Generally speaking, the exploitation of oil fields can be divided into three stages, the first stage is a primary oil recovery, which refers to the initial stage when the world has just begun to exploit oil, and people's oil recovery technology is not so developed, so it can only use the natural energy of oil for exploitation, which is the so-called self-injection.

Under the conditions at the time, when an oil well could not self-erupt, it would be considered to be the depletion of the oil well, so this stage was later defined as a primary oil recovery. This recovery rate is only about 10%.

Later, with the gradual development of technology, people began to realize that although the oil wells no longer blew themselves, the oil wells could continue to produce oil. As long as the energy is replenished to the oil well, for example, 90% of the world's oil fields are currently used to inject water into the oil layer to increase the pressure in the well, and the oil can still be extracted in the oil well without self-injection. This stage of replenishing energy into the reservoir and extracting oil is called secondary oil recovery.

The recovery rate of secondary oil recovery can reach 30%-35%, but there are still as high as about 70% of the crude oil left in the ground.

Later, when this kind of water flooding mining reaches the economic limit, for example, the comprehensive water content of China's Daqing Oilfield has reached 98%, if the water injection development method is continued, then the high refining cost will be more than enough to make ends meet! Therefore, on this basis, people began to use various physical and chemical methods to further exploit the remaining oil after water flooding to improve crude oil recovery, and this stage is also widely regarded as the tertiary oil recovery stage.

Because the reserves of crude oil on the earth are limited, and at this stage, the development of human beings is inseparable from the black industrial blood of oil, so how to improve the recovery rate of oilfields has become a major scientific research topic for global oilfield miners and scientists.

You must know that even if three oil recovery times were carried out, only various methods such as polymer flooding, gas flooding, thermal flooding, and microbial oil recovery were used. But it didn't work out that much. As a result, a large amount of crude oil remains in the ground and cannot be extracted by humans.

Just like many oil fields near Beaumont, Tang Feng has roughly surveyed that the land near Beaumont is basically an old oil field group that is more than 80 years old, and under this old oil field group, there are still more than one billion tons of crude oil buried that cannot be extracted.

Most of these fields have been discontinued or are being exploited using tertiary mining technology. But the pieces of crude oil under the ground are still lying quietly underground.

These unextractable crude oils are already unusable for others, but in Tang Feng's eyes, this is the best injection agent for secondary oil recovery.

The secondary oil recovery is basically the use of water flooding, that is, to inject water into the oil layer to increase the underground pressure, after all, oil is lighter than water, as long as the water is injected, then the underground crude oil will float on the water. But all the same. Although it is difficult to mix oil and water, don't forget that if you want to use water flooding, the water injected into the ground is not a star and a half, so the oil wells that use water flooding for secondary oil recovery cannot avoid pumping out the water together when pumping oil, which also causes the problem that the water content of the pumped crude oil is too high.

And this problem is still unsolvable, so it can only be solved by increasing the cost of refining.

And Tang Feng wants to carry out secondary oil recovery. But there was not so much consideration, because Tang Feng did not inject water into the Beaumont oil field. It's crude oil!

Although those old oil fields have been lying quietly underground for almost hundreds of years, the crude oil remaining in them still accounts for more than 60% of the total reserves of the entire oil field. Moreover, although the viscosity of these remaining crude oils is very high, there are still a lot of crude oils in the upper layer that are not very viscous, but they cannot be extracted because the mining technology cannot be reached.

Tang's target is these upper layers of crude oil, which are not very viscous.

The split of the star core can easily transport the remaining crude oil in the upper layer with low viscosity to the Beaumont oilfield, and at the same time replace some of the crude oil with high viscosity, so as to maintain the pressure in the well in the Beaumont oilfield. At the same time, the viscosity of the crude oil in the oil field does not become too high.

This method is the dream method of all the oil field owners on the earth, but at present, only Tang Feng, a person with a star core, can use it. If others want to copy it, hehe, let's find a star core fusion first!

Although only the upper layer of crude oil remains. But this amount is still very large, Tang Feng roughly estimated, just these upper crude oils with low viscosity, put together, there must be almost 200 million tons. By replacing these crude oils with those highly viscous crude oils in the formation of the Beaumont Oilfield, the recoverable reserves of the Beaumont Oilfield will not be 130 million tons as previously estimated, but at least more than 200 million tons!

After all, no one knows what kind of oil is contained in the oil layer thousands of meters underground, and perhaps the oil contained in this oil layer is this high-quality light crude oil! Who can say for sure?

It is with this intention in mind that the Star Core Split has been slowly doing this work recently.

The job is not as simple as vein handling or condensing veins. The transportation or condensation of ore veins only requires Tang Feng to give an order, and this kind of work, although the energy consumed is not as large as that of ore vein transportation or condensation of ore veins, but it takes a lot of time to complete.

These old oil fields around Beaumont are not connected, but are divided into several large oil bubbles like the Daqing oil field in China, so it is necessary to carry the upper crude oil in these large oil bubbles little by little.

This is not difficult to do with the star core split, and the star core split does this kind of time-consuming work. As for the energy replenishment of the Star Core Split, this one is much simpler. The ranch is more than 100 kilometers away from the Gulf of Mexico, and the absorption distance of the star core split is up to 1,000 kilometers, so the star core split can easily absorb the radioactive elements in the sea water in the Gulf of Mexico. Of course, there are two large nuclear waste storage sites in West Texas, and if Tang Feng hadn't had any scruples, they could definitely become the main energy replenishment base of Star Core.

The total amount of radioactive elements contained in the ocean is even greater than that on land, and the reserves of uranium in seawater alone are 2,000 times the current proven reserves on land. However, the concentration of radioactive elements in seawater is extremely low, which is very difficult to refine, and even star cores need a lot of time to absorb enough radioactive elements from seawater. If it weren't for this reason, Tang Feng would have upgraded the star core by absorbing the radioactive elements in the sea.

But this is exactly in line with the work that the star core split is doing at the moment, anyway, it is not in a hurry, and it is done slowly.

Fortunately, Tang Feng had a star core split, otherwise, Tang Feng would have to stay in the ranch and continue to carry out this extremely time-consuming work. (To be continued......)