No matter what era it is, the personnel who can play the deep-sea oil production business are first-class talents in the oil field, and the quality is naturally needless to say.

As a related business closely related to the vast ocean, distant-water oil exploitation has inevitably inherited some seafaring traditions, such as disgust with women boarding working ships, touching champagne when offshore equipment is launched, and trying not to drill on the 13th of every month.

In addition to cooperating with Norway's Subsea 7 Marine Services Company, the Earth Explorer drilling ship has a history of cooperation with the world's top petrochemical giants such as Shell, Mobil, BP, and Total in its ten-year service history, that is, it has experienced the ecstasy of finding a large oil field in a short period of time, and has also experienced the frustration of hundreds of millions of funds and little gain.

Overseas, the first well was drilled in the area that has never been accurately explored, and the situation of obtaining oil and gas resources is not nothing, this kind of well with unnatural luck has a special American slang term a ild cat ell, and the domestic exploration industry is literally translated as a wildcat well, in fact, if you do not consider Xinyada's words, it is more in line with the fact that it is translated as a blind cat touching a dead rat well.

Although this kind of wildcat well is very rare, it has accumulated many cases in the history of oil exploration for 100 years, in the last century and the beginning of this century, during the development of the Texas oil field in the United States, there were speculators who saw the rare hunting hares of the bald vulture, the national bird of the United States, and decided to dig a well in the bald vulture hunting place, and then a well produced oil and then became rich.

But no one in the South China Sea has seen this situation since the end of World War II and the outbreak of science.

Before the first survey well is drilled in modern exploration, at least it is necessary to carry out ultrasonic, electromagnetic, gravity, seismic and other multi-directional detection of the relevant area of the well, and finally the location of the survey well will be determined after computer analysis.

The cost of drilling a well at sea is hundreds of millions of yuan, and whether each well can produce oil or not is not to be said, but in theory it must be reasonable, although the capitalists who can afford to play with energy are rich, but the money is not blowing in the wind.

Qilianshan took out a note from his pocket, and then notified the drill ship, we will drill a well directly in such and such a place, in the eyes of Bjorn Ellison, the captain of the Earth Explorer, at least half a lifetime has not heard of it, if there is no oil, Qilian Mountain will naturally be labeled as an ignorant and backward hat of oriental witchcraft, and now the natural gas coming out of the pipeline reminds Ellison that he has just seen and participated in a miracle, which is enough to shake the lucky miracle within the industry for a long time.

Although the Earth Explorer exploration drilling ship is a type of vessel with relatively strong comprehensive performance, although it is weaker than the standard offshore drilling platform in terms of drilling operations, it is far stronger than the drilling platform focusing on engineering capabilities in terms of geological exploration and survey direction.

After the first well was released, the joint scientific expedition team only took a week to determine the approximate reserves of the Liwan gas field, with recoverable natural gas reserves of 100 billion cubic meters, long-term natural gas recoverable reserves of 150 billion cubic meters, and at the same time, the rare high-quality light sweet crude oil in the associated Republic of China is more than 10 million tons, and if converted into standard oil according to the calorific value, the total reserves of the Liwan oil and gas field are roughly 150 million tons, which is a typical large-scale natural gas field.

After the scale of the gas field was determined, the entire exploration team, including Qilianshan, was ecstatic, if calculated according to the popular oil units in Britain and the United States, the total reserves of the Liwan gas field are about 700 million to 1 billion barrels of standard oil, and the current international oil price is 27 US dollars per barrel, the Liwan gas field is an atmospheric field with an economic value of more than 20 billion US dollars.

Others are just emotional, but Qi Lianshan is already going crazy, how did the note that has been regarded as an oracle by the exploration team come about, Qi Lianshan couldn't be clearer in his heart, it is precisely because he knows clearly that Qi Lianshan understands better what kind of freak his boss is, and he can throw out 20 billion US dollars of income by throwing dice, which is the founding ancestor of a dynasty in previous centuries.

Although someone only lost a coordinate point to Liwan in Qilian Mountain, in terms of the storage of large oil fields in the world, the vicinity of large oil fields belongs to resource rich areas, and it is easy to find related resources and then form world-scale resource storage areas, similar to the Middle East, Daqing of the Republic, the North Sea of the United Kingdom, and Texas of the United States.

Therefore, after establishing the reserves of Liwan, the Earth Explorer began to start further exploration work with the Liwan gas field as the center of the circle according to the regular operation method, and under the influence of the Liwan gas field, Qi Lianshan has been eating and living on the ship recently, and rarely when he returned to Hong Kong, Yuan Jiatong and Huang negotiated the acquisition of HK Electric were completely lost to Niu Bijian by Qilianshan.

The two girls said a word, and it took nearly an hour to tell the birth of the biggest bet ever made between the three of them.

"Listening to Jiajia say this, Xiaoyuan's $20 billion is here?"

Xiong Weixin's face was full of disbelief, although he was staring at Liang Yuan, his spirit was obviously flying in outer space.

After thinking about it, Liang Yuan decided to refresh Xiong Weixin's cognition of miracles, legends and other words at one time.

"Uncle Wilson, the gas field in Liwan is not finished, not far from the Liwan area, the Earth Explorer has drilled five exploratory wells in all directions, two of which have produced oil and one out of natural gas, before I came to Qinhuangdao, Qilianshan has submitted the latest report, and there is likely to be a large integrated oil field with reserves of not less than 100 million tons near the Liwan gas field. ”

Although Liang Yuan's words were possible, his tone was affirmative, and others were not sure for the time being, but Liang Yuan knew that the Liwan gas field belonged to a large-scale oil and gas resource area with mixed oil and gas.

Within the area of more than 100 square kilometers named Liwan, there is also a Liuhua oilfield with reserves of more than 200 million tons and two other large gas fields codenamed Liuhua, and the total reserves of oil and gas resources in the Liwan area are more than 250 million tons of light crude oil and more than 500 billion cubic meters of natural gas.

If all the natural gas resources in the Liwan area are converted into standard oil, the total resources in the Liwan area will exceed 700 million tons of crude oil, which is equivalent to at least 5 billion barrels of standard crude oil, and even in the 90s, when the oil price was only around $30 per barrel, the value of the resources in the Liwan area exceeded 100 billion dollars.

At the end of this century, the total reserves of the Daqing oilfield released by the republic are only 5 billion tons, and after the new century, the reserves of the world's five major offshore oil fields, the Brazilian Lula offshore oil field, which ranks last, are only 6.5 billion barrels, and this time someone in the South China Sea once made up one-seventh of the Daqing oilfield, and the offshore oil development has not yet reached its peak in the early 90s, and the reserves of the Liwan oil and gas field have directly entered the list of the world's five major offshore oil and gas fields.

Of course, Liang Yuan chose this time to unveil the resources of the South China Sea, but also a little unavoidable, the shift of the focus of the national economy of the Republic, the sharp reduction of military spending is not something Liang Yuan can influence, if the Republic of 96 years repented and the cucumber vegetables are cold.

Now that Liang Yuan has blatantly placed such a piece of fat in the South China Sea in broad daylight, although the Republic may be hostile to the surrounding countries in the South China Sea, and Yuanjia may also face all kinds of enemies at home and abroad, but when the crisis comes, opportunities are also coming at the same time, at least Yuanjia will definitely be countless times stronger than before in promoting the construction of the Republic of China Navy and Air Force.

Trillions of yuan of property are lost in the marginal areas of the actual control of the republic's navy and air force, and no one can stand it, so as a life-and-death party of interests, Yuanjia is enthusiastic in the republic's military industry, and makes every effort to promote the modernization of the republic's military equipment.

"Wow, it's possible to find a big oil field recently? Pig head, why haven't we seen that document?"

"Yes, yes, my sister and I have been paying attention to the documents in the direction of the South China Sea. ”

The two girls asked curiously.

In the eyes of the two girls, Yuanjia has too many places to spend money, even if Liang Yuan gets Jardine, it is just a sigh of relief, so the two girls are very concerned about the discovery of a large gas field worth more than 20 billion US dollars in the South China Sea, and feel that this is another solid fulcrum for Yuanjia to support someone's loser to spend money after the acquisition of Jardine, so the twins have recently paid special attention to the documents on the South China Sea resource exploration and marine engineering equipment within the group.

"Unless I'm in the final exam, this kind of document is handed over to me for processing as soon as possible, and I'll archive it directly after I finish it, and I don't need to take it home at night, both of you pay attention to the new documents that have been archived, so naturally I didn't see it. ”

Liang Yuan smiled and explained to the two girls.

"What Xiaoyuan means, the valuation of $20 billion in the South China Sea is already unstoppable, and it is likely to turn to $40 billion next month or next month?"

Liang Yuan nodded, and directly confirmed Xiong Weixin's guess.

The reason why Liang Yuan dared to jump into countless money-burning pits is because for someone, the problem of funds is really not a problem, of course, the premise of this is not a problem is that the reputation of the enterprise is high enough, and the current Yuanjia obviously meets this condition.

Taking the Liwan gas field as an example, even if CNOOC, which currently monopolizes the offshore oil business of the Republic of China, regrets and wants to pick the fruit, with the status of Yuanjia at this time, it is not afraid at all, and the administrative force does not mention the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the military that Yuanjia is currently involved in for the time being, which is enough to dispel all the bad intentions of CNOOC.

The Chinese Academy of Sciences is the only source of members of the Torch Program Review Committee, and the only organizer is the Republic of China Experimental University, which is located in the Special Administrative Region.

Of course, in the face of the surging voices of unfair doubts, the SAR government, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Shangri-La Foundation were all dragged out by Liang Yuan as targets, responsible for explaining to researchers from other universities in China that the Torch Program was originally the R&D investment plan of the Republic of China Experimental University。

In fact, the core of the experimental university under construction is to show the fraternal units of the whole country how rich we are and how local tyrants we are.

Not to mention the Republic Navy, no matter how Xiong Weixin struggles, the Republic Navy will be able to see the all-deck high-speed anti-smuggling rescue ship led by someone sooner or later, and in the nineties, regardless of the weapons and equipment, the huge tonnage of 30,000 alone is enough for the Republic Navy to soar.

It is impossible to guess whether Xiong Weixin can keep Liang Yuan of this ship, but if someone dares to affect the construction of this ship, Liang Yuan estimates that the excitement of the navy will not be lower than that of the national security led by Xiong Weixin, and his own father-in-law still hangs the sign of the first batch of amphibious theater commanders in the Republic who surpass the military branches and face the future war mode.

"Xiaoyuan, the news of the discovery of a large oil field in the South China Sea is really a mixture of joy and sorrow, if the anti-smuggling ship of the national security is built and the external risk of Yuanjia is found in the gas field, the external risk will be reduced a lot, fortunately, the Liwan project is not far from the land, within the combat radius of the Jian-7 fighter, the risk of the project is not big, but the South China Sea has been eventful since then. ”

After thinking about it, Xiong Weixin added another sentence, and told Liang Yuandao: "Xiaoyuan, before the national security anti-smuggling ship is put into service, Yuanjia's exploration waters should not cross the line of the twin reefs as much as possible, and the wealth is moving, so beware of the Vietnamese." ”