In the United States, there are two places with the highest concentration of semiconductor and computer industries, one is the famous Silicon Valley of California, and the other is Austin, the capital of Texas, which is located in Texas and is nicknamed "Silicon Mountain".
There are many states in the United States whose capital is not the largest city in the state, for example, the capital of New York is not the largest city in the state, New York, but Albany; The capital of California is not Los Angeles, but Sacramento.
Similarly, although Austin is the capital of Texas, the largest city in Texas is Houston.
Before the rise of Texas' oil economy, Austin was once the most important economic center of Texas relying on the Central Railroad, but with the discovery of a large amount of oil in Texas, Austin's economic status in Texas has dropped a lot.
But in any case, Austin, as the capital of Texas, still hosts many large old oil well auctions here every year.
It is like the old oil well auction that Yang Jing participated in was the last old oil well auction held in Austin in 2017, and it was also the largest old oil well auction this year.
According to the information inquired by Lin Dan, there will be as many as 1,375 old oil wells auctioned in the old oil well auction held today, and the largest group is composed of 17 oil wells, which are located in Kansas, and are 17 old oil wells in a small oil field that has been closed.
Of course, there is no shortage of single old oil wells auctioned at auctions, most of which belong to the kind of old oil wells that have been closed for a long time and have been auctioned off several times or even dozens of times.
This kind of old oil well is almost unattended, so the price is also surprisingly cheap.
It's like an old oil well near Beaumont, Texas, which used to be a 10,000-ton well with a daily output of 10,000 tons, and belonged to an old oil well in the most famous "spindle top" oil field of the year.
But this old oil well, which once created glory in those years, was shut down as early as the end of the thirties of the last century after more than ten years of uncontrolled exploitation.
This old oil well has also participated in dozens of auctions, but without exception, it has been unsold, so that many people have seen this old oil well at the auction more than once.
After dozens of unsuccessful auctions, the price of this old oil well has also been reduced to an unbelievable price - $32!
That's right, this old oil well, which has been closed for more than 70 years, has a reserve price of only $32 at auction!
But even so, the well was unattended.
After all, the history of this old oil well is too long, and even if it is photographed, it will take a lot of money to restore the operation of this old oil well.
This old oil well is like an old man, although there is still a breath, but in the eyes of those speculators who put interests first, this old oil well is already hopeless.
However, such an old oil well is an out-and-out treasure in Yang Jing's eyes.
At that time, this old oil well was also a 10,000-ton well, and an oil well that could produce 10,000 tons of crude oil per day was rare even now.
This is enough to prove that there was a lot of oil in the field below the well.
Although only heavy oil is now mined, the amount of heavy oil is definitely quite large.
So Yang Jing immediately motioned to Lin Dan to take pictures of this oil well.
Because Yang Jing has a business visa, he can't work in the United States, so if he wants to photograph this old oil well, he must photograph it in the name of Lin Dan.
In fact, the B1 visa that Yang Jing took cannot travel in the United States, but Yang Jing came to Texas this time with Lin Dan, which can be named in the name of business investigation.
But if you want to invest in the purchase of old oil wells in the name of Yang Jing, it will not work.
This old oil well, which has been unattended for many years, was easily photographed by Lin Dan, because it was Yang Jing's money, so although this old oil well nominally belonged to Lin Dan, the Holy Ring recognized that this old oil well belonged to Yang Jing.
Because it was experimental, Yang Jing did not buy more old oil wells in this auction.
When the auction was over, Yang Jing and his group of four took a rented car and drove straight to Beaumont, which was 400 kilometers away.
Beaumont is a small city in Texas, but the city is quite famous.
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the most famous oil field in Texas and the world was the "Great Mountain", about 64 kilometers south of downtown Beaumont.
In fact, this "big mountain" is just a small plateau 457 meters higher than the surrounding plain and about 16 kilometers in diameter, but on this "big mountain", the world's first oil well with a daily output of 10,000 tons of crude oil was drilled!
The famous "spindle top" oil field is another name for this "mountain".
Beaumont's "Big Mountain" is a place of true wonder!
Gulf Oil and Tecause, which were among the famous 'Seven Sisters of Oil' at the time, all started to develop from here.
After the discovery of 10,000 tons of oil wells here, it immediately broke the monopoly of the Rockefeller family's standard oil on American oil at that time, and immediately attracted many investors, adventurers and oil prospectors to gather here.
Among them, the Mellon consortium, one of the eight major consortia in the United States at that time, also set its sights on here.
At that time, the famous William Mellon found Gaffey and Gailey, who owned three high-production wells, and invested $1.5 million to jointly establish Gaffey Oil, in which William Mellon occupied half of the shares, and a year later, Gaffey Oil was renamed Gulf Oil, which was one of the seven sisters of the famous Oil.
At that time, Carinan, one of the discoverers and developers of the Koshikana oil field, moved over after the spindle top oil field was sprayed, raised a sum of money from the eastern region, bought a number of oil producing wells in the new oil field, and established an oil refinery in Port Arthur, and established the Texas Oil Company, which has since been smooth sailing and has become one of the "Seven Sisters of Oil" Texaco.
It can be seen from this that this small "mountain" has an important position in the global oil industry!
But now, the small city can no longer see the "kowtow bug" pumping units that lined up in the past, and after the recoverable oil under the city has been exhausted, the small town has returned to its former calm.
Less than a kilometer away from the famous spindletop oil field, Yang Jing saw the old oil well that had been photographed by himself.
This old oil well has been closed for more than 70 years, and in the nearly 80 years of the well sealing period, during the period of the 70s of the last century, only one person once showed interest in this old oil well, but this investor who tried to restore the old oil well to its former demeanor, after opening the long-closed oil well, invested more than 100,000 US dollars in surveying, and finally completely closed the old oil well again.
Now, the old well has once again welcomed its third owner The well is located on a private farm, not far from the Beaumont Petroleum Museum.
In the United States, private property is sacred and inviolable, and the owner of the land has legal ownership of everything that is owned in private land.
However, with the enactment of the Mineral Lease Act in the United States in 1920, this rule changed.
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Because this law, which has been promulgated for almost 100 years, minerals such as oil, natural gas, and coal found on private land no longer belong to the landowner, but to the mineral developer, and these minerals found on private land are no longer related to the landowner.
So although this old oil well was in a private farm, after Lin Dan showed the procedures related to the old oil well, the owner of the farm had to pinch his nose and let Yang Jing and them in.
The old oil well is located in the center of the farm, with the oil well as the center, and the surrounding land of about 900 square meters and related ancillary facilities belong to the owner of the oil well.
The farm was densely packed with cash crops, and as a result, because of the existence of this old oil well, the land of about one and a half acres became bare, as if a blank space suddenly appeared in the middle of a good oil painting.
No wonder other farmers are unhappy, ask yourself, if you are a farmer, you definitely don't like to have such a small piece of land on your farm that does not belong to you.
It's like having a rented land in my own country that belongs to foreigners, and I feel awkward, but I can't move it.
According to the relevant agreement, the farmer shall not obstruct the work of the owner of the oil well in the oil well, which is an agreement signed at the time of the sale of the farm and is protected by law.
Therefore, after the farmer led Yang Jing and them to the oil well, he drove away in his pickup truck.
Although the oil well has been closed for more than 70 years, and it was opened by the previous owner in the 70s, the various facilities of the oil well are still preserved, at least the power facilities are still there, as long as the gate is closed at the other end of the power line, then there can be electricity here.
After inspecting the relevant facilities, Yang Jing also had to sigh that this old and beautiful thing is made, these facilities have at least experienced more than 40 years of ups and downs, even if they have become rusty, they can still be used after a little picking.
However, because this old oil well has long been sealed, the pumping unit is long gone.
"Brother Yang, this oil well has no value to be exploited again, even if we take over and want to re-exploit it, at least we need to get another pumping unit.
However, I think that even if this well can extract crude oil, I am afraid that the crude oil extracted is not enough for the value of a pumping unit. ” Lin Dan is right, if this well can extract tens of thousands of barrels of crude oil, I am afraid that the previous owner will not get rid of the pumping unit.
Obviously, the previous owner felt that this old oil well was really no longer worth exploiting, so he completely shut down the oil well, and even the most important pumping unit was pulled away and sold for money In fact, although this well has been sealed, in fact, this old oil well is already an out-and-out abandoned well.
Otherwise, there wouldn't have been such a low auction price.
But it doesn't matter, Yang Jing didn't really want to re-exploit this oil well when he bought it, you just let him extract oil, and he doesn't understand.
Yang Jing waved his hand, looked at the oil well that had been completely blocked, and then asked Lin Dan: "Xiaolin, how much money will it cost to reopen this oil well?"
Trouble or not?
” Lin Dan shook his head and said, "I don't know much about this either, but we can consult."
Brother Yang, wait a minute, I'll call and ask. ” As he spoke, Lin Dan took out his mobile phone and began to dial, and after more than ten minutes, Lin Dan said with a smile: "Brother Yang, there will be a professional person who will come over to take a look in a while." ” Yang Jing nodded, looked up at the warm sun, looked at the large farm, and said with a smile: "The big farm here in the United States is the cattle ratio, and we rarely see such a big farm in China." ” Lin Dan pursed his lips and said, "Brother Yang, this farm is nothing, if you go to the northwest of Texas to have a look, the farm there is called big."
Brother Yang, have you heard of Wagner Ranch?
” Yang Jing shook his head, and Lin Dan said excitedly: "This Wagner farm and ranch is known as the largest farm and ranch in the United States, with an area of more than 2,000 square kilometers, which is larger than the two Hong Kong islands combined.
The farm we see now is like a gap between ants and elephants compared to Wagner farms. ” When Yang Jing heard this, he couldn't help but smack his tongue a little.
"Damn, more than 2,000 square kilometers of farms and pastures?
So big?
” "Well, it's that big.
The Wagner Ranch has 510,000 acres of land, which translates to 2,064 square kilometers in metric units, and there are 1,200 such wells alone in that super farm!
The best thing is that these 1,200 oil wells only occupy about one-tenth of the land of Wagner Farm, and nearly 90 of the entire Wagner Farm and Ranch has not been explored and developed for oil and gas resources. ” "Holy, hanging like this?
If you buy that farm, if you find new oil and gas fields in it, then you won't be able to do it?
” "Well, that's it!
However, even if the Wagner farms and pastures are sold, they are not allowed to continue to explore and exploit oil and gas in them, saying that it is to ensure the consistent tradition of Wagner farms. ” "Tsk, with such good resources, it is not allowed to be developed, this is simply a tyrannical thing.
By the way, is that Wagner farm really ready to be sold?
” "Well, in fact, the Wagner farm was ready to be sold to the outside world the year before last, but the sale price was as high as 72.5 billion US dollars," Chris Barton on the side also interjected, "A few years ago, I visited that farm, and it was really good, but the price was too high, and it was not something that we ordinary people could afford at all."
But those rich people are not willing to invest their money in this traditional farming, so the super farm has not been sold yet. ” As soon as Yang Jing heard this number, he felt that his teeth hurt a little.
Damn, 72.5 billion US dollars, that's almost 4.5 billion national dollars!
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