In the eyes of oil companies, the production of oil is always the most important.

Whether it is petroleum refining technology, energy-saving technology, or renewable environmental protection technology, they are all technologies on how to use energy. In an era of energy scarcity, these technologies are so-called secondary technologies for energy companies.

The real primary technology can and must only be the technology that produces energy.

The water injection technology of secondary oil recovery, the exploitation technology of onshore deep wells, the exploitation technology of shallow sea oil, the exploitation technology of deep-sea oil, the hydraulic fracturing technology of shale gas, and the tertiary oil recovery technology, these technologies that can really increase energy supply are the core technologies of energy enterprises and their leaders.

If it weren't for the improvement of extraction technology again and again, as early as the 40s of the 20th century, there would be no sufficient oil supply in the world.

Once this happens, energy extraction companies will certainly lose their value, and energy utilization companies will also lose their meaning of existence.

The fact is that the secondary oil recovery technology of injecting water into the well has postponed the oil crisis to the 60s of the 20th century, and the ensuing Western "oil shortage" has made the seabed terrain complex, and the harsh North Sea oil has been developed at sea, and in the 90s, the expensive deep-sea oil development technology has made it hopeless to increase oil production, which has given birth to a number of environmental protection pioneers, as well as new energy technologies such as solar energy, wind energy, and bioenergy...... In the end, it was shale gas technology that saved the world's energy. But that's 20 years later.

The stagnation of oil extraction technology that began in the 90s is a headache. In fact, it creates the illusion of oil scarcity, which gradually turns the supply problem into a serious economic problem.

Yes, from a technical point of view, the root of oil scarcity is an illusion.

If you look at it from a conservative point of view, that is, from the point of view of Western oil companies. Oil can last for another 50 years. That is judging by the current state of technology, as well as the oil reserves discovered at this time...... Since the 60s, oil experts have judged that oil will last 50 years, in the 70s they said "oil will last 50 years", in the 80s they said "oil will last 50 years", and in the 90s they still said "oil will last 50 years".

However, the technological slowdown in the 90s did strengthen this notion, because there seemed to be no possibility of improving oil extraction technology.

Perhaps the pace of oil extraction has accelerated. Oil extraction is less polluting and less wasteful...... But like what oil companies care about, these are the details, and they don't make more oil.

The only way to get more oil is to discover more oil fields.

This practice. Nature only increases the anxiety of more people.

It can be said that in the mid-90s, the shadow of the energy crisis widened for the first time in full swing, and it lasted the longest......

Until the maturity of shale gas technology, there was no real revolutionary progress in energy extraction technology.

Deep-sea oil extraction technology and tertiary oil recovery technology can only delay the threat of oil supply, and the same is true for oil prices. All the way up.

Perhaps, only the oil theory of the former Soviet Union can really save the energy crisis......

However, tertiary oil recovery technology is not a revolutionary advance. However, it can still bring the benefit of increasing production by more than 30% per year to a large oil field, and it is also one of the few effective oil recovery measures that can increase production before shale gas technology matures. Its value is inferior to that of shale gas technology, but it is still a high-end technology that can rival deep-sea oil extraction.

Daqing Oilfield and Shengli Oilfield are ready-made examples, by 2013. Daqing has an annual output of 50 million tons of crude oil, and the output of tertiary oil recovery has exceeded one-third. That is, 15 million tons, which is equivalent to a crude oil input pipeline from abroad, according to the crude oil price of more than 700 US dollars per ton that year, this is more than 10 billion US dollars in revenue.

The profits brought by this kind of technological progress do not need to go through complicated and painful bidding, do not have to go through the hard game between oil-producing countries and oil companies, and do not need to increase the contradictions and conflicts between labor and management.

If you want to select the most important energy technology at the beginning of the 21st century, shale gas fracturing technology will undoubtedly be ranked among the top three, but if you select an important energy technology of the year, as long as the three oil recovery technologies do not collide with shale gas, they can properly get the first place, even if they encounter the bioenergy technology of Mongolia, they will not necessarily fall behind.

State-owned bureaucrats like Lin Yonggui have never taken technological progress to heart, but the leaders of private enterprises are different.

Such a "clean and harmless" profit, even if an oil field can only increase production by 1 million tons a year, it definitely has the value of introduction - this is more than 200 million US dollars of gross income, and if it is exchanged for other industries, to increase the turnover of this figure, it is to shave the hair and run naked, and the bosses will do it.

Therefore, Lin Yonggui's conclusions for comparison can also be obtained by other large oil companies.

And, as the old Baku oil field is really recovering the well area, their attention is also increasing.

In mid-November, a month after the Azerbaijani elections, Sioux City returned to Baku.

On the chartered plane of the oil company, in addition to Sioux City and Shulan, there were several carefully selected Dahua suppliers, several members of the Dawning Council, and a large number of Dahua laboratory researchers.

There are many people who are interested in the development of Baku's old oil fields, and most of the gentlemen and ladies who have not taken the charter plane will also notify the domestic company and ask their employees in Azerbaijan or Kazakhstan to visit it.

This made Lin Yonggui feel nervous.

He was very worried that Su Cheng's "trick" would be widely advertised, whether from the perspective of friendship or interests, Lin Yonggui did not want Su Cheng to sink.

And China's politics is like a hot air balloon, with just a small hole, it can fall from the sky to the bottom.

Lin Yonggui didn't find the right time to squeeze into the big business car in Su Cheng until he was about to go to the oil well, and said cheekily: "I have something to talk to Su Dong about, you can take my car first." ”

This is Azerbaijan, and he is a deputy ministerial cadre and does not have his own car.

Yang Ming, Gu Hongjun and Zhang Chao, who were in the same car, still got off obediently.

Shu Lan was about to get out of the car, but was stopped by Lin Yonggui, and he was cheeky again. can't be so thick, so he smiled: "It's not too big, it's okay for you to stay." ”

The Azerbaijani bodyguard, who was sitting in the back of the car, raised his hand and asked, "I don't understand, can I drive?"

Lin Yonggui's eyes bulged out when he listened: "You don't understand, what are you talking about?"

Just a few words. "This bodyguard is indeed a newcomer.

Su Cheng coughed and said, "Tell Ah Er to come and drive." ”

Azerbaijan No. 2 bodyguard is referred to as A-2, who is better at professional work and has a weaker language talent than Azerbaijan No. 1 bodyguard. The intermediate level is in the "hello" stage, and it is fully capable of the task of not understanding Chinese.

Lin Yonggui waited for the car to drive before he said softly: "Su Cheng, I know you want to prove that Dahua Industry has a high level of technology, but use this method to ...... I mean. If someone finds out, the blow to prestige is great, and the gains outweigh the losses. ”

Su Cheng's face was full of puzzlement, and he said, "What was discovered?"

Lin Yonggui thought that he was unwilling to admit it, and said around the bend: "If the problem of low profit margin of tertiary oil recovery cannot be solved, its utilization value will not be great." Recently, there have been a lot of foreigners in Baku, so if people can see it. And how is it good?"

"How's that good?"

"yes. ”

"Although Dahua's tertiary oil recovery profit margin is low, the profit is still acceptable. ”

Lin Yonggui asked directly: "How many?"

Su Cheng hesitated for a moment and said, "Let's increase the oil by 20 tons per ton." ”

Su Cheng was not his subordinate, so naturally he would not be like those two experts. Know-it-all translates terms into simple ones.

"How much is that?" Lin Yonggui was even more confused.

Su Cheng was dumbfounded, shook his head, and said: "The composition of our polymer dry powder is more than 10,000 yuan per ton, which can increase oil by 20 tons." one-third of the into. ”

Compared with the secondary oil recovery of water injection, the yield of tertiary oil recovery is obviously much higher. The achievement of polymer dry powder alone is more than $10 per barrel. Despite this, the remaining $20 is still a lot of profit margin, and it can be said that it is truly industrialized. Historically, it took three or four years of struggle for the domestic Daqing Oilfield to reach this level, and the help of foreign "colleagues" was indispensable.

Dahua Industry has developed the tertiary oil recovery technology of polymer flooding to the industrial level four years in advance, and the patent alone can make crazy money.

Lin Yonggui couldn't believe it, he added a little margin according to the rules prevailing in China, and secretly thought: It is estimated to be at least half, which is about the same as the estimate of the experts of the research institute.

However, he couldn't directly "debunk" Su Cheng, so he only pointed: "It's really good to have such a low level of success." ”

"Of course, you'll find out when you look at the demo. "Sioux City is pleased that both sides have reached an agreement.

Lin Yonggui sighed secretly and thought: It seems that I have to go out with my uncle.

After an hour of driving, the surrounding scenery slowly changed from green to black and gray, with more and more kowtow machines that stopped moving, rusty derricks and dilapidated houses.

Baku was once the largest oil field in the Soviet Union, during World War II, its production accounted for 71% of the country's production, and after the victory of the war, it also maintained more than 35% of the country's production capacity for several years, however, this oil field, which had been in operation for 100 years, finally came to a time of decline, and by the 80s, Baku's oil production was insignificant.

The oil area, which is larger than a city, almost left Sioux City to choose oil blocks and oil wells, and the Dahua employees in the early investigation were naturally not polite, they chose an oil reservoir that was still producing a small amount of oil, and completed all the equipment and civil works in an extreme time.

This naturally aroused the curiosity of the Azerbaijani oil workers who were still working.

When the convoy stopped, and a large number of gentlemen in suits and leather shoes got out of the car, they found that not only they were watching Sioux City, but also a large number of dark and swarthy workers were watching them.

Lin Yonggui sweated for Su Cheng and strengthened his belief in helping.

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