At this time, on this sea, a resource exploration ship is moored.

Chen Rui's yacht approached the resource exploration vessel and boarded the exploration vessel through a dinghy.

On the exploration ship, dozens of oil explorers are nervously busy.

These petroleum exploration personnel include geological engineers, reservoir engineers, geophysical data collection, interpretation, and processing engineers, numerical simulation, logging, and supervision positions.

They are part of Halliburton Energy Services.

Halliburton is the world's largest oil and energy services company, providing equipment and services for oil and gas exploration, development and drilling, as well as infrastructure development.

They have been working continuously on the island of Tortuga for more than half a year.

They are employed by the Royalty Asset Management Committee of Tortuga Island, and their main job is to explore the oil and gas resources of more than 180 square kilometers of land on Tortuga Island, tens of thousands of square kilometers of territorial waters, and exclusive economic zones.

Anyone who has studied geology and oil exploration knows it.

There are three conditions for the formation of natural oil.

1. Sedimentary rocks suitable for the generation of oil, sedimentary rocks are sediments formed over millions of years, sediments contain fish, shelled aquatic animals, plankton, plants, etc., these organic substances are decomposed by heat or age, and become oil and gas.

2. The porous rock that stores oil is porous and will absorb oil like a sponge.

3. Impermeable rock 'covers' the oil and seals the oil.

Oil explorers look for these three types of rocks.

"Hey, Bill, is everything going well at work?" Chen Rui walked into a studio. One wears a blue plaid shirt. Wear jeans. An old man about 5 or 60 years old, who was slightly chubby and wearing black-framed glasses, sat in front of the computer, staring intently at the computer screen, holding a fountain pen in his hand, and a notebook on the table, which was full of dense data and sketches.

The old man's name is Bill. Bob. He is an internationally renowned geological engineer and serves as the captain of the oil exploration team here.

Previously, in order to know the progress of the oil exploration team in detail, Chen Rui had come here. Bob also invited Chen Rui to have lunch on the boat, and the two became very familiar with each other.

"It worked very well." Bill. Bob sat in front of the computer, heard Chen Rui's question, raised his head, and said to Chen Rui with a smile.

The main processes of petroleum exploration and development include geological exploration, geophysical prospecting, drilling, logging, completion, cementing, perforation, oil production, workover, stimulation and subsequent transportation and processing.

Bill. Bob led an oil exploration team to Tortuga at the beginning of the year. First of all, we use our geological expertise to directly observe and study the underlying rocks of the ground. Collect the rock strata of the seabed, understand the sedimentary stratigraphy and tectonic characteristics, and collect all geological data in order to find out the favorable zones and distribution rules for oil and gas generation and accumulation, so as to achieve the goal of finding oil and gas fields.

This is the 'census' of the geological survey method.

Then there is the 'scrutiny', which is reflected in the 'selection', which 'surveys' promising areas to further confirm the selection of more robust oil-bearing structures.

The last step is 'detailed measurement', which is mainly reflected in 'determination', and the target of 'detailed investigation' is to specify the oil-bearing structure through detailed measurement, and compile an accurate structural map for further drilling.

This is the survey and geophysical prospecting process.

These two processes took the exploration team more than half a year.

Finally, the 'scrutiny' target is to be identified as the most likely place for oil in Tortuga and the EEZ, 40 nautical miles northwest of Tortuga in the Tortuga EEZ.

"Now where is the exploration work?" Chen Rui poured himself a glass of boiling water, took a sip lightly, and looked at Bill. Bob, Bill. Bob said.

"The survey is over, and the geophysical exploration work is almost finished." Bill. "Through the data fed back by magnetometry, gravimetry, etc., the computer analysis shows that there is a very good possibility of an oil and gas field under the seabed." ”

Magnetometry, gravimetry, formerly with Bill. Bob learned a little when he was talking, all rocks have magnetism, but there are slight differences in the magnetism of various rocks, according to which you can know the structure and type of underground rocks, and the root magnetometer can measure the changes in magnetic data, and you can draw a stratigraphic structure map.

The gravity measurement method is based on the density difference between the object and the surrounding rock (ore).

"Congratulations, you've done a great job." Hearing this, Chen Rui said with a smile, "Congratulations, you have done a very successful job." ”

"Mr. Chen, I should congratulate you, this is your oil field." Bill. Bob said with a smile.

"When can I drill wells?" Chen Rui asked.

"We calculated the location of the rock strata through magnetic surveying and seismic exploration, as well as drew a stratigraphic structure map and a detailed cross-sectional map of the strata, and when the drilling equipment arrived here from the United States, we could drill the well, about half a month later." Bill. Bob said.

Chen Rui nodded.

As one of the world's largest suppliers of energy products and services, Halliburton Energy Services provides products and services along the entire oil and gas chain, from oil and gas exploration, development, production, operation, maintenance, conversion and refining, to infrastructure development and abandonment of oil and gas fields.

The Royal Asset Management Commission signed a contract with Halliburton Energy Services for oil exploration and drilling services, with a service fee of more than $10 million.

After the oil is successfully drilled, there are contracts for the construction of offshore oil exploration platforms, oil refineries, and oil pipelines, and the service fees of these contracts may exceed one billion US dollars.

The reason why the Crown Asset Management Committee came up with the idea of hiring oil explorers from Halliburton to explore the island's oil and gas resources on land, in territorial waters, and in the 200-nautical-mile exclusive economic zone.

This was instructed by Chen Rui.

As soon as the Kingdom of Tortuga was established, Chen Rui instructed the Royal Asset Management Committee to hire professional oil explorers to explore the oil and gas resources of Tortuga Island.

Chen Rui's instructions seemed very reasonable and normal to others.

Although the area of Tortuga Island is very small, only more than 180 square kilometers, and there are few resources, the territorial sea, contiguous zone, and exclusive economic zone of Tortuga Island are not small.

The area extending from the sea baseline of 200 nautical miles adds up to tens of thousands of square kilometers, and the potential for oil and gas resources is very large. (To be continued......)