Chapter 146 Seabed Drilling
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Lawrence raised his eyebrows, thinking that this was a bit unreliable, but he had to admit that since it was a cooperative company, the interests should not be tilted to their Rockefeller family, and Zhu Bin also wanted to make money.
"Okay. Then we will try our best to seek a monopoly of oil mining in the entire Western European sea." After all, it is an excellent descendant of the Rockefeller family. His ability to make a quick decision is no worse than his ancestors. Lawrence Mar changes his thinking, "So, how confident are you to exploit oil fields in the North Sea? The climate here is really harsh."
The waters in the North Sea are shallow and windy, with high waves and heavy fog. They are much harsh than the environment on the west coast of the United States and the Gulf of Mexico, and the conditions are not of the same level. So far, Lawrence has not fully mastered Haitian exploration technology, so he does not know how much he has to grasp Zhu Bin.
Zhu Bin said confidently: "There is no problem with this. In fact, we have done some investigations in the early stage, so it is not difficult to successfully open up the situation here."
Lawrence nodded cautiously: "I believe in your judgment. So, when can we hand over the exploration technology and equipment to our company for control?"
Zhu Bin's mouth twitched, and after thinking about it, he said reluctantly: "It will take some time to wait for this, about three to five months later."
Zhu Bin has no so-called undersea exploration technology and equipment at all. He is the hardest robot in the world, Wali, who is a coolie, driving work equipment from the sea to do things. The so-called exploration equipment that can be seen by outsiders is not without design, but manufacturing takes time.
He had too many things to do, and he was too busy for a while. Now that he asked Lawrence, he had to find an excuse to delay. Well, I'll pass this level first.
Lawrence didn't know what was going on. He took it for granted that Zhu Bin was for the sake of technical confidentiality and stability. As the company's business progressed, it was reasonable. If he cooperated with a large consortium like them, he would come up with all his trump cards and would not know how to die. If he turned to others, the mysterious GD group must have the same mentality.
Three to five months is not long. At least it will take California's oil wells to form a scale, officially enter production, become a typical case, and then enter large-scale operations.
The German fleet drove to the north around the No. 2 Sea Platform. Soon after, it reached the northernmost end of Germany. The shallow waters in the west of Schleswig-Holstein stopped. The No. 2 platform, designed specifically for shallow sea exploration, slowly stretched four triangular steel pile legs into the sea, and then compacted their own weight of ten thousand tons, which was equivalent to establishing a foothold in the sea.
The platform, a giant tower crane and drilling derrick as high as 100 meters high, was operated skillfully under the operation of top workers trained by standard oil, and slowly drilled underground towards the seabed in the cold wind and waves of the North Sea.
The Germans chose full trust in Zhu Bin's location selection and the entire drilling process, but now they saw that they had started drilling without any exploration. The engineers who followed couldn't help asking: "Is this a bit too casual? It's impossible for us to look for oil fields just like blindly?"
The cost of drilling an exploration well on the sea surface is too high, and the efficiency is too low. If you don’t drill a thousand or two meters, how can you know if there is oil? Is there a bit of scientific basis for exploration?
Zhu Bin explained on his behalf: "This is not a direct drilling. In fact, this is an important part of the exploration process."
While speaking, he pointed to the sea far away: "Gentlemen, our exploration work is actually underway."
With the waves and the howling cold wind, a huge steel monster slowly rose from the sea, and its diameter could be about ten meters, which was floating and sinking, but the exposed steel frame and the huge round twelves that were twenty meters long showed an extraordinary science fiction style.
A group of Germans looked through the telescope for a long time, but couldn't see anything. Although Lawrence Rockefeller had seen it many times, he never saw the true appearance of this thing. He only knew that it was that guy who determined the exact location and geological conditions of the oil field, so that the engineers designed the mining methods was Zhu Bin's secret weapon.
Zhu Bin carefully introduced: "That was our manned submarine deep-sea detector. Its main function is to use air cannons to knock a metal probe into the rock layer on the seabed, extend it out of the water surface recording device, determine the sensing area, and then drill a exploration well of hundreds of meters at the center, put a bomb with great power to detonate. All probe rods will record the characteristics of the mini-seismic ripple generated, thereby judging the deep geological structure and finding the oil and gas layer."
"It's that simple?" The German was stunned. It sounded like, it was not complicated.
But when you think about it carefully, it is not that simple. It can be dived to a depth of several hundred meters. This can be done. Americans can dive to a depth of one thousand meters, but it is difficult to design external machinery at such a depth? Can it withstand such a large amount of water pressure? It can be imagined that it is nothing more than a guy driven by high-pressure gas. How to make a pressure-resistant restart tank? What alloy technology is used to make the metal probe rod? What sensitive accessories are installed inside? What kind of recorder on the sea surface looks like?
The most important thing is that even if you have recorded data, you don’t have a large enough geological database and you can’t compare it or judge the real geological structure. This way, it is the simplest thing to find out that oil drills a large hole several hundred meters deep to create an artificial earthquake.
"The benefits of this GD laboratory are so many complex technologies that require them to be involved. They have figured it out." The Germans were so immense as soon as they analyzed it. They admired it very much. Lawrence shook his head helplessly. For more than half a year, he and his family's laboratory engineers have worked hard to study, but they have never been able to find Zhu Bin's technology. It is easy to say and cannot be realized.
The hard-working Wall Power showed her face and then dived to the bottom of the sea. The water depth and water pressure were not high, so she was more flexible in action. It operated the huge metal arm of the plug-in, drilling a hole of more than ten meters deep into the surface sand and gravel bottom, and then a huge round zip stretched in. With a "bang", it banged a alloy pole more than five meters long into the rock layer, cleverly connected a wire, released an inflatable balloon with a diameter of about one meter to float on the water surface.
One by one, centered on the drilling platform, more than ten were made within a radius of 50 kilometers, and the signal was sent to the platform. This process lasted for two days and nights.
Early on the fourth morning, the platform engineer determined the signal and stopped drilling. He placed the most powerful high-explosion ** in a deep hole that penetrated more than 300 meters. The platform was closed and dragged away, causing the explosion.
Chapter completed!