CNOOC Limited is the most high-tech company in the three barrels, and because its business is limited to offshore oil, reality forces them to strengthen their technical capabilities. However, CNOOC in 1994 has only been established for 12 years, and they have not accumulated much technology at all, except for some products with political surnames.

It is the introduction of technology, it is very difficult to understand, with foreign experience, a technician who has just started to contact offshore oil equipment, it takes at least four or five years to complete all the coursework equivalent to master's and doctoral students, in order to have the foundation of being a research assistant, and in China in 1982, it is not easy to find a technician at the undergraduate level.

Although the business people in this era are very hardworking, the seventies and eighties of Chinese education can be called a tragedy, in addition to the lack of knowledge sources also hindered everyone's self-learning. Non-core technical personnel like Schwanke, in addition to the technology mastered by CNOOC itself, it is difficult to get in touch with the world's leading technology.

This was 1994.

In this era, a number of central enterprises want to get a foreign backward design drawings are required to go to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, some high-level military factories to transform into refrigerators to make color TVs, can only be designed according to the appearance of foreign pictorials, or simply make a stupid rectangle, occasionally find a good foreign product, but do not dare to rashly disassemble it, for fear that it will not be able to be dismantled and installed, on the spot to copy a handle graphics are satisfied.

It is difficult to track and study heavy equipment, and the prevention of Western countries and companies is one thing, and the funds that Chinese companies can raise are another. In this era, many research institutes only have a million yuan a year, and after spending labor and basic maintenance costs, the remaining money is not enough for theoretical research......

Of course, it is difficult to raise foreign exchange, although in 94, foreign exchange is not as rare as it was in the 80s, but it is still very tight, and the central government still does not grant such important resources to research institutions in large quantities, so even research institutes directly under the central government may not be able to buy foreign periodicals.

Yes, many research institutes at the prefectural and departmental levels cannot even afford to buy foreign periodicals within their professional scope, and ordering a journal costs a few dollars, or dozens of dollars a year, and a circle of famous journals will cost hundreds or thousands of dollars, not to mention that if you want to understand the periodicals, you have to do experimental verification.

Because China's scientific and technological level in the 90s lagged behind the world in an all-round way, the more cutting-edge technological experiments were, the more necessary it was to use foreign exchange to purchase materials and equipment from abroad, and even if a huge amount of money was spent on purchasing materials and equipment, the research conclusions obtained were only to verify the papers of foreign counterparts, or to repeat the products of foreign counterparts, and it was basically impossible to obtain direct returns.

And if you only buy journals without verifying, it is meaningless. As time goes by, a small number of large research institutes with the conditions will also reduce their investment in this area, and with this money, they are willing to invest in innovative theoretical projects.

CNOOC has the income from exporting crude oil, so it naturally has more money on hand, and has also made a lot of things, such as offshore drilling platforms, which they easily made in the 80s for the second generation. However, the oil system is an ultra-expensive and ultra-fast development project, and CNOOC Limited did not continue to build three generations of offshore drilling platforms, and the cost of making four generations of oil rigs was higher than that of Dahua and foreign companies in the same period, and the same was true for time and manpower requirements.

Schwanke has participated in the research and development of offshore drilling platforms, but it is only limited to the second generation of products, and he has been on the drilling platform, but foreign companies do not let him take a closer look at it, and even below the deck is not necessarily allowed.

Standing on Dahua's drilling platform, Shi Wanke didn't want to get a negative answer, but he really took a look. Shi Wanke knew in his heart that this might be the best opportunity.

The next time, even if CNOOC sends someone to study, he may not be able to line up in the queue. However, if you can be one step ahead, you may be able to become an "authority" in the relevant field.

There were a lot of academic authorities in the 90s, and if any scholar knew a foreign language, he could get a few foreign journals and do a few tracking experiments, and he could almost publish them in national journals, and there would be no shortage of citations.

If you want to talk about value, you can't say that people's academic authority is not authoritative, at least, people are people who have read the original papers in foreign languages.

Yang Ming hesitated for a moment, looked at his watch again, and finally nodded. There is still a certain gap between Dahua Industrial's drilling platform and the world-class level, especially the deepwater drilling platform used now, which is only a usable level, and there is no fear of being stolen.

In the event of an accident, Dahua Industrial and CNOOC should continue the state that the well water does not interfere with the river water.

Shi Wankele clenched Yang Ming's hand, pinched out a few seals, and then said hello to the other four people, and went to the deck, Wang Dehuang looked at it and said with a smile: "Yes, let's not rest, let's go down and visit." Director Yang, can we all go down?"

"You can't take pictures, try not to interfere with everyone's work, anything else. ”

"Su Dong has arrived to inform us. Wang Dehuang still remembered his work, and only after admonishing him did he follow behind Shi Wanke.

Yang Ming called the supervisor of the platform and asked him to follow behind a few people, not only to be a guide, but also to prevent them from doing something inappropriate.

The underside of the rig was crowded, with narrow stairs and narrow passages throughout, except for the sunlight that filtered in, as if in a submarine.

In fact, the design idea is also similar, the pure steel structure of the drilling platform is expensive, the heavier the building on the sea surface, the higher the requirements for the support under the sea surface, in order to put as much oil production and drilling equipment as possible, living areas and channels can only see the seams, even so, the cost of the drilling platform is also quite high, more than 70% of the localization, Dahua Industry still has to prepare tens of millions of dollars for each drilling platform.

The space seems to be filled with noise forever. People were talking to each other all the time, and the five people from PetroChina and CNOOC went down inside, uncomfortable.

Shi Wanke is willing, he is really doing offshore oil research, although he has done a lot of administrative work now, but in China, administration and academia do not have to be separated, a good academic level to promote the rise of the administrative level is a common thing, into the drilling platform, he naturally has a mind to remember and think.

The other four people don't have this kind of awareness, needless to say, the three people from PetroChina think that they want to go around on land for the rest of their lives, and the other guy from CNOOC is a pure administrative official who lacks a basic concept of the offshore drilling platform, so when Shi Wanke carefully looks at the layout and equipment, others are mostly observing the workers in the drilling platform.

Due to the oil washed out the derrick, there are currently more than 80 workers on the platform, more than 50 of whom are originally Chinese workers, and more than 20 are former Soviet Union or European workers hired from near Baku.

From the steel skeleton, the blue sea as far as the eye can see, but it can also be called the enemy seascape.

Wang Dehuang looked at them inquiringly.

Sitting at the coffee table, there are Russians, Azerbaijani and Kazakhs, South Americans and Western Europeans.

When the British North Sea was exploiting oil, many oil towns in the Middle East went to empty buildings, and in the post-Norwegian period, British workers ran there one after another. Chinese oil people have also experienced the process from Yumen to Daqing, from Daqing to Dongying, and then to Sichuan and Xinjiang. Iron man Wang Jinxi is a native of Yumen, but after 2010, Yumen, which has emptied the oil fields, has become a ghost town, and a large number of compounds are overgrown with weeds.

Baku was originally an oil city, and with a large number of foreign companies moving in, it inevitably attracted oil workers from both Eastern and Western Europe.

These foreign workers are all temporary workers in Dahua Industrial, but they are at a good level, and they are responsible for repairing and maintaining offshore drilling platforms.

This single well, which produces 70,000 barrels, is beyond the capacity of Dahua's drilling platform, and there are countless places to repair every day.

After drinking coffee for a while, several South Americans around the table spoke their hometown dialect and went back to work, and after a while, a few more British people came over to drink black tea and eat muffins.

Wang Dehuang and the others stayed under the drilling platform for two hours, and it was not until Su Cheng came back that he asked in surprise: "Why don't I seem to see the Chinese workers?

The supervisor who was resting against the steel frame smiled: "How can such a small drilling platform have a place for special people to rest." ”

"Is that a split break?"

"Rest is indeed a time-sharing break, but now that we are busy and there is not enough manpower, our workers have carried forward their style and reduced the rest of work. The supervisor said that he was worried that they would misunderstand, and said: "The reduction of the break is voluntary by the workers, and overtime pay will be paid." ”

Wang Dehuang's face became serious, and he said: "Opening up the oil field is very hard work, and you can't persevere without the preparation to endure hardships." No matter how good the equipment is, in the end, people are indispensable. ”

"Yes, even though it's our own drilling rig, the daily rent still has to be calculated into the cost, and everyone wants to find the oil field as soon as possible. It's much better now, and everyone is relieved to see the crude oil. The supervisor couldn't hide the smile on his face as he said this.

For oil people, the best compliment is crude oil.

Wang Dehuang and others also came from the era of the oil war, and the passion of the past was vivid, and they couldn't help but feel something, and blurted out: "I heard that you have explored a super oil field, is there such a thing?"

This is the goal of his trip, to judge the scale of Dahua Industrial's oil field.

The supervisor is a grassroots cadre, and he doesn't have too many thoughts in his heart, so he smiled and said: "I can't tell how big it is, it's definitely bigger than Setan." I've worked at Setan, and all the metrics are much worse than we are now. ”

Wang Dehuang slowly climbed up the stairs that were only human-wide, and said with a conscious smile: "Your single well production is 10,000 tons, and the annual output is at least 3 million tons, which is not difficult to imagine than the Setan Oilfield, the key is how big it can be." By the way, there are more people on the rig here, but what about the other rigs?"

At this time, there are 5 offshore drilling platforms in operation in the oil areas controlled by Dahua, and 3 are still under construction.

The overseer followed up the stairs, tilted his head, and said, "Another group of people have been transferred from Setan, and then there are the foreign temporary workers you have seen." There are more people than before. ”

"More than before?"

"Isn't it true that many people didn't go home for the Chinese New Year? Now that the time has come to return to China for a rest, and the people recruited by Setan have arrived, many people don't want to leave immediately, saying that they want to stay and come to the oil, and the number of people will increase. The supervisor was a little proud of this, a man in his 30s, and he was still spitting and splashing the faces of the people under the ladder.

Although the progress is different, whether it is the workers in charge of construction or the workers in charge of oil extraction, they also came to Azerbaijan at the latest when they won the bid, and during this period, even during the Spring Festival, people rarely returned to their hometowns.

It's not that they can't return to China, but in order to catch up with the progress, everyone can't find time to return to China.

The construction and use of offshore drilling platforms are quite complicated, and the earlier the drilling platform, the more complex it is, the higher the failure rate when used, Dahua in the case of the Setan oil field, it also took five or six years to train hundreds of qualified personnel, and now, in the case of maintaining the Setan oil field, manpower can not be said to be sufficient.

After all, the sea surface of the Azijiu oilfield is deeper than that of the Setan oilfield, and the difficulty of construction and use has increased accordingly. Most of the workers who are qualified to work here are at the top of the "special contribution list", and the profits they have created and the dividends they have received for Dahua Industrial are more than those of local employees.

Correspondingly, Dahua employees, who are easy to rank at the top of the special contribution list, will also maintain their position as much as possible.

Adequate economic stimulus, coupled with a little bit of China-specific political work, is a good way to keep China's offshore rigs working.

Hired European workers such as Britain and Denmark are not so easy to talk about, and the short working hours and high wages are not to mention, and the two-month family leave alone is exhausting. Several European oil companies that have drilled nearby are overwhelmed, their European employees are too large, they go home frequently, and almost two sets of teams can maintain basic operations, and more than half of the energy and transportation resources of the two teams are spent on ensuring rest time and welfare, etc., all of which are super strengthened versions of Chinese state-owned enterprises.

With these European oil workers as a comparison, American workers who take 45 days off every six months are much cuter.

The so-called European debt crisis did not take place in a day or two, and when Europeans want to enjoy life to the fullest, life will inevitably fool them.

In the real world, there is never room to "enjoy".

Wang Dehuang looked up and found that he was about to reach the deck, so he hurriedly asked: "What about the footage, has the footage of several drilling platforms increased?"

The number of people is not fundamental, and the increase in footage indicates that the workload has increased.

The overseer nodded naturally, "Of course it has increased." ”

Wang Dehuang raised his eyebrows and thought to himself: Could it be that Dahua Industrial's geological report is very good? Otherwise, why would he be in such a hurry to drill wells?

Wang Dehuang would not be too surprised if the other four rigs reduced their workload, but if they increased their manpower, it could only be said that Dahua was actively expanding its scale.

This speculation at least shows that Dahua Industrial is really optimistic about the oil field.

Of course, that also requires the supervisor to tell the truth, and Wang Dehuang decided to go to several other drilling platforms to have a look.

At the same time, Shi Wanke was in a trance, and he didn't wake up until he saw Su Cheng on the deck.

Also on the deck of the platform were representatives of several foreign oil companies who had been invited, and a group of people talked and laughed, almost unscrupulously, about oil futures and spot trading.

Su Cheng smiled and faced Wang Dehuang and the others, but it was because of the initial success of the dark box **.

The gathering of 6 oil companies in one go is the fascinating role of insider trading, and it is inevitable that there are also factors for the rise of Dahua Industrial's status.

"You're here to visit the oil field, and maybe you can witness the birth of this super oil field. Su Cheng's tone was very loud, and in Wang Dehuang's ears, he couldn't help but feel that it was normal.

Vaguely, this seems to be an aura.

…… To be continued. )，