The process of signing the contract was smooth, and as the largest shareholder of Tang's Mining, Tang Feng needed to sign his name on the contract.

After the contract was signed, Tang Feng used his computer to transfer $6 million to the account of the Beaumont branch of Devon Energy, of which 4 million was the money to buy the oil pipeline, and the remaining 2 million was the price of renting 100,000 cubic meters of oil storage tanks for one year.

The pipeline leads to the depot, so it is necessary to lease the storage tanks in the depot at this time.

It took more than an hour to complete all the formalities, and from today onwards, the 20-kilometer-long oil pipeline belongs to Tang's Mining.

The current Tang Mining Company Limited is not the Australian registered Tang Mining Limited, this company is a subsidiary of Sam's registered in the British Virgin Islands offshore company, and like Australia's Tang Mining, it has been merged into this offshore company named "Tang Mining Group".

The reason for this is that, on the one hand, it is a way to reasonably avoid taxes, and the other is because Tang Feng will definitely not only open mines in the United States in the future, so having an offshore company is also convenient for the transfer of funds.

After the contract was signed, Jack. Jones had just walked out of the office building of the Davin Energy Beaumont branch with Tang Feng and Sam when he met a middle-aged white man who looked like Sven.

"Hey Jack, long time no see, are you okay?" The middle-aged man saw Jack. Jones's eyes lit up and he immediately greeted him.

Jack. Jones had a smile on his face, gave the middle-aged man a big hug, and said with a smile: "Blount, aren't you in Wyoming?" Did you come back overnight last night? ”

Blount nodded and said, "I came back overnight after I received your call yesterday afternoon, for fear of delaying this business, it seems that I should not be delayed, right?" ”

Jack. Jones smiled and said: "I know that this guy of yours is a desperate San Lang, come, let me introduce you, this is a Chinese-American from China, Tang, that is, the big boss I said on the phone yesterday who is preparing to replace the oil pipeline; This is Sam. Mr. Méndez is a partner of Mr. Tang. Don, Sam, this is an old friend of mine, the owner of Star Petroleum Engineering Ltd., Blount Brown. Williams. Don, Sam, Blunt's Star Petroleum Engineering Company is a company specializing in oil pipeline laying, oil well drilling and other petroleum engineering, and their technical force is very strong, and we have a lot of cooperation with Davin Energy, and the reputation is very famous throughout Beaumont. Yesterday I heard that you meant to re-lay this pipe, so I not only gave you those business cards, but also called Blunt, and you two won't blame me, right? ”

Tang Feng shook his head with a smile and said, "Jack, how could it be?" I'm worried about which company to find to undertake this project, but you can recommend the best one to me directly. You know, I'm a newcomer, and I don't know much about this aspect of things, and since you, the landlord, have recommended Mr. Williams' company, then Sam and I will investigate, and if the conditions are met, this single project can naturally be handed over to Mr. Williams to do. Hello Mr. Williams, I'm Don Feng, you can call me Don. ”

"Well, Don, you can call me Blount like Jack, and I'd love to serve you."

Sam also shook hands with Blount, and after greeting for a while, Blount took the initiative to invite Don and Sam to visit his company.

Tang Feng is the kind of master who does what he says, and the oil field under the ranch is about to face oil production, so the time is still relatively tight. So, Sam and Don said goodbye to Jack. Jones, got in the car, followed Blunt's car, and headed for downtown Beaumont.

Blount's company is not in downtown Beaumont, but on the south side of Beaumont, so it needs to be walked through the city.

When he came to Blunt's company, Tang Feng was surprised to find that this guy's company was located next to the famous "big mountain".

If you want to talk about the "mountain" of Beaumont, it is the existence of the whole oil industry. Because on this "mountain", the world's first oil well with a daily output of 10,000 tons of crude oil was drilled! The famous "spindle top" oil field is another name for this "mountain".

In fact, the "mountain" is just a small plateau about 1.6 kilometers in diameter 4.57 meters above the surrounding plains, about 6.4 kilometers south of downtown Beaumont.

On January 10, 1901, Lucas, a former Austrian Navy captain who emigrated to the United States from Austria, drilled the world's first oil well with a daily output of 10,000 tons at a height of 523 meters underground with a four-inch drill pipe.

In fact, as early as July 1899, Captain Lucas leased about 600 acres (243 hectares) of land on the "mountain" from the Gray Tess City Oil Company for more than 31,000 dollars, and if the battlements found oil, they would give Higgins, the owner of the Gray Tess City Oil Company, a 10% interest.

Unfortunately, after a year and a half of surveying and non-stop drilling, Lucas and his partners never drilled oil on this "big mountain" that always smelled.

It was Christmas Eve in 1900, and in order to let everyone go back to Beaumont to celebrate Christmas, the rig was stopped on December 24 and the whole team was on holiday. Work resumed on January 1, 1901, and it was not until January 10, when the drilling tool was lowered to a depth of about 523 meters, that a huge blowout occurred.

First, the ground trembled, and mud erupted from the well. The cart on duty. Hamill crawled down from the derrick covered in mud. Suddenly, with a bang, a 4-inch drilling tool weighing 6 tons flew into the sky, hit the drilling rig crane, fell into the ground nearby, twisted into twists, and the drillers scattered and fled.

However, after this violent blowout, the well site was strangely calm, and the Hamill brothers and their assistants crawled back to the drill floor and began to use shovels to remove sludge from the drill floor and drill pad. After a while, the earth suddenly rumbled, and the wellhead erupted like a volcano, spewing mud first, and then forming a tall column of oil six inches thick and rushing into the air, mixed with stones flying from the bottom of the well, up to 175 feet (about 50 meters).

A huge oil spray caused a stir in the nearby villages, and the herdsmen came on horseback to watch. Someone ran into the town of Beaumont to shout, and dozens of minutes later, the town was empty, and the residents were flocking to the "mountain" to see this unprecedented spectacle.

In 9 days, the well sprayed about 800,000 barrels (about 110,000 tons) of crude oil into the sky and sprinkled the earth, with an average daily output of 8~100,000 barrels (more than 10,000 tons), which was equivalent to half of the daily output of the whole United States at that time. People hurriedly built an earthen embankment around the well site. A huge oil lake soon formed here. By the tenth day, Lucas and Hamill had finally installed the wellhead device. This is the world's first high-pressure wellhead installation, the first particularly high-yield "Christmas tree".

Lucas became a well-known hero. In 1940, a monument was erected on the "Spindle Top", which was inscribed with the inscription "The world's first extraordinarily large and productive well - A.F. Lucas's Well".

"Hehe, the reason why I chose the address of the company here in the first place is to pay tribute to the great Captain Lucas!" Blunt said to Don and Sam as he bowed slightly to the monument in the distance.

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