"We have the exploration of oil fields here thanks to Comrade Gubkin." At Beria's side, Kritron, who was appointed head of the field, said.

Gubkin is the father of petroleum geology in the Soviet Union.

Gubkin, who had traveled to the United States, learned from the experience of the Americans, combined it with the oil and gas exploration in the Baku region, and then began to study and survey the Devonian strata north of the Caspian Sea, all the way to the front of the Ural Mountains. He prophesied. The vast area of the front edge of the Ural Mountains will become the second Baku.

Unfortunately, his exploration was arduous and it was only in 1929 that he discovered the small oil field of Chusov. In 1932, the slightly larger Ischenbay oil field was discovered, with a total annual production of less than 1 million tons.

And now, the oil field under their feet was discovered in 1937 and has developed into the Dumaz oil field this year.

Even so, the annual production is less than 2 million tons.

The main problem is that they don't drill deep enough, the drilling rig from the Baku oil field only drills to a depth of 1,000 meters at most, and the oil field here has not continued to expand after Gubkin died two years ago.

Until now.

Several large drilling rigs in the vicinity, all of which were transported from the United States, could drill down to two thousand meters below, where the Carboniferous and Permian mud salt formations were the real buried oil that Gubkin proposed.

Beria nodded, looking at the tall drilling rigs in the distance, and then at the newly built factories nearby, where oil refineries would soon be built.

From extraction, to refining, in one step, and then by rail, the refined oil is transported directly to the front line.

It's a pity that the oil refining equipment transported by the United States actually had an accident in the Arctic Ocean, which made him a little anxious, although the military order was made in front of Comrade Stalin, and it was under the condition that the United States did not drag its feet, but it really could not be established, and Stalin would not say so much.

Now the Baku oil fields are dangerous, and Turkey, a country like a fool, actually listened to the instigation of the Germans and ran to attack Armenia! In his eyes, Turkey is not terrible, it is Iran that is terrible, and in the end, the Baku oil fields may fall into the hands of the Iranians!

Therefore, the establishment of the second Baku here must not go wrong!

Thinking of this, his hand gently waved the leather whip, these people, whoever dares to be lazy will whip whom!

There are also guards nearby, and if anyone dares to escape, they will be shot directly, after all, many of them are prisoners in prison.

On the tall drilling platform, the drilling rig rumbled, and suddenly, from the hollow part of the drill bit, a thick gas erupted upward.

"Success, success, we drilled out oil!" The operator on the rig shouted loudly, he pressed the switch, and in the electric spark, the gas on it was ignited!

In the drilling of the oil field, there will be some gas in the upper part of the oil field, and these gases are almost burned out, just like now, this burning flame, everyone is excited.

"Sure enough, at a depth of two thousand meters, there is still oil!" Klitlov was also extremely excited.

Klitrov and Beria both ran over and looked at the flames coming out of the oil well, very excited.

At the same time, other drilling rigs have also burst out one after another!

At this time, they had not yet drilled to two thousand meters, and at 1740 meters, they got a lot of oil!

"General Beria, the total reserves of our oil fields here will definitely be hundreds of millions of tons!" Klitlov made a brief calculation and said excitedly towards Beria.

The detailed data came out in a few days, and the total reserves of oil fields here are around 300 million tons, and finally, the second Baku lives up to its name.

This is just an oil field, in the entire area predicted by Gubkin, there are 700,000 square kilometers of oil reserves, I don't know how many oil fields with huge reserves can be produced!

Beria put down the leather whip in his hand: "Today we beat out the oil, it is a day worth celebrating, we can rest this afternoon." ”

These days, Beria supervised every day, and even two prisoners died alive under his whip, no one dared to be lazy, and at the same time, because of the lack of food, many prisoners were already exhausted.

Ordinary oil workers can say that these prisoners will be tortured to death by Beria if they continue like this.

Let them rest for half a day this afternoon, which can be regarded as a reward for their labor reform, and until tomorrow, they will have to continue to work hard, and after the oil well is drilled, laying pipelines and so on, it is all hard work.

After receiving Beria's order, all the prisoners cheered, and it was best for them to be able to rest.

A thin middle-aged man, after receiving the order, was also relieved, he sat down on the side of a section of pipe, took out a piece of paper, used a pencil tip, calculated on it, and soon immersed himself in his own world.

After several years of heavy physical labor, his face was yellow and thin, but his brain was still extremely active, and he smiled while calculating, not noticing that a pair of big feet in leather boots appeared in front of him.

"Korolev, it's not time to rest, you have to get back to work, it's not afternoon yet!" At this moment, there was a stern cry in my ears, and behind this cry, there was almost the sound of a leather whip.

When he heard this, Korolev immediately stuffed the paper back into his pocket and wanted to run, but if he ran slowly, he would be whipped.

However, a man stopped him.

"It's okay, Korolev can rest now."

The people around Beria were extremely surprised, when did he, a stern and ruthless person, actually be merciful?

Korolev looked up and saw Beria, his body seemed to move, and then he took out his paper and continued to calculate, as if Beria had never existed.

Beria sat down next to him, silently lit a cigarette, took a puff, and handed it to Korolev, who unceremoniously took the cigarette and continued to calculate while smoking.

This scene stunned everyone else, and now, who dares to be disrespectful to Beria?

And Beria's words made everyone continue to be surprised: "When the oil field here is done, you can be semi-free, this is the maximum authority I can give you." All the inmates of Special Prison No. 4 can now work under your leadership. ”