In fact, Alec Perov was not surprised or dissatisfied with Yang Jing's statement that was close to shirking.In all fairness, if it were him, he would never reveal the truth.And Alec Perov was almost certain from this conversation tonight that this young man did possess an incredible magical spell, but the limitations of this spell were great, perhaps the limitations of the spell itself, or the limitations of those old oil wells.Alec Perov judged that the latter should be more likely.As for the limitations of spells, there were, but they definitely wouldn't be cast at the cost of their own lifespan, as the young man had said.There should be a certain amount of cost to cast this spell, but since this spell can be passed down for so long, there must not be too much consumption.Otherwise, if it really costs life, then this spell probably won't be passed down for so long.And most likely is the limitation of those old oil wells.As a veteran oil man, Alec Perov certainly knows how oil is extracted.Oil is stored in hundreds of meters, thousands of meters or even tens of thousands of meters of rock formations underground, and with the science and technology of modern human beings, it is simply impossible to observe the situation of underground oil and gas reservoirs through such thick rock layers.But in any case, oil and gas are hidden in a closed oil and gas reservoir, and several oil and gas reservoirs are gathered together to form an oil field.If a well is drilled directly into an oil and gas reservoir, then oil and gas will inevitably come out.But again, oil wells do not come one after the other like human queues, and there must be gaps between oil wells and oil wells.Perhaps, between two or more wells, there is a hidden oil and gas reservoir that has never been broken.And this young man casts this spell to find this undiscovered oil and gas reservoir on the ground.But this possibility is extremely small, after all, every time an oil field is discovered, dozens of oil wells have to be drilled, hundreds or even thousands of oil wells, so under the "intensive bombardment" of so many oil wells, it is extremely difficult to have missed oil and gas reservoirs.This is also why this young man is obviously burdened with such a magical spell, but in the past two years, he has only found the missing oil and gas reservoirs in the two places of Beaumont and Oham.Otherwise, so many old oil wells and old oil fields in the world have long been monopolized by this young man, and the global oil and gas supply pattern will also be changed by this young man.But now, the world's oil and gas supply pattern has not changed much, and Rongbao Mining, in which this young man has a stake, only has two oil fields in his hands.Moreover, with the continuous development of modern oil recovery technology, such missed reservoirs have become almost impossible to happen, and it is only possible in the older oil fields.As for the more than 600 old oil wells that he just sold, although they belong to two oil fields, the possibility of finding the missing oil and gas reservoirs in them is extremely low.Even if there were, I'm afraid the reserves wouldn't be very large.Therefore, I should not lose money in this transaction.Taking 10,000 steps back, even if Rongbao Mining really finds a new oil and gas reservoir with rich reserves in these old oil wells, it will not change anything.Unless they find a reservoir the size of Saudi Arabia's Ghawar oil field, but is that possible?
You must know that the world's largest oil field alone covers an area of more than 3,300 square kilometers, which is half the area of the entire Baku!
How is it possible to have such a large oil and gas reservoir near Baku?
As a tycoon-level figure who has experienced decades of ups and downs, Alec Perov analyzed all the "cause and effect" almost instantly.Therefore, he did not feel any dissatisfaction with Yang Jing's words.On the contrary, as the world's second largest private oil company, which accounts for 13 percent of the world's oil reserves, 51 percent of the world's oil extraction, 36 percent of all Russian oil production, and 48 percent of all Russian oil processing and smelting, and has total oil reserves of up to 45.5 billion barrels, Lukoil still has a lot of old oil wells in its hands.If you can cooperate happily with Rongbao Mining this time, then there is hope that those old oil wells in your hands will find someone to take over.So, from Alec Perov's point of view, he even hopes that this young man will be able to discover new oil and gas reservoirs in those old oil wells, so that after the first pleasant cooperation, will there be less cooperation in the future?
It is in this state of mind that Alec Perov is still very thoughtful in his hospitality to Yang Jing, at least Yang Jing can't find any shortcomings.Lo and behold, the pure Black Sea caviar, the finest white truffles from Alba in the Piedmont region of northwestern Italy, and the Margaux wine flown in from France, these top ingredients alone cost less than $300,000 for this dinner!
There are also those big people to accompany him, Yang Jing really can't find any shortcomings.But it doesn't matter, after he takes over the Dragon Fund in the future, it's a big deal to let the oil oligarch continue to take care of Luke Oil for himself.After all, it is a banquet set by the richest man in Azerbaijan and the sixth richest man in Russia, even those big names in Azerbaijan may rarely eat such top-level fresh ingredients.After the dinner, Yang Jing and Guo Dabao said goodbye to the owner here, although Alec Perov's manor is big enough, but as guests, Yang Jing and Guo Dabao will not live here, this has nothing to do with anything else, but a business rule.Guo Dabao is staying at the Baku Hilton Hotel, this hotel is the most luxurious hotel in Baku, before Yang Jing came, Guo Dabao had booked a presidential suite and a business suite for Yang Jing, Yang Jing and his group of five people can live.At nine o'clock in the morning the next day, Alec Perov came to the Hilton Hotel with a group of bodyguards and a convoy to pick up Yang Jing and Guo Dabao.Guo Dabao had seen the oil field with very dense old oil wells a few days ago, and this time Alec Perov personally followed, so he would naturally see it in more detail.The 625 old wells purchased by Guo Dabao are located in two different areas, including 402 old wells in the Surakhany district to the east of Baku and 223 old wells in the Bibi-Heybat district south of Baku city.More than a century ago, these two regions were the main oil-producing regions of Baku, and in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, they accounted for more than 63 percent of Baku's oil production.This morning, Yang Jing and his entourage went to the Bibi-Heybat district in the south, which also has a very famous name - Bibi District.After leaving the city of Baku, the convoy took the E60 highway and followed the road for six kilometers to the south to the Bibi district by the sea."
See, Albert, this is the earliest oil-producing area in Baku, and the world's first oil well in the modern sense was drilled here."
Pointing to a peninsula jutting into the Caspian Sea not far away, the tall Alekperov said, "There is a monument built here to commemorate the birth of the world's first oil well." ”"The world's first oil well?
Isn't that Titusville, Pennsylvania, USA?
”Yang Jing asked curiously, he still knows some things about oil, such as the world's first oil well, the world's first 10,000-ton well and so on.Hearing this, Alec Perov laughed, "No, my dear Albert, that well that Edwin Drake's buddy drilled in Titusville, Pennsylvania, was not the first in the world.It was 1859 when Drake drilled a well there, right?
”Yang Jing nodded, he still remembered this kind of world record or something."
However, thirteen years before Drake drilled that well, in 1846, a Russian engineer named Alexiv drilled a well twenty-one meters deep using a primitive percussion drilling rig at the site where the monument was erected in front of him.That well was the real first well in the modern sense!
The Americans are far worse, thirteen years worse than our Russian nation. ”And what's going on?
Yang Jing was a little confused.However, judging by Alec Perov's confidence when he spoke, it is estimated that what he said was true.It's just that this Aleksiff estimated that he would not hype it at that time, so he gave up the title of "the world's first oil well driller" to the American Ed Wendrake."
Crude oil has been extracted here for a long time, but the methods of extraction were very backward, and in the forty years between the accession of the Baku Khanate to the Russian Empire in 1806 and the first oil well drilled by Aleksiv, the method of extracting oil here was by hand.At that time, the oil wells were only a few meters deep, and there were only 136 oil wells in total, and the annual production was only more than 20,000 barrels.These oils were mainly exported to Persia at the time, where they were used for lighting and the use of ointments and other traditional remedies. ”Alec Perov is obviously very familiar with the history of this place, and many allusions are at his fingertips, as if he is telling his own affairs."
At that stage of primitive oil production, it was the famous Rothschilds and the Nobel brothers who controlled the oil production here.Then, half a century later, in 1871, Grand Duke Ivan Mirtsov monopolized oil here.The oil workers under the Grand Duke at the time built the world's first wooden derrick that year, and another the following year, and then used a counterbalance arm and hand pump to drill the original hole.Since then, Baku's oil production industry has really begun to develop.At that time, the oil wells in a radius of several hundred square kilometers were all controlled by the Grand Duke Mirtsov, who was the real oil oligarchy, and I was far from him," Alec Perov laughed to himself.ps: Bow and thank you for the 100 tips of "Very Lazy Fish", "Book Friend 20181030162859263", and "A Ray of Sunshine in the Dark".