Chapter 219: Oil
The Sakhalin oil and gas exploration advance fleet led by Li Ming sailed to the west coast of northern Sakhalin after several days. Anchored in the waters off the coast of Nogliki.
Modern Nogliki is a few kilometers from the coast, and this time the company did not want to build a base in the depths of there, but chose to establish a landing site near the mouth of the Tenai River.
The hydrological conditions here are good, and it is still a sheltered bay. Song Tao led the special combat team and two armored transport vehicles to rush to the stall in two landing craft to conduct reconnaissance in the area near the landing site.
After Song Tao led the special combat team to the beachhead, they divided into four combat groups and went deep into the periphery of the landing site to reconnoitre.
"Dude, no enemy has been found within a radius of several kilometers, only a few local indigenous villages, and now they can land."
Li Ming listened to Song Tao's report and gave the order to land and rush to the stall with the headphones. Landing ships No. 1 and No. 3 began to storm the stalls, then opened the huge front tongue gates, and the detachments began to ascend to the beachhead one after another, set up several machine-gun positions around it, and built a fence nearby.
The beachhead was set up, and the ships were sent to the shore to deliver supplies. Construction machinery roared and washed up on the shore, and more than 2,000 indigenous captives began to carry various supplies to the shore.
The loading and unloading process lasted a day, during which time they leveled a piece of land, built a floating dock and trestle, and built a prisoner of war camp, a material storage area, a barracks, a sentry post, a vehicle parking lot and other facilities.
Of course, it was just fenced off and tents erected. It's just that a simple shed has been built in the storage area. After a busy day, everyone was tired, so they simply ate some dry food and went back to their tents to rest.
Li Ming did not sleep, but walked through the various posts at the landing site, and went to the prisoner of war camp to see the guards there, and then returned to his tent.
At this time, Song Tao and several teams of the special combat team rushed back to the landing site. As soon as Song Tao entered the house, Li Ming hurriedly asked, "Brother, how is the surrounding situation?" There's no such thing as a vicious tribe. β
Song Tao smiled, then shook his head and said: "That's not true, a few kilometers away from us in the west, there is an indigenous village with dozens of households, and it is as poor as anything." Liu Handong and I also went around the village.
The people there are quite simple, just stupid. As soon as we entered the village, the men, women and children of the village surrounded us and smirked at us, so that we almost pulled out our guns and broke through. Later, Liu Handong communicated with the people in the village, and only then did he know that the people were enthusiastic, but the way of expression was different. β
Li Ming also smiled and said: "I thought the girls in the village had taken a fancy to you, be careful next time you go, don't let them turn you two, then you two won't be able to see people in the future, haha......"
The next day, Song Tao led a survey team to look for oil production sites in the surrounding area, and in modern society, there were several oil wells not far from the coast. Although it is not as productive as a few wells near the inland Norgliki area, it is not bad.
According to the words of the Chemical Industry Department, it is a pity that those oil wells with large oil output are being exploited now, and it will be said after they have established a complete petrochemical base in two years, maybe they will all be self-blowout wells by then.
After several days of exploration by the chemical team, the location of several oil wells was finally determined. The farthest point from here is only about two kilometers, and in the next month or so, the experts and technicians of the chemical department and the employees of other departments of the company worked together, and several well sites began to be put into action.
In the modern era, the company conducted a detailed investigation of the oil fields near Oja and Nogliki on Sakhalin Island, and sprinkled a lot of dollars on it, and obtained the detailed number of many oil wells, and even the number of many abandoned oil wells was completely destroyed by the company.
A group of experts and technicians in the chemical department who have mastered various numbers are absolutely handy to do. These oil wells have been abandoned for many years, and the oil production equipment was backward back then, so the depth of drilling was not enough, and many of them were not very scientific, but they were not a problem for the experts of the company's chemical department. After all, the drilling equipment brought by the company is relatively advanced, and it can only drill deeper and have more oil reserves than back then.
At the same time that the chemical department was intensively drilling oil wells on the well site every day, other departments also began to work intensively. A total of more than a dozen large-scale steam generating units and power transmission and transformation systems have been installed in the power supply department to ensure the power supply of landing sites, oil wells, water sources, refineries and other places.
The two landing ships went back and forth several times, transporting a large amount of supplies and construction machinery, and the entire landing site was piled up with supplies. Ren Chaoxin led an engineering team to build a large number of woodcarved flutes at the landing site, and also paved roads to various oil wells.
Also along the TenΓ© River, next to the landing site, a water distribution system to the various oil wells was established. Because of the cold winter in Sakhalin, they buried the water pipes in the ground and built several underground storage tanks near the landing site and the location of various oil wells to ensure the water needs of the various units of the base.
The exploration team also discovered an open-pit coal mine a few kilometers away, which is not large, but the coal seam is shallow, which is very suitable for mining and can fully meet the current coal supply of the petrochemical base. Several mining machines and more than a dozen KAMAZ trucks worked day and night to transport coal to the coal storage yard at the landing site.
The technicians of the petrochemical team also set up an oil refinery near the landing site, with a total of dozens of iron tanks several meters high, neatly arranged in several rows. Underneath each tin tank is an earthen boiler made of refractory bricks.
Pipes protrude from the cans to form a complex system of pipes that lead to several storage tanks next to the refinery. Because of the limited conditions, there are no more than a dozen processes of modern oil refining, but the experts and technicians of the company's chemical department still use the existing conditions to add several processes to ensure that the impurities in the oil are removed as much as possible in the oil refining process.
Although all the local methods are used, except for the environmental protection that cannot be compared with the regular oil refineries, the other aspects have tried their own ways to make up for it as much as possible and train qualified oil products as much as possible. Of course, this also needs to be constantly debugged and summarized in the operation of the equipment.
Several pipelines from the oil well to the refinery are also being laid. Before the oil well is produced, the oil pipeline will be laid first, that is, the Far Eastern Company can do it. Who let them come from the modern era, knowing that these wells will definitely produce oil.
Sakhalin crude oil has a sulfur content of about 0.3 percent, and the proportion of aromatic hydrocarbons is dΓ , which is a high-quality crude oil. In addition, several nearby oil fields began to be exploited in 1928, and due to the low level of technology, the oil production was very low. But in the modern world, the annual production here also reaches 30 million tons.
Li Mingtian sat at the landing site and was responsible for coordinating and directing the work of various departments and providing logistical support for everyone. Song Tao traveled around in the name of patrolling, hunting and fishing every day, and occasionally went to the surrounding indigenous villages to trade, exchange some indigenous goods and local products, and come back to make tooth sacrifices.
Song Tao went out today to beat a blind bear, and together with a few special combat team members, he was pulled back in a jeep, which provoked people at the landing site to rush to see, and Song Tao pointed out how he killed the black bear with his bare hands.
Just when he was blowing happily, Li Ming really couldn't listen to it anymore, and walked out of the tent and scolded: "Song Tao, you come in for me." β
When Song Tao heard that it was Li Ming, he hurriedly ran into Li Ming's tent. Li Ming yelled at Song Tao: "Why don't you do anything every day, I won't say anything about you." You said that you will hunt when you hunt, why did you bring the prey back, so that everyone can see your special combat team. Others are so tired from working every day, but you hang Langdang every day, what do you look like?
Tomorrow you will give me work in the oil well, and the more you don't talk about it, the more you will get on your nose. In a moment, the black bear will be sent to the logistics and divided into one oil well after another. People have been busy in oil wells for more than a month, you are embarrassed. β
was trained by Li Mingyi, and Song Tao also wilted. But he didn't dare to deal with Li Ming, he was afraid of two people in the company, one was Gao Jianguo, the other was Li Ming, and he might be more afraid of Li Ming.
Suddenly, there was an excited shout from the walkie-talkie in Li Ming's hand: "Li Ming, it's oily...... Well No. 2 produced oil ......"
This is Liao Qifeng, director of the Chemical Industry Department, a 50-year-old guy who has been guarding the oil well for more than a month. At this time, his voice was full of excitement, cheerful like a child.
Li Ming also shouted excitedly: "Lao Liao, don't be too excited, you must pay attention to your body, haha...... I'll be there right away. β
After he finished speaking, he began to put equipment on his body, and as soon as he wanted to go out, he saw Song Tao still standing there stupidly, and he scolded with a smile: "What are you still doing in a daze, go to the oil well with me." I don't think you're excited at all. β
Song Tao pouted and said: "Excited fart, even the place where the oil comes out is clear, and a fool can make oil, what's so happy." β
Li Ming pointed at Song Tao angrily, wanted to scold but didn't scold, turned around and left angrily. Li Ming, who was originally very excited, was not so excited when Song Tao said it.
But he still rushed to the No. 2 well as soon as possible and celebrated with everyone. Li Ming immediately ordered all oil pipelines to be stopped and concentrated on laying the oil pipelines of the No. 2 oil well.
The news of the oil production from the No. 2 well made all the employees of the advance team rejoice. After more than a month of busyness, I finally saw the oil. A few days later, through everyone's efforts, the oil pipeline to the No. 2 well was fully completed.
Before everyone had time to celebrate, the No. 1 well also began to produce oil, and in the following month, the No. 3 and No. 4 wells began to produce oil one after another. The refinery at the landing site is finally ready to work.
Although these wells are all low-production wells, and four oil wells can produce less than 20 tons of crude oil per day, it is enough for the soil refinery at the landing site, which has a low efficiency and cost ratio, less than 40 percent of the oil yield, and can produce nearly 3,000 tons of gasoline and diesel and a considerable amount of fuel heavy oil in a year of full load operation.
Although the current oil quality is not stable, with the continuous debugging of the equipment, the oil quality will slowly meet the requirements. Even these low-quality oils can fuel the company's agricultural vehicles, diesel generators, and other equipment.
The company's 5,000-ton Russian-style military tanker had run out of diesel fuel and had been sitting idle in a corner of the Golden Horn waiting to be scrapped. This time, it finally has a new purpose.
It also came to Sakhalin, where it was moored in the sea near the landing site, where gasoline, diesel and fuel heavy oil from the refinery were transported through guΓ² soft tubing to several different product tanks of the tanker, which became a mobile storage tank. R1152