In the southeast of Tianjin City, on the edge of the sea, this is the Dagang Oil Field in later generations.
At this time, countless tents were set up on the wasteland. From a distance, they looked like military camps.
If you walk in and look, it is indeed a military camp. The workers here all carry firecrackers. There is also a sword on the waist.
A tall derrick stands on the wasteland. This is a salt-alkali land by the sea, with wild grass growing sparsely and patches of white salt-alkali on the ground. As desolate as it is.
Many workers shouted slogans, and a group of more than a dozen people pushed the long steel pipe and walked in circles. These derricks are driven by manpower to drive the winch through the variable speed gear set to push the drilling rig for drilling.
This is soft soil, so the manpower is okay. If it were a hard rock, it would be blinding.
Yang Fan chose shallow oil wells buried more than 400 meters away. Even the first well was the shallowest well in the entire Dagang Oilfield, with a depth of only 223 meters.
However, now the reciprocating steam engine will soon be put into mass production. From now on, no matter whether it is a drilling rig or a pumping unit, there will be no need to worry about lack of power.
Han Xiaowu heard that enameled wire can be mass-produced. The research and development of generators is being stepped up, and even wired telegraph and wireless communications are being studied. Even the electrical appliance R&D team is still experimenting with electric lights.
They all learned about electricity in the academy, and even Teacher Yaoguang gave them simple circuit experiments and on-site demonstrations during class, including coils wound around magnetic lines to generate electricity, circuit composition, and small light bulbs emitting light.
With petroleum refining fuel, perhaps the age of electricity is coming soon.
Han Xiaowu looked at the crude oil spurting out, even though her whole body was black and smelly. But he was very happy in his heart.
He knew that as long as oil was extracted and refineries were built, there would be inexhaustible energy.
The combustion value of fuel oil is much higher than that of coal. In the future, this oil field will become more and more important.
Three self-effluent wells have now been drilled. There is a production of five thousand barrels a day. The largest of these wells accounted for three thousand barrels in one day.
The oil barrels are all old oil barrels that Yang Fan sent from modern times, which cannot be made locally yet.
The main reason is the lack of steel plate production equipment. It is necessary to purchase equipment to build a new workshop, and it is too late to build it yourself. Therefore, we first made do with old oil drums sent from Hyundai.
After a large number of oil-related well pipe factories, drilling rig factories, and oil barrel factories are established, they can be supplied locally.
Dagang Oilfield borders the Bohai Sea to the east, the Jizhong Plain to the west, Shandong to the southeast, and the junction of Tianjin and Tang Dynasty to the north, spanning the three provinces of Tianjin, Hebei and Shandong. It is 190 kilometers away from Beijing and 40 kilometers away from Tianjin Port. The transportation here is very good.
Yang Fan plans to pump oil and refine oil on the spot here. Daming Petrochemical will also build a refinery here.
The petroleum products produced here can be transported to the capital through canals and even the railways being built. It can also be shipped out to sea from Tianjin Port and transported to various places along the coast and rivers of Daming.
Yang Fan's plan to replace cooking oil with kerosene as a lamp oil business requires a refining base with convenient transportation.
This summer, more than 500 people from the newly established Petroleum Exploration Institute came here with drilling rigs, drill pipes, well pipes and other equipment specially developed and manufactured by Xinghe Iron Works.
Yang Fan has a modern oil well distribution map in his hand, so there is no need for exploration at all. Once you get to the place, drilling a well will definitely produce oil.
Drill bits are high-tech, but the oil here is buried shallowly and the soil is soft, so ordinary hardened steel drill bits are sufficient.
The principle of drilling pipe is also simple, that is, drilling a hole on the outside of the steel pipe. As long as the formation containing oil is drilled, the crude oil will enter the well pipe under the underground pressure and then spurt out on its own.
Of course, after 5% of the reserves are mined, the self-effluent well becomes an ordinary well. At this time, you need to use a kowtow machine to draw out the oil.
Modern kowtow machines are all powered by electricity. Although there is no electricity now, reciprocating steam engines are mature and it is possible to use steam engines as power. Coal and water are cheap anyway.
Han Xiaowu is a seventeen-year-old boy. After half a year of intensive study at Xinghe Academy, he received a diploma from the accelerated course. Then, you need to choose the direction in which to continue learning. He chose geology.
This is a hot topic because Zunhua is a steel base and Yang Fan's main business is steelmaking. Therefore, prospecting, prospecting, and mining are very important. The study subsidy is very high, and you can enjoy the subsidy even before you graduate.
At that time, there were fifty students who chose this direction. Teacher Yaoguang teaches them one day a week, and they spend the rest of the time studying on their own based on the learning materials.
After a year of study, after graduation, some of these people went to coal mines, some to iron mines, and some to find copper mines. Han Xiaowu and a dozen classmates were transferred to the Petroleum Exploration Institute.
The leader of the exploration brigade under the institute is a veteran who has been disabled among the servants.
This veteran is called Lao Cangtou, and his nickname is Cang Tianye. He was originally disabled and retired because he lost one eye in the battle.
However, after working as a well house manager for a year, through attending night classes and constant physical exercise, he stood out in the recruitment of the internal exploration team and became the captain of the exploration team at the age of fifty-four.
Yang Fan finally chose him. In addition to the fact that he had indeed passed the cultural class, he also had explorations in the wilderness. Now that the Ming Dynasty is so chaotic, these veterans who have fought on the battlefield are more secure.
For technical matters, we mainly rely on students from Xinghe Academy. Doing physical work is not a problem for these veterans. They were the first batch of oil workers and also armed security personnel, so Yang Fan felt more at ease.
The old man's second wife has given birth to a fat son. Now, his wife has taken over the job of guarding the well house and sells vegetables. Raising children at home. He became the captain of the first oil workers.
The old man is strong and strong. Although he is blind in one eye, he feels that he will have no problem working for another ten years. Oil workers were paid extremely well, so he wanted to save more money for his son while he was still able to work.
As for working in the wilderness, it’s hard work and all. He is not afraid of hardship at all. I have never suffered anything in the first half of my life. If it weren't for the prowess on the battlefield, there would be no such good life today.
As for the master using veterans like them, he knew it in his heart. The master cherishes these student children. How much money did it cost to train them? The veterans themselves are there to protect them.
Now that the Ming Dynasty is in such chaos, it will be impossible without some people who are skilled in the use of swords and guns. As for the gangsters, the old man sneered. After fighting with Jiannu, I look down upon the Ming bandits.
After arriving here, although I am very tired. This job is also very dirty, but it pays a lot of money. An ordinary oil worker earns three taels of silver a month. As the captain, he earns five taels of silver a month.
This large area of tents was the first oil base of the Ming Dynasty. Derricks are being erected one after another.
Han Xiaowu is the chief engineer, and the other students are technicians. The master assigned them five hundred retired veterans to form a team.
Han Xiaowu was thinking about the importance of oil. Maybe in a few years, a small town would be formed here.
