut oil field. Return east along the road, and receive people and vehicles that exit halfway along the way.

This time, targeted preparations were made. New North General Aviation borrowed Kazakhstan's military airport or established a temporary takeoff and landing field to provide air rescue and support for the reconnaissance team along the way.

Obviously, the logistic support measures prepared by Yao Yuan far exceeded the needs of the reconnaissance team. Only a few people knew that his other purpose was to conduct aerial surveys and maps of the areas the reconnaissance team traveled through, so as to provide more detailed data for the final route determination.

Oil pipelines, gas pipelines, passenger-cargo railways, and heavy-duty roads.

With the revival of the Bemut Oilfield, these four transportation projects must be determined in order and then implemented.

Yao Yuan insisted that the government of Kazakhstan take the initiative to ask Dongfang Petroleum to take the lead in the construction of the four major projects. Therefore, he made a report on the secondary exploitation of the Bemut Oilfield, clarified the current situation, and focused on the production capacity and the difficulty of limiting production capacity. Dongfang Petroleum Kazakhstan Branch notified the Kazakh government, making the Kazakh government aware of the absolute necessity.

After finishing these, he took the vanguard of the 7th Drilling Team and set off again, continuing to explore in the direction of the Caspian Sea, looking for the g-spot of the Kashagan Field.

The Bemut field is not the g-spot of the Kashagan field, and neither is the Markshay field.

These oil fields with a daily output of tens of thousands of tons are very powerful, but they are completely unable to match the huge reserves in the Kashagan area.

Yao Yuan clearly remembered that the proven oil reserves in the Kashagan area in 2000 were 50 billion tons!

Calculated based on the annual consumption of 2022 million tons of oil in China in 6.5, the oil extracted in the Kashagan area alone can supply China for nearly 7 years.

This is a super oil field group worth trillions of dollars!

The tens of millions of tons of annual production in the Bemut Oilfield is nothing at present. If the Kashagan area is compared to humans, the high-yielding wells in the Bemut Oilfield can at most be its venous blood, and what Yao Yuan wants It is arterial blood, a huge amount of blood ejected from the aorta!

Only after finding the g-point of the Kashagan Field and developing a large oil field with an annual output of more than 5000 million tons, can Dongfang Petroleum's development strategy in Central Asia have an important fulcrum.

After all, Azerbaijan is a fringe region of Central Asia, and its geographical location is close to the Middle East, so it cannot form a radiation capability to Central Asia.

In the final analysis, the huge oil and gas resources possessed by Kazakhstan need to be developed as soon as possible to support the domestic economy that has embarked on a rapid development.

In Guangdong Province, this is called "Tou Yi Tang", and in Ningxia, it is the first crop of wolfberry.

In my vague memory, the coastal area of ​​the Caspian Sea in western Kazakhstan is the area with the richest oil reserves, and the development here is also the most difficult.

Yao Yuan's memory of the Kashagan Field is really limited, so he has to act cautiously and rely on the current technical force to conduct exploration step by step.

Exploration pioneers came to the northern part of the Caspian Sea, that is, the western part of the Caspian Sea coast of Kazakhstan, where several towns formed a large town group called Kashagan.

Only after arriving here did Yao Yuan realize why the Soviets did not carry out practical geological exploration in this area.

It stands to reason that after the discovery of large oil fields in Baku, which is also a coastal area of ​​the Caspian Sea, practical geological exploration should be carried out in other coastal areas of the Caspian Sea, because more oil fields can usually be found.

However, the Soviets only analyzed the Kashagan area based on seismic data, and did not conduct in-depth exploration.

The reason is that the natural environment in this area is very harsh.

It is now the end of winter. The temperature in the area where the Maxie Oilfield is located and the Bemut Oilfield have both begun to rise, and the temperature difference between day and night has decreased. In general, before the arrival of the hot and dry summer, The next three to four months will be a period of better weather for both regions.

But in Kashagan, the temperature during the day is as high as [-] to [-] degrees, and at night, the temperature will drop to minus [-] to [-] degrees!

Not to mention working, it is a problem for human beings to survive in this extremely harsh climate!

The first thing Yao Yuan did when he arrived in Kashagan Town was to order Xinbei General Aviation to transport the materials needed to build a long-term camp by air transport.

As a result, on the second day of the camp, the barracks actually cracked.

In the morning, the temperature was as low as minus 35 degrees. Yao Yuan was wrapped in a military coat, a winter hat, a warm scarf around his neck, and a cold mask that only exposed his mouth, nose and eyes. He walked like a polar bear on the ground without snow. with.

Pointing to the wall outside the command and control room, Gu Peiqiang said, "The crack as big as a finger has reached the damage standard that can no longer be used. This situation has never happened before."

After Yao Yuan approached, he turned on the flashlight and observed the crack carefully.

Chen Chao, who temporarily replaced Lin Xiaohu as Yao Yuan's assistant and bodyguard, looked around vigilantly. The climate and environment here are very strange. The lowest temperature at night is almost minus [-] degrees, but there is no snow. It belongs to the coastal area of ​​the Caspian Sea, but But it has a continental climate, with dry and hot days all year round.

There are not even a few aborigines in this place, and the combined population of several towns is not even 5000.So much so that the biggest threat to guard units is often aggressive wild animals, not human gangsters.

The barracks that were built just yesterday were cracked today. Yao Yuan's first thought was that there was a problem with the materials and the logistics system. Substandard materials were used instead of qualified ones, which often involved corruption.

Yao Yuan, who had already made up his mind to rectify the logistics system, suddenly found that the situation was not that simple after carefully looking at the cracks.

He said to Gu Peiqiang, "Aren't there still unused materials, where are they?"

"The storage yard behind the warehouse." Gu Peiqiang quickly pointed.

Warehouses are also barracks built with prefabricated steel. Such barracks can often be used in harsh climates and environments for more than three years, and can be used multiple times through disassembly and assembly.

This kind of detachable barracks was used in the No. [-] operation area where the gold concentrate was discovered and the camps set up in the Bemut Oilfield.

"I looked at it during the night patrol in the early morning. Not only the command and control room, but almost every barracks had cracks. The most serious one was the command and control room." Gu Peiqiang reported while walking towards the storage yard.

Yao Yuan said in a deep voice, "If there is a problem with the materials, it means that someone has embezzled the property of the public house by shoddy goods."

"Not only the barracks, but many living facilities have more or less problems. The generator set is also out of order. I have sent someone to overhaul it, but I can't find the cause of the failure for the time being." Gu Peiqiang said.

Without the generator set, nothing can be done, let alone drilling and prospecting.

Without the generator set, even if you can find a water source, you can't get it. There is no drinkable fresh water, and even survival is a problem.

Yao Yuan didn't expect the situation to become so bad overnight.