On June 23, 1900, just 15 meters away from the main gate of the Laojun Temple site, the No. 2 exploration well of Yumen Petroleum was drilled to a depth of 115.53 meters, and the K oil layer was surprisingly discovered!

After measurement, the daily output of the No. 2 well is 200 tons of light crude oil, plus more than 10 tons of the original No. 1 well, the daily output of the two exploration wells is about 56,200 gallons...... Although the starting oil production data of the two exploration wells is very insignificant, it marks the official entry of the local oil of the Ceris continent into the stage of industrial development, and thus unveils the long history of the modern oil industry in Seris.

On June 26, 1900, almost at the same time as the Seris Avalanche Commercial Exploration Company simultaneously explored oil in Borneo in the South Seas, under the organization and coordination of relevant personnel of the Beijing Geological Survey, the Gansu Oil Mining Company, which was jointly established by the Seris government and private capital, was also officially established. Under the strong recommendation of Sheng Xuanhuai, Vice Minister of Commerce of the Cabinet of the People's Republic of China, Dr. Sun Yueqi, who studied at the Institute of Geology in Cologne, Germany, took the lead role.

As if to give a gift to the newborn oil mining company -- on the day at the end of the month, the No. 3 exploration well in the Yumen Oilfield had a violent blowout! So far, the Yumen Oilfield has finally explored and discovered the central oil reservoir marked L!

After the news came out, Gansu Province and even the whole country of Seris were suddenly shocked......

Just a few months later, in the anticipation of local oil production personnel, the eastern section of the extension of the Longhai Railway Line, the Lanxin Line, was officially completed! So far, the exploration of Yumen Petroleum has received the most powerful support from the domestic industrial sector in the rear, and the Yumen Oilfield in Gansu has truly entered the era of large-scale industrial development.

Under the full dispatch of the Ministry of Railways. Countless locomotives began to be supplied to Gansu Province on a priority basis. With the hard work of these railroad workers. Freight trains loaded with oil extraction equipment swarmed to the Yumen Railway Station, which had just been completed. At the same time, groups of domestic workers and petroleum technicians also gathered in Yumen from the north and south of the Seris River...... Under the leadership of Dr. Sun Yueqi, general manager of Gansu Oil Mining Company, the drilling, oil production, refining, civil engineering, logistics and other work centered on exploration have also been fully rolled out.

At the same time, the burgeoning Yumen oil deposit immediately attracted the target of many individuals and economic groups in Seris, both inside and outside the country. It's just a pity that, like the railway construction model, these oil industries, which are related to the energy security of the Seris country, have also been labeled as "not for sale" by the Serisian government. In addition to the government of the Republic of Seris itself, only individuals with passports of their citizens or financial companies in the country are qualified to invest in shares......

In the blink of an eye, another few months passed. By the middle of March 1901, these oil construction teams finally announced the establishment of the modern oil extraction and refining complex with the largest scale, the largest number of employees and the most advanced technology in Seris at that time.

By the end of the first quarter of that year, it was estimated that the reorganized Western Petroleum Company's monthly oil output in March had reached a historic 140,000 tons, and in the first quarter of that year, it had supplied more than 390,000 tons of various types of multi-label oil refining products to China, and its output was almost 10 times the oil output of the oil mining company half a year ago.

In terms of the company's capital, after more than half a year of multi-party financing, the newly established and renamed Western Petroleum United Refining Company is controlled by the central government of Seris, accounting for 51% of the shares, among the rest of the parties. Avalanche Financial Investment Company, which is affiliated with Chen's chaebol, holds 20% of the shares, and the remaining nearly 30% of the shares are owned by other senior financial investment groups in China and capital exchanges in various regions.

It is worth mentioning. Among them, Chen Zeyu, as the second equity owner behind the scenes, is not completely "dry".

Under his "reminder", the technical personnel of Western Petroleum were almost full of stars, and in a very short period of time, they took the lead in inventing a kowtow-type large-scale pumping machinery that would help oil wells increase crude oil output.

In March of that year, when Chen Zeyu personally inspected the completed Western Petroleum Company, the head of state of the republic inadvertently discovered during the inspection that there were actually a large number of "waste oil wells" scattered around the various operating oil wells.

The young head of the republic was curious to watch...... Who knows, after listening to the explanation of the staff around him, he was suddenly surprised! It was only now that the young ruler of the Eastern Empire knew that the people of this period had come to extract oil like this...... Before the advent of pumping units, the oil production technology of this era relied entirely on the internal pressure of the oil layer after it was drilled out to automatically spray crude oil to the ground!

However, it is important to know that as the crude oil in the underground oil layer is ejected, its internal pressure will undoubtedly decrease, and it will naturally not be long before it will be "wasted".

Hearing such an explanation, Chen Zeyu was dumbfounded...... It must be said that he, a modern man, still overestimated the oil extraction technology of the late nineteenth century. In addition to relying on its own pressure "oil injection", the most advanced oil production means in this era is to be regarded as water injection, but there is no doubt that this diesel technology itself also has great limitations, not to mention how high the efficiency of this use can be, the fresh water required alone is an astronomical amount, and many of the world's oil storage deposits are in the desert and other areas with serious water shortages.

In fact, such a simple and crude combination of "fuel injection and water injection" is naturally impossible for Chen Zeyu to take into account, so ...... In the period that followed, he, the head of the Republic, once again used his "prescient" strengths.

Although he, the Führer, also did not know the specific structure and manufacturing method of the air industrial pumping unit at that time, had he not seen a pig run if he had never eaten pork? Just recalling the scene when he played the Red Alert game in an Internet café in middle school, he can roughly draw the appearance of the "kowtow machine", at least it is no problem for him to give a rough structure.

Under Chen Zeyu's prompting, soon, the relevant machinery was manufactured by these professional petroleum technicians.

Speaking of fact, there is no superb technical content, after Chen Zeyu pointed out, almost all the Western Petroleum employees present have a feeling of sudden realization - only need to add a pumping pump to the original oil well, almost the same principle as the modern medical pinhole syringe, the kowtow pumping unit is like a giant rigid scale, using a small motor equipped with itself to drive the sucker rod to swing up and down, and promote the well pump piston in the pipeline to do reciprocating motion. In the end, the oil from the depths of the well is continuously sucked up.

At the end of the month, several groups of oil wells that were renovated under Chen Zeyu's friendly assistance prompted immediately burst out with amazing production capacity. After testing, the daily production capacity of many of these wells, which also belong to Western Petroleum, such as No. 6, No. 8 and No. 11, has increased by nearly 60% on average. In addition, many of the "waste oil wells" that were previously considered inoperable have also resumed production, and the crude oil output of the entire Western Oil Company has entered a period of rapid expansion like an avalanche.

And this incident itself also reminded Chen Zeyu that in the field of petroleum industry technology, although he himself does not have real professional ability, this does not affect him to "abstract" some of the technologies and equipment that he has heard and seen in his previous life.

In this way, it didn't take long for Chen Zeyu, the national leader, to recall and work hard, and a large number of "bizarre" innovative technology machines appeared in the domestic oil fields...... (To be continued......)