In the past two years, Link has rarely been woken up by a phone call in the middle of the night.

But waking him up at four o'clock in the morning didn't make him feel uncomfortable, but made him wonder if he was dreaming?

"Mr. Hans, are you still listening?" said the drill captain on the other end of the line, looking for water for the well drills at Baker's Farm, with surprise. "I suggest you figure it out right away, or you'll lose thousands of dollars every minute that passes. ”

Link came to his senses and asked, "Are you sure it's not water, it's oil?"

"I think I can tell the difference between water and oil. The drill captain knew he couldn't believe the result. In fact, he himself still feels incredulous that he actually drilled crude oil. "Mr. Hans, I need to warn you. At the time of this call, your well had already spewed at least 600 barrels of crude oil. And they're flowing haphazardly on the ground. ”

When Link heard this, he didn't care about the losses. After all, drilling wells for water turned out to be oil. It's a fantasy. But what the other party said was conclusive, and he couldn't think of anything worth joking about.

He hung up the phone, then called Martha to wake up: "Contact an oil company right away, I have an oil well that is self-spewing more than 400,000 barrels a day. I'm going to sell it at international oil prices, and if they're interested, send a convoy of transports as soon as possible. ”

Martha was sure he wasn't sleepwalking.

Link said angrily, "If you're not dreaming. I'm also sober. I'll rush to Baker Farm right away, and you'll take your lawyer and hire a plane to fly there tomorrow. If there is a company willing to buy my oil, you ask them to send someone to sign it tomorrow morning. ”

Although I don't know how much crude oil can be self-injected in the end. However, oil wells that can self-inject 40,000 cubic meters of crude oil a day will not produce low even if they do not self-spray. On top of that, there may be an oil field there.

The transformation from a farmer to an oil magnate is exciting to think about.

And even if the crude oil reserves are not large, as long as there are 20 million barrels, this windfall will allow him to recover the cost of buying land.

He flew the plane overnight and arrived at Baker Farm before dawn. However, the distance between the airfield and the oil well is still more than 20 kilometers. The car drove up the hill along the road, and on the edge of the ditch on the side of the road, black crude oil was flowing under the mountain.

The drilling team leader who went to pick him up told him: "After repeated calculations, we confirmed that the daily self-injection flow is about 43,000 cubic meters. The world's largest self-injection flow record was held in an offshore oil well in Mexico, with an initial injection of more than 38,000 cubic meters a day. ”

Link hadn't paid attention to that kind of stats before. But to get a world number one record, of course, is pretty good.

Their car stopped a few hundred meters away from the well. The drill captain said to Link and his bodyguards, "It's all oil and gas all around here, don't create any open flames." Also, turn off your phone. Otherwise, everyone will be doomed. ”

Link and the bodyguards did as they were told.

Link soon saw droplets of black, shiny oil shining from the sky under the flashlight. Crude oil is spewed out of the wellhead with this whistling sound, occasionally breaking off, and after a second of gas, the oil is spewed out again. It's like a geyser.

Link also saw the drilling steel frame lying crookedly to the ground, as well as the linkage rod that was deeply embedded in the ground. It turned out that these linkage rods and Unicom drill bits were all spewed out of the crude oil that was rapidly spewing out.

Crude oil is much more viscous than water. The high-speed oil column threw the linkage rod weighing more than 200 kilograms dozens of meters high.

Link saw that the ground was full of crude oil within a hundred meters of the surrounding area, and finally converged on a small stream to flow north down the mountain. He didn't dare to linger here anymore. And the gas here is full of flammable gases, which is very dangerous. Even if there is no fire, it is not good for the body to smoke too much.

Link and the others came down the hill, and he walked along the oil creek until he saw the oil stop. They follow the terrain and gather in a low-lying area. But this depression is not big, and it won't be long before it will be filled with oil.

Moreover, oil is extremely polluting to the environment. He had to fix it as soon as possible. Otherwise, the bigger the place where the crude oil overflows, the greater the loss for him.

He turned his phone back on away from the oil pond and immediately saw the record of Martha calling him.

He called back and asked, "Martha, the oil well has a lot of self-injection. Someone had to be found to keep the well under control. ”

"I was about to talk to you about this. I contacted Mobil and they have agreed to buy your crude oil at the market international crude oil price. They have already organized convoys. In addition, I asked them to help you control the self-injection of the oil well as soon as possible. They agreed, but they demanded $700,000 for the construction. ”

Whether the cost of 700,000 is too high, Link does not know. But he also knew that it would not be easy to control such a beast surging out of the ground.

At about eight o'clock in the morning, a convoy of more than a dozen large tankers and a pump truck drove to Baker Farm.

Not long after, a helicopter landed near the oil pond. It carried a representative of Mobil Corporation. They first determined the grade of crude oil, and finally drew up a contract between the two parties, and then signed a purchase and sale contract. By this time, the pump trucks were already pumping crude oil from the oil ponds and loading it into tanker trucks.

Throughout the day, tanker trucks came in a steady stream to transport the crude oil away. In the end, a total of six oil pump trucks were transmitted to work at the same time, so that the crude oil pond did not rise. And the crude oil flowing from the mountains is still flowing into this pond.

It is not unheard of before a well was dug up but crude oil was dug up, and there have been several recorded cases. But digging a well to dig such a high-volume oil well is big news.

Several helicopters circled over the oil wells, planes sent by several media outlets.

A large number of journalists' cars had also gathered on the ground, but they were all forbidden to approach the oil wells because any electronic devices could ignite the flammable gases that had already filled the space.

Even nearby Highway 50 was temporarily closed.

At the wellhead, it took two days for the workers hired by Mobil to put the well on the hat. Then, more than a dozen large hoses were used to temporarily connect the crude oil to some container-sized tanks at the bottom of the mountain for temporary storage, while near the tanks, more than a dozen oil pump trucks kept loading the tanker trucks.

Link hired a group of people to dispose of all the polluted sand. lest the crude oil continue to pollute the groundwater downward.

He was busy at Baker Farm for three days in a row. Martha also re-filled the formalities. However, he obtained the qualification to explore for oil on his farm. By this time, the well really belonged to him.

At this time, the entire Nedahua had been paying attention to his oil well for three days. Everyone was excited, jealous, and a little confused.

Most people still can't understand why Link drilled four wells, three of which had ultra-large flow rates of artesian confined water wells, and the last one was a super oil well with a daily output of 43,000 tons.

And the wells drilled by other people in the entire state of Nevada have only twelve artesian wells until now. Moreover, there are eight of them, which are only small wells with a daily flow of no more than 100 tons, and the other four large flow wells, the largest of which have a daily flow of only 9,300 cubic meters, and the smallest of which are less than 3,000 cubic meters.

And the *** drilled in Las Vegas has been drilled to 950 meters. into an aquifer. But there are no artesian wells.

When they think about this comparison, they feel that they have received a lot of damage. Could it be that Link is the little Kai of the priest's family—the Son of God?

If they ask Link why he is so lucky. He may be in a good mood now to tell them the truth: he is the spokesman of the god of decay, and his luck is only declining and prosperous.

After three days, the gushing crude oil not only did not decrease, but with no gas ejected and the borehole was lubricated, the daily self-jetting flow increased to 44,000 tons.

This made the engineers who took over the oil transmission project feel that the field is likely to self-erupt for a long time.

Mobil wanted to buy the place. But Link was stupid to do that. He disagreed, and Mobil bought the land west of Oskeola. Drilling begins. But at the same time, they're still buying crude oil from the Link well.

Link was a little annoyed though. But there is nothing to be done.

In fact, it's not just Mobil. The owner of the Great Basin farm, west of Baker's Farm, has also erected three wells on his land, hoping to find crude oil. The latter companies have also successively obtained exploration rights for some surrounding land and set up drilling wells on the ground.

After the well was brought under control, Link used his previous experience of finding water at Fairville Peak Farm to hire six more drilling teams to drill wells near the well in the north-south direction. Hope to compete with others for this oil field.

This time, a professional oil drilling team was invited, and the equipment was more advanced. Their rigs are under more pressure. Drilling is faster. But a month and a half later, only three of the six drilling teams drilled oil, and after the three wells were drilled, the daily self-injection flow of all four wells was about the same, becoming about 28,000 tons.

More than 30 drilling teams drilled in the vicinity, and even after drilling for 3,000 meters, they still found nothing.

Link finally understood. The scope of this oil field is small. And the maximum yield is limited.

And the geologist spoke again. They say that the oil fields of Oxola were formed by a very special geological formation. There may be an underground rift that allows crude oil to reach vertically from deep underground to less than a kilometer underground. The pressure in the ground allowed crude oil to pour in from the distant geological crevices, allowing his four wells to maintain a steady self-eruption for a long time. And where the oil wells are, no one knows. No one knows how much crude oil the four wells will eventually spew.

But what everyone knows is that if those four wells had been blowing themselves out at this flow, Link would have been able to get a large field at almost no cost. It produces more than 380 million barrels of crude oil per year. This output can provide him with billions of dollars in net after-tax income every year.

And the point is, it costs him almost nothing.

Why did he get such an oil field? It wasn't until these four wells had been settling for more than 30 years that one day it was no longer crude oil, but a mixture of fresh water and crude oil. At that time, it was realized that the oil was also caused by the water from the confined water layer, which gathered the crude oil in one place from hundreds of miles away, more than 3,000 meters underground, through an aquifer in a crack, and then found a gap and spewed out of the ground. Link also found water in these wells, but it was more than 30 years late.

By that time, the four oil wells that had always been envied and hated were gradually forgotten.

But now, the crude oil produced by these wells is still envied and hated.

When the time came to mid-August, Link handed over the follow-up work of these wells to Mobil. They want oil, and they are willing to take the initiative to do a good job of storing and transporting crude oil for Link.