During the thirteen years of Qian Sheng, the Daheng Empire produced a total of 15 million tons of oil, a considerable part of which was exported. The oil ships of the Daheng Empire traveled all over the world, delivering the empire's petroleum products to the world. to every corner of the country, allowing Empire’s kerosene to enter thousands of households around the world.
The oil production capacity of the Daheng Empire is so huge, but it is very scarce in other countries.
At present, in addition to the Daheng Empire, there are about a dozen countries on Blue Star that have successively discovered oil. However, there are only four countries with an annual production capacity of more than 100,000 tons, namely the Orr Kingdom, the Mongol Khanate, and Krul. Kingdom, Orissa Empire.
But their oil production capacity is insignificant compared to the 15 million tons of the Daheng Empire.
The country with the second largest oil production capacity on Blue Star is the Kingdom of Orr. They have continued to explore and exploit oil in recent years, and now their oil production capacity has increased to 700,000 tons.
The third largest oil-producing country is the Mongol Khanate. They discovered an oil field in the 11th year of Qian Sheng. After development, the annual production capacity reached 500,000 tons. This oil production capacity was surpassed by the Kokel Empire and the Waliya Empire. They joined forces to carve it up, and even countries such as the Kingdom of Krul and the Kingdom of Oran did not have time to intervene.
The fourth largest oil-producing country is the Kingdom of Krul. They have also discovered two small oil fields on Kingdom Island, with a total production capacity of approximately 260,000 tons.
The fifth largest oil-producing country is the Orissa Empire. They have also discovered oil fields and their current production capacity is 180,000 tons.
In addition to the five countries mentioned above, oil has also been discovered in several other countries, but the production capacity is extremely low, only a few thousand tons or tens of thousands of tons.
The distribution of oil resources is far more uneven than people imagine. In the southern region of the Daheng Empire, oil seems to be everywhere, and you can dig out oil with just a dig.
But in other places, no matter what they did, they didn't find much trace of oil.
In this case, both the Krul Kingdom and other countries are heavily dependent on the Daheng Empire's oil exports.
The Daheng Empire's kerosene is sold almost all over the world. Daheng kerosene can be seen even in the Carfia Empire and Orissa Empire. Not to mention other countries, they basically all use Daheng. kerosene.
After oil was controlled by Daheng, other countries that wanted to promote the development of oil application products lacked the necessary motivation.
For example, the oil-fired boilers used by battleships were first studied by the Krull people. However, the Krull people have not yet put oil-fired boilers into practical use. They only used fuel injection to assist combustion.
On the other hand, in the Daheng Empire, oil-fired boilers have developed rapidly and have quickly caught up with fuel injection and combustion-assisted technology. This has made the power system of battleships popularize coal-fired boilers with fuel injection and combustion-assisted combustion, greatly improving the power of battleships.
In addition, the two cruisers and two destroyers started construction last year are already the first batch of warships to use pure oil-fired boilers. If the application results are good on small and medium-sized warships, then the Imperial Navy will start to use oil-fired boilers on capital ships in the future. Boiler.
This is something that the navies of countries such as the Kingdom of Krul are unable to do. It is not that they do not have the technology for oil-fired boilers, but because they do not have the large amount of oil required for oil-fired boilers.
This is a battleship. If it uses oil-fired boilers, a single-handed battleship will have to carry thousands of tons of heavy oil when sailing and fighting. If it is a fleet, tens of thousands of tons will be transported every minute. For some major naval powers, even in peacetime It also burns hundreds of thousands of tons of heavy oil in minutes.
If it is a war, the consumption will be even greater!
With the huge size of the Krul Kingdom's navy, if they used all-oil-fired boilers during the war, they would not be able to provide so much oil...
This is why the Kingdom of Krul was the first to develop oil-fired boilers, but it has been slow to use them, even on small ships, because they do not have enough oil resources.
Even the current fuel injection and combustion mode is a huge logistical support problem for the oil supply of the Krul Kingdom's navy.
Although the Kruls can also obtain oil supplies from the Daheng Empire during peacetime, this supply cannot be guaranteed during wartime.
Otherwise, the Kingdom of Krul would not have put so much effort into developing oil fields everywhere.
But now they still can't get much oil supply, so their navy has already begun to establish a strategic oil reserve plan. These strategic oil reserves are their own oil production capacity and crude oil imported from the Kingdom of Orr.
As for why you don’t reserve Daheng people’s oil!
Because those damn Daheng people don't export crude oil at all, nor do they export heavy oil used specifically for ships. These damn oil dealers only export kerosene and other refined oil products. That's it, they have also formulated a limited supply plan based on the region and sales volume.
Well, Daheng people supply the entire Blue Star refined oil market. The kerosene supply for each region in each quarter is allocated according to the plan.
The most important thing is that there is no way to burn kerosene directly on a battleship...
Therefore, whether it is the Kingdom of Krul or other countries, they all use oil imported from other places or produced by themselves for military purposes to meet daily use or for strategic reserves. As for the petroleum products consumed in civilian production and life
, which are all used for import.
Daheng's policy of only allowing the export of refined oil and restricting the export of crude oil and heavy oil has directly killed other countries' attempts to develop oil-fired boilers and even internal combustion engines.
This is also where the Krul Kingdom and other countries are very dissatisfied. The Krul Kingdom talks to the Daheng Empire about the crude oil export issue almost every once in a while.
If the Daheng people dare to agree to export, they Krul people will dare to directly hoard millions of tons of crude oil reserves in one go!
It's a pity that Daheng people won't let go!
Therefore, they can only save the country in a roundabout way, using Daheng's petroleum products to meet the daily needs of the people and production, while the petroleum produced by themselves and imported from other countries is used for military purposes or reserves.
With a shortage of oil, it would be difficult for them to build a pure fuel fleet. As for developing internal combustion engines or even equipping the army with a large number of cars, that would be difficult.
Whether it is a battleship or a military diesel locomotive, they are all oil tigers. Once a war breaks out, it will consume huge amounts of oil.
At present, except for the Daheng Empire, no country can currently meet this kind of oil supply.
However, this situation has been changed. In December of the 14th year of Qian Sheng, the eight major countries of Blue Star were all shocked by a sensational news!
In the southwest continent, the Republic of Ken, a puppet state controlled by the Garfia Empire, in the coastal fir area, the local oil survey team discovered oil.
And the reserves are extremely huge. Once large-scale exploitation occurs, the local oil production capacity may even reach more than 10 million tons!
After this news came out, it immediately attracted the attention of all major powers!