"So exciting!" Wu Tingwei was even more interested, "This is a good opportunity for us..."

"No, we are just a few people, there's a chance." Cui Yunhong was afraid that the meeting would go astray, "Just be a spectator, why bother to muddle the water?"

However, Sudan reached a relevant commercial agreement with them after all. If there is really political turmoil, it will have a great impact on their oil development. Cui Yunhong also has to care:

"Is there any detailed information?"

"No exact news has been heard, but some people say it may be related to Mr. Tianmeng," said Huang Lu.

"Tian Meng Gong? That's that yellow..." Cui Yunhong was shocked.

"Huang Shibei! Mr. Huang's eldest son." Wu Tingwei added. He was also full of surprise, "How could this happen?!"

Huang Lu said: "The specific situation is not clear. The businessmen in Mala are also very concerned about this matter."

"This is strange." Cui Yunhong touched his chin, "As soon as Shanba Port fell, something happened to the big city. Could it be..."

"I think there is a conspiracy here," said Wu Tingwei.

"Would you like to inform Huang Shidong and Huang Qiyan about this?"

"No need, they were going to the big city, even if we had to notify us, it would be too late." Cui Yunhong frowned. He had a bad premonition, "The current situation is unclear, we need to improve our alertness." He remembered something and asked Huang Lu:

"How is the current military situation in our camp?"

"There is a naval detachment, four artillery and gunners."

The camp itself is not very powerful because the "Wild Wind" gunboat protects the camp from the sea at all times.

"Does laborers have weapons?"

"No...most of them have not undergone military training, and they will not use guns...what? You mean..." Huang Lu said in surprise.

"We must be prepared for the political situation in turmoil." Cui Yunhong nodded, "Huangjiazhai looks solid, and hasn't it been defeated by others? Even though we have a navy to watch the situation, we can't take it lightly."

Speaking of this, the atmosphere is somewhat solemn. But the work still needs to continue to be in charge of the area. Cui Yunhong announced that starting tomorrow, Huang Lu will be fully responsible for the safety of the camp, and all the rest will be put on infrastructure and exploration. We will strive to drill a mass-produced oil well in one or two months.

For several oil wells that have been produced but have unstable oil output or are expected to have small reserves, it was decided to use manual excavation as the main method of mechanically assisted oil pumping. At the same time, logging operations are carried out based on the information and on-site surface conditions, and oil wells are attempted to find oil wells that can meet certain industrial mining requirements in areas close to the coast.

The oil countermeasures team trained a group of exploration personnel in the "exploration and development" that was almost "useless" in several years. During the preparation stage, Chen Pengyu and Qin Xike organized this group of technicians to carry out training on mine detection technology in the "old leads to new" model, and also conducted simulated exploration of Linggao's groundwater resources.

Cui Yunhong has now organized four engineering teams with this group of people as the core, starting to dig 2*5-meter exploration pits in the four places that were determined to pilot, and then judge whether to continue drilling a well 20 to 30 meters deep depending on the situation. If you are lucky enough, after clearing the soil and rocks on the surface, a large amount of oil will pour out from below along the appropriate geological structure. This kind of oil well is of course the most complex to the oil production equipment they expect and the current poor.

"Build a three-kilometer simple road within a week to ensure the normal construction of four exploration points; complete the hardening of the road surface in the camp living area within a month. At the same time, it is necessary to assist in transporting the exploration team's drilling rig to the formulated surveying and mapping point. Do you think it can be done?" Cui Yunhong asked Chen Pengyu.

"Yes. But I have to use the tractor."

"No problem, I'll use the tractor for you--just don't use it or break it."

"If we use it, we will repair it. Originally, Lao Qin brought his apprentice to repair it in the machinery factory."

Workers finished cutting down trees in the exploration area. The cut wood was transported to the banks of the Silla River and drifted down to the wood processing plant. The wood factory was equipped with a drying furnace. The wood was fumigated to process it into building materials. The remaining scraps were filled with fuel to drive the steam engine to operate.

The road construction work is progressing very slowly. There is a lot of rain in Kalimantan Island, and there is a heavy rain almost every day. Roads that have not been hardened become rotten and wet after rain, and road hardening projects are urgently needed.

Although multiple asphalt lakes have been discovered locally, the asphalt itself cannot be used to harden the ground. When laying, aggregates and ore powder are needed to mix and mix. However, these gravels and slags do not have ready-made resources for utilization locally.

Fortunately, there are wood here, so Chen Pengyu resurrected the common practice in Europe in this time and space, using wood to pave the way.

The logs cut down are directly paved on the soft ground to form roads, and then filled with sand and branches. Not only can they withstand pedestrians and vehicles, but they can pass by the steam tractor without any problem.

This practice greatly saves the time for road construction. Within one week, the 1.5-kilometer exploration road is completed.

According to the drilling results of the four exploration pits, Cui Yunhong selected one of the most promising places for oil production. A 4*5-kilometer area was marked with the exploration pit as the center for drilling.

The purpose of this time is to comprehensively detect the underground situation and outline the structure of the mining area. It is of course better to drill a well that can be produced when you take a chance.

There is a lot of oil underground here. Even if there is no complete exploration technology, it is simple and rough to dig a exploration well every 300 meters. It is not necessary to wait until the ground is made into honeycomb coal to produce oil wells. However, this is predatory development and will cause serious damage to the ore veins and cause great trouble to later exploration.

The safe production of mines also requires the latest underground situation. Therefore, he decided to only drill twenty vertical shafts with a depth of 50 meters and a diameter of 40mm to detect the most promising stratigraphic distribution map of the core area with the most promising oil output.

The workers used a ox cart to transport the first mechanical drilling rig into the operation point. Because this was the first time that a steam engine was used to drive the drilling rig, it was controlled by Qin Xike himself.

The ground at the operation point was charred. This was the trace left by the workers after cutting off the large trees at the operation point and burning the remaining thatch. In order to prevent wild beasts and mosquitoes and operating safety, the area of ​​each operation point should not be less than 300 square meters. However, plants in the tropical areas grew very fast, and within a few days, plants and trees sprouted again on the originally charred ground. Qin Xike asked the workers to clean the ground and ordered the foreman to direct everyone to erect the drilling rigs and set up the shelves.

The boiler had already set fire to the boiler. Seeing Qin Xike issued an order, he immediately put in more fuel. With the violent crackling of the fuel, a stream of blue smoke rushed out of the furnace. The boiler used a stick to dial the furnace, and started to fill the material continuously, paying attention to the pressure gauge. Ten minutes later, the steam pressure met the requirement. Qin Xike pushed the valve over and let the steam engine start to drive the drilling rig. The oil development team began to drill the first drilling well.

The drilling rumbled, and the head quickly drilled into the ground, bringing out a large amount of soil and plant roots. Qinxike ran from one construction site to another every day. Due to the small sand and stone content in the soil layer, the drilling of several drilling points was progressing smoothly. Although the original strength of the drill bit was not enough, it still maintained a digging speed of about 2 meters/hour.

"Lin Qianchi, come and measure the resistance!" He ordered his apprentice.

Dividing the geological profile of a single well was not Qin Xike's purpose, but for the purpose of familiarizing himself with the equipment and training team, he still asked his "chief apprentice" Lin Qianchi to measure the capacitance resistance around the well.

Lin Qianqi first fixes one electrode at the wellhead, and then fixes the other electrode at each measurement point around the wellhead, passing a certain voltage to the electrode, and measuring the response of the formation between the well and the measurement point to the capacitance and resistance. Then Qin Xike will infer the distribution of water in the underground formation based on the changes in capacitance and resistance. This can provide a reasonable basis for identifying the properties of the formation fluid and the direction of the migration and evaluation of oil and gas geological storage.

After obtaining first-hand data, Qin Xike taught his apprentices to practice mapping. Qin Xike found that they could barely adapt to the two-dimensional surface and draw pictures, but could not understand the three-dimensional level things abstractly. He could only shovel a pile of soil and pile it into a small pile of soil on the table. Then he picked up a wooden stick and poked it in from it to represent the drilling machine. Then he taught and guided them how to map the two-dimensional data received to the three-dimensional level.

This is really a very difficult teaching task. Not to mention Lin Qianchi, who is actually only at the junior high school level, even middle school students in the old time and space, there are many people who are hard-working in three-dimensional geometry. Qin Xike talked for several days, but these people still couldn't understand it. Qin Xike could only continue to teach in a difficult manner.

After two days of drilling and turning in exploration well No. 1, the first 50-meter well was completed. The drilling results showed no signs of oil and gas except water and sand. Of course, Qin Xike did not expect that he would be lucky enough to find an oil well for commercial development in the first trial drilling.

In this way, data were collected from one well after another. However, so far, except for the few wells drilled with a small amount of oil, no more were found. Several veterans of the exploration team began to be filled with anxiety.

The entire Silla Oilfield project is the most expensive overseas project in the Senate. If it cannot be effective quickly, the entire oil countermeasures team, Nanyang Company, and them will face tremendous pressure.

Everyone knows that there are rich oil resources here, but Silla seems to be joking with them, giving them a little hope from time to time, but not easily opening up his treasure house to them. The elders are overworked and unacceptable to the local conditions, and they all get angry, their faces are swollen and sore, and they drink dead herbs every day.


Chapter completed!