Good news? What other good news can there be at this time? Raising his head, Reagan looked at James, only to see that James' hands were trembling, and said: "We don't have to worry about the energy problem, our scientists have solved the energy problem!" ”

Solving the energy problem? Are you kidding!

"Our scientists, in the extraction of shale oil, carried out repeated experiments, and finally settled on the technology of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, and now, these technologies are very mature, in our energy field, this is a technological revolution, this technological revolution, can be compared to Drake in 1859 in Titusville, Pennsylvania to drill our first oil well!" James's face was full of excitement. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Shale oil! This is the most suitable alternative energy source in the United States at present, although it has long been demonstrated, but the extraction of shale oil is quite difficult, after all, this thing is different from ordinary crude oil, it is a solid form, how to extract the solid form of shale oil, the technical difficulty is very high.

And now, with the high international crude oil prices, the United States has to find an alternative way, and now, they have finally found this way, which is horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing!

Drilling in the storage location of shale oil, first downward, and then horizontal drilling, after drilling, the use of ground high-pressure pump, a large number of chemicals doped with water, sand, stone to make fracturing fluid, and then poured into the depth of the rock and fracturing rock, so that oil or natural gas can be released, this way, greatly improve the production efficiency of shale oil, reduce the production cost of shale oil!

The United States cannot live without energy, so the United States must use all its strength to maintain the hegemony of the Middle East, but now, with the revolutionary breakthrough in shale oil extraction, the United States has finally found an alternative way!

James was very excited, but the rest of the people still haven't understood, including Bush, whose family is a big Texas oil businessman, and even he, who is now troubled by the problems of the Middle East, has not paid more attention to shale oil.

And now, looking at James's expression, Bush couldn't help asking: "James, what level can we achieve with this technology in terms of shale oil production?" ”

James was so excited when he spoke incoherently, and Bush was asking the point.

"We now have 18 regions in the United States that have proven rich reserves of shale oil, with extraction value, and our new way of oil extraction, can reduce the cost of extraction to fifty dollars a barrel, and now, throughout the energy sector, there are constantly savvy investors began to enter this field, our most conservative estimate, by the end of this year, with a series of new shale oil well projects launched, our shale oil production can reach 2 million barrels per day, and next year, our shale oil production, It can reach a daily output of four or five million barrels. ”

By the end of this year, it will be able to produce 2 million barrels per day! And next year, it will reach four or five million barrels per day! Hearing this, everyone was stunned.

What is this concept?

At present, the global demand for oil is 60 million barrels per day, while the daily demand of the United States is more than 10 million barrels!

At present, the United States is constantly increasing its domestic oil production, and the daily production of crude oil has exceeded 7 million barrels from the original 5 million barrels, and only needs 3 million barrels of oil imports, and these oil imports have now shifted to Canada and the United Kingdom, and there is no need to import from the Middle East at all.

Now, the shale oil extraction technology has made breakthrough progress, and the daily output of its own shale oil will reach 2 million barrels this year and four or five million barrels next year, which means that the United States does not need to import oil anymore, and can even become an oil exporter!

"And what about these shale oil reserves that we have now?" Bush continued.

"After our continuous exploration, we have now discovered 264 billion barrels of crude oil, which is more than Saudi Arabia and the Soviet Union! And half of it is shale oil. "Half of our states have abundant reserves, including Texas, the richest, with a total of 60 billion barrels of oil, and the recoverable reserves of the Monterey shale oil base that is now under development are projected at 15.4 billion barrels," James said. ”

A few simple numbers were reported, and in an instant, Bush's face was full of smiles. In this way, the United States does not need to worry about the oil crisis at all now, the United States is about to become an oil exporter!

In the past, the United States did not have the right means to exploit shale oil, and out of strategic considerations, the development of domestic oil fields in the United States was restricted, and the United States needed to import a large amount of oil from the Middle East to meet its own energy needs. And now, under various pressures, the oil exploitation technology of the United States has advanced by leaps and bounds, and this time the shale oil revolution has made the United States no longer have to worry about energy problems!

In terms of oil reserves, the United States' 264 billion barrels is definitely the first in the world, Saudi Arabia's oil reserves are only 212 billion barrels, Canada's oil reserves are 167 billion barrels, and Iran's oil reserves are 143 billion barrels, which are not as many as the United States!

That's great news!

"If the news had come earlier, we wouldn't have had to start a war in the Middle East at all." Bush gritted his teeth and said a sentence that pulled everyone back to reality.

The war in the Middle East of the United States has been a complete failure, and until now, it is still a mess, hundreds of thousands of troops have been captured by the Iraqis, Turkey is in turmoil, the Kurds are about to seal up their territories, and their ally Israel has also been dragged into the quagmire of war, and now, this war has become a war that does not need to be fought at all!

This news, why didn't you say it earlier! All of them have itchy teeth.

"It takes time for geological exploration across the country and the use of new mining techniques, and it is only now that we can aggregate all this data." James seemed to know the complaints in everyone's hearts, and couldn't help but say.

Now, in fact, it is early, some data have not been counted, for example, shale oil extraction, now using hydraulic fracturing to exploit oil wells, the longest time, has only experienced four times of irrigation, and now has not found the phenomenon of a decline in the amount of oil extracted, however, with the continuous exploitation, the oil wells will also dry up, and to what extent, it no longer has exploitation value, it is also necessary to know further use, at the same time, this mining method, in fact, is equivalent to creating a small-scale earthquake again and again, Whether it has an impact on the environment is also unknown. (To be continued.) )