Chapter 993: Breaking the Monopoly
After listening to Pan Xu's words, the reporter immediately became interested and asked, "Can you introduce the specific application of this set of technology?"
"We are currently applying this rotary directional drilling system to the old mines in the Shengli Oilfield, so that the surrounding dispersed oil and gas can also be extracted, so as to revitalize the old mines that are about to be closed.
However, the biggest application of this system is on offshore oil and gas rigs......"
Pan Xu licked his big belly and talked seriously, but every word he said was like a hammer on the hearts of Miles and Cai Weiguo.
No way, if the air energy storage power station is a little jealous of Miles and Cai Weiguo, then the rotary directional drilling system that Tengfei Group took out is the blade that breaks the heads of the two people, and there is not even the slightest room to turn, and the GG is completed directly.
The reason for this is very simple, the two used this system to coerce CNOOC to terminate its cooperation with Tengfei Group, thereby undermining the sales performance of Tengfei Group's gas turbines.
Because both Myers and Cai Weiguo feel that the rotary directional drilling system can only be mastered by the United States, and only this system can reduce the production cost of offshore oil and natural gas drilling platforms by more than 30%.
As we all know, oil or gas buried in the seabed, due to the structure of the site, cannot form a huge address cavity like the desert area of the Middle East, and then the cavity is filled with oil and gas, and the oil can be extracted by plugging the oil straight up and down.
Usually, there are bubble-like multi-cavities that are unevenly distributed.
This makes offshore oil extraction difficult and prohibitively expensive.
In order to maintain costs and realize oil profits, for a long time in the past, offshore oil exploitation was to find those cavity reserves are relatively large to go into the well, and when the cavity mining is over, the offshore oil drilling platform will rely on its own power to maneuver to the next cavity with large reserves to continue mining.
As for the other small cavities, they can only give up helplessly.
However, it is often a pity that the oil or gas reserves in these small cavities are much larger than the reserves of the large cavities.
Therefore, since the 80s, the United States has developed a rotary directional drilling system that can flexibly turn underground according to the actual situation of offshore oil exploitation in the Gulf of Mexico, so that the original vertical drilling can be controlled by people at will, and the oil or natural gas can be exploited by its own pumping system while using advanced detection equipment underground.
So? This rotary directional drilling system is like a snake in a game underground? Running after the cavities of oil or gas buried in the ground, eating one and going to the next? Until all the cavities within a radius of several kilometers are sucked dry? Go suck up the next area on a mobile offshore oil rig.
In this way, the extraction of offshore oil or gas does not only improve efficiency? Is it more important to be able to quickly ramp up oil or gas production in order to maintain the current cost level? Indirectly improve the overall profit margin.
It's a lot of work.
Because of this? Since 1994, when the United States applied the first rotary directional drilling system to commercial exploitation, it immediately caused a sensation in the international oil market.
Norway, which made its fortune on North Sea oil, quickly followed suit by bringing in several rotary directional drilling systems from the United States for two offshore oil fields that had been determined to be overexploited? Soon to use this new extraction technology to increase the production of two old fields to the peak? To create a significant energy wealth for Norway.
The surrounding Britain, Denmark, and the Netherlands all have pink eye, and they all hope to import this system from the United States to increase the production of old oil fields and earn more energy income.
What do Americans think of it? Good guys, this thing is a good cash cow? So simply ban the export of the rotary directional drilling system as a sensitive technology, and then treat the rotary directional drilling system in hand as a strange commodity to be sold at a price? In a rent-only, non-sellable situation, it is either simply asking for high rent and labor fees, or sharing production with related oil fields.
All in all, the Americans have taken the odd to the extreme.
The same is true for CNOOC.
Where did Miles learn from Cai Weiguo? Does CNOOC Limited want to expand its offshore oil fields in the Bohai Sea and East China Sea? And ready to start oil exploration and extraction in the South China Sea? A considerable amount of offshore oil specialist equipment will be required in the next decade.
As one of the most efficient gas turbine manufacturers in offshore oil exploration and production, GE is naturally highly concerned about CNOOC's future initiatives and hopes to become its sole gas turbine partner and enjoy CNOOC's high profits in the next decade.
The problem is that Ascendas has not only become CNOOC's designated partner a few years ago, becoming the only gas turbine supplier in the past three years, but if nothing else, the gas turbines in the next ten years will also be provided by Tengfei Group.
No matter how you get it, it doesn't matter what GE is half a dime.
Seeing that the fat meat was about to be snatched away by the Tengfei Group, Myers, who was in China, took advantage of the model of gas turbine processing equipment in recent years to make a poisonous trick, so that CNOOC had to use their GE products.
That is, through Cai Weiguo, he told CNOOC that if he did not purchase GE products, the United States would sell the rotary directional drilling system and GE's gas turbines to Malaysia, Vietnam, Indonesia, the Philippines and other Southeast Asian countries, so that they can have efficient offshore oil production capabilities.
This is no longer a simple threat, but is pressing CNOOC's head and on it.
However, CNOOC, which is well aware of the super ability of the rotary directional drilling system in offshore oil extraction, has no way, because the country simply does not have the relevant technical capabilities, and if the Americans really give priority to the transfer to those countries in Southeast Asia, it will greatly hinder the domestic strategy of navigating the South China Sea.
One is the national policy of navigating the South China Sea, and the other is the humiliation imposed.
CNOOC, like China in the 90s, chose to move forward with a heavy load, even if Myers opened a rotary directional drilling system only for rent, not for sale, and the rent used 27% of the total production capacity of CNOOC's new oilfield as the harsh condition of the lease cost of the rotary directional drilling system, CNOOC still gritted its teeth and agreed.
As for the bundled sales of GE industrial gas turbines, supporting desalination systems, oilfield detection systems, platform helicopters, and other related equipment, they are all gold-swallowing beasts, almost emptying out the expected profits of CNOOC's new oilfields in the next few years, not to mention the extremely heavy losses.
It is precisely with CNOOC in his hands that Miles will unscrupulously launch an attack on the Tengfei Group, which can be called fearless, the reason for this is very simple, Miles holds the monopoly technology that only the United States has, and does not let him do whatever he wants, then he can turn around and throw the technology to Southeast Asia, and let Vietnam and the Philippines do whatever they want.
Whether to let him do whatever he wants at home, or let Southeast Asian countries do whatever they want around China, there must be a choice to be made at home.
Miles thought that the domestic indulgence of his time had already made a choice, which Cheng thought that his old rival would quietly come up with the rotary directional drilling system, and directly smashed their reliance mercilessly, so it is conceivable that the domestic choice can be imagined, since the monopoly has been broken, the real fearless talent has just appeared!