The petrochemical industry is a capital-intensive, technology-intensive, and politically intensive industry. Politics is the foundation of the petrochemical industry, capital is the foundation of the petrochemical industry, and technology is the foundation of the profitability of the petrochemical industry.

Political money and technology are inextricably linked in the modern energy industry, the best example of which is the Soviet Union. Their petrochemical companies were state-owned enterprises, and they had large bank loans, and there was no shortage of politics and money, but the labor productivity of Soviet oil never rose, and even in the Baku region and the Caucasus, where they attached the most importance to it, the production of oil and petrochemical products was still not high. Since the 60s, the economy of the USSR has become increasingly difficult, and every general secretary of the CPSU has paid considerable attention to the oil industry, but production cuts still happen from time to time.

Over time, the high-cost nature of the petroleum and petrochemical industry has placed increasing demands on speed and efficiency, which in fact means on technology.

In the 90s, oil companies in the international market could not survive if they could not achieve scale production and scale efficiency. For example, Sioux City's Setan oil field in the United Arab Emirates, which now produces 4 million tons a year and is approaching 5 million tons, this kind of high production gets excess profits, but when the production is reduced to 1 million tons or 500,000 tons, the profits are not so impressive. If you take into account the taxes paid to the UAE and the cost of bidding for the oil fields, you may lose money.

People see the monopoly profits of oil, but they don't see the technology behind the oil companies. A clear example of this is Iraq. Before the Iraq War, Iraq's oil production was among the highest in OPEC. The same is true all over the world, and almost entirely by their own oil companies.

After the end of the war, Iraq's oil companies were so devastated that they could not produce their own oil. In the past, Iraq was often criticized by OPEC for overproducing oil, but after the end of the war, Iraq could not achieve a proportional amount of oil production, and finally had to turn to foreign oil companies for help.

Even so. It will take at least two or three years to restore the production of the oil fields. As for Iraq's own oil companies, it may take 10 years to reach pre-war levels. Of course. Ten years later, they suffered a new blow, and there was no time for recovery.

The technical requirements of the petrochemical industry are only higher than those of the crude oil industry. China's ethylene production has always been a problem, and there is not enough refined oil. China has long had the problem of selling crude oil and purchasing refined oil. Some people think it's incredible, why not refine your own oil?

In fact, there are not enough refineries, and the tonnage of refining is not enough. If the country needs 1 million barrels of diesel and gasoline a day, and the domestic production of refined oil products is only 600,000 barrels, then there is no doubt that 400,000 barrels of refined oil products need to be imported. Regardless of the amount of oil produced, the final product that everyone uses is still petrochemicals.

In order to produce more refined oil, it is not only a matter of capital investment, but also to continuously improve technology and labor productivity.

According to the internationally accepted principle, there are very few factories that produce a barrel of diesel fuel and earn $1. It's really just two or three percent of the profit, in other words. If the technology is not up to standard, the production cost is 3 percentage points higher than the international average cost, and oil refining is a wasted effort. The cost of the refinery will not be recovered.

If the cost of refining increases by 5 percentage points, it is better to buy than to buy is the right answer.

In this case. Dahua's tens of millions of oil refining technologies are very attractive to large oil companies such as Sinopec. The strategic conflict between the two sides is one thing, and it is another thing to visit the Dahua Petrochemical Base.

In fact, it has become a common practice for companies to visit Dahua Petrochemical Co., Ltd. Some branches have even issued regulations for rotational learning. They value not only the equipment and technology that Dahua has purchased, but also the foreign technicians invited by Dahua. and BASF's technicians, who are responsible for training Dahua employees.

These skilled workers in developed countries often have the most practical skills in the front line, which is naturally the most direct means to improve their level, but the procedures for state-owned enterprises to hire foreign workers are very complicated, and often the state must first introduce a series of learning policies before such training can be carried out. If there is no policy season, the leaders of state-owned enterprises would rather wait than dig a trap for themselves.

Most of the time, state-owned enterprises send employees abroad when they want to train them.

As you can imagine, such costs are very high, but companies such as Sinopec and CNOOC inevitably need to send their employees to study abroad. Otherwise, it is one thing that the technology cannot keep up, and the trouble of losing orders due to lack of technology is even greater.

Sioux City naturally does not have all the restrictions and insecurities of state-owned enterprises. Dahua Petrochemical Company is eclectic, not only has its own training system, but also receives training from BASF, and at the same time poachs foreign skilled workers......

After more than a year or two years, the level of Dahua workers has not only improved to a higher level, but their training system has also shown its power.

What Xie Weiwei saw was a group of workers who were learning.

Workers in the 90s, both in the state-owned and private sectors, had a positive view of learning. People talk about going through the back door, but when they have the opportunity, they will try their best to learn.

Xie Weiwei saw a worker with his neck raised high, holding a notebook in his hand, and desperately recording with his other hand without looking at it.

She walked over softly, only to see a bunch of strange words written in the notebook: Purin...... Even single grid ......"

"What is this?" Xie Weiwei bent over, her nose was full of the smell of engine oil and lubricating oil, and after watching it for two minutes, her head was dizzy.

"Shhhh The worker glanced down at her, as if he was a little attracted by Xie Weiwei's beauty. However, the foreign engineer on the stage was talking again, and the worker hesitated for a moment, but still raised his head and fixed his eyes on his movements.

At the same time, more inexplicable words appeared in his notebook: "Paplan...... Brother can send solicitors to send Gora Gate ......"

Then, he also turned the page. I continued to write quite seriously.

Xie Weiwei waited for a long time, and finally the engineer on the stage finished speaking, and she hurriedly asked, "Are you taking notes?" ”

"Not really. "This worker is about 30 years old. He was embarrassed to look at Xie Weiwei, so he lowered his head carefully, and he couldn't see the "shhhhhhh

"What do you mean by this?

"Hmm. ”

"I'm asking what the word means. ”

"I don't know. "The workers are very shy, especially when there are onlookers around.

Xie Weiwei is generous. At this moment, he said in surprise: "You don't know what it means, what do you write it down?"

"Hmm. ”

"Hmm, what?"

"Hmm. ”

"Are you just going to say um?" Xie Weiwei should have no temper no matter how tempered she is.

The worker said softly, "Hmm." ”

Xie Weiwei rolled her eyes. I had the intention of fainting, and I thought: fortunately the foreign workers are not like this, otherwise the task would not have been completed.

At this time. The onlookers in front of them boldly shouted: "If you don't know what it means, write it down, and look for a translator at night to understand." Lao Ba can't beat a fart person, you tell him that you don't play the piano to the cow. ”

Xie Weiwei was helpless for a while, and said, "You can't understand their words, and then take notes with your voice?"

"yes. ”

"Then why don't you let someone who understands it, such as a translator, sort out a note?" Xie Weiwei felt that she had found a good way, don't you understand German? Find someone who understands and sort out a copy, and everyone can't copy it.

Lao Hu whispered at this time: "Then how can you learn German by yourself?"

Xie Weiwei was stunned and asked, "Are you learning German?"

"Hmm. ”

"Did you learn?"

"Hmm. ”

"How much have you learned?"

"Hmm. ”

Once again, the conversation goes into an endless loop. Xie Weiwei looked at others for help.

The talented worker replied loudly: "We all learn German, German workers all speak German, and the company's equipment is also German, so what do you learn if you don't learn German." ”

"Have you learned?"

"Let's talk to one? There are several of us, and we can talk to the German workers. "The loud workers are proud.

Xie Weiwei opened her mouth slightly in surprise. Foreign languages were quite popular in the 90s. Small languages are especially appealing. The workers of Dahua were able to communicate with the Germans on a daily basis, and the level was not bad.

She thought for a while, snatched Lao Hu's notebook, turned to the page she had read earlier, and asked, "What did you ask just now?"

"Sampling. ”

"Piplan. ”

"Tubing. ”

"This ......" Xie Weiwei read with great difficulty: "Brother can send solicitors to send Gora Gate." ”

I found out after reading it. It's pretty smooth.

Lao Hu said in a low voice at this time: "Split the distillation tower." ”

"What?"

"Split distillation column. ”

Xie Weiwei looked at the others, and when she saw someone nodding, she turned her head and said, "You know that it's so long, and you don't know it's so short?" ”

"I just memorized it yesterday, I don't remember it clearly. "The workers are very real.

Xie Weiwei's heart moved, she raised her notebook and looked at the light.

The notebook, which was originally palm-thick, has swelled to the thickness of a fist, and the pages inside are all loose bubbles, and the edges are black. Turn to the front, and you can see the notes of different colored pens, all German words with Chinese pronunciation, and some have large paragraphs of explanations. It shows that the owner has read and recited.

Lao Hu suddenly twisted a little, grabbed the notebook back, and whispered: "I'm stupid, I remember slowly, and I can't understand a lot." ”

"If you don't understand, watch them explain, is it useful?"

"Write down the actions of foreigners and go back online and do them again, and the effect is good. "When workers talk about technology, they relax.

Someone next to him also said: "Go back at night, memorize words for two hours, learn actions for two hours, and master three or five percent is no problem." ”

"If you don't understand and ask people, if you don't understand, you can ask people, what are you ashamed of. This is an authentic Northeast accent, with a bold tone.

Xie Weiwei suddenly sighed with emotion, as a cadre of the Planning Commission, she had seen countless people sitting in the office, but she had never experienced such a strong and scorching study emotion. It's also easy to ignore the smell of engine oil that surrounds you.

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