Nov. 8, oil field area at Orchard Ranch.

After more than a week, everything was ready.

The drilling team erected a K-shaped derrick dozens of meters high, which was as eye-catching as a TV transmission tower. The six-metre-high drill floor base weighs more than 100 tonnes and is connected to the ground by a steel staircase.

The winch frame is on the base of the drill floor, and the steel cable is mounted through the cardan shaft turntable, and the drill pipe and the power system are connected in parallel. The generator room and the electronic control room are also mobile, stably fixed near the base, and make a "rumbling" noise, which is enough to make people feel uneasy.

But Qi Zheng was excited.

After a week of continuous construction, the well has been drilled to a depth of more than 2,500 meters underground, which is only a few dozen meters away from the burial depth of the "gourd-type oil reservoir." Today, the drilling tool of this drilling well can break the upper trap of the oil layer and drive the drill pipe directly into the reservoir.

Today, Qi Zheng, Zhang Zehong and even Zhu Kai also came, accompanied by the trading agent Luke and the young lawyer Liam, and the rancher Braden also came to join in the fun when he saw a large number of people.

And Luke is introducing the engineering team responsible for drilling wells.

"Deep Space Petroleum Exploration is the most cost-effective oil exploration technology service company in Houston, and has a lot of outstanding records in the Texas oil industry, so it is a reassuring partner to be entrusted to them for development. Luke boasted to himself.

Qi Zheng watched the skillful operation of the engineering team and expressed satisfaction with Luke's head. Although Luke has a lot of caution as an agent, he really has a hand in the business and can always do his best according to the customer's requirements.

Carson, the leader of the engineering team, was a stout man with dark skin — a good fit for the image of a field job. While monitoring the work of the drilling team, he introduced to Qi Zheng in a loud voice: "Our team work is the best in Houston, in fact, you should trust our professionalism, your approach is really not up to standard operation requirements......

Since Qi Zheng had marked the location and depth of the perforation in advance, Captain Carson arrogantly believed that his professional authority had been violated, and for the sake of the green dollar, he was extremely reluctant to tinker, and finally operated according to Qi Zheng's requirements.

But the resentment in his heart can be imagined.

"Mr. Qi's request is also based on data analysis, Captain Carson, you can follow Mr. Qi's request first, and then you can make adjustments according to the feedback. Luke heard Carson's complaints, fearing that the two would have an argument, so he hurriedly played a round.

In fact, he also felt that Qi Zheng's decision to delineate the location of the well was very unreliable, but when he recalled that Qi Zheng's reason for deciding to buy this oil field was "to make him feel good", he was not surprised - this lord is so freewheeling, and he is panicked with money.

Qi Zheng was noncommittal. In fact, if it weren't for the financial constraints, he wouldn't want to make such a relatively out-of-the-ordinary decision.

Although drilling wells in Texas only costs more than $100,000 per well, it is already very cheap compared to the development of new oil fields. The problem is that Qi Zheng's total net worth is only a few hundred thousand dollars, and if the engineering team is allowed to follow the conventional survey, the funds will be cut off if they can't drill two wells.

Moreover, the "gourd-type reservoir" is relatively cleverly hidden, and if the location is not selected well, it will be in vain to drill many wells. In this case, Qi Zheng can only go out in person, and it is necessary to let the first well directly produce oil.

Of course, others don't think so, they all think that Qi Zheng is gambling sincerely.

The rancher old cowboy Braden sneered next to him, the oil well is on his territory after all, and the engineering team needs to rent dozens of acres of land from the ranch for each well, because it is an old oil well area that is almost out of oil, and the rent is not expensive, but Brayden, who has made a small profit, still looks at the politics and is not pleasing to the eye, and it is good that the oil is not produced, if the new oil field is surveyed, under his nose, he can't get a piece of the pie, and he can't vomit to death?

So he was the last person on the scene who wanted to get oily.

Qi Zheng directly ignored him, and reality would always teach him to be a man.

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"Boss, come and take a look, it seems that there is a problem. "The drillers who are working on the construction call the captain Carson.

"Huh?" Carson's eyes froze, and he didn't care about Qi Zheng and the others, so he ran over.

When Qi Zheng and the others heard this, they all leaned over.

Nowadays, the drilling technology has been relatively advanced, and a variety of test and observation probes are installed in the drill bit and drill pipe, which can directly let the people in the well know the following situation from various aspects such as resistivity and porosity. It was on the basis of the data that the drillers discovered new conditions.

Carson looked at the feedback with a fiery gaze, and shouted at Qi Zheng in the loud noise of "rumbling": "It seems that there is really a possibility of oil! You wait, after a while, there will be feedback." ”

Qi Zheng, Zhang Zehong, and Zhu Kai were naturally overjoyed;

Luke and Liam looked at each other in astonishment;

Brayden, the rancher, couldn't laugh anymore, and he cursed with a strained face, "Hell, how is this possible......"

Ten minutes passed quickly.

Qi Zheng kept a serious face and didn't speak, and Zhang Zehong and Zhu Kai didn't dare to say anything.

The other three also held their breath.

The rig descended smoothly without the slightest change at all.

Zhang Zehong and the others scratched their heads, and they couldn't help but be a little anxious.

The atmosphere at the scene became a little impetuous, Carson stared at the drilling platform, his hand holding the walkie-talkie was a little sore, perhaps because he felt the oppressive atmosphere around him, he turned his head and shouted loudly to the crowd of onlookers: "You all disperse, disperse quickly, stand far away, don't hinder the construction here!"

Qi Zheng and the others looked at each other, not daring to provoke the irritable oil workers, and silently stepped back from a distance to watch.

After driving away the crowd of onlookers, Carson returned his attention to the well, and with some anticipation, his hands clenched a little more.

At this time, the drill pipe suddenly sank violently......

A delay of a few seconds, as long as if a century had passed.

Suddenly.

A muffled sound came from the ground, and with the whistling sound, the derrick dozens of meters high began to shake. The next moment, black oil, with the gray of mud, sprayed out, and the splashes of oil once exceeded the height of the derrick.

"!" Qi Zheng was also shocked.

"It's gone!" Zhang Zehong grabbed Qi Zheng tightly, trembling with excitement, and his face was flushed from the rumbling noise.

"Damn, what the hell is this special shooting?" Zhu Kai jumped up, excited as if he had just finished a shot.

"Oh, My God!" Liam, the young lawyer, couldn't keep his elegant image and couldn't close his mouth.

"What the fuxx......" This is Luke, who was directly dumbfounded.

"Shix...... "This is Braden, a rancher with green eyes.

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If you think about it with your ass, you know that such a large amount of oil gushing must have discovered a new oil layer.

Carson also muttered to himself, "It's a self-blowing well! God! Your old man must be watching me today!"

As an oil man, no matter what profession you do, you always have a dream in this life: to participate in an oil exploration and witness a scene of oil spewing out. Carson is no exception.

As the name suggests, a self-blowing well is a fountain of oil.

The pressure inside the saturated reservoir is extremely high, and once drilled, the crude oil inside is like a tire being pricked in the eye, and it can't wait to be sprayed out - not only saving electricity, but also extremely high production.

In the oil world, there is usually a saying of primary oil recovery, secondary oil recovery, and tertiary oil recovery.

The self-blowing well is a primary oil recovery, the mechanical oil digging with a kowtow machine is the secondary oil recovery, and the flow of almost solidified asphalt crude oil by filling hot steam and specific chemical reagents is a tertiary oil recovery.

The old oil wells purchased by Qi Zheng have undoubtedly ended the secondary oil recovery stage. Moreover, due to investment and technical reasons, the previous oil owners were too lazy to do the work of tertiary oil recovery. That's why it's going to become a waste oil well.

However, the peculiar shape of the two reservoirs separated by the upper and lower rock formations suddenly turned the old oil well, which was almost out of production, into a self-blowing well with continuous gushing.

Just by visualizing the gushing volume, Carson felt God's favor for a remarkable reservoir of oil – and no doubt would add to his resume.

And Qi Zheng's surprise was that he found that he seemed to have underestimated the power of the Spirit Array.

"The Tiangang Infinite Array (First Order) is triggered, the main gold and water systems, and the range: a radius of twenty kilometers. Effect: Extreme pressure, wind. It can control the air pressure, and the wind and water rise. ”

After the old oil well was officially started, in order to develop the crude oil in the two "stomachs" of the "gourd oil reservoir" at the same time, Qi Zheng arranged the "Tiangang Infinite Array" in this oilfield area on a whim.

Isn't the "Tiangang Infinite Array" able to control the air pressure? Qi Zheng directly applied this characteristic to the oil reservoir, in other words, directly pressurized the oil reservoir.

Now it seems that the effect is not generally good.

On the one hand, Qi Zheng was shocked by the explosive effect of the Spirit Array, and on the other hand, he couldn't help but be pleasantly surprised by the new map opened by the Spirit Array.

Carson looked at the gauge data without blinking. Surveying an oil well is like treating a person's illness. In the case that the formation of thousands of meters cannot be cut, it can only be judged by ultrasonic, pressure gauge, load cell and other devices.

When the oil pressure and casing pressure of the oil well increased to 6 megapascals and 12.5 megapascals respectively, the oil workers skillfully removed the cables, quickly connected the circuit and connected the switch box, and the welders began to measure the size, prepare and unload, and install the gate according to the process......

With Carson's order, the old well resumed production.

Oil quantity and nuclear production followed.

Carson couldn't help but pray, "God forbid." ”

He hopes that a staggering oil reservoir will be discovered under his own hands – and that will be the highlight of his life as an oil man.

The frantic rotation of the flow controller represents the amount of crude oil that is constantly pouring into the pipeline.

The workers were most familiar with the instrument, and read it out loud and reported the yield to Carson:

"7 barrels per day. ”

"14 barrels per day. ”

"It's 35 barrels per day. The workers' voices were louder. Seven barrels is about 1 ton, with a daily output of 5 tonnes, which is the critical value of the profitability of a single oil well in Texas under the current oil price. Exceeding this number enters the stage of reaping profits.

However, the roar did not stop, it continued, and it grew louder and louder.

"210 barrels!"

"350 barrels!"

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