Chapter 268: A Big Order
And the country's power generation is basically dependent on thermal power plants to generate electricity, the vast majority of thermal power plants are made of coal, and a large amount of coal combustion has produced very serious environmental pollution, which makes residents complain, and as a relatively clean energy source, the prospect of nuclear energy is very optimistic, China has been ready to engage in nuclear power, but in March last year, the Japanese came so suddenly, so that the whole world is a little afraid, everyone is checking whether their nuclear power plants are safe and reliable, and they dare not build new nuclear power plants for a while, so this matter has been delayed。 Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
However, in the face of rising oil prices and increasingly serious air pollution problems, the country has begun to consider nuclear power again, and at this time, the research and experiment of the third generation of nuclear power plants is underway, and it is important to lay out in advance and prepare uranium mines.
In this context, PetroChina began mining work in Niger, ready to solve the problem of domestic oil shortage for Niger, and in exchange, China will obtain the right to mine uranium, everyone gets what they want, for a time mutual benefit and win-win, happy!
"After the big man came, these contracts were finalized, and what we have to do now is to look for minerals in the vast desert in the north, whether it is oil or uranium, we have to mine, and in this way, the logistics of the workers on our side will face a big problem, this is the purpose of my coming to you today!"
After going around in a big circle, Li Xiang finally explained the matter to Lin Quan.
It turns out that Niger's oil distribution is actually in the north, and uranium mines are actually here, so Chinese companies need to mine here, but this is in the desert hinterland, the conditions are bad, the key is that many materials are scarce, here is too far from Niamey, not close to Agadez, and the residents of Agadez are only tens of thousands, and this side is all desert, they simply do not have enough resources to sell, want to get supplies from Agadez, one or two hundred people is not a big problem, but there are many people, then the problem is very big。
"How many of you are there?"
Lin Quan is also very concerned about this problem, because his farm grows more trees, and there are not many agricultural products planted, some of which are sold to the French military camp, and some other agricultural products are sold in Agadez or Niamey, of course, some surrounding tribes sometimes barter on Lin Quan's side, Lin Quan has recently purchased a lot of animal leather, which can be exchanged for money when shipped back to China in the future, so he is also happy to accept it.
The products of his farm are not very many, if there are too many people in the engineering team, Lin Quan will have to change the planning of the farm, at least more vegetables and fruits and other things, otherwise he will not be able to undertake such a task.
"At present, there are more than 300 people, and when the camp is set up and all the engineering equipment is transported, our number will increase, probably to about 2,000-4,000 people!"
Lin Quan was taken aback and said in surprise: "So much?"
Li Xiang nodded, " It also depends on the area of the oil field we found, as well as the number of wells we drilled in the early days, if the number of wells drilled is relatively large, a lot of people are needed, you may not know, the extraction of oil is made by means of pressure transportation, in general, it is to drill an oil well, and then inject water into it, and then let the oil be pumped out more easily, so the deeper the depth of the drilling, the more cost will be required, because in the process of annual water consumption is very large, and the Gulf region, their oil is almost going to flow out by itself, so their extraction cost is very low, the cost of a barrel of oil is only about 10 US dollars, but they sold it for $120 a barrel for 1200% of the profit, which is simply too violent!"
Lin Quan pursed his lips, the domestic oil companies don't seem to be much better, the price of oil abroad is high, don't you transfer the pressure of this price to those ordinary people in China after you buy it back?
The price of crude oil is high, and the price of domestic refined oil products is also rising, and the import price of your oil companies is high, and the price of selling it internally is not cheap! Therefore, if you cry out for grievances here, then you should not do it! Because more ordinary users who have directly borne the high oil prices have no place to cry.
"Okay! You're currently 300 people, so when will it grow to more than 2,000?"
300 people, this pressure is not very big, Lin Quan Farm can afford the supply of agricultural products for so many people, but if 2000 people come at once, this pressure is a bit big, according to the amount of 2 kilograms of vegetable products consumed by each person per day, 2000 people will consume 4 tons of agricultural products a day, these people are all working workers, selling is the strength of the arms, so their physical consumption is very large, people with great physical consumption, the amount of food will also be very large.
If the supply of oil is insufficient, their amount of food will be very amazing, so the number estimated by Lin Quan is actually a relatively conservative number, and the real number may be larger than his estimate.
Four tons of agricultural products a day, which requires at least 100 acres of land to plant agricultural products, and the number of workers needed for agricultural products is relatively large, the growth cycle of these things is relatively short, there are more things that need to be managed, and the workload will be relatively large, and this thing still needs to have a certain ability, compared with tree planting, this thing has a certain technical content.
Some areas of agriculture can not be large-scale mechanization, such as growing vegetables, this thing can not be replaced by machinery, after all, robots have no intelligence, such a developed country as the United States and Japan, its agriculture is not fully mechanized, in Japan because agriculture is precarious, so the state comes forward to guarantee agriculture, strictly restricts the import of foreign agricultural products, increases the price of agricultural products, protects agriculture, and protects farmers.
Then the price of goods in Japan became very expensive, and it is said that the price of a green onion is 2.5 times that of Japan, but I don't know if it's true.
Li thought about it for a while, and then said with some uncertainty: "This matter is not easy to say, depending on the situation, if the progress is fast, it will come in about a week, if the progress is a little slower, it will take about one to two months, and I will call you to inform you at this time!"
Lin Quan glanced at him, "When your call comes, I will conjure up so many things for you from the ground? Do you think these things can be harvested if you plant them? You don't need to plan in advance?"