After a week of rest, repairs, supplies, and the addition of several 6??6 Kamaz heavy-duty trucks and several road surveying and mapping personnel, Zhou Fei led the reconnaissance team on the road back to China, all the way from Bemut Oil Field

Return along the road to the east and pick up people and vehicles that exit halfway.

This time, targeted preparations were made. New Taipei General Aviation used Kazakh military airports or established temporary landing sites to provide air rescue and support for the reconnaissance team along the way.

It was obvious that the logistical support measures prepared by Yao Yuan far exceeded the needs of the reconnaissance unit. Only a few people knew that his other purpose was to conduct aerial surveying and mapping of the areas traveled by the reconnaissance unit to provide more detailed data for the final determination of the route.

Oil pipelines, gas pipelines, passenger and freight railways, and heavy-duty highways.

With the Bemut Oilfield fully resurrected, these four transportation projects must be determined and implemented in order.

Yao Yuan insisted that the Kazakh government take the initiative to request Dongfang Petroleum to take the lead in the construction of four major projects. Therefore, he made a report on the secondary exploitation of Bemut Oilfield, clarified the current situation, and focused on production capacity and the difficulties in limiting production capacity.

Oriental Petroleum Kazakhstan Branch notified the Kazakh government to make the Kazakh government realize its absolute necessity.

After doing this, he led the vanguard of the 7th drilling team to break camp again and continue to explore towards the Caspian Sea, looking for the G-point of the Kashagan Field.

The Bemut Oil Field is not the G-point of the Kashagan Field, nor is the Maksha Oil Field.

These oil fields with a daily output of tens of thousands of tons are very powerful, but they are completely unable to match the huge reserves in the Kashagan area.

Yao Yuan clearly remembers that the oil reserves in the Kashagan area proved in 2000 were 5 billion tons!

Based on the calculation that China will consume 650 million tons of oil per year in 2022, the oil extracted from the Kashagan area alone can supply China for nearly 7 years.

This is a super oil field group worth trillions of dollars!

The tens of millions of tons of annual output of the Bemut Oilfield in front of us is nothing. If the Kashagan area is compared to a human being, the most high-yield wells in the Bemut Oil Field can spurt out is its venous blood, and what Yao Yuan wants is

It's arterial blood, a huge amount of blood spurting out from the aorta!

Only by finding the G-point of the Kashagan Field and developing a large oil field with an annual output of more than 50 million tons can Dongfang Petroleum's development strategy in Central Asia reach an important fulcrum.

After all, Azerbaijan is a peripheral region of Central Asia. Its geographical location is close to the Middle East and cannot form a radiation capability to Central Asia.

In the final analysis, Kazakhstan's huge oil and natural gas resources need to be developed as soon as possible to support the domestic economy that has embarked on rapid development.

In Guangdong Province, this is called "Touqi Soup", and in Ningxia, this is the first crop of wolfberry soup.

In vague memories, the Caspian Sea coast in western Kazakhstan is the area with the richest oil reserves, and the development here is also the most difficult.

Yao Yuan's memory of the Kashagan Field was really limited, so he had to act cautiously and rely on current technological capabilities to carry out exploration step by step.

The exploration pioneer team came to the northern part of the Caspian Sea, that is, the western part of the Caspian Sea coast of Kazakhstan, where several towns formed a large town group called Kashagan.

Only when he arrived here did Yao Yuan realize why the Soviets had not conducted practical geological exploration in this area.

Logically speaking, after the discovery of large oil fields in Baku, which is also on the Caspian Sea coast, practical geological exploration should be carried out in other Caspian Sea coast areas, because more oil fields can usually be discovered.

However, the Soviets only analyzed the Kashagan area based on seismic data and did not conduct in-depth exploration.

The reason is that the natural environment in the area is very harsh.

We have now entered the end of winter. The temperature in the area where the Maksha Oilfield is located and the Bemut Oilfield has begun to rise, and the temperature difference between day and night has decreased. Generally speaking, before the arrival of the dry and hot summer,

The next three to four months will be a period of better weather in these two areas.

But in Kashagan, the temperature during the day is as high as 30 or 40 degrees Celsius, and at night, the temperature drops sharply to minus 30 or 40 degrees Celsius!

Let alone working, it is a problem for human beings to survive in such an extremely harsh climate!

The first thing Yao Yuan did when he arrived in Kashagan Town was to order New Taipei Navigation to use air transportation to transport the materials needed to build a long-term camp.

As a result, on the second day of the camp, the barracks actually started to crack.

In the morning, the temperature was as low as 35 degrees below zero. Yao Yuan was wrapped in a military coat, a cold-proof hat, a warm scarf around his neck, and a cold-proof mask that only exposed his mouth, nose and eyes, like a polar bear stepping on snow-free ground.

Walking on the ground.

Gu Peiqiang pointed to the outer wall of the command control room and said, "The crack as big as a finger has reached the damage standard that cannot continue to be used. This has never happened before."

After Yao Yuan got closer, he turned on his flashlight and carefully observed the cracks.

Chen Chao, who temporarily replaced Lin Xiaohu as Yao Yuan's assistant and bodyguard, looked around cautiously. The climate and environment here were very strange. The lowest temperature at night was as low as minus 40 degrees, but there was no snow. It was obviously a coastal area of ​​the Caspian Sea, but

However, it has a continental climate, with dry and hot weather all year round during the day.

There are not even a few indigenous people in this place, and the combined population of several towns is less than 5,000 people. So the biggest threat to the security team is often aggressive wild animals, rather than human gangsters.

The barracks that were built yesterday cracked today. Yao Yuan's first thought was that there was a problem with the materials and the logistics system. Substandard materials were used instead of qualified ones. Corruption was often involved.

Yao Yuan, who had already made up his mind to seriously rectify the logistics system, suddenly found that the situation was not that simple after carefully looking at the cracks.

He said to Gu Peiqiang, "Aren't there still unused materials? Where are they?"

"In the storage yard behind the warehouse." Gu Peiqiang pointed quickly.

Warehouses are also barracks built using prefabricated steel materials. Such barracks can often be used in harsh climates and environments for more than three years, and can be used multiple times through disassembly and assembly.

This type of detachable barracks was used in the camps set up in the No. 1 operating area where gold concentrate was discovered and in the Bemut Oil Field.

"I took a special look during my night patrol in the early morning. Not only the command and control room, but also almost every barracks had cracks. The most serious one was the command and control room." Gu Peiqiang reported back while walking to the storage yard.

Yao Yuan said in a deep voice, "If there is a problem with the materials, it means that someone has embezzled public assets by passing them off as inferior goods."

"Not only the barracks, but also many living facilities have problems to some extent. The generator set has also failed. I have asked people to carry out maintenance, but the cause of the failure has not been found yet," Gu Peiqiang said.

Without the generator set, nothing can be done, let alone drilling wells and prospecting.

Without the generator set, even if you find a water source, you will not be able to get it. Without drinkable fresh water, even survival is a problem.
Chapter completed!