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The scenery of Lake View is very good, the terrain is flat, and it is close to the abundant flow of the Neches River, so the water and soil here are very fertile, and there are many forests and developed pastures and farms.

Sophia's ranch is just west of the Neckis River, covering an area of about 600 acres, which is only a small and medium-sized ranch in Texas. However, those large ranches with an area of more than 1,000 acres or even tens of thousands of acres are mostly in the vast and sparsely populated semi-arid areas of northern and northwest Texas, and in the south and southeast of Texas, they are basically about a few hundred to a thousand acres of pastures.

Because there is a lot of precipitation here, the grass grows very lushly, and in terms of the quality of the pastures, it is far more than the large pastures in Northwest Texas.

Sophia's ranch is in good condition, it is a combination of forest and meadow, and the meadow occupies about 70% of the area, and there are many Texas longhorns roaming in the meadow.

This pair of horned cattle is one of the most bred cattle by Texas herders. This cattle is the Texas longhorn. Texas longhorns are usually found in hot regions, including the southwestern United States and Queensland in Australia, and are easily recognizable by their distinctive coat color, usually white on their backs and some yellow or grayish-black hairs on other parts of their bodies.

These cattle are very tame and usually do not attack humans, but it is best not to approach them rashly, as their horns are too long and people are likely to get scratched by them when they move around them.

In Texas, longhorn cattle are raised by herders for fur, lean meat and horns, and it can be said that this kind of cattle is full of treasures and is one of the most popular cattle breeds for herders.

In the past, when Tang Feng came to Texas, he could often see this kind of cow, so it was not very strange to see this kind of horned cow.

Tang Feng came to find Sophia this time, one is that he really misses this girl, and the other is that he really wants to investigate the situation here.

The star core has been upgraded to three poles and has a transportation distance of 1,000 kilometers, so Tang's first target is a large oil and gas field that BHP Billiton has just developed on the continental shelf in the northwest of the Gulf of Mexico.

The Gulf of Mexico is known as the world's four major offshore oil regions along with the Persian Gulf, the North Sea in Europe and Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela, among which the famous Persian Gulf ranks first, the North Sea reserves rank second, and the Gulf of Mexico ranks third.

In the Gulf of Mexico, there are three EEZs belonging to three different countries, the United States, Mexico, and Cuba.

However, the submarine oil and gas fields in the Gulf of Mexico are not as important as those of Cuba, and their main oil and gas fields are mainly distributed in two directions, one is the Gulf of Campeche in the southwest of the Gulf of Mexico, where Mexico's exclusive economic zone has proven oil reserves of up to 5 billion tons!

The second major oil-producing area is located off the coast of Texas and Louisiana in the exclusive economic zone of the United States in the northern Gulf of Mexico, which has proven reserves of up to 2 billion tons of oil and 360 billion cubic meters of natural gas.

In 1947, the United States drilled the world's first offshore commercial oil well in the Gulf of Mexico using steel**, and since then, as many wells have been drilled in this area, after decades of development, the oil and gas fields in the shallow sea area of the continental shelf have basically been exhausted.

However, with the development of technology, people have long mastered the mature deep-sea drilling technology, and when the oil and gas fields in the shallow areas of the continental shelf of the Gulf of Mexico have little potential to be tapped, people have begun to focus on the deep-sea area of the Gulf of Mexico from 500 meters to 1,500 meters.

The deep-sea area of the Gulf of Mexico also contains a large number of oil and gas fields, but the deep-sea drilling technology is currently only in the hands of a few companies because of its technical barriers, among which BHP Billiton is one of them.

When Tang first came to the United States, he also surveyed oil and gas fields for ExxonMobil Oil Company in the deep sea area of the Gulf of Mexico, and successfully surveyed a large oil and gas field with reserves of more than 2 billion barrels. And it is precisely because of this experience that Tang Feng also knew that BHP Billiton had discovered an oil and gas field with larger reserves in another area earlier, and the exploration of this oil and gas field was also involved in the exploration of the company, but Tang Feng had not yet come to the explorer company at that time. Moreover, Tang also knows that in order to develop this oil and gas field, BHP Billiton has invested nearly three billion US dollars in this sea area to build two deep-sea drilling platforms, which are currently one of the most advanced deep-sea drilling platforms in the world.

Before the star core was upgraded to the three poles, Tang Feng had no way to attack the oil and gas field of BHP Billiton, because the location of the oil and gas field was more than 200 kilometers away from the coast of the continental shelf, which was an unattainable distance for the star core in the second state.

But now, the extreme transportation distance of the tripolar star core is as long as 1,000 kilometers, even if that oil and gas field is farther away, it is not a problem for Tang Feng at all.

The most important thing is that near Beaumont, there was the famous "spindle top" oil field, which was the world's first oil well with a daily output of more than 10,000 tons.

After all, the spindle top oil field was on the verge of depletion after a period of exploitation, but after drilling down for more than 300 meters, a new reservoir was discovered. This shows that in the Beaumont underground, the geological conditions of this multi-layer layer can completely allow Tang Feng to find a reason to operate.

Once Tang Feng does the oil and gas field in the Gulf of Mexico, then he will have to move the oil and gas field to land, and with the geological conditions near Beaumont, Tang Feng can completely move the oil and gas field to a position of 4,000 meters or even 6,000 meters underground, and then it will be nothing more than digging the oil well deeper.

Once the oil and gas field that was moved over was "discovered", Tang Feng could have used the discovery of a new reservoir as a reason to explain the appearance of this oil and gas field.

At a depth of several thousand meters underground, the devil knows what the situation is! Add to that the fact that the geology near Beaumont is the kind of multi-layered geology, so the discovery of a new reservoir is not something that cannot be explained.

After Sophia walked around, Tang Feng was very satisfied with the situation here, after all, the natural environment here is too good, and there is a star core split, if a farm and ranch are really developed from here, it is actually quite good, and when the time comes, you can also take your parents and little sister over, so that your parents can retire from this kind of good place