Chapter 244 Maintain Underground Pressure

Two days after the Boeing 747-8 was decided, another business jet was also decided, and following Sam's advice, Tang finally chose the Gulfstream G650.

Since Gulfstream also has a G650 green machine, according to the contract, after three months, the G650 belonging to Tang will fly to the airport designated by Tang. Of course, the G650 can be parked at Beaumont Airport, but the 747-8 will have to be parked at Houston Airport if it is constructed.

The take-off distance of G650 is almost 1800 meters, the general airport runway is enough to deal with it, Beaumont Airport is a 4D airport, the airport runway is 2100 long, and it is no problem to take off and land G650, but the take-off distance of Boeing 747-8 is as long as 2800 meters, unless it is a class E airport to let this big guy take off and land, so Beaumont Airport is unable to dock Boeing 747-8 This behemoth.

Sam suggested to Tang that since he had already purchased two big guys, it would be better to buy a smaller one to get from the ranch to Beaumont Airport or Houston Airport. Tang Feng was as good as a stream, and agreed to Sam's suggestion.

The two big guys will cost Tang Feng almost $500 million if they count the cost of modification, and the cost of the 747-8 modification alone is as high as $130 million. After spending so much money, Tang Feng didn't care about spending another two or three million dollars to buy a Bell 407 single-engine helicopter as a tool for short-distance transportation.

In the United States, there are a lot of helicopters, and if you don't get a helicopter as a means of transportation, it will be a bit cheap.

Although Tang Feng is not very good-looking, but since he has money in hand, why doesn't Ganmao make his travel easier and faster? Besides, the purchase of an airplane can also be tax deductible. Instead of handing over the taxes to the damn IRS. It's better to buy yourself a convenient means of transportation.

After the plane matter is settled, all that remains is to wait.

Now it can be said that everything is basically on the right track, the oil field affairs don't have to worry about Tang Feng, Christian is doing a very good job, what Tang Feng needs to worry about is controlling the star core split, and from time to time the crude oil in those abandoned oil fields around Beaumont. From time to time, it was moved over to supplement the consumption of the Beaumont field.

You know, now the oil field can be said to be in full production to meet ExxonMobil's huge oil processing capacity, after all, ExxonMobil oil processing capacity alone is as high as 230 million tons a year, and the Beaumont Oilfield is full production, with an output of more than 200,000 tons a day. Ten times more, and now again), a year can only meet one-third of ExxonMobil's processing capacity.

This production capacity is already quite terrifying, if calculated according to this production capacity, the Beaumont oil field will have to enter the tailings era in less than two years. In order to prevent this situation from happening in advance, Tang Feng controlled the star core split to replenish crude oil in the oil field from time to time.

Crude oil extraction is actually a very wasteful thing, normally speaking. The normal recoverable reserves of an oil field account for only one-third of the geological reserves of the entire oil field, that is, an oil field with reserves of one billion tons. Only about 330 million tonnes of crude oil can be extracted, and the remaining crude oil will remain buried in the ground, because the extraction technology is insufficient to extract it.

Crude oil is a liquid and also has the physical properties of being light and heavy. In a large oil bubble, the less dense and thinner crude oil tends to float in the upper layer, while the denser and viscous crude oil sinks to the bottom. This creates a large oil bubble in which the crude oil can be divided into several layers.

The uppermost layer of light crude oil can be ejected from the surface under the action of underground pressure, forming a self-blowing well, when the underground pressure gradually decreases, the less dense crude oil is less and less. The output of the self-blowing well will be less and less. When the pressure on the surface and underground reaches almost the same level, then the self-blowing well cannot be self-spraying, and then it is necessary to use the "kowtow worm", that is, the pumping unit, to carry out active oil pumping.

This process is relatively long, but the crude oil in the underground oil bubble is pumped less and less, the remaining crude oil texture becomes more and more viscous, and the pumping unit will gradually fail to pump oil, at this time, it is necessary to inject various liquids into the downhole to pressurize or dilute the viscous crude oil downhole, so that the pumping unit can pump out more crude oil.

In fact, at this time, it often means that an oil field or an oil well has entered the end of its career.

Once the pumping unit can no longer pump out the oil when all kinds of liquids are injected, the well can basically be abandoned. At this time, about two-thirds of the crude oil in that bubble is often left there forever and cannot be pumped out.

Therefore, whether an oil well or an oil field can be produced for a longer period of time has a lot to do with the downhole pressure and the viscosity of the crude oil. If the viscosity of the crude oil in this field is not very high, and the pressure is always maintained downhole, then it often means that the oil field is not only highly productive, but also has a large proportion of recoverable reserves, which is definitely a high-quality oil field.

Although the Beaumont Oilfield was moved by Tang Feng, it still cannot get rid of the physical characteristics of all oilfields, so in order to keep the Beaumont Oilfield high production, it is necessary to keep the downhole pressure as much as possible at a certain level or reduce the viscosity of crude oil.

Now for ExxonMobil, the Beaumont oilfield can be said to be a desperate production, with an annual output of more than 70 million tons, and even about to top the annual output of the two Daqing oilfields. However, the Beaumont field had to do so, and in the current situation of low international crude oil prices, ExxonMobil pointed to this oil field to maintain its stock price.

If it weren't for ExxonMobil, Tang would not have been fighting for production with such low oil prices. But there is no way now, the rise in ExxonMobil's stock price will also bring huge benefits to Tang, and at the same time, the more important the Beaumont oil field is now to ExxonMobil, the status of Tang will rise accordingly!

This is what Tang Feng needs most now. Because Tang Feng wants to carry out his plan, it is quite necessary to have a strong enough identity. And once his plan is successfully launched, then even if the Beaumont oil field is lighted, it will not have any impact on Tang Feng. Therefore, the Beaumont oil field is a springboard in Tang's plan!

But even if it is a springboard, you have to give full play to the function of the springboard. A highly productive oil field with a high percentage of recoverable reserves is clearly an excellent springboard. Therefore, in order to maintain the excellent effect of this springboard, Tang Feng had to take certain measures to maintain the high production of the Beaumont oilfield!

The method adopted by Tang Feng is very simple, that is, to transport the crude oil from the old oil fields left over for more than 100 years around Beaumont from time to time, so that the Beaumont Oilfield can maintain sufficient downhole pressure.

The viscosity of crude oil cannot be changed, but it is not difficult for Tang to keep the pressure downhole at all times! (To be continued......)