Tang Feng and Sam had naturally heard the legend of Captain Lucas, so they both owed a little to the monument. Body.

Tang Feng stood up straight and said with some emotion: "This place is a place to create miracles!" “

Sam on the side also nodded and sighed: "Yes, Gulf Oil and Teguz Oil in the famous 'Seven Sisters of Oil' started to develop here!" ”

There is a basis for what Sam said. When Captain Lucas discovered the 10,000-ton oil well, he immediately broke the monopoly of the Rockefeller family's Standard Oil on American oil at that time, and immediately attracted many investors, adventurers and oil prospectors to gather here. Among them, the Mellon consortium, one of the eight major consortia in the United States at that time, also set its sights on here.

At that time, the famous William. Mellon found Gaffey and Gailey, who owned three high-production wells, and invested $1.5 million to co-establish Gaffey Oil. Mellon took half of the shares, and a year later, Gaffey changed its name to Gulf Oil, one of the seven sisters of what would become the most famous oil.

At that time, Carinan, one of the discoverers and developers of the Koshikana oil field, moved over after the spindle top oil field was sprayed, raised a sum of money from the eastern region, bought a number of oil producing wells in the new oil field, and established an oil refinery in Port Arthur, and established the Texas Oil Company, which has since been smooth sailing and has become one of the "Seven Sisters of Oil" Texaco.

It can be seen from this that this small "mountain" has an important position in the global oil industry!

"Blunt, since you regard Captain Lucas as your idol, then the technical strength of your company must be very good!" Tang Feng said with a smile.

It can be seen that Blunt is a guy who is soft on the outside and strong on the inside, and this guy's self-confidence seems to be particularly strong, "Don, what I say now doesn't count, after you and Sam have seen my company, you will definitely have an intuitive understanding." I don't dare to say anything else, but in Beaumont, if Star Petroleum Engineering says it is second, I am afraid that no oil engineering company dares to call itself first. ”

The extremely confident tone gave Tang Feng a new sense of this middle-aged man who seemed to be Sven. Under the leadership of Blunt, Tang Feng and Sam walked into Star Petroleum Engineering Co., Ltd.

Blunt's company is obviously much stronger than the Explorer company in the head, at least it is a serious office building, not a direct company headquarters and warehouse like the head, although the boss has repeatedly emphasized that this is to save money

After walking into the office building, the first thing that caught Tang Feng and Sam's eye was a huge wall of honor, which occupied almost an entire wall, and was plastered with photos of all sizes, many of which were black and white, and it was obvious that the history of this company should not be short.

Seeming to feel Tang Feng and Sam's doubts, Blount said beside him: "Actually, this company was established by my grandfather, when the spindle top oil field was at its most prosperous, and my grandfather also had his own two oil wells in the spindle top oil field. It was only later that as you all know, at that time, due to the lack of reasonable development strategies and related systems, a huge high-yield oil field persisted for a few years before entering a period of decline, and my grandfather had to sell the two oil wells in his hand because of the sharp decline in the production of the oil wells, and set up this petroleum engineering company instead. It was a very helpless thing, but I didn't expect that our whole family had undergone a huge change because of this, and the establishment of this engineering company became the foundation of our family's rise. ”

Blunt said that after Captain Lucas discovered the spindle top oil field, countless people aimed at it, and the United States used the "General Minerals Act" at that time, and the "Mineral Lease Act" would not be implemented until 20 years later, so there was only one word to describe the spindle top oil field at that time, that is, "disorder".

After Captain Lucas discovered the 10,000-ton oil well, in just one year, this small "big mountain" mountain and derricks sprung up like mushrooms after a rain. In some places, the derrick is so close to the derrick that people can even step from one drill floor to another without touching the ground. Most of the wells drilled are highly productive wells. By the end of the year (1901), a total of 138 wells had been put into production. With such a large output, the United States has once again surpassed Russia in crude oil production to become the world's largest oil producer.

But such disorderly and excessive exploitation, also caused great damage to the spindle top oilfield, resulting in the oil field in just a few years, almost no oil production, and at that time the new redevelopment technology, such as oilfield water injection technology, microbial technology, etc., there is no at all, so the spindle top oilfield after a very short period of glory, it will return and silence, until the rise of those oilfield redevelopment technology, here is a little better.

The photos on the Wall of Honor seem to silently tell the history of the rise and fall of the spindle top oil field, although most of these photos are about the history of how the Williams family struggled, but they also witness the development history of the spindle top oil field and even the entire Beaumont.

Of course, the Williams family's petroleum engineering company is not only working near Beaumont, but also in other cities in Texas, in Louisiana, Mississippi, Kansas, Wyoming, New Mexico and many other states.

The derricks that rise from the ground and the tubing that extend to infinity under the sunlight all prove that this company has a very deep heritage.

After seeing the Wall of Honor, Tang Feng and Sam visited other departments accompanied by Blount, and the whole process took almost an afternoon, but both Tang Feng and Sam were very satisfied with the technical strength and heritage of Star Petroleum Engineering.

After all, this is a veteran petroleum engineering company with a history of more than 100 years, although the scale is not very large, but its technical strength is absolutely top-notch in the industry. This is something that Tang Feng and Sam, who are born in resource exploration, can feel very clearly. This kind of technical strength and heritage can not be reflected simply by relying on scale and qualifications, but can only be possessed by long-term precipitation and accumulation.

Therefore, after visiting Blunt's company, Tang Feng and Sam discussed it a little, and signed a contract with Blunt to re-lay the oil pipeline, and Blunt was very sure that the 20 kilometers of pipeline laying could be completed within a week!