Germany had previously foreseen that Baku's oil fields might increase due to China's intervention, but such a scale was definitely beyond anyone's expectations. If it were not verified, no one would believe this matter. It is false to hear it, but the eyes are true. According to the annual output of Baku of 30 million tons, 60% is almost 20 million tons, 20 million tons. At the price of one ton of 35 US dollars, this is 700 million US dollars. ←,.

The price of a battleship is US$30 million, and US$700 million represents a battleship. This is almost the total number of battleships built by Germany before the war. Putting aside the 9 ships of the Scher fleet, the number of main battleships at best is only 18.

Such an improvement is simply immediate, and the increase is quite considerable. After weighing the pros and cons, Germany found that not only the burned oil wells have the requirements for replacement, but even the oil wells that do not have it need to be replaced. China's double-headed oil production engine is relatively expensive, which is probably more than 1 times the world's mainstream single-headed ones. However, no matter how expensive it is, compared with the efficiency of improvement, it is still impossible to compare.

From 2,500 tons, this high-yield oil field has been increased to nearly 6,000 tons, and it may suddenly become the entire Baku. The oil well with the most oil production increased by more than 3,000 tons per day, and the international price is as high as US$100,000, 1 million in 10 days and 10 million in 100 days. However, the price of oil production equipment is only US$500,000. Compared with the increase, this price is far inferior to that of the increase. It is precisely because of Zeyang that Germany bought it in large quantities and purchased 300 units at one time. This is the total number of oil fields in the entire Baku. Of course, without paying cash, oil is used to pay the bills, requiring China to complete the transformation of oil wells in winter, and in 1916, production will continue to be accelerated.

In addition to laying out new oil wells, increasing production capacity, and installing new oil production machinery, Chinese experts are more about exploration. This is the key point. The double-headed oil production engine can increase the production capacity, but only increasing oil production in a fixed oil field, not increasing the total reserves of the entire oil field, but only increasing exports. Even if it is just a not-so-excellent export, as long as the industrial flow is reached, it is enough to satisfy both sides.

In this era, the depth of oil production was only about 600 meters. According to geological conditions, Baku should not have so little oil. The Caspian coast is one of the few templates for marine oil production in the world. How can all of it be discovered now? Exploration efforts must be increased. Not to mention whether Russia can survey all the oil wells at the depth that have been mined. Even if it is surveyed, more oil wells can be obtained under the premise of increasing the depth. Even if the daily output is only a few dozen tons, the number is quite considerable.

Yang Yuanzhao is not a god, and he could not have foreseen that he would travel until 1908, and even had the opportunity to enter Baku without the mining of Baku. However, continued exploration, using China to master oil knowledge and increase the depth of drilling, can definitely increase the output. At present, the newly opened oil fields in Baku have appeared one after another. China does not know how many oil fields there are in Baku, but the survey technology of this era always has omissions. With the technological level of this era, 1,000 meters is a limit. Using some geologists, using the theory of the mainland basin, more oil fields should be found, and then these will be their benefits.

Of course, the Chinese are relatively fair in this regard. They don’t want more things. They just get some reasonable benefits as much as possible. Germany also recognizes them, which means that Germany directly takes the occupied land and takes 80% of them and gives them the remaining 20% ​​to China. Moreover, China will also increase its output as much as possible. This output will be reasonably allocated. China will acquire it at a premium of 10% at the current market price. Conservatively estimates that at least annual output will exceed 200 million tons. This number is very amazing and the funds consumed are also quite amazing.

China has accumulated enough in exploration and is quite familiar with reserves. After searching by a large number of experts, one new oil field after another discovered that Baku's total reserves have increased significantly compared to before, reaching several times before, and 1,120 oil wells have been re-established, most of which have a daily output of dozens of tons. The average daily output has reached about 60 tons, and more than 1,000 different oil wells. Together, Baku's daily crude oil capacity has soared from about 100,000 tons to 800,000 tons. A large oil field with an annual output of 240 million tons appeared in front of the Germans.

Such dazzling changes made the Germans feel like they were in their dreams. Baku is a huge treasure house. As long as the Germans obtain Baku, they can guarantee at least US$1 billion in annual income. However, when this number expanded by 8 times to 8 billion, they were a little at a loss, fearing that too many things would be produced and could not be sold, and that things would be expensive because they still knew this.

For more than 1,100 oil wells, the cost of oil wells is as high as 500,000 yuan per set, and the daily income of oil wells with a daily output of 50 tons is only about US$1,500. It will take one and a half years to recover the funds for oil production equipment. This is still measured by the current oil price.

However, China is extremely generous and directly said that based on the current price, it will increase the acquisition by 10%. As long as the international price is lower than this, it will be based on this price. Once the international price rises, it will be based on the international price.

Germany did not expect that China would be so generous. According to the current standards, a ton of crude oil is about 7.35 barrels. The current price of crude oil per barrel does not exceed US$4. If it increases by 10%, it will reach between 33-34 per ton. Just this price rises, and the annual revenue will be 700 million US dollars. If all the oil production in Baku is sold, it will reach between 8 billion and 9 billion.

This is extremely generous. Although most of the oil wells have a production capacity of less than 50 tons, some high-yields, with an oil well equal to hundreds, and a daily output of 2,500 tons, can reach about 6,000 tons. The highest one, with a production capacity of up to 4,800 tons, how much will it be?

In fact, after 10 days, the 4,800-ton oil well completed the renovation work, with a daily output of up to 11,000 tons, becoming the world's first oil well with a daily output of more than 10,000 tons. Such a small oil well is even stronger than ordinary oil fields in some small countries. Oil fields with an annual output of 4 million tons are even one of the large oil fields in this world.

Germany was extremely excited and signed the agreement regardless of everything. According to the previous agreement, 70% of the increase in production would belong to China, 30% would be the distribution of input and output, which would last for 10 years. Of course, these would be based on the cost of oil production, and 40% would be the quota. According to this proportion, this alone will be the oil sales revenue of Germany in the next 1916 will reach about 4.8 billion US dollars. This amount of money, even if the 500 million yuan purchase of oil well equipment is deducted, is enough to support Germany's next big move.

Regarding Baku Petroleum, after China showed its magic, the dust settled, and China was also quite excited. According to the agreement, at least 150 million tons of crude oil will be traded to China. This is a large amount of oil resources, enough to deal with China's oil crisis. Even now, China has more than 2,000 motor vehicles of various types, but the import volume of 150 million tons can not only support the full operation of vehicles, but also allow China to reserve more oil.

It is a good thing to discover large-scale oil resources, but how to transport such a huge amount of oil is a crucial issue. Baku is leaning against the Caspian Sea and not far from the Black Sea. Unfortunately, this is not a peaceful era. Otherwise, if you directly build an oil pipeline from Baku to Batumi, and build a large-scale port along the Black Sea coast, you can transport things out.

In today's war years, whether it is the Strait of Gibraltar or the Suez Canal, they are controlled by the British. It is impossible for them to let tankers pass through the border. So if they want to transport these things, they can only be railways.

Since Germany started the war against Baku, China has prepared that railways are the best tool for land transportation in this era. None of them, on the premise that the sea route has been rejected, railways are the only choice. From Istanbul and even the 3b railway are located in Iraq, it directly connects a railway to Baku. This is the closest and most labor-saving choice.

The Chinese engineering team has a very fast construction speed. This is always a tradition in China. It is expected that by February 1916, the railway to Baku will be directly connected, and both material transportation and mechanical transportation will be greatly improved. However, there are some changes in the middle. Baku is an oil city, and its products are liquid oil, not other resources, so this railway requires a large number of liquid cars.

However, no matter how large the railway's capacity is, according to the number of 1500 tons of a train, 150 million tons, 100,000 vehicles, the average number is 300 vehicles per day. It is not impossible to arrange it. In this case, if you travel back and forth in three days, at least 900 trains and 1,500 tons of trucks each, you need at least 25 cars. If all of them are liquid cars, you must prepare in advance, because only oil is mined and liquefied petroleum gas is not considered. The manufacturing of ordinary containers is much smaller than that of high-pressure closed cars. As long as there are enough molds and production tools and a certain amount of manpower is invested, it can be produced quickly. Yang Yuanzhao is not worried about this, and he is even more worried about the other side. (To be continued.)

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