Spring Breeze 1991

As time goes by, the climate in the Kashagan area is changing for the better. After more than a month, the temperature difference between day and night in this area will become normal, and then enter the scorching summer, which is also difficult.

However, compared to the weather in the four seasons of the day, it is only hot, and it is not difficult to overcome.

The rear camp has been built as a rear base, and will be treated as the headquarters of the Kashagan Field Branch in the future.All kinds of goods and materials arrived by air continuously, and the labor force of several nearby towns was basically absorbed here to work here.

According to the plan, an oil city will be built here, where life, office, production and leisure are all a city.Therefore, the construction of infrastructure comes first.

Century Construction Company dispatched a group of elites from the construction site of the new capital of Kazakhstan, and immediately carried out the construction of three levels and one pass according to the drawings of the Urban Planning and Design Institute of Chunfeng Academy of Sciences.

This move also shows that Yao Yuan is determined to find oil here, otherwise such a large investment will be in vain.

It has been more than a month, and several exploration wells have been drilled, but only one oil well with a daily output of several thousand tons has been drilled. It doesn't look like the g point of the oil field can be found. Yao Yuan is under great pressure.

No one puts pressure on him. In this world, the only one who can put pressure on him is himself.

What is stressing him is time.

From the perspective of time in this century, history left Yao Yuan and the Chinese people to manage the Central Asian region for only two years. In 1999, Emperor Putra would announce to the world with the second Chechen war—— The new owner of the Liam Palace will be him.

This future president, who has a very strong plot of the Russian Empire, will not allow any force to enter Central Asia, whether it is economic or otherwise.

In fact, Pu Dadi's influence will begin to be manifested in late 1996 and early 1997, and the time left for Yao Yuan is extremely tight.

Not long ago, Nazaryev sent a telegram to Yao Yuan in his personal capacity, asking whether the output of the Bemut Oilfield could be increased in a short period of time, otherwise it would be difficult for him to persuade the parliament to approve the railway plan.

That is to say, the parliament will not approve the government's participation in the 2000-kilometer-long cross-border railway plan based on the current oil production of about 2000 million tons in the Bemut Oilfield.

Of course, Dongfang Petroleum can be independently funded and built. As long as Nazaryev supports it, the parliament will definitely not stop it. But by doing so, Dongfang Petroleum can no longer expect to make money.

Starting from Karamay, passing through Almaty, crossing the entire country of Kazakhstan to the west, and finally arriving at the coastal area of ​​the Caspian Sea, it needs to pass through various complex terrains, and the cost of road construction is more than three times that of the plain area.

The Beijing-Kowloon Railway, which is under construction with a total length of 2350 kilometers, has a total investment of 400 billion Chinese dollars, with an average cost of about 1700 million Chinese dollars per kilometer.

With reference to this data, the total cost of the Huaha Railway with a similar total length is more than 1200 billion Huaxia coins!

Converted to U.S. dollars, that's nearly $170 billion!

It is impossible for Yao Yuan to spend such a huge amount of money to build such a main freight railway running through their country from east to west for free in Kazakhstan!

It is because it is profitable to build a new capital for Kazakhstan for free, and it will take a few years to recover the cost, but such a railway is basically used for its own use. If Dongfang Petroleum is responsible for it independently, all the money will be converted into oil. In terms of cost, that would be a very high price...

It must be borne by the government of Kazakhstan according to the share ratio. Yao Yuan made it very clear that this railway is a dedicated freight railway. More specifically, it is a special freight railway mainly used to transport oil and serves oil export. .

Restricting the nature of the railway favored approval by Parliament.

Even so, Nazaryev still demands that the production capacity be increased as soon as possible, because the annual output is only 2000 million tons, and the parliament does not think it is necessary to build a dedicated freight railway for this purpose.

Bemut Oilfield can no longer increase production. Yao Yuan is not only considering the production of oil and gas, but also the problem of the 2000 tons of gold underground in the adjacent No. [-] operation area.

Therefore, Yao Yuan has only one way to find high-yield oil wells in the Kashagan area as soon as possible, extend the railway line to this side, and walk along the coastal area of ​​the Caspian Sea to the border between Kazakhstan and Russia.

Here, the end of the railway line is only seven or eight hundred kilometers away from Eastern Europe. This is an intercontinental railway line that can replace the Trans-Siberian Railway (the first Eurasian Continental Bridge with a total length of 9288 kilometers, the longest in the world).

Thinking of the strategic significance brought by this railway, Yao Yuan became even more anxious. In the hot weather, his lips were bubbling and his throat was inflamed, and he managed to catch a cold.

On the contrary, it was Nian Haihong who was so old who withstood the bad weather.

Nian Haihong sipped green tea to relieve the heat, and said with a smile, "Xiao Yao, I think you should go back to the camp to recuperate. There is Xiao Gu and Xiao Zhan here, so you can rest assured."

On a hot day, Yao Yuan was wrapped in a blanket, and he was covered in sweat in a short while. Chen Chao quickly handed over the towel, and Yao Yuan took off his clothes to dry off the sweat on his body. While changing into clean clothes, he said, "The situation of Kashagan It is complicated, and they may not be able to make accurate judgments. I have a hunch that we are approaching the g-point of the oil field, and we cannot leave at this time."

Not only could he not leave, but he also sent a report to Qin Zhenjun asking him to arrange the affairs of the No. [-] operation area and rush over here to support the exploration work.

Zhan Chenggui is good at machinery, and oil exploration is relatively unfamiliar to him.Only when Qin Zhenjun is there, Yao Yuan can rest assured.

Nian Haihong said, "Then you don't have to keep an eye on the front line all the time, take care of your body first."

"I'm going to sleep, I can't keep my eyelids open." Yao Yuan wrapped a blanket and lay down on the camp bed, closed his eyes and fell asleep quickly.

Being sick is tiring because the body's cells have to fight viruses or repair damaged cells, so that daily activities can make people feel heavily exhausted.

After sweating, Yao Yuan felt much more relaxed, and Yao Yuan slept soundly.

Chen Chao stayed by the side, drinking tea slowly with Nian Haihong, chatting in a low voice from time to time, the temperature outside the simple prefabricated house was as high as 39 degrees, and the workers worked in this kind of weather. Get indoor rest for three hours.

Yao Yuan slept for less than an hour, and Gu Peiqiang, who was covered in mud, strode in with a report, and said loudly as soon as he entered the door, "Mr. Yao, some oily flowers were found at the position of 715 meters. A logging..."

Suddenly seeing Yao Yuan lying on the camp bed, and seeing Nian Haihong and Chen Chao shaking their heads, Gu Peiqiang came back to his senses and shut his mouth suddenly.

"He just lay down sweating all over, let him sleep again." Nian Haihong said.

Gu Peiqiang nodded again and again, and said in a low voice, "However, Mr. Yao has explained that you must report to him if you want to do well logging, and you can only do well logging after you get permission."

Nian Haihong smiled helplessly, "After the secondary exploitation of the Bemut abandoned oil field, the daily output has reached 50 tons, which is 2000 barrels per day, and the annual output is about [-] million tons. This is truly the largest oil field in the world. gone."

Sighing, he said, "The government of Kazakhstan is not satisfied with such a large oil field, and so is Xiao Yao. He has too much appetite and puts too much pressure on himself. This is not a good thing."

He has the qualifications to sigh and criticize Yao Yuan, but Gu Peiqiang dare not go along with it.

Perhaps an oil field with an annual output of 2000 million tons is an excellent achievement and performance for other oil companies, and it is an abandoned oil field that has undergone secondary exploitation, but for Dongfang Petroleum, the annual output of 2000 million tons is really not enough. What kind of.

The reason is simple. There is an oil well with an annual output of 3000 million tons in the Shidan Oilfield, and that is just one oil well!

Under such a blazing light, the annual output of such a large oil field is only 2000 million tons, which is naturally not an achievement to be proud of, even if it is an old oil field that has been revived after the use of secondary recovery technology.

Gu Peiqiang couldn't explain it, so he could only respond with a helpless smile, which also showed anxiety.

Yao Yuan woke up slowly, and just now he vaguely heard the voice, only after a long delay, he opened his eyelids with great perseverance, and sat up on the camp bed.

Chen Chao hurriedly stepped forward to help.

Yao Yuan shook his head and said, "Illness comes like a mountain. It's true. Usually, the body is so much stronger. Once sick, the body doesn't belong to me. Captain Gu, tell me, what's the situation now?"

Chen Chao hurriedly fetched a basin of warm water for Yao Yuan to wash his face.

Gu Peiqiang walked over and said, "Oil flowers were found at 715 meters in the No. [-] well. According to the analysis of the geological report, it may have hit the oil layer. I want to do a well logging."

Each well costs millions of dollars per day. After the reinforcements arrived, Yao Yuan started to build three wells at the same time, which cost 300 million yuan a day.

Four wells have been scrapped, and tens of millions of Huaxia coins are gone. This is the price of oil exploration.

Yao Yuan washed his face and walked to the desk to sit down. Nian Haihong also got up and walked over to stand by and watch.

Yao Yuan found the location of Well No. [-] on the map, and after carefully reading the report that Gu Peiqiang brought over, he fell into deep thought.

After a while, Yao Yuan said, "The No. 5 well has already reached the coast of the Caspian Sea, and the probability of producing oil from this position is low. How is the installation progress of the offshore No. [-] platform?"

"The sea trial has been completed, and equipment debugging is being done." Gu Peiqiang replied immediately.

The Caspian Sea is the largest lake in the world and is a saltwater lake. It can be regarded as an inland sea. It used to be connected with the Black Sea. Later, after the continental plates moved and separated, the Caspian Sea became an inland sea with a maximum depth of one thousand meters.

After Dongfang Petroleum took over the Baku Oilfield, it focused on the exploration of the Baku shallow sea area. It has drilled three offshore oil wells and has three offshore production platforms in operation.

For offshore oil exploration and production operations in the Caspian Sea, Dongfang Petroleum built a shipyard in Baku to produce offshore drilling platforms by transporting components from China and assembling them in Baku.

In order to develop the Kashagan Field, an offshore drilling platform must be used. Previously, because the Offshore No. 5 drilling platform had not been completed, and Yao Yuan did not know exactly where the g-point of the Kashagan Field was, he adopted a deep inland Proposal for exploration in the shallow waters of the Caspian Sea.

Now, Well No. [-] has been drilled in the coastal area of ​​the Caspian Sea.

Gu Peiqiang didn't understand why Yao Yuan made such a far-fetched judgment, because according to the analysis of the latest geological materials, the probability of discovering oil layers in the coastal areas of the Caspian Sea is very high. The depth is only 715 meters, which is not a big deal.

Yao Yuan naturally has his own basis, and he pondered again.

For a while, he said, "Well logging can be done, and besides, hurry up and transfer the Offshore No. 5 here."

"Going to do offshore exploration?" Gu Peiqiang asked.

Yao Yuan nodded slowly, "I can't wait any longer."

Exploration at sea is much, much more expensive than exploration on land!Mining production costs are also much, much higher!

If oil can be found in Well No. [-], there is no need to do offshore exploration.

Gu Peiqiang took the lead and left.