Chapter 599 of the text Shale Gas Revolution

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"Shale Gas Revolution: The Gorgeous Turn of America's Energy Structure!", the most eye-catching position of the website is written such a surprising headline, and even the recent news of Lu Qiujian's wedding has been overwhelmed by this article.

What is shale gas? In technical terms, it is a biogenic or thermally generated natural gas that mainly exists in organic-rich shale and its interlayers in an adsorption and free manner; in more acceptable terms, oil and gas are generated from shale in the formation, and then migrated to sandstone, limestone and other reservoirs for preservation. The oil and gas stored in the mezzanine are the oil and gas that have been exploited for more than 100 years and have provided the direct power to human industrial processes.

Now, after a long period of exploitation, the oil and natural gas that are located in the interlayers and are relatively convenient to exploit have been almost explored by human beings! According to the reserves that have been explored so far, the proven oil reserves will not be able to meet the needs of mankind in a few decades! Therefore, people have begun to wonder whether there is oil and natural gas in the shale that makes up these interlayers?

It's like using a cloth bag to put flour in a cloth bag, and after pouring out the flour and patting the flour pocket, there will always be a lot of flour stuck to the cloth bag, which is also a big gain if it adds up.

For this reason, experts in related fields have explored shale oil and gas, and they were surprised to find that there is a lot of oil and gas stored in shale, which is enough to meet the needs of human beings for many years in the future. However, due to the dense structure of shale, it is extremely difficult to exploit shale oil and gas, and many countries lack to increase investment in shale oil and gas extraction technology when the current oil and gas can meet human needs!

However, there will always be some people who walk in front of others! Just like most technological breakthroughs in the last century, this shale gas revolution is still breaking out in the United States! In 1997, the hydraulic fracturing stimulation technology was completed, in 1999, the multiple fracturing stimulation technology matured, in 2002, the horizontal well drilling technology was invented, and in 2005. Horizontal well staged fracturing technology has directly led to the explosion of shale gas production efficiency!

This series of technological advances has caused the shale gas extraction in the country to soar from 2.2 billion cubic meters in 1999 to 56 billion cubic meters in 2008, and the output has increased by more than 25 times in just ten years.

The consequence of the shale gas revolution is that the dependence of the Chinese people on traditional energy sources such as oil and coal has greatly decreased, and the proportion of natural gas in the country's total energy consumption has risen rapidly.

From the point of view of energy security. The people of the United States now have more abundant energy reserves, and their dependence on overseas oil has been greatly weakened, and they now only need to import oil from a few core countries such as Canada, Saudi Arabia, and Mexico to meet their basic domestic needs!

From the perspective of international politics, the people of the United States can be said to have gotten rid of the influence of OPEC, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries. They no longer need to burn countless dollars in the deserts of the Middle East because of oil, and they can deal with the problems of the Middle East with much ease. In the future, the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq and the planning of color revolutions in several Middle Eastern countries can be said to have been influenced by the shale gas revolution. Otherwise, they are unlikely to want the Middle East to be what it will be.

However, what does all this have to do with Huaguo? This is the reason why Qin Feng asked Lu Qiujian to read this article! Huaguo is a country whose demand for overseas oil is higher than that of the United States, and Huaguo has now become the largest buyer in the international crude oil market! As long as there is oil in the world, you can see the presence of Chinese people, and in order to ensure domestic energy security, Huaguo has spent a huge amount of money, and it also seems to be constrained in the handling of international affairs, and from time to time it is forced to accept malicious extortion from certain countries!

This article lists several cases in which China has suffered losses in overseas oil procurement, to illustrate how painful it is to be subject to the control of energy by others! The article has been relatively normal all the way up, reflecting the author's good professionalism and sincere patriotism.

However, the article then took a 180-degree turn. Beginning to question Huaguo's strategy for scientific and technological development! Pointing the finger at Lu Qiujian! Compared with the illusory space exploration program, it seems that this kind of shale gas exploitation technology is what China should invest more in, right?

According to the latest survey figures, Huaguo has nearly 100 billion cubic meters of shale gas and more than 15 billion tons of shale oil reserves.

At that time, China's energy security will no longer be constrained by others, and it will be able to meet its needs by relying solely on domestic reserves! And although the Xihe plan also plays a very important role in the long run, the immediate matter is the most urgent, isn't it? If China's energy security is not guaranteed, what can it do even if it succeeds in landing on the moon?

At last. The author even called on Lu Qiujian to temporarily reduce the funds of the Xihe plan and hand over these funds to the department of shale oil and gas exploitation technology research. Please slow down and wait for the people of Huaguo!

If it were a direct attack on Lu Qiujian's research, which caused his Nobel laureate qualifications and Xihe plan to make repeated breakthroughs in the past two years, not many netizens would respond to this article. But taking the shale gas revolution in the United States as a starting point, the author of this article does not question Lu Qiujian's professional skills and the great significance of the Xihe plan, he just uses this article to create an opinion: space exploration is important. But it's the immediate threat that needs to be addressed as soon as possible!

Space exploration technology is too far away from ordinary people, and oil and gas are inseparable from almost everyone, and the thought of shale oil and gas exploitation technology is mature, and you can save a lot of money by refueling every month! So many netizens have joined in supporting this article.

No wonder Qin Feng has a headache! In the face of such an article, it is really difficult to refute, we can't tell the netizens that some plans are actually to study controlled nuclear fusion! )