Gullfaks C Platform is Norway's largest offshore oil platform, and Troll A Platform is Norway's largest offshore natural gas platform. The height of this platform has reached an incredible 472 meters, and its weight has reached 680,000 tons. It is such a giant.
, can produce 120 million cubic meters of natural gas every day!
In this era, oil and coal are increasingly despised by the public due to the pollution caused by combustion, but natural gas is sought after because the emissions after combustion are cleaner. I don’t know how many places have replaced coal boilers with natural gas boilers. As for how many places
The fuel cost spent? For blue sky and white clouds, for future generations, it’s worth it!
This Troll A Platform natural gas platform has always been the most profitable platform since its establishment. Who would have thought that an unexpected explosion occurred today!
"How did it explode?" Oryang's face looked ugly.
"I don't know. The accident is under investigation, but I guess we can't figure out the cause. After all..."
The explosion killed everyone. Even if there were still people, how long could they survive on the cold sea? Therefore, the cause of the accident is probably a mystery.
However, natural gas has always been dangerous. If there is a leak, and there is a person who does not comply with safety regulations, such as secretly smoking, it may still cause a fire.
Accident rescue is on the one hand, and on the other hand, it is how to solve the huge production reduction problem caused by the accidents on these two most important platforms.
Sure enough, a few minutes later, Oryang's phone rang. It was from the president of Equinox.
"These two platforms should be unusable. We must now find a new platform as soon as possible, start construction as soon as possible, put it into production as soon as possible, and solve the energy shortage problem as soon as possible within three months!"
"This is impossible. It takes at least three years for an offshore drilling platform to negotiate a contract, place an order, and produce it."
"Isn't there any ready-made one?"
"Of course not...wait! We have orders for eight drilling platforms in the East, we..."
Oryang reacted: "No, there is something wrong here. Suddenly there was a problem with two platforms today. I suspect there is someone behind it! It's an Oriental person, someone from the Mingzhou Group, I'm sure!"
There is a basic common sense in conspiracy theories. Even if there is no evidence, as long as you see who benefits, you can know who is behind it.
They used tricks to cripple Tianchuan Heavy Industry, which left eight drilling platforms free. After Qin Haiyang took over, there was an accident here. Needless to say, it must have been done by Easterners, Mr. Qin
of!
The person on the other side also fell silent. After a minute, he finally spoke: "Then do you have any evidence?"
What evidence is there? Everything is their guess! Can they find evidence that the people on the Strinda tanker were bribed by the Orientals? Or can they find evidence that the Orientals set fire to their platform?
Without evidence, it is just endless wrangling. The lawsuit will last for several years, but in the end it will be settled.
How many years can they wait? How much money will they lose? The best way at present is to immediately purchase the eight drilling platforms from Tianshi Heavy Industry, get them back and start construction as soon as possible, and make profits as soon as possible!
After putting down the phone, Oryang sat down on the sofa and didn't move for a long time. There was just a chill in his heart, what kind of monster they had offended!
What to do next?
Boom!
Suddenly the door opened again.
"What's wrong?" Oryang looked at John who appeared at the door. Could it be that another oil platform has been destroyed?
"A video has appeared on the Internet, you... better watch it."
"What video?"
"Rescuers located the monitoring system of the Troll A Platform natural gas platform."
"Okay!" Oryang's eyes lit up. This is good news! With the monitoring system, we can find out the truth of the accident!
"However, I don't know who leaked the video inside, and now it is circulating everywhere on the Internet."
It was leaked and spread everywhere on the Internet? Oryang felt a little weird.
"show me!"
"Hold on."
John turned on his computer and logged into ICQ. This thing had spread wildly on the Internet and was in many groups. He found one of them and clicked on it.
The complex pipelines are covered with ice and frost, and the dim lights give them a strange feeling. Ordinary people only know them as factory equipment, but only experts know that they are equipment for offshore natural gas platforms.
Whether it is oil or natural gas, it cannot be transported immediately after being extracted. Therefore, these platforms have storage devices inside. Oil is easy to say, just store it in the tank. What about natural gas?
The density of natural gas is very small, making it difficult to store large amounts in conventional storage. The best way is to liquefy natural gas.
These equipment are used for liquefied natural gas.
The buzzing device is the compressor, which is responsible for compressing the liquefied gas as much as possible. Those pipes with frost are the condensers, which complete the liquefaction of the natural gas, and then enter the separation tower to separate the impurities before entering
The storage tank is in place. When the liquefied gas ship approaches, the liquefied natural gas can be exported and then transported away.
These devices were all built by the island country, and the storage tanks used were MOSS tanks unique to the island country. The entire monitoring area seemed so monotonous and boring.
Suddenly, a puff of white smoke came out of the compressor. Then, the white smoke expanded, and the entire monitoring room was occupied by white smoke!
"The compressor exploded?" Orjan said.
Just like the refrigerator, once the compressor is started, it will not stop and keep running. The required quality is very high. The island country's technology is reassuring. It only took ten years. It should not explode!
Then, the siren sounded.
Natural gas platforms are very dangerous. Once leaked, the consequences are unpredictable. Therefore, alarms are installed in many places.
This chapter is not over yet. Please click on the next page to continue reading! Then, a figure appeared in the surveillance area. This was a person without any protection. After he came in, he backed out in a few seconds. After waiting for a minute, he came back again.
When he appeared, he had already put on fire-proof clothing, carried an oxygen tank on his back, and ran over quickly. He looked like a serious and responsible employee, and he also held a large wrench in his hand.
If the compressor collapses, the next step is to shut down for maintenance. Although everything can be done automatically, there are always times when the equipment breaks down, which requires manual control.
You have to close the valve manually!
The worker was very brave and rushed towards the direction of the valve, then pointed the wrench at the bolt on the valve. However, when his wrench touched it, a spark accidentally came out!
The next second, the entire scene turned blood red, and the blazing flames suddenly expanded, sweeping over the camera and the screen disappeared.
Oryang's face was full of annoyance. He thought the video was over. The next second, the video switched to the scene outside.
This time it was even more spectacular. The flames rose rapidly and jumped hundreds of meters into the sky. There were flames below and smoke above. The thick smoke curled up and formed a mushroom cloud!
“Where did this exterior scene come from?”
"A passing cargo ship."
Although there was still fog on the sea at that time, it had faded. When the platform exploded, the flames quickly burned away all the surrounding fog, and the vision became clear.
"Isn't this too much of a coincidence?" Oryang said.
"Yes, this video has been forwarded all over the world, and everyone will say that this is simply a coincidence, but... this thing really happened, and now we have found the reason, so we..."
"Immediately go to the islanders to settle the score!" Oryang gritted his teeth: "Their equipment broke down within its life span. They have to compensate, compensate for the cost of the equipment, compensate for the pensions of the personnel, and compensate for the losses caused by the damage to our equipment!
"
"I'm afraid this is a little difficult."
"Why?"
"In order to reduce operating expenses, we have refused the high-priced after-sales service from the islanders three years ago, and let our company Equinox take care of the maintenance. Even if we have to file a lawsuit, they can blame it on poor maintenance." Salter
Luo looked angry: "Damn it, I told them a long time ago not to save this money, but they just didn't listen!"
"Then we have to file a lawsuit, and they have to compensate us for our losses!" Oryang said.
Sortelo looked at the computer screen with complicated eyes: "But, I want to know more about how this video was leaked."
They were suspicious and believed that the Orientals had tampered with this incident, but the cargo ship hit the oil platform and the equipment exploded on the natural gas platform, so the Orientals were able to disassociate themselves from each other.
But on the contrary, he became even more suspicious.
Dongfang, Mingzhou Group.
"Mr. Qin, everything is done."
"Um."
"That video was made by our artificial intelligence. I don't know if it will be successful or there may be flaws."
"This is not important. As long as this video spreads, everyone will believe it. At that time, no matter what the Norwegians think, they will not be able to trouble us. They just have suspicions and no evidence." Qin Tao said: "They
Since you dare to drink our blood, you should know what the consequences will be."
Let them guess, but they have no choice yet, so they have to come and beg us in the end!
"Relevant parties have already said hello, and the next step is the price increase of oil and natural gas." Xu Zhengyang said.
"Well, the Americans will probably be very envious of us."
In the global village, some people are used to being the village chief and have to dictate everything that happens in the villagers' homes, especially the energy sources in the villagers' homes.
However, such domineering behavior will always arouse the resentment of the villagers. In the past, the villagers dared to be angry and dared not speak out. Now, with knives in their hands, they have become more stubborn.
The Americans cannot control the price of oil, but Qin Tao Xing, Qin Tao only needs to say hello, many people will buy his account, and if the price is high, they will make more.
Norway.
People from Seadrill Company and Equinox Company gathered together, their faces gloomy.
"Is there any evidence that it was an Easterner who did it?" Adkins, the head of Equinox, asked.
"No, we can't find any evidence. Of course, we can also accuse the Orientals of crimes, but they probably won't admit guilt and may even bite back and say that we are slandering them." Sortelo said.
"Yeah, we are just guessing at the moment that their Skyship Heavy Industry is in dire straits because of us, so they want to take revenge, but we have no evidence, and if we identify them, the whole world will know about it.
By that time, our reputation will be even worse."
If you want to identify them, you have to tell them everything. By then, the whole world will know what shameful things they did!
In the past, it was only known within the industry, but now the explosion of the natural gas platform has been widely spread. Once the grievances and grievances involved are revealed, they will be hyped by countless media, and everyone will know by then.
"For us, these are secondary. The key is what to do next, whether we want to reduce production capacity, or..." Before Adkins finished speaking, someone ran in from outside.
“Global energy prices are starting to rise!”
"Rising? Why?"
"Just now, Goudahu announced that due to serious problems with our offshore platform, Goudahu decided to shut down the offshore oil and natural gas platform for maintenance in the next time. It is expected to be shut down for a week."
The relationship between supply and demand is the most basic economic relationship, and it has reached a state of equilibrium. However, this announcement by the big dog will make the relationship between supply and demand unbalanced. With less supply, prices will naturally rise.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "They don't have many offshore platforms, do they?"
The cost of extraction is also different in different places. The oil produced by big companies is mainly on land. Since it is high-yield self-injection crude oil, the cost of extraction is very low. A barrel of ten dollars is high. In many oil fields, it can be as low as one or two dollars a barrel.
bucket.
As for Lao Maozi's plateau frozen soil, it costs about twenty US dollars to mine a barrel, and transportation is inconvenient.
However, these are nothing. The cost of offshore mining is the highest. It can easily cost thirty or forty dollars a barrel. If the international oil price drops below forty-five dollars a barrel, it will be easy to lose money.
With so much oil and natural gas on land, does it still need to be exploited at sea? Therefore, there is not much at sea, and it will not play a big role.
"Yeah, it's not much, but what if all the offshore oil and gas platforms around the world were shut down for maintenance?"
"How is it possible... could it be?" Adkins suddenly realized: Could this be a trick of Easterners?
If this is the case, it will be troublesome. Many oil-producing countries will use this high-level excuse to reduce production capacity, and then international oil prices will rise sharply!
In the past, only the United States had such appeal, but they called on oil-producing countries to increase oil production and lower prices, which put the Soviet Union in a dilemma. The oil that was extracted had to be sold at a loss. If it was not extracted, the oil fields would be useless.
There were many reasons for the collapse of the Soviet Union, and this was one of them.
After that, for a while, all countries followed the lead of the United States, but things have changed in recent years!
Americans don't have this ability, but Easterners do!
However, even if they knew that it was the Orientals who were responsible, there was no other way. After all, the reason was very noble, for safety and environmental protection!
The impact of this accident is too bad. The leaked oil has polluted the entire Norwegian coast! If they change places, they can ignore it, but now, they have to find a way to deal with the oil floating on the sea, otherwise the environmentalists will run away.
Come to protest.
The explosion of the natural gas platform is even more terrifying. It is simply a giant nuclear bomb! If this thing breaks down, the threat will be too great. Any company that produces natural gas must do this to ensure safety even if it reduces losses by a few days.
Moreover, there is no guarantee that there will be a loss, because as the output decreases, the price will rise.
"No matter who is behind the scenes, we cannot ignore it. Even without these, we need to restore oil production capacity as soon as possible, otherwise... our customers will be lost."
Although international oil and natural gas prices change every day, that is only for outsiders to see. In fact, major international customers generally have long-term agreements, which are signed for one year, or even three or five years.
They also have regular customers in Norway, but now that they are suddenly hit by an accident and their ability to produce oil and natural gas is greatly reduced, their long-term customers may give up importing oil from them and look for other oil-producing countries.
When others sign a multi-year agreement, will they come back to buy their oil?
"Currently, the most direct way is to go to the East and buy back those previously abandoned drilling platforms. Just transport them here. It should be enough time. If we can take the Arctic route, it will probably take 20 days to arrive," Oryang said.
:"but……"
If everything is done by Easterners behind the scenes, then their purpose is probably to let them buy those platforms. If we do this, wouldn't we be led by their noses?
You said you didn't want it at first, you picked all kinds of problems, and now you want it again? What's going on?
"I have an idea." At this moment, Sortero said: "I heard that after Mr. Qin's son took over Tianship Heavy Industry, he offered a huge reward to anyone who could sell the drilling platform.
If you go out, you can become the general manager, so we..."
Everyone’s eyes lit up, yes! We might as well use the trick!
Dongfang, Tianshuang Heavy Industries.
Qin Haiyang was sitting on a swivel chair, looking at the news items displayed on the computer screen in front of him, his face slightly ugly.
"Really, you still don't believe me." Qin Haiyang said: "I am obviously capable of doing this, but you have to help me! Huh, I don't want your help. Only when the eagle leaves its parents can it grow into an eagle!
"
Boom!
At this moment, there was a knock on the door outside.
"Come in."
"Director Qin, Director Qin, good news!" Xia Yu ran in excitedly: "I have found a buyer, and they are willing to buy our eight offshore drilling platforms!"
"Really?" Qin Haiyang was also delighted: "Who is the buyer?"
"Norwegian Offshore Exploration Company! I have researched that these drilling platforms are specially built for Norway, so I still have to sell them to them! I searched carefully on the Internet, sent countless emails, and finally got a response. I will report to you first.
, as long as you nod, I will ask them to come over immediately. By the way, Director Qin, is your promise still valid?"