The second chapter of the "Prodigal ⊙"!

The vast majority of the world's oil and gas fields are found in sedimentary rocks. It is formed in ancient geological times, when sediment on land was transported by rivers and wind, deposited in low-lying oceans or lakes, and formed after a long geological time.

The Gulf of Mexico has excellent physical conditions, which is why it is one of the four major offshore oil regions in the world. In the continental shelf of the Gulf of Mexico, as well as in the deep sea, there are a large number of oil and gas fields that have been discovered and are awaiting discovery.

BHP Billiton is a comprehensive mining group, and its oil business is also quite strong. As one of BHP's fundamental businesses, the importance of oilfields to BHP is undeniable. There is a saying within BHP Billiton that as long as we don't have problems with oil and iron ore, then BHP Billiton will never have problems!

BHP's position in the iron ore mining industry is beyond doubt. Although BHP's position in the oil industry is not as powerful as ExxonMobil and Royal Dutch Shell, BHP still has many oil fields in the world.

In Australia, Algeria in Africa, the North Sea in the United Kingdom, Pakistan in Asia and the Gulf of Mexico, BHP Billiton has a number of oil fields. The super oil and gas field that Tang Feng is ready to start in BHP, which is named "Gulf of Mexico No. 2 Oil and Gas Field" within BHP, is a super oil and gas field discovered by BHP Billiton only two years ago.

Two years ago, Explorer and ExxonMobil teams worked together to discover a 2 billion barrel super field in the Gulf of Mexico more than 200 kilometers off the Texas coastline. However, this good news did not spread for long, and BHP Billiton immediately announced that it had discovered an even larger oil and gas field in the deep-sea area, about 300 kilometers east of the super oil and gas field discovered by ExxonMobil, with preliminary oil reserves as high as 3 billion barrels and natural gas reserves as high as 160 billion cubic meters.

Based on the calculation that one ton of crude oil is about 7.35 barrels, the reserves of this newly discovered oil and gas field exceed 400 million tons!

The exploitation of oil fields is a very wasteful industry, and the exploitation of oil fields is not like other minerals, everything that can be detected, as long as the conditions are right, then it can be extracted. This is not the case with the exploitation of oil fields, because oil fields cannot be fully exploited thoroughly.

An oil field is divided into total proven geological reserves and recoverable reserves. The geological reserves are what we usually say about the reserves of this oilfield. However, this reserve cannot be fully exploited, and the crude oil that can be exploited normally only accounts for about 30% of the total reserves of an oil field. This 30% of the mining volume is the mining reserves.

Just like the Daqing Oilfield, the largest oil field in China, the total proven reserves are 5 billion tons, but the crude oil that can really be extracted is only 17.8 billion tons.

Therefore, if the normal recoverable reserves generally account for 30% of the total geological reserves, this oil and gas field can extract more than 130 million tons of crude oil, that is, almost a billion barrels of crude oil! According to the division standard of more than 68.5 million tons of recoverable reserves for giant oilfields and more than 685 million tons for super giant oilfields, this oil and gas field is a giant oilfield!

Now the price of crude oil has fallen below $50 per barrel, and at the price of $50 per barrel, the value of this giant oil field is more than $50 billion!

Of course, it is not normal for the price of crude oil to be so low today, and the price of crude oil will certainly not remain at such a low level for a long time. As the price of crude oil rises, so will the value of the field.

A huge oil field with such abundant reserves, and it is isolated overseas, who will Tang Feng use if he doesn't take it?

Tang Feng is now considered to be on the back of the shoulder with BHP Billiton. Even if BHP Billiton and Tang Feng are temporarily at peace because of the Kajabi Mine incident, once the truth about the Kajabi Mine is revealed to the world, the feud between Tang Feng and BHP Billiton will inevitably become deeper and deeper.

Since it is the enemy, there is nothing to say. Lao Tzu can't move you in Australia and Billiton, but in the United States, Lao Tzu is not afraid of you!

Through the deformation survey of the star core body, Tang Feng easily found the precise location of the "Gulf of Mexico No. 2 Oil and Gas Field". Two huge semi-submersible seas** stand alone on the sapphire-like surface of the sea a few kilometers apart. The two state-of-the-art semi-submersible deep-sea buildings, together with their ancillary facilities, cost BHP Billiton nearly US$3 billion.

Originally, BHP Billiton wanted to use this giant oil and gas field to continue to consolidate its position as the world's No. 1 mining group, but they never imagined that the real face of the small mine owner who had been suppressed by them was actually a terrifying big demon king.

Now, this terrifying demon has set his sights on BHP's oil and gas field, which has invested a lot of money in development, and BHP Billiton has no idea that the huge amount of money they have invested will soon become a waste of money - this is a real sense of the water, offshore oil drilling, you can't drill oil, isn't it a water drift?

Through the exploration of the star core, Tang Feng can see very clearly the oil and gas reservoirs hidden under the seawater of more than 700 meters and the rock formation of more than 1,000 meters. This is a typical structural oil and gas reservoir, which refers to the formation of trap conditions caused by the deformation of the reservoir such as folds and fractures caused by tectonic movements.

Among the four types of oil and gas reservoirs, this type of structural oil and gas reservoir is the geological structure that is most likely to form large reserves of oil and gas fields. For example, the Ghawar oil field, which ranks first in the world in terms of oil reserves and has geological reserves of 10.74 billion tons, is a typical formation oil and gas reservoir. The world's largest natural gas field, Russia's Urengoy gas field with reserves of up to 8.1 trillion cubic meters, is also a typical formation oil and gas reservoir.

In fact, most of the oil and gas fields that have been discovered in the Gulf of Mexico belong to this type of tectonic reservoir.

Among the four types of oil and gas reservoirs, the trap conditions of this structural oil and gas reservoir are the most complex, but under the transport function of the star core, no trap or non-trap cannot stop the transport of the star core.

After determining the specific location of the oil and gas field, Tang Feng's consciousness drilled out of the star core space, and then gave the star core split an order to carry it.

PS: Xiaomo is almost tired of becoming a dog today