Chapter 22 Digging the Corners of the Middle East and Shearing the Wool of South America

By the beginning of the 21st century, Wang Fan's world has discovered and developed a total of 41,000 oil fields, about 26,000 gas fields, and a total oil reserve of 136.87 billion tons, mainly distributed in 160 large basins. There are 42 mega oil fields in the world with recoverable reserves of more than 685 million tons, and 328 giant oil fields (more than 68.5 million tons). Five of the world's top ten oil fields are concentrated in the Middle East, including two in Saudi Arabia: Ghawar and Safaniya, two in Iraq: Rumaila and Kirkuk, and one in the United Arab Emirates: Zakum oil.

After Wang Fan returned to the target plane, the first place he went to was not Paulus's headquarters, but the Saudi Arabian Ghawar oil field in the Middle East, located in the east of Saudi Arabia, about 500km east of the capital Riyadh, with proven reserves of 10.74 billion tons and an annual output of 280 million tons, accounting for 30% of the entire Persian Gulf region, making it the world's largest oil field. The oil well is a self-blowing well, with less crude oil wax content, mostly light oil, and a freezing point of less than -20C, which is convenient for transportation. There is an oil pipeline through the Rastanula oil port (the world's largest oil port) for export. Saudi Arabia discovered the world's largest onshore oil field to date in the Persian Gulf basin in 1948 and began production in 1951. The production layer is Jurassic carbonate rock, with a depth of 2,200 meters and an oilfield area of 3,264 square kilometers. Remaining recoverable reserves of 70 billion barrels (9.55 billion tons) in 2005

Why go there? Because Comrade Wang Fan thought, what was the purpose of Germany's attack on the Caucasus? Petroleum! What is the purpose of the Yanhuang Republic in developing Tarim? Petroleum! Therefore, Wang Fan, a good person, is anxious about what others are anxious about and makes up for what others need! On January 15, 1943, Wang Fan's figure appeared in the Ghawar region, where there was nothing but the desert because oil was only discovered five years later, and if there was no earth's magnetic field positioning facility bought from the Internet, Wang Fan would have been lost in the vast desert and the Gobi Desert.

Here we first want to talk about Comrade Wang Fan's plane ring storage space, how big is it, as mentioned above, he is a sphere with a diameter of 30,000 meters (30 kilometers), that is, a sphere with a radius of 15 kilometers, according to the formula The volume of the sphere v=4ฯ€r3/3, so Wang Fan's plane ring can store up to 14,130 billion cubic meters of materials, according to general calculations, the weight of a ton of crude oil is 1,000 kilograms, and the density of crude oil is 800 kilograms/cubic meter, so the volume = 1,000รท800=1.25 cubic meters, that is, one cubic meter of crude oil is equal to 0.8 tons, so if the ring is loaded with nothing but oil, it can be loaded to a maximum of 11,304 billion tons (you read that right, there is no decimal point!). At the beginning of the 21st century, the total reserves of oil fields discovered and developed were only 136.87 billion tons, so everyone can understand Comrade Wang Fan's loading capacity, so for the cross-interface reloading materials, except for extremely unreliable things such as space warships, there is generally no need to consider the problem of having no place to put them.

"Poor desert birds don't fly, and thousands of mountains are still lazy." Looking at the boundless desert, Wang Fan couldn't help but sigh: if there was no black "gold", this would be a barren land that no one cares about. Speaking of oil production, the Jurassic carbonate rock production layer at a depth of 2,200 meters in the Garwar Oilfield is not difficult for Wang Fan's ring at all, and how much to take away, so Wang Fan is more hesitant, after all, the relationship between the Yanhuang Republic and Saudi Arabia in the later generations is still very good, after thinking about it, Wang Fan set 5% of Saudi Arabia, 10% of Iraq (anyway, most of the later generations are cheaper than the United States of the Stars and Stripes), and the proportion of 6% in the United Arab Emirates, and finally Wang Fan brought a total of 10 to 1.2 billion tons of crude oil spot from the Middle East.

Tungsten metal is silvery-white, is the highest melting point of the metal, the melting point is as high as 3400C, the first of all metals, the boiling point is 5555C, the specific gravity (single crystal tungsten) is 19.3, and has high hardness, good high temperature strength and conductivity, heat transfer performance, stable chemical properties at room temperature, corrosion resistance, does not interact with hydrochloric acid or sulfuric acid. Tungsten is a rare metal with high melting point or refractory rare metal in the field of metallurgy and metal materials. Tungsten and its alloy is one of the most important functional materials in modern industrial, national defense and high-tech applications, and is widely used in aerospace, atomic energy, shipbuilding, automobile industry, electrical industry, electronics industry, chemical industry and many other fields. In particular, tungsten-containing superalloys are mainly used in gas turbines, rockets, missiles and nuclear reactor components, while tungsten-based alloys with high specific gravity are used in anti-tank and anti-submarine armor-piercing warheads.

The country with the richest tungsten ore in the world is the Yanhuang Republic (of course, the target plane was still called the Yanhuang Republic in 1943), accounting for more than 90% of the world's tungsten ore, and is recognized as a major tungsten ore country in the world. Considering that the Soviet Union and the United States of Stars and Stripes are at war, tungsten ore production is in short supply, Wang Fan went to Canada and took about 100,000 tons of its tungsten ore reserves of 490,000 tons.

Chile has the world's largest copper mineralized belt, with several of the world's largest known copper deposits discovered to date, and six of the world's 28 proven large copper deposits in Chile. Chile now produces 80% of its copper production from "copper porphyry" type deposits, mostly in the northernmost region (20 to 26 degrees south latitude). Such deposits are also associated with molybdenum, gold and silver as copper by-products.

Escondida Mine: The world's largest open-pit copper mine, Chile's main copper mine. Located in the second largest district. It is 160 kilometers southeast of Anshi and 3,100 meters above sea level. Escondida is a very large porphyry copper-gold-silver deposit. The deposit is approximately 4.5km long, 2.5km wide and over 600m deep. The mine consists of two deposits, Escondida and Escondida North, and as of June 30, 2005, the estimated reserves/resources for the two deposits are:

Escondida Deposit: Probable copper ore reserves of 1.353 billion tonnes at an average Cu grade of 1.17%; Poolable approximate copper ore reserves of 1.2 billion tonnes at an average Cu grade of 0.55%; Inferred copper ore resources of 2.065 billion tonnes at an average Cu grade of 1.08%; The leachable inferred copper ore resource is 5.057 billion tonnes at an average Cu grade of 0.49%.

Escondida North Deposit: Approximate copper ore reserves of 580 million tonnes at an average Cu grade of 1.73%; Approximate leachable copper ore reserves of 504 million tonnes at an average Cu grade of 0.57%; The inferred copper ore resource is 788 million tonnes at an average Cu grade of 1.26%; The leachable inferred copper ore resource is 1.83 billion tonnes at an average Cu grade of 0.50%.

Production began in 1990, with an output of 178,000 tonnes of copper, 37 kilograms of gold and 2,115 kilograms of silver. Since then, production has been increasing due to the expansion of production capacity. In 2003, it produced 994,700 tons of copper, 5.7 tons of gold and 144.22 tons of silver, in 2004 it produced 1,207,000 tons of copper, 6.74 tons of gold and 178.74 tons of silver, and in 2005 it produced 1,093,400 tons of copper, 5.39 tons of gold and 193.88 tons of silver.

According to the above data, Comrade Wang Fan was embarrassed to take a total of 150 million tons of ore from the two deposits. Let us rejoice: long live the great international friendship! Banzai!! Hooray!!

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