Lin Jiayou quickly returned to the drilling platform, where the drillers stood waiting for news.
"Brother Lin, what's going on?" When everyone saw Lin Jiayou coming back, they immediately gathered around and asked all kinds of questions.
"Now there is some situation on the seabed. We have temporarily stopped drilling and are waiting for orders from the trial mining headquarters!" Lin Jiayou looked around at his subordinates. "Everyone, be prepared. It may be necessary to replace the drill bit and drill the target area."
Take a sample!”
"Sampling? Haven't you collected it before?" Apparently everyone had the same idea as Lin Jiayou before.
"It's a little complicated here. Let's just follow the command from the headquarters and be ready to accept new tasks at any time!" It's not a good thing to talk too much about some things. Lin Jiayou returned to the office and waited for new orders from the main control room.
After Professor Huang talked with Lin Jiayou, he turned back to the small conference room next to the main control room, where Sun Wentong and several experts and scholars were discussing the next work plan.
"Old Huang, you are back? How did you consider the current situation!" Sun Wentong looked up and saw Professor Huang walking in, and asked immediately.
"My opinion is to be prudent first. First bring back all the drilling equipment, then replace the drill bits, and then collect samples in the target area to accurately understand the geological conditions of the seabed and try to avoid unexpected situations. The most important thing is that we
The cementing fluid must be reconfigured according to the current geological conditions, otherwise geological collapse will easily occur with disastrous consequences!"
Professor Huang is an authority in geology, so his words naturally carry weight. After all, once an unexpected situation occurs, no one can bear the consequences.
However, the trial mining of combustible ice is a national project, and almost all schedules have been laid out, and may even appear on the desk of the top leader. If it is postponed at this time, it may have a considerable impact.
In addition, replacing the drill bit brings a loss of time, plus the time of collecting samples, as well as the analysis of the samples, and re-drilling, all of which consumes not only time, but the Blue Whale is at sea.
Every day is a huge amount of money.
Sun Wentong really didn't dare to say that he could afford these impacts.
"What's your opinion?" Sun Wentong turned to the experts next to him.
"I agree with Professor Huang's idea, safety comes first and nothing can go wrong!"
"Yes, once something goes wrong, the consequences will be disastrous!"
Many people present nodded in agreement with Professor Huang's opinion.
"But if it is postponed, the losses will be huge!" Someone also raised Sun Wentong's concerns.
All eyes are on Sun Wentong. As the person in charge of this project, he needs to make the most accurate decision.
Sun Wentong sat there and thought for a while, and finally made a decision, "Let's sort out the situation we are facing, report it to the superior department immediately, and apply for a change in the mining plan! Issue a notice to the drilling team and ask them to upgrade the drill bit and prepare to replace the sampling drill bit.
The specific specifications and quantities will be issued later! I’ll find someone to explain the whole situation to them later!”
"I have already talked with the drilling team leader, and there is no problem with them!" Professor Huang said at the side.
"That's good, let's start preparing!" Sun Wentong sighed. This is the difficulty of offshore mining, and it may change at any time.
As Professor Huang said, safety comes first!
In the face of science, all interests must give way.
The order from the main control room was immediately issued to the drilling team. Lin Jiayou immediately rushed out of the office and shouted to his subordinates on the drilling tower: "Raise the drilling rig and prepare to replace the drill bit!"
The drillers looked bitter, what are they doing?
Although he said that, once the order was given, he had to follow the order. Lin Jiayou called all the off-duty workers over to speed up the lifting of the drill pipe.
Fortunately, the Blue Whale has a double drill tower structure, which has greatly improved the efficiency of drilling down and lifting the drill. Otherwise, the more than 1,000 meters of drill pipe alone would be enough for them to drink a pot. Even so, this is
It’s quite a “battle”.
While the drilling team was working intensively, Sun Wentong convened technical personnel from geology, hydrology, drilling and other fields in the consultation room to discuss how to deal with the current situation.
What can be determined now is that the geological conditions in the Shenhu Sea Area are similar. Most areas are composed of muddy and sandy rock formations with fragile structures. However, the thickness of these rock formations varies, but the last one is only a few hundred meters, and the thinnest one is only a few hundred meters long.
Just over a hundred meters long, beneath these rock formations are rock formations rich in flammable ice.
Professor Huang briefly introduced the important hidden dangers caused by current simulated drilling, and explained in detail the problems with current geological conditions.
After listening to Professor Huang's explanation, everyone present fell silent. This kind of thing was the last thing they wanted to see. Although they had made similar predictions before, no one expected that the seabed geological conditions in the Shenhu Sea Area were so bad.
Difference.
If it were on land, all this would be easy to say, but the drilling site is more than a thousand meters deep. A slight mistake will cause huge risks, ranging from the wellhead being scrapped to causing a serious ecological crisis.
, this will directly lead to the country’s review of combustible ice mining, and may even lead to policy changes.
Fuhai Group spent billions to build the world's most advanced seventh-generation deepwater drilling platform just for the development and utilization of combustible ice. If something goes wrong because of this, the cost of the loss will be too great.
And all this is because of this soft rock formation!
"Now the trial mining area we have selected basically cannot change much. Even if the geological conditions are changed, there will be no change. This is the situation we are facing. We have applied to the superior department to change the mining plan!"
Sun Wentong's tone was very serious. He did not expect that such a thing would happen. "As for whether it will be worse, we can only look at the subsequent drilling and sampling!"
"But no matter what the situation of this sampling will be, we must try every means to solve it, and we cannot let the country's flammable ice detection plan be ruined in our hands!" Professor Huang said on the side.
"Professor Huang is right. There must be a road before the car reaches the mountain. There is only one road we can take, which is to carry forward the spirit of the older generation of scientific researchers to face difficulties and solve all the problems they encounter.
, successfully produced flammable ice for the country!"
"Commander-in-Chief!" Feng Chen, who was attending the meeting, raised his hand to Sun Wentong.
"Dr. Feng, do you have anything to say?" When Zhang Yujie introduced Feng Chenyi to Sun Wentong, he had already shown that this young man was very smart, and his work on the Blue Whale was also very good, and all arrangements were good.
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Feng Chenyi immediately stood up: "Commander-in-Chief, experts, I have a little idea, I wonder if it can help you!"
"Is there any good way?" Sun Wentong asked immediately.
Feng Chenyi said with some embarrassment: "Actually, it's not a good solution. The situation we are facing now reminds me of an event in our Fuhai Group called the Zhuge Liang Meeting, which is used to solve major difficult problems.
Way! I wonder if we can consider doing this?”
"Zhuge Lianghui?" Sun Wentong, like many people who had never heard of this name, was very curious. The experts and scholars around him were also very confused. Although they could guess a thing or two from the name, what exactly was it like?
Still everyone is looking forward to it.
Feng Chen gave a detailed account of the Zhuge Liang meeting of the Fuhai Group, and then listed some specific examples for everyone's reference.
Among the scholars present, there were also long-term partners of the Fuhai Group, who had heard about these things. When they heard that this was the result of Zhuge Liang's condensation, they all nodded in praise.
"Although I don't know much about geological conditions, I learned from experts that drilling on such a seabed is like forging iron on tofu. If you are not careful, the tofu will break into pieces. So if we can listen to the Blue Whale
With everyone’s thoughts and opinions, maybe we can come up with a practical and good solution?”
Sun Wentong nodded as he listened to Feng Chenyi's words, then whispered with several experts beside him, and finally said: "Brainstorming, this is indeed a good way to board the Blue Whale and participate in the flammable ice industry."
Those who are doing trial mining are all the best in the industry. Summarizing everyone’s thoughts, this path is indeed feasible!”