Many people know that the Middle East has a lot of oil and is a large natural oil depot, with oil reserves accounting for 57% of the world's total reserves and oil production accounting for 31% of the world's total output.

However, what many people don't know is that from the Gulf of Mexico to the Caribbean Sea and all the way to South America, there are high-oil producing regions.

On Google Maps, above the island of Tortuga, in the Gulf of Mexico, it is considered one of the richest oil reserves in the world.

Under the map of Tortuga Island, Venezuela, one of the world's top ten oil producers and one of the four founding members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, ranks first in the Western Hemisphere and fifth in the world in terms of recoverable oil reserves, accounting for 3% of the world's total crude oil production and 10% of OPEC production.

A little further back, under the Caribbean, Colombia is the fifth-largest oil producer in Latin America, accounting for 5% of the region's oil production.

It would not be surprising if one day a super-large oil field was explored in the Caribbean.

When Chen Rui first bought Tortuga Island, he knew that there was a huge oil field on the bottom of the sea, located about 40 to 50 nautical miles northwest of Tortuga Island, with very impressive reserves, which may exceed several billion tons, enough to be discharged into one of the top ten oil fields in the world.

At that time, Chen Rui did not obtain the sovereignty of Tortuga Island, and the sovereignty still belonged to the sea, even if the oil was explored, this super giant oil field was finally cheaper than the sea.

Now, Chen Rui has gained sovereignty over the island of Tortuga, including territorial waters. 200 nautical mile exclusive economic zone. Become an independent sovereign state. In addition, Chen Rui's international influence, as well as the hidden strength that any world power should fear, can completely explore the super giant oil field.

Chen Rui talked with other exploration staff on the exploration ship for a while, had lunch with everyone on the ship, and then left the exploration ship.

Stand on the yacht Starfish and look out at the sea beneath your feet.

Chen Rui can imagine. When a super-giant oil field with reserves of more than billions of tons, ranking among the top 10 in the world in terms of reserves, surpassing Russia's second-largest Baku and Tyumen oil fields, and producing most of the very good quality light oil with little wax, is explored, how will the world react?

The whole world was shocked.

Then, oil prices fell.

No international oil-exporting country or oil-exporting organization that wants to manipulate international oil prices to maximize its interests cannot ignore the voice of Tortuga

Chen Rui returned to Tortuga Island on the yacht 'Starfish'.

Take the bus to the National University in New Chang'an and park the car at the school gate.

Then, walk into the campus and come to the Institute of Biology.

The Institute of Biology was originally an independent scientific research institution. After the establishment of the National University of Tortuga, the Institute of Biology was merged into the Faculty of Biology of the University.

Walk through the doors of the Institute of Biology.

"Welcome Mr. Chen." One was about 5 or 60 years old. The old man, who was in good spirits and had a yellow-skinned face, greeted him and stretched out his hand to Chen Rui.

The old man's name is Li Hongying, Chinese, an internationally renowned biologist, who has deep research in biological cell cloning, and has successfully cloned 10 calves with the somatic cells of a 12-year-old cow, and is now the director of the Department of Biology and the director of the Institute of Biology of the National University of the Kingdom of Tortuga.

Chen Rui stretched out his hand and shook hands with Li Hongying, "Hello, Professor Li." ”

"Mr. Chen, let's talk to my office." Li Hongying said.

"Okay." Chen Rui nodded.

Follow Li Hongying to his office.

Li Hongying poured Chen Rui a cup of tea.

"Is there any result for dinosaur cloning?" Chen Rui took a sip of tea lightly, raised his head and asked Li Hongying.

The two dinosaurs found in Antarctica were transported back to Tortuga Island and have been stored in cold underground ice storage, but at that time, in order to study and realize the cloning of living dinosaurs like the plot in the science fiction movie "Jurassic Park", scientists at the Institute of Biology extracted a small part of the cells from the hind rump of the dinosaur, and there are still some results.

Li Hongying smiled, with some excitement in his tone, and said, "We successfully obtained several somatic cells with complete DNA information from the cells extracted from Tyrannosaurus rex yesterday, so we will notify you immediately." ”

Hearing this, some people must think it is strange.

With the complete carcass of a dinosaur, it is not difficult to extract individual cells, and it is so exciting!?

However, you have to know the fact that every nucleotide in DNA can be maintained for 6.8 million years under extremely perfect conditions.

When did the dinosaur die? About 65 million years ago, DNA could not have been preserved for that long.

Even the most eccentric scientist would say they wanted to clone dinosaurs, unless the dinosaur that Henry VIII rode fought in battle, which was absolutely impossible.

For those fans of "Jurassic Park", let you down, the movie extracts the genetic genes of dinosaurs from the dinosaur blood condensed in amber, and resurrects the prehistoric behemoth that has been extinct for 65 million years.

However, there are exceptions where the DNA profile in a somatic cell is preserved intact.

The preliminary work of cloning at the Institute of Biology was to find the special case from the somatic cells of the dinosaurs, and the somatic cells with the DNA map still intact.

This work is definitely not easy.

It depends on the luck of buying a lottery ticket to win, and it also depends on incomparable patience.

After more than a year.

Dozens of biological scientists and their assistants finally found that special case, a few somatic cells with complete DNA information.

"Congratulations." Chen Rui said.

Li Hongying said, "When I used to watch "Jurassic Park", I thought that it was impossible to clone dinosaurs like the plot of the movie.

Miraculously finding two well-preserved dinosaur corpses frozen in Antarctica, and miraculously finding a dinosaur somatic cell with complete DNA information, two 'almost impossible miracles' have made it possible to resurrect a prehistoric behemoth that has been extinct for 6,500 years.

However, obtaining the complete genome of a dinosaur is only a difficult and almost unattainable first step, and the second step is even more difficult to break through, through "cloning" technology, which inserts genomic information into specific embryos and transfers them into specific recipients to produce individuals. Effective animal cloning needs to be carried out between species of the same species or very close relatives, and animals on Earth are currently distantly related to dinosaurs. (To be continued......)