"Team Zhang, do you think there will be oil here?" In the rumble of the drill, a tanned man asked the captain beside him.

"Of course. Didn't the exploration team just say that there was oil? The people in there are all experts, and they are very knowledgeable! The captain replied, wiping his sweat. It was already June 1898 in the Western calendar, and it was a hot time in the Arabian Peninsula, and the Chinese exploration team had been entering the Arabian Peninsula of the Ottoman Empire for more than three months, and it had been two months since the official work. The experts traveled to various places in the Arabian Peninsula in three ways. According to the current theory of marine oil production, they really can't find the possibility of oil here. But His Majesty's orders must be followed.

The emperor deliberately demarcated the cities of Kuwait and Riyadh, saying that these two places were likely to have oil - mainly because Liu Xian could not remember the location of the Ghawar oil field, which was east of Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia? What about the south? And what about the north? Or Ezek? -- The exploration team had to divide their troops all the way to these two places.

Drilling equipment also followed, and Team Zhang was the person in charge of this drilling team. There is another drilling team here in Riyadh. Before they drilled the wellheads, they had already started one work in the south and one in the north of Riyadh, and nine wells, each more than two kilometers deep, six of which did not move at all, and three of which saw oil slurry. Every time, everyone in the exploration team was excited, and everyone was crowded around the oil test pool, with a pair of eyes blazing, staring at the oil test pool. The oily mud gushes out from a depth of more than 2,000 meters, but it never forms an exhilarating industrial oil flow, so much so that they want to see through it one by one. In the end, they all went home in defeat.

But it's not all useless, and I see the oil spent. At the very least, it proves that there is a real possibility of oil here. And there is oil for sure! Everybody's very motivated. The cynicism of the European media did not dampen their motivation, but instead allowed this group of elite soldiers drawn from various oil fields in the South Seas. These can be said to be the best group of oil workers in China today, holding their breath to compete with the Europeans!

The drill bit went down little by little, and the stone cylinder with the thickness of the arm was constantly taken out, 2200 meters, 2250 meters, 2300 meters, 2350 meters......

"Bang!" It's like a cannon in mid-air. The black liquid rained down like drops, and everyone was drenched by the swaying stones, but everyone was so happy and uplifted. Oil, it's oil! They came all the way to the Middle East to ask for it!

"Oh oh oh ......, oil out, oil out...... "The world's largest oil field, the Garhwal oil field, was discovered in later generations. The stout black industrial oil flow gushes out in a steady stream by its own pressure, and the Chinese Middle East exploration team has finally handed over an answer sheet that can leave everyone speechless after more than three months!

Oilmen sang and danced and cheered around the surging oil wells.

Several leaders of the drilling team hugged each other and burst into tears.

And the exploration experts who heard the news from afar rushed to the scene. Looking at the crude oil fountain that went straight to the sky, I was already secretly estimating the amount of oil in my heart, and the daily output of 3,000 tons was absolutely exceeded, but I didn't know if it could reach 5,000 tons per day. Or even higher! Anyway, in the South Seas, it is extremely difficult to see such an oil well erupting dozens of meters on its own.

The news of China's discovery and extraction of oil in the eastern part of Riyadh on the Arabian Peninsula quickly spread from Saudi Arabia to Beijing, and from Saudi Arabia to the capitals of Britain, France, Germany, Austria and Italy.

There really is oil in the Middle East. And it's a very productive self-blowing well!

For a while, the hot desert of the Middle East seemed to become even hotter, and the eyes of the world made the Ottoman Sultan of Istanbul keenly feel that he might really have a day when he would not worry about money in the future.

In accordance with the agreement he reached with China. When oil was successfully extracted, when Europeans believed that there was really oil buried in the ground in the Middle East. They can then make a lot of money and profits by auctioning off oil development rights. And this money will be divided into three points, China and Austria each take one of them, and the remaining one will be used as the start-up capital for the two sides to invest in oil field exploration, development and refineries, and oil pipelines!

Abdul. Hamid II was skeptical of China's portrayal, and he longed for a time when the Middle East was really buried underneath, but reason told him not to expect too much from it. As a result, now the 'beauty' has really come to us!

Not long after the successful oil production of the Sha 010 well, another Sha 012 well, which had been drilled for more than half a month, also successfully produced oil. The production may not be as good as the Sha 010 well, but the daily oil production will not be less than 3,000 tons. At today's oil prices, a barrel of oil is worth more than fifty Chinese dollars. A ton of oil is generally said to be equal to 7.35 barrels, that is, 350 Chinese yuan/ton, and the daily output of oil wells is not less than 3,000 tons.

Only these two wells, when they are officially put into production, will only need two months of production, and all the investment in China's exploration activities in the Middle East to date will be recovered. It's definitely the rhythm of making a fortune!

Just as the good news from Riyadh broke, news of the same oil injection from Kuwait's 008 well also reached the ears of the Riyadh team across half of the Arabian Peninsula. Two of the three task forces have achieved success, and the personnel of the exploration team are completely free of burden.

At this time, it was Muzaffar al-Din, the king of the Persian kingdom, who was in a hurry. Sand. Oil has been found in Kuwait and the peninsula, why hasn't Persia heard any good news so far? He ordered the local government to better treat and protect the Chinese exploration team. It is important for the Chinese to be free from the slightest interference from the outside world and devote themselves wholeheartedly to the exploration and drilling of oil.

But it was clear from top to bottom in the Kingdom of Persia that oil exploration was a matter of luck.

If they want to hear the good news as soon as possible, they must not only treat and protect the Chinese exploration team better, but also ask their true God to bless them!

Beijing.

Liu Xian looked at the celebrations in the Middle East and the increasingly stirring Europe and smiled without saying a word, take your time. When oil wells are drilled in Persia, and when more and more self-blowing wells appear in the Middle East, the Europeans will certainly not be able to sit still. And he not only invested in the land of the Middle East, but at the same time that China's Middle East exploration team set off for the Persian Gulf, another group of people also went to North America with equipment.

The Gulf of Mexico is a land of wealth on a par with the Persian Gulf.

Before, development here was limited, and the Americans were more likely to burrow like marmots in their own territory. First Kansas, Mississippi, then Pennsylvania, then Ohio, Louisiana, California, Texas.

The first wave of oil development in the United States came from the construction of its own railroads, in the west, in the middle, and then in the east. The industry has been in the industry for a long time, but the output is not very high. It's just that the biggest role of oil before was to separate kerosene, lighting and lighting, and the emergence and popularization of electric lights dealt a heavy blow to the oil industry, but the emergence of the gasoline industry brought more life to oil. Before the outbreak of the Sino-American war, in 1894, American and Russian oil merchants were still engaged in a wave of global price wars that "lost money and made money", but the result was naturally fruitless. The outbreak of the war made the oil industry even more glamorous, but it dealt a fatal blow to both the United States and Russia.

In 1893, the Big Three of Standard Oil, the Rothschilds, and Nobel Brothers agreed that Standard Oil would control 85% of the world oil market except East Asia, and the Rothschild family and Nobel Brothers would control the rest. From this, it can be seen that the oil industry in the United States was developed and powerful at that time. Although this proposal was aborted due to the opposition of small competitors in the United States and Russia, and the fact that Standard Oil Company took advantage of the cholera epidemic in Baku to encroach on the Russian oil market in violation of the agreement. This also shows that the oil industry, which Europeans have not yet faced, is already on the right track early!

But the development of commerce was vulnerable in the face of war. Of the big three of those years, there is now only one Rothschild left. Whether it is the Standard Oil Company of the United States or the Nobel Brothers Company of Lao Maozi, all of them have become a thing of the past in the war. [This Nobel refers to the Nobel that everyone knows. Nobel Brothers was the largest oil company in Russia before the October Revolution. 】

Now China occupies most of the territory of the United States, and several major oil-producing areas in the United States in later generations -- as far as Liu Xian knows, are all under China's control. Texas, California, and Alaska.

The latter is not yet a possibility of oil extraction, but Texas and California are not too convenient.

Liu Xian sent people to North America to restore California's oil extraction and refining industry on the one hand, and to Texas on the other hand, to the Gulf of Mexico, to join hands with the Mexican government, and invest more money, manpower, and material resources to develop the gold under the Gulf of Mexico!

In the future, North America will have to become self-sufficient in oil supply. Whether it is war or peace, it would be good for the mainland's local fuel to be self-sufficient in Southeast Asia, and it would be too tense to go all the way to support North America and the Panama Canal project, which has been put on the agenda!

Liu has ordered the cabinet to prepare oil savings to ensure at least a year's supply of oil to the whole country when Southeast Asia's oil industry suffers a catastrophe. Of course, China is also exploring for oil in the north and south of the country, east and west. Unfortunately, except for the Yumen Oilfield, which has a certain degree of developability, the other places are too small and too small. The oil wells that extend in Shaanxi Province produce oil when they reach more than 80 meters, and they are buried very shallowly, and the oil production is only ten barrels a day! It was directly dumped by the State Administration of Resources, the superior department of the exploration team, to the Yanchang County Government. The latter raised his own funds to build a small workshop-style processing factory, and in the coming year, he will be able to contribute to the economic growth of Yanchang County!

Liu Xian is not prepared to develop oil on a large scale in the country, but in case of emergency, the country must ensure that it has a certain amount of oil production capacity. Even if an oil well is drilled, it will be sealed immediately! (To be continued......)