With dark clouds in the distance, and it looked like a storm was about to hit soon, Anderson tightened his clothes.

It's April, and it's not very cold in the Pacific Ocean near the equator, but Anderson can't help but tighten his shirt at the thought of the impending storm.

Made, has been floating on this sea for several months, but he and his exploration team still haven't produced a drop of oil, and if this continues, I'm afraid the bosses above will not be able to bear it, and if they choose to cancel the later exploration activities, he and his men will have to go home unemployed.

As an oil exploration team member, I have been unable to find oil wells for a long time, and many people will criticize me for saying it.

And once it is pressed with such a name, it is easy to be associated with the name of the god of mold, and the people who dig wells, no matter what country they are, are actually very superstitious.

If it is known that I have been looking for several years without even a drop of oil, I guess I will have to go to the Middle East to find a job in the future.

As a native of Australia, Anderson has a very serious family love, although abroad, especially in the Middle East, the salary of oil exploration personnel like him is very high, but he himself does not particularly like to work in places like the Middle East.

Because that place, in his mind, there is only the impression of backwardness and barbarism, not to mention that his wife has just given birth to his second child?

As a member of the Dirham exploration team, he took his exploration team and sat on a boat. Area 35 off the coast of Perth. But it's been drifting for a long time.

This area 35. and Area 36, but last year, the company broke the kettle, and mortgaged its own oil pipelines that are not too long in China, as well as dozens of gas stations in Melbourne and Sydney, before getting the loan, and then won the exploration plate in a auction.

In other words, the company has spent more than $100 million in these two areas before it finds a drop of oil here, and I heard that the company has been unable to hold on to it since then.

But then it seems that a venture capital firm injected capital into the company. Only then did the company survive this difficulty.

And this money is also the cost they use for exploration, chartering ships, renting offshore drilling @ wells @ flat @ platform, as well as the labor of their people, if they continue to find oil wells in this way, it is estimated that their gang will soon be able to get out.

But this is not scientific, he used to talk with the company's geologist James, James is a top student at the University of Wollongong majoring in geological exploration, he has worked in BP before, and he has been to Azerbaijan. Many of the old oil fields in the Baku oil field that have dried up have been re-selected by him. There are those that come to life.

Although he didn't know whether what the guy said was true or false, he agreed with the fact that the guy must have some ability, after all, he and James had been working together in the same boat for a long time.

James told him that according to his analysis of the signal from the sonar scanning Heidi, the area off Perth where there are most likely oil reservoirs are the two plates 35 and 36.

But now they have been floating at sea for more than half a year, but they haven't produced a drop of oil, which is very unscientific!

James is now on their exploration ship, hiding in his office all day, holding the drawings of sonar scans, doing research, and not knowing what to find.

Forget it, Anderson tightened his collar and looked up into the distance again, it is estimated that there will be more than two hours before the cumulonimbus cloud will drift over.

While the sky is not completely dark, while the storm has not really fallen, I am fighting once to see if I can achieve anything.

Anderson picked up the phone and called his deputy Peter on the stage in the distance @ well @ flat @: "Before we go deeper for a thousand meters, before the storm comes, if not, let the people on the platform prepare for the flat @ stage, we are going to evacuate here." ”

"Okay, no problem."

Peter is a good deputy, and he will always carry out his orders most resolutely, they have wasted more than two weeks in this sea area, and there are dozens of holes, but not a drop of oil has come out, and I am afraid that the others will have to change places long ago.

Even his drilling# well staff are already a little dissatisfied, but it is still Peter who can support him so firmly.

Soon there was a rumbling sound from the drill@well @ flat @ platform in the distance, and Peter's engine machine began to continue down.

Anderson sat in the cockpit of the tugboat not far from the platform, looking at the drill@well @ping@ platform in the distance, and then turned his head to look at the jet-black cloud on the other side......

After an unknown amount of time, the wind could be heard outside, and Anderson noticed that the storm clouds that he had thought were still some distance away had come around them.

The 50,000-ton tugboat is a behemoth at sea, but now in this vast ocean, in the eye of this storm, it is like a toy that can be ravaged by the storm, and somewhere in the hull, there is even a creaking and creaking sound of steel being squeezed, twisted, and creaking.

The boat shook violently, and Anderson got up and went to the porthole, took the binoculars, and looked at the drilling@well@ping@ platform in the distance.

The drilling@well#ping#platform is a semi-submersible, which is now the most mainstream third-generation offshore drilling@well@ping@tai, and the ability to resist storms is very strong, so don't look at them shaking badly here, but the impact on them is not great.

Although he didn't call, he also saw that the speed of the hinge over there had begun to decline, and it seemed that it was slowing down and preparing to shut down, after all, in such a harsh natural environment, who can rest assured that you can drill # wells, what if there is an accident?

For their choice, Anderson didn't think it was too much at all.

But at this time, although he was far away, he could feel the rotating shaft that was slowly slowing down, and suddenly slammed down, and then far away, he seemed to be able to feel a muffled sound coming from the ocean under his feet, and then their 50,000-ton tugboat was all vibrating.

Could it be a tsunami? Anderson's face changed, but he quickly denied his own judgment, just as he was still wondering what was going on.

The captain who started tugging suddenly pointed to the drill@well @ping@tai in the distance and shouted: "Anderson, look...... We succeeded......"

Anderson could feel Captain John's voice a little excited, and he hurriedly raised his head and looked in the direction of the drill@well@flat@platform.

I saw that in the storm, the drill shaft on the drilling @ well @ flat @ platform seemed to be suddenly pushed out of the ground by something, and flew out violently, and then a black dragon drilled out directly from under the sea surface and sprayed into the air......

Even people who don't understand oil exploration, when they see such a scene, they know that now they are producing oil, and they are going to develop.

Anderson couldn't hold back the joy in his heart anymore, and directly took out the phone and called Peter on the other side of the drill@well @ping@station, and soon Peter's excited trembling voice came from the other side of the phone.

"Anderson, we are developed, this is a high-production oil well, judging from the current injection pressure, this oil well produces 10,000 tons per day, which is definitely not a problem......

"I know, I know, Peter, but now you have to listen to me, hurry up and let the oil wells be sealed, the storm is coming, you have to watch out for the lightning......"

After a few more conversations with Peter, Anderson couldn't hold back any longer, regardless of the fact that the wind was blowing outside at this time, or that it was pouring rain outside.

"John, arrange a barge for me, I'm going to go over, I'm not very relieved that Peter and the twenty or so people are over there."

"No, Anderson, are you crazy? It's storming outside, and you're on the boat and want to get there, you know you're looking for death? ”

Captain John rejected Anderson's request in one bite, as an experienced captain, he couldn't know what was going on outside, if he let Anderson go out at this time and go to that flat @ station, then he would be murdering.

With such a big wind and waves outside, send a small boat over, and Anderson and they may die in every minute.

"No, John, listen to me, I know it's dangerous, but I have to get there. You also know, there are only Peter and there are about 20 people on the platform, but this oil well is not coming out at a very good time, and now it is windy and rainy outside, but this is not the most terrible, the most terrible thing is the lightning, if those lightning strikes the oil well, what will happen, do you know? That drill@well @ flat @ station will be blown up, and all our months of hard work will be in vain, back to the mainland, we will soon be unemployed, maybe go to jail, and more importantly, our desire to find a high-yield oil well for the Australian mainland will be in vain, so John, you have to send someone to go with me......"

What Anderson said was a little righteous and awe-inspiring, but also a little sincere, John hesitated, he also knew that Anderson was not lying, if those lightning bolts really hit the drill@well@ping@tai, then their months of hard work will not only be in vain, but they will not even have good fruit to eat.

The company won't let them go, and the families of so many people who died won't let them go, and at that time they just needed someone to come out and take responsibility, and they didn't care why it happened.

But it's dangerous to send someone over at this time!

"I'll go with you."

A voice came from behind them, and the two looked back to see that it was the geologist James...... (To be continued......)