This is Yang Jing's second flight to the Mediterranean Sea in a month, the last time he went to Cyprus with Gege, and this time he simply flew directly to the south coast of the Mediterranean.
As the capital of Algeria, Algiers, located on the southern shore of the Mediterranean Sea, is a very beautiful city.
This city is full of charm and ancient Roman charm, and is a jewel on the southern shore of the Mediterranean.
However, Yang Jing did not have time to appreciate this beautiful city, he slept in the hotel for more than ten hours, and then went downstairs in good spirits, and after a breakfast, at five o'clock in the morning, a group of fourteen people and six cars went directly to the road.
There are still more than 1,100 kilometers to go from Algiers to Borma, the small city where the oil fields are located, and the group has to drive for nearly 17 hours on the road without any highways.
From Algiers, take the A1 highway, then follow this road over the Atlas Mountains, the largest mountain range in Algeria, pass through the important town of Buvera in northern Algeria, turn into the N8 highway, and then cross the Sahara Atlas Mountains, and then completely enter the Sahara Desert.
As the largest country in Africa by land area, Algeria actually has very little land to use.
In the north of Algeria, there are two parallel mountain ranges, the northern one is the Taylor Atlas Mountains, and the Sahara Atlas Mountains are the Sahara Atlas Mountains to the south, and after the Sahara Atlas Mountains, the Sahara Desert occupies 85% of the entire land area of Algeria.
In other words, almost all of Algeria is a mountain range except for the desert, and the plains are only a small area on the southern shore of the Mediterranean.
Such a topography would be a disaster for an agrarian country.
However, in the deserted and almost uninhabited Sahara Desert, there are huge oil and gas resources.
The Sahara Desert is located in the territory of Algeria and contains huge oil and gas resources, including 707 trillion cubic feet of natural gas reserves and 5.7 billion barrels of crude oil!
And that's only an estimate of one-third of Algeria's land area, and two-thirds of Algeria as a whole has not been surveyed at all With so many oil and gas resources, Algeria is one of the richest countries in Africa.
Today, 97% of Algeria's electricity generation comes from natural gas.
This figure is far from being reached in China and even in many countries in the world.
Most of Algeria's oil and gas fields are located in the central and eastern regions, almost all of which are located in the Sahara Desert.
It's like Yang Jing's destination this time, Borma, is located in the eastern desert of Algeria, which is part of the Sahara Desert.
Because of the topography, when Yang Jing and his team drove in the Sahara Atlas Mountains, they could still see lush vegetation around, but when they left this huge mountain range, all they saw was yellow sand Most of the deserts in Algeria are relatively large gravel deserts, and compared with the Taklamakan Desert in China, the deserts here are more rugged.
This was the first time Yang Jing had come to the Sahara Desert, which made his originally sleepy spirit immediately shake up.
Taking over the steering wheel from Chris, Yang Jing personally drove on the N8 highway.
Although this highway is not a motorway, it is much easier to walk than the domestic highways.
The road is not wide, and the width of a standard two-way two-lane highway is about the same as that of county roads in China.
But the road is smooth, and there are basically no vehicles on the road.
Beyond the sand control ditches on both sides of the road, there is the yellow sand that cannot be seen at a glance, and against the backdrop of the blue and intoxicating blue sky, driving at high speed in this kind of large desert will make people have an inexplicable excitement.
The road is smooth and there is a fight with the floor of the house, and there are no cars, Yang Jing once raised the speed to 200 kilometers, but in the desert without any references, even if the speed is 200 kilometers per hour, it is not fast.
Occasionally, he could see small villages and towns on both sides of the road, and Yang Jing wondered why the inhabitants were able to survive in the Sahara Desert.
Or the well-informed Chris gave the answer.
"Boss, in the Sahara Desert it is not all deserts, especially in Algeria, thanks to the tall Saharan Atlas Mountains to the north, there are many seasonal rivers in the desert of Algeria, during the wet season, these rivers have water, but in the dry season, these rivers dry up.
However, although these rivers have dried up and there is no water on the surface, there is an abundance of groundwater.
This groundwater gushes out of the Sahara Desert, creating small oases that feed countless people living in the Sahara Desert. ” "In the language of the Algerian locals, these oases are often referred to as 'springs' or 'wells', such as Borma, which we are going to, based on the Dulman and Roman wells.
And then there's the great oasis we're about to pass through, called the Baireheim Springs. ” Life is really magical and tenacious, if it weren't for what he saw with his own eyes, Yang Jing really couldn't imagine that there are still so many human beings in the Sahara Desert, known as the "Sea of Death", relying on oases one by one to survive.
They may have lived here for hundreds of years, and they may have endured such harsh conditions, but the instinct of life still pushes them to continue to survive in such conditions.
The convoy sped along the road carved out of the desert, and soon, Yang Jing lost the excitement he had at the beginning of seeing the desert, and Chris took the steering wheel and continued to drive forward.
The sky soon darkened in the somewhat boring journey, compared to the high temperature of more than 40 degrees and close to 50 degrees during the day, in the evening, even if the air conditioning was not turned on, it did not feel hot in the car.
"Boss, you'd better take out a few clothes, we'll have more than three hours to reach our destination, and when the sun goes down completely, the temperature here will drop sharply, if you don't want to catch a cold, it's best to wear some thick clothes."
Chris reminded Yang Jing while driving.
However, this time Yang Jing did not follow the good stream, he wanted to experience the legendary taste of "wearing tulle in the afternoon and cotton in the evening".
In desert areas, the temperature difference between day and night is huge, and it is no joke to experience spring, summer, autumn and winter in one day.
It's like the Sahara Desert, which has the largest temperature difference between day and night in the world, and in winter, there is no winter or summer in the Sahara.
In December, the daytime temperature can reach 378 degrees, but at night, the temperature can quickly drop below freezing.
It's like today, the temperature at noon is as high as nearly 50 degrees, Yang Jing is wearing shorts and a T-shirt, and the air conditioner is turned on to the fullest, so he can bear it in front of him.
He had seen the high temperature in the desert area during the day, and now he wanted to experience the temperature at night in the desert area.
As a result, the facts made Yang Jing suffer a big loss.
Chris pulled over to the side of the road and changed into a jacket, but Yang Jing was still in a shorts and t-shirt, and everyone else had changed into a jacket or a denim or something, so they all watched the big boss pretend to be there.
As a result, this was better than not installed, and at nine o'clock in the evening, about seventy kilometers away from Borma, Yang Jing felt that his feet did not belong to him.
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Chris's eyes looked at the boss stomping his feet there, and he smiled and asked, "Boss, do you want to turn on the heater?"
” Yang Jing didn't speak, but silently took the clothes from the back seat, changed them into three times and divided by two, and then reached out to turn on the warm air, and then felt that he was back in the world.
By this time, the temperature outside had dropped below 10 degrees At about half past ten in the evening, the group finally arrived at their destination, Borma.
Borma is said to be a city, but in fact it is not even as good as a village in Huaxia.
The length and width of the entire city were no more than 500 meters, and there were not even a thousand inhabitants.
The city is located on the border between Algeria and Tunisia, and the edge of the city is less than four kilometers from the border in a straight line No way, although the city is extremely small, it is also a real city.
In fact, it is extremely difficult to have such a city in the depths of the Sahara Desert.
Just like the settlements that Yang Jing saw on the way here, there were only one or two hundred people in one settlement.
Borma is indeed a city compared to those settlements.
However, Yang Jing and the others could not live in Borma yet, and they had to rush to the oil field seven kilometers away from Borma.
Along a gravel road, Yang Jing and his team turned a corner from Borma and drove north for about ten minutes before arriving at their true destination, the Oham oil field.
The oil field was developed by Total in France at the end of the 80s of the last century, and around this medium-sized oil field with reserves of 58 million tons, there is also a living area built entirely by the families of oil extraction workers.
At the same time, there is a small oil refinery next to this oil field.
It was completely dark, but it was brightly lit.
Powerful diesel generators provide plenty of power for the area, and the crude oil pumped from thousands of meters deep underground, after the initial refining of the small refinery, separates enough diesel fuel for the diesel generators here to run out of oil.
Several huge oil tanks stand inside the refinery, like giant titan giants, and a thick pipeline extends from the refinery to the east into Tunisia.
The pipeline runs from the western part of the Hassimesaoud oil field, the largest in Algeria and the 10th largest in the world.
Algeria's largest oil field has three pipelines that extend to port cities on the Mediterranean coast, two of which run north to the Algerian oil ports of Alzer and Bejaia, and one east to Tunisia via Borma and finally to the Tunisian port city of Gabès.
The oil pipeline that Yang Jing saw was the one that ran from the Hasimesaude oil field to Gabbes