Warship of Great Power

Gullfaks C Platform is the largest offshore oil platform in Norway, while Troll A Platform is the largest offshore natural gas platform in Norway. The height of this platform has reached an incredible 472 meters and the weight has reached 680,000 tons. Such a behemoth can produce 120 million cubic meters of natural gas every day!

In this era, oil and coal are increasingly despised by the public due to the pollution caused by combustion, but natural gas is sought after because the emissions after combustion are cleaner. I don’t know how many places have replaced coal boilers with natural gas boilers. As for the extra fuel cost? For the blue sky and white clouds, for future generations, it’s worth it!

Since its establishment, this Troll A Platform natural gas platform has always been the most profitable platform. Who would have thought that it would have an accidental explosion today!

"How did it explode?" Oryang looked ugly.

"I don’t know. The accident is under investigation, but it is estimated that the cause cannot be found. After all..."

With a bang, people were blown away. Even if there were still people, how long could they survive in the cold sea? Therefore, the cause of the accident is likely to be a mystery.

However, natural gas is always dangerous. If there is a leak and someone does not follow safety regulations, such as smoking secretly, it may still cause a fire.

Accident rescue is one aspect, and on the other hand, how to solve the huge production reduction problem caused by the accidents of these two most important platforms.

Sure enough, a few minutes later, Oryang's phone rang. It was the president of Equinox.

"These two platforms should not be used. We must find new platforms as soon as possible, start construction as soon as possible, and put them into production as soon as possible. Solve the energy shortage problem within three months as soon as possible!"

"This is impossible. It takes at least three years for an offshore drilling platform to negotiate a contract, place an order, and produce it."

"Is there no ready-made one?"

"Of course not... Wait! We have orders for eight drilling platforms in the East, we..."

Oryang reacted: "No, there is a problem here. Suddenly, two platforms had problems today. I suspect that someone is behind it! It's the Orientals, the people of the Mingzhou Group, I'm sure!"

There is a basic common sense in conspiracy theories. Even if there is no evidence, as long as you look at who benefits, you can know who is behind it.

They used tricks to cripple Tianchuan Heavy Industry, and there were eight vacant drilling platforms over there. When Qin Haiyang took over, an accident happened here. Need I say more? It must have been done by the Orientals, Mr. Qin!

The other side also fell silent, and finally spoke after a minute: "Do you have any evidence?"

What evidence? Everything is their guess! Can they find evidence that the people on the Sterlingda tanker were bribed by the Orientals? Or can they find evidence that the Orientals set fire to their platform?

Without evidence, it will be endless wrangling, and the lawsuit will be fought for several years, and finally it will be in vain.

Can they wait for a few years? How much money will they lose? The best way at present is to purchase the eight drilling platforms from Tianchuan Heavy Industry immediately, get them back and start work as soon as possible, and make a profit as soon as possible!

After hanging up the phone, Oryang sat on the sofa and didn't move for a long time. But there was a chill in his heart. What kind of monster did they offend!

What should I do next?

Bang!

The door suddenly opened again.

"What happened again?" Oryang looked at John who appeared at the door. Is there another oil platform that has been destroyed?

"A video has appeared on the Internet. You... better take a look."

"What video?"

"The rescuers found the monitoring system of the Troll A Platform natural gas platform."

"Great!" Oryang's eyes lit up. This is good news! With the monitoring system, the truth of the accident can be found out!

"However, I don't know who leaked the video inside. Now, it is circulating everywhere on the Internet."

Leaked and circulating everywhere on the Internet? Oryang felt a little weird.

"Show me!"

"Wait a minute."

John turned on the computer and logged into ICQ. This thing has been spreading wildly on the Internet. There are many groups. He found one of them and clicked it.

The complex pipelines were condensed with frost, and the dim light gave it a weird feeling. Ordinary people only knew that it was factory equipment. Only experts knew that it was equipment on an offshore natural gas platform.

Whether it is oil or natural gas, it is impossible to be transported immediately after it is mined. Therefore, these platforms have storage devices. Oil is easy to say, just store it in the tank, but what about natural gas?

The density of natural gas is very small, and it is difficult to store a large amount of it in conventional storage. The best way is to liquefy natural gas.

These devices are used for liquefied natural gas.

The device that is buzzing is the compressor, which is responsible for compressing the liquefied gas as much as possible. The pipes with frost are condensers, which complete the liquefaction of natural gas. Then it enters the separation tower to separate the impurities and enter the storage tank. When the liquefied gas ship approaches, the liquefied natural gas can be exported and transported away.

These devices were built by the island country, and the storage tanks are also the MOSS tanks unique to the island country. The entire monitored area seems so monotonous and boring.

Suddenly, a puff of white smoke came out of the compressor. Then, the white smoke expanded, and the entire monitoring room was occupied by white smoke!

"The compressor exploded?" Oryang said.

Just like the refrigerator, once the compressor is started, it will not stop and keep running. The required quality is very high. The island country's technology is reassuring. It only took ten years. It should not explode!

Then the sirens went off.

Natural gas platforms are very dangerous. Once leaked, the consequences are unpredictable. Therefore, alarms are installed in many places.

Then, a figure appeared in the surveillance area. This was a person without any protection. After he came in, he backed out in a few seconds. After waiting for a minute, when he reappeared, he had already put on fire-proof clothing and had his back After getting on the oxygen tank, he quickly ran over and saw that he was a serious and responsible employee. He also had a large wrench in his hand.

If the compressor breaks down, the next step is to shut down for maintenance. Although everything can be done automatically, there are always times when the equipment breaks down, which requires manual control.

You have to close the valve manually!

The worker was very brave and rushed towards the direction of the valve, and then aimed the wrench at the bolt on the valve. However, when his wrench touched it, a spark accidentally came out!

The next second, the entire scene turned blood red, and the blazing flames suddenly expanded, sweeping over the camera, and the picture disappeared.

Oryang's face was full of annoyance. He thought the video was over. The next second, the video switched to the scene outside.

This time it was even more spectacular. The flames rose rapidly and jumped hundreds of meters into the sky. There were flames below and smoke above. The thick smoke curled up and formed a mushroom cloud!

“Where did this exterior scene come from?”

"A passing cargo ship."

Although there was still fog on the sea at that time, it had faded. When the platform exploded, the flames quickly burned away all the surrounding fog, and the vision became clear.

"Isn't this too much of a coincidence?" Oryang said.

"Yes, this video has been forwarded all over the world, and everyone will say that this is such a coincidence, but... this thing really happened, and now we have found the reason, so we..."

"Immediately go and settle the accounts with the islanders!" Oryang gritted his teeth: "Their equipment broke down within its life span. They have to compensate for the cost of the equipment, the pensions of the personnel, and the losses caused by the damage to our equipment! "

"I'm afraid this is a bit difficult."

"Why?"

"In order to reduce operating expenses, we have refused the high-priced after-sales service from the islanders three years ago, and let our Equinox company be responsible for maintenance. Even if we have to file a lawsuit, they can blame it on poor maintenance." Salter Luo looked angry: "Damn it, I told them a long time ago not to save this money, but they just didn't listen!"

"Then we have to file a lawsuit, and they have to compensate us for our losses!" Oryang said.

Sortelo looked at the computer screen with complicated eyes: "But, I want to know even more how this video was leaked."

They were suspicious and believed that the Orientals had tampered with this incident. However, since the cargo ship hit the oil platform and the equipment exploded on the natural gas platform, the Orientals were able to distance themselves from each other.

But on the contrary, he became even more suspicious.

Dongfang, Mingzhou Group.

"Mr. Qin, everything is done."

"Um."

"That video was made by our artificial intelligence. I don't know if it will be successful or there may be flaws."

"This is not important. As long as this video spreads, everyone will believe it. At that time, no matter what the Norwegians think, they will not come to trouble us. They just have suspicions and no evidence." Qin Tao said: "They If you dare to drink our blood, you should know what will happen."

Let them guess, but they have no choice yet, so they have to come and beg us in the end!

"Relevant parties have already said hello, and the next step is the price increase of oil and natural gas." Xu Zhengyang said.

"Well, the Americans will probably be envious of us."

In the global village, some people are used to being the village chief. They have to dictate everything that happens in the villagers' homes, and they have to control the energy in the villagers' homes.

However, such domineering behavior will always arouse the resentment of the villagers. In the past, the villagers dared to be angry but dared not speak out. Now, with knives in their hands, they have become tougher.

Americans cannot control the price of oil, but Qin Tao Xing, Qin Tao only needs to say hello, many people will buy his account, and if the price is high, they will also earn more.

Norway.

People from Seadrill Company and Equinox Company gathered together, their faces gloomy.

"Is there any evidence that it was an Easterner who did it?" Adkins, head of Equinox, asked.

"No, we can't find any evidence. Of course, we can also accuse the Orientals of crimes, but they probably won't admit guilt and may even bite back and say that we are slandering them." Sortelo said.

"Yeah, we are just guessing at the moment that their Skyship Heavy Industry is in dire straits because of us, so they want to take revenge, but we have no evidence, and if we identify them, it will let the whole world know about it, By then, our reputation will be even worse."

If you want to point fingers, you have to tell everything that happened before and after. By that time, the whole world will know what shameful things they did!

In the past, only the industry knew about it. Now the explosion of the natural gas platform has spread widely. Once the grievances are made public, they will be hyped by countless media, and everyone will know it.

"For us, these are secondary. The key is what to do next, whether we should reduce production capacity, or..." Before Adkins finished speaking, someone ran in from outside.

"Global energy prices have begun to rise!"

"Rise? Why?"

"Just now, the dog owner announced that due to serious problems with our offshore platform, the dog owner decided to shut down the offshore oil and gas platform for maintenance in the next period of time, and the shutdown is expected to last for a week."

The supply and demand relationship is the most basic economic relationship, and it has reached a state of balance. However, the announcement by the dog owner will cause the supply and demand relationship to be unbalanced. If the supply is less, the price will naturally rise.

"They don't have many offshore platforms, right?"

Different places have different mining costs. The oil of the dog big family is mainly on land. Since it is all high-yield self-flowing crude oil, the mining cost is very low. Ten dollars a barrel is high, and many oil fields can be as low as one or two dollars a barrel.

And the plateau permafrost of the old Russians costs about twenty dollars to mine a barrel, and transportation is not convenient.

However, these are nothing. The cost of offshore mining is the highest, which is often thirty or forty dollars a barrel. If the international oil price drops below forty-five dollars a barrel, it is easy to lose money.

There are so many oil and natural gas on land in the dog big family. Is it still necessary to mine offshore? Therefore, there are not many offshore, and it will not play a big role.

"Yes, it is indeed not much, but what if all the offshore oil and gas platforms in the world are shut down for maintenance?"

"How is it possible... could it be?" Adkins suddenly reacted: Is this a trick of the Orientals?

If so, it will be troublesome. Next, many oil-producing countries will use this high-sounding excuse to reduce production capacity, and then the international oil price will soar!

In the past, only the United States had this kind of appeal, but they called on oil-producing countries to increase oil production and lower prices, putting the Soviet Union in a dilemma. The oil produced had to be sold at a loss, and if it was not produced, the oil field would be ruined.

There are many reasons for the disintegration of the Soviet Union, and this is one of them.

After that, for a period of time, all countries also followed the lead of the United States, but it has changed in recent years!

Americans don’t have this ability, but Orientals do!

However, even if they know that it is the Orientals who are doing it, there is no other way. After all, this reason is very high-sounding, for safety and environmental protection!

The impact of this accident is too bad. The leaked oil has polluted the entire Norwegian coast! If they were in another place, they could ignore it, but now, they have to find a way to deal with the oil floating on the sea, otherwise those environmentalists will come to protest.

The explosion of the natural gas platform is even more terrible, it is simply a giant nuclear bomb! If this thing breaks down, the threat is too great. Any company that produces natural gas must do this, even if it reduces losses for a few days, to ensure safety.

Moreover, there will not necessarily be losses, because as the output decreases, the price will go up.

"No matter who is behind this, we cannot ignore it. Even if there is no such thing, we need to restore oil production capacity as soon as possible, otherwise... our customers will be lost."

Although the prices of oil and natural gas in the world change every day, it is just for outsiders to see. In fact, international big customers generally have long-term agreements, which are signed for one year, or even three or five years.

They also have fixed customers in Norway. Now they have suddenly encountered an accident, and their oil and natural gas production capacity has greatly decreased. Then long-term customers may give up importing oil from them and look for other oil-producing countries.

Will they buy their oil again after they sign a multi-year agreement?

"At present, the most direct way is to go to the East and buy back those drilling platforms that were abandoned before. As long as they are transported, the time should be in time. If they can take the Arctic route, it is estimated that they can arrive in 20 days." Oryang said: "But..."

If everything is done by the Orientals behind the scenes, then their purpose is probably to let them buy those platforms. If they do this, won't they be led by the nose?

You said you didn't want it at the beginning, and found all kinds of problems, but now you want it again? What's going on?

"I have a way." At this time, Soltello spoke: "I heard that after the son of Mr. Qin took over Tianchuan Heavy Industry, he offered a big reward. No matter who can sell the drilling platform, he can become the general manager, so we..."

Everyone's eyes lit up, that's right! Let's use the trick against him!

East, Tianchuan Heavy Industry.

Qin Haiyang sat in a swivel chair, looking at the news displayed on the computer screen in front of him, his face was a little ugly.

"Really, you still don't believe me." Qin Haiyang said: "I am obviously capable of doing this, but you have to help me! Humph, I don't want your help. The little eagle can only grow into an eagle after leaving his parents!"

Dongdong!

At this moment, there was a knock on the door outside.

"Come in."

"Mr. Qin, Mr. Qin, good news!" Xia Yu ran in excitedly: "I have found a buyer, they are willing to buy our eight offshore drilling platforms!"

"Really?" Qin Haiyang was also happy: "Who is the buyer?"

"Norwegian Offshore Exploration Company! I have studied it, these drilling platforms are specially built for Norway, so we still have to sell them to them! I searched carefully on the Internet, sent countless emails, and finally got a response. I will report to you first. As long as you nod, I will let them come over immediately. By the way, Mr. Qin, is your promise still valid?"