From the Island Owner to the King

At this time, on this sea, a resource exploration ship was moored.

Chen Rui's yacht was close to the resource exploration ship and boarded the exploration ship through a small boat.

On the exploration ship, dozens of oil prospectors are busy busy.

These petroleum exploration personnel include geological engineers, reservoir engineers, engineers of geophysical data acquisition, interpretation, and processing, numerical simulation, well logging, and supervisory positions.

They are part of Halliburton's Energy Services Division.

Halliburton is currently the world's largest oil and energy industry service company. The company's main work is to provide equipment and services for oil and gas exploration, development and drilling, as well as infrastructure construction.

They have been working continuously on Tortuga Island for more than half a year.

They are employed by the Royal Assets Management Committee of Tortuga Island. Their main work is to explore more than 180 square kilometers of land, tens of thousands of square kilometers of territorial waters, and oil and gas resources in the exclusive economic zone of Tortuga Island.

Anyone who has studied geology and oil exploration knows it.

The formation of natural oil requires three conditions.

1. Sedimentary rocks suitable for generating petroleum. Sedimentary rocks are formed by sediments over millions of years. The sediments contain fish, shellfish, plankton, plants, etc. These organic substances are decomposed due to heating or aging, and become into oil and gas.

2. Porous rock that stores oil, the pores will absorb oil like a sponge.

3. Impermeable rock 'covers' the oil and seals it up.

Oil prospectors look for these three types of rocks.

"Hey, Bill, is everything going well at work?" Chen Rui walked into a studio, one wearing a blue plaid shirt and jeans, with a slightly fat body. Wearing black-rimmed glasses, an old man of about 5 or 60 years old is sitting in front of the computer and staring intently at the computer screen. There was a pen in his hand and a notebook on the table. The notebook is filled with dense data, sketches.

The old man's name is Bill. Bob, an internationally renowned geological engineer, who serves as the captain of the oil exploration team here.

Before, in order to know the progress of the oil exploration team in detail, Chen Rui came here. Bill Bob also invited Chen Rui to have lunch on the boat, and the two were very familiar with each other.

"It worked very well.

"Bill Bob was sitting in front of the computer. Hearing Chen Rui asking, he raised his head and said to Chen Rui with a smile.

The main processes of petroleum exploration and development are: geological exploration--geophysical exploration--drilling--logging--logging--completion--cementing--perforating--oil production--workover, increased production and subsequent transportation and processing.

At the beginning of the year, Bill Bob led an oil exploration team to Tortuga Island. First, he used his professional geological knowledge to directly observe and study the bottom layer and rocks on the ground, collect the rock formations on the seabed, and understand the sedimentary strata. and structural characteristics, and collect all geological data in order to identify favorable zones and distribution patterns for oil and gas generation and accumulation. In order to achieve the goal of finding oil and gas fields.

This is the 'census' of the geological survey method.

Then there is the 'detailed investigation', which is reflected in the 'selection'. It 'censuses' promising areas to further confirm the selection of more powerful oil-bearing structures.

The final step is the 'fine test'. It is mainly reflected in the 'determination'. The target of 'detailed investigation' is to determine the oil-bearing structure through detailed survey, and to compile an accurate structural map for further drilling.

This is the survey and geophysical process.

These two processes took the exploration team more than half a year.

Finally, the 'detailed investigation' target, that is to say, Tortuga Island and the most likely place for oil in the exclusive economic zone are set in this sea area, 40 nautical miles northwest of Tortuga Island, in Tortuga Island. within the exclusive economic zone of the island of Altuga.

"Where is the exploration work now?" Chen Rui poured himself a glass of boiling water, took a sip, and looked at Bill Bob. to Bill Bob.

"The survey is over, and the geophysical work is coming to an end." Bill Bob said. "Data fed back through magnetometry, gravimetry and other methods. Through computer analysis, it is very likely that there is an oil and gas field under the seabed."

Magnetometry, gravimetry, I learned something when I talked to Bill Bob before. All rocks are magnetic, but the magnetic properties of various rocks are slightly different. Based on this, we can know the structure and type of underground rocks. The strength meter can measure changes in magnetic data and draw a map of the stratigraphic structure.

The gravimetric method is based on the density difference between the detected object and its surrounding rock (ore), ......

"Congratulations, you have done very successfully." Hearing this, Chen Rui said with a smile, "Congratulations, you have done very successfully."

"Mr. Chen, I should congratulate you. This is your oilfield." Bill Bob said with a smile.

"When can drilling." Chen Rui asked.

"We calculated the position of the rock formations through the magnetic measurement method and seismic exploration method, and drew the formation structure map and the detailed cross-sectional diagram of the formation. After the drilling equipment arrives here from the United States, we can drill for about half a month. After." Bill Bob said.

Chen Rui nodded.

Halliburton Energy Services is one of the world's largest suppliers of energy products and services, from oil and gas exploration, development, production, operation, maintenance, conversion and refining, to infrastructure construction and even the abandonment of oil and gas fields. , providing products and services along the entire oil and gas chain.

The oil exploration and drilling service contracts signed by the Royal Assets Management Committee and Halliburton's Energy Services Department cost more than 10 million US dollars.

After the oil is successfully drilled, there will be contracts for the construction of an offshore oil exploration platform, the construction of an oil refinery, and the construction of an oil transportation pipeline. The service fee of these contracts may exceed one billion US dollars.

The reason why the Royal Assets Management Committee thought of hiring Halliburton's oil prospectors to explore the oil and gas resources of Tortuga Island, the territorial waters, and the 200-nautical-mile exclusive economic zone.

This was instructed by Chen Rui.

As soon as the Tortuga Kingdom was established, Chen Rui instructed the Royal Assets Management Committee to hire professional oil prospectors to explore the oil and gas resources of Tortuga Island.

Chen Rui's advice seemed very reasonable and normal to others.

Although the area of ​​Tortuga Island is very small, only over 180 square kilometers, there are few resources, but the territorial sea, contiguous zone and exclusive economic zone of Tortuga Island are not small.

Extending 200 nautical miles from the sea baseline, adding up to tens of thousands of square kilometers, the possibility of possessing oil and gas resources is very large. (To be continued)