Chapter 58: Finding Oil Fields
In fact, the Chang'an base has always been limited by energy limitations, which has made the industrial development slow, and can only develop slowly step by step. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Although there are a lot of good equipment and good machine tools thrown out in the gate of time and space, these things all need electricity, and electricity is one of the biggest problems in Chang'an base, and there is no problem with dozens of solar storage panels to drive general home computers or lighting, but it is not possible to drive 380V voltage by that electricity alone.
The power problem is not one of the most serious problems at present, without electricity, the industrial group can also find a way to build a hydropower station to generate electricity, and can always get electricity, but the lack of fuel is a very big problem.
The diesel endurance used by the Perfect, the fuel reserve mainly comes from the fuel tanker truck that crossed through the time and space gate, as well as the oil storage tank on the cruise ship, for now, the reserve aviation fuel will be completely bottomed out after supporting three to five Ming voyages at most, and if there is no new fuel replenishment before this, the Perfect will completely become a pile of scrap metal.
Become scrap iron, the perfect will lose the ultimate meaning of existence, for its reform plan has also been discussed, some say that it should be transformed into a steam engine operation, at least coal is easy to find, but there is a disadvantage that coal will take up most of the hull space, reducing the transport of cargo load.
This reform plan is still under discussion, as is the extraction of oil and the extraction of primary heavy oil, which is also being discussed, after all, the difficulty between the two is relatively large.
However, in terms of the difficulty of the transformation, the difficulty of the steam engine is somewhat large, and the operation of the entire hull will be relatively large, and the ship expert Lin Wendong does not guarantee that it will be successful.
There is no guarantee of success, Wang Tiehammer almost vomited blood when he heard it, this ship is his life, and it is also Australia's strong capital sworn to the outside world, you can not be turbulent when you dock at the dock for the transformation, isn't it your own hard work, you can't do this, you have to go back and think clearly, and after confirming it, you will propose.
Lao Wang set the tone for the people of the ship working group, that is, it is necessary to come up with a successful plan that is difficult and accurate, as for those immature plans, don't talk about them, let's not do any face-saving projects or anything, you just give me ideas.
If you want to transform the ship, you have to undergo major surgery, Lao Lin used to be only a ship engineer, and he said that shipbuilding is a complete division of labor, and he can't know all the details of the whole.
It doesn't mean that you can give up, the executive committee has given you an order, you have to do it, saying that the whole ship team still needs funds to develop new steamships.
At present, the ship team led by Lin Wendong is mainly researching 500-ton sail steamships and 1,000-ton sailboats.
These two types of ships are the objects of their main research, and they will still need these ships to undertake the future of Australian maritime transportation.
After all, until a feasible practical solution is come up, it is very likely that the Perfect will be anchored in the harbor due to fuel problems and cannot be turbulent.
Either a major operation on the Perfect, or find oil to extract and refine, as long as there is heavy oil, the equipment of the Perfect can be used for endurance with heavy oil.
This is the most perfect solution to the problem, but it is not easy to find oil, the later generations of Australia is most famous for iron ore, is the world's main iron ore exporter, as for the oil export is more famous or the Middle East, and later some small countries in Southeast Asia have also discovered a lot of oil fields, but they are all in the sea, the technical difficulty of offshore exploration is greater than that on land, this does not need to be considered at all.
If there is the strength to exploit offshore oil fields, then there is no need to worry about building steam engines, after all, industrial development needs technical support, although more than 500 people come from various industries, it does not mean that they are elites.
After all, there is a big difference between rebuilding and building a ship, and the Perfect is a product of the 21st century, but if it is built, Lin Wendong can use his knowledge to explore and move forward.
But the problems of the Perfect have to be solved, after all, the Perfect is the main means of transportation for the import and export of Australian materials, and it is not an exaggeration to call it the ship of life in Australia.
However, recently, the geo-mad heather has been disappearing, which has made some people speculate that his disappearance may have a lot to do with energy.
As a geomaniac, his brain is like a mineral data storage machine, which stores the approximate locations of most of the world's major mineral deposits, and it is through this traversal that iron ore and coal mines can be successfully mined.
However, in his memory, there were oil fields in Western Australia, but most of them were at sea, but he didn't seem to have heard it mentioned on land.
Western Australia is mainly known for its iron ore mines, and he really hasn't heard of oil.
Shi Nan has been out with his people for five days, and his search is to explore along the north of the Swan River, where later news reports have oil fields, so it is more likely to be found here.
After searching for three days, there was no harvest at all, and if no oil was found for exploitation, it meant that the fuel of the Perfect would be completely used up, and it had to accept Lin Wendong's suggestion to carry out an overall overhaul.
The overhaul is what Wang Tiehammer does not want to see, after all, the technology is not mature, and there is another point that if the transformation is not successful, then the perfect number will likely be completely scrapped.
Therefore, Wang Tiehammer gave Shi Nan a difficult task, he must find the oil field, as long as he finds the guys from the Ministry of Oilfield Industry, it is possible to exploit it and refine the heavy oil, and with the heavy oil, the perfect number does not need to be transformed too much.
This time out to look for oil, heather has about a month to explore, if it is not found after a month, then the executive committee will finally approve the perfect overhaul plan, don't look at it is only four days now, but the time is very urgent.
In order to facilitate exploration, the few horses in the base were also allocated to them, so that they could quickly send back the news after finding oil.
"To the north, we have already walked thirty kilometers, if it doesn't work, we will look for it like the northwest."
In fact, the geological structure of the area through which the heather has been explored has not found any signs of oil, and the geological layer of oil can be divided into oil-producing layers, reservoirs and clastic layers to determine whether the stored oil is suitable for exploitation. The formation of these structural layers and the storage of oil have different meanings, and through the study of geological types and their regional characteristics, they can be used as a powerful guide for oil exploration and exploitation.