Chapter 196 Thief
Siam is vigorously carrying out construction and developing the automobile industry.
And Hongsavadi was not idle either.
Just at the beginning of this year, the development group secretly did something big in Kachin State, north of Hongsawadi.
The northwestern border of Kachin State is a relatively flat mountain range, and on the other side of the mountain is Assam, India.
In the Nanyun Valley near the border, the residents have been evacuated and relocated to cities that are more suitable for living.
After being cleared, the Nanyun Valley was officially listed as a nature reserve on the official website of Hongsavadi.
Judging from satellite images, this place has indeed become a deserted area.
But in fact, the Development Group secretly built a large underground base inside this valley under the cover of the Green Umbrella System and underground facilities.
The western edge of the base is basically close to the border line, less than one kilometer away from the border line.
The reason they were built so close together was to steal things.
The management of the Development Group combined various technologies of the current Homo Sapiens companies and came up with an ingenious plan.
Because they found that the company's excavation technology was very advanced and the excavation cost was very low. Even when digging underground, as long as it was well controlled, there would not be any large vibrations or obvious movements.
In this way, they set their sights on things in other people's homes.
Mang Wenxing, who proposed this plan, personally formed a special project team called "Straw Plan" to specifically formulate plans for stealing things.
After observing the surrounding neighbors, Mang Wenxing first ruled out the northern neighbor whom he could not afford to offend, then ruled out Siam, which had become one of his own, and the extremely poor Lan Cang.
Finally, they could only turn their attention to India in the west.
Considering that it was difficult to keep secret on the coast of Rakhine State, he set his target on Assam on the northwest border, where what he wanted happened to be located.
There is a long and narrow river valley plain in Assam, and in this river valley plain there is a large amount of natural gas and oil.
The oil field closest to the Nanyun River Valley is the Digboi Oil Field in Assam, which is only 47 kilometers away, and the underground oil and gas layers are even closer.
According to geological survey data from Mang Wenxing, the oil reservoir of the Digboy Oilfield is less than 24 kilometers away from the Nanyun River Valley.
Therefore, he pushed the company to build the Nanyun River Valley base.
After building some infrastructure and underground bases, the base drilled a well 1,000 meters deep, and then dug horizontally from the bottom of the well to the bottom of the Digboy oil field.
This technology of horizontal excavation deep underground is currently only mastered by the Homo sapiens company.
The key technical point is to use special parasites to carry corrosive bacteria into deep underground wells, and then use pheromones to regulate and directionally corrode the rock formations.
In order to increase the excavation speed, a micro-submarine is usually used. Through the micro-thimble device equipped on the submersible, a needle made of carbide is shot into the rock layer, which can penetrate to a depth of several tens of meters at a time.
Then, by injecting corrosive bacteria into the holes formed by penetration, the corrosion can be accelerated.
At the same time, genetically modified coral polyps can also be used to construct special anti-corrosion coral layers in underground shafts.
The silt and sand after corrosion are directly rushed to the ground through fluid boiling.
The underground tunnel was advancing at a speed of two to three hundred meters per day, and the Digboy Oil Field was rapidly approaching.
After 103 days of secret excavation, the tunnel finally broke through the oil-bearing layer of the Digboye oil field, and then the oil field was acquired by the development group.
Because the tunnel was dug from the bottom of the Nanyun River Valley and slanted upwards, a drop in height was formed between the two places.
The oil-bearing strata of the Digboy Oilfield are at a depth of 730 to 860 meters, but the bottom of the deep well in the Nanyun River Valley is at 1,000 meters, so the oil from the opposite side will automatically flow over here.
When the deep well was dug, a large space was left at the bottom.
Now we start to notice the oil flowing over from the other side.
Mang Wenxing came to the scene in person: "How much oil can be pumped out?"
"About 2,600 barrels of crude oil per day," the base commander replied with a smile.
"This amount is not enough. I remember the reserves of this oil field are 32 million tons, right?"
The base director nodded and said, "Yes, the proven reserves are 32 million tons, and there are hundreds of millions of tons of oil sands and oil shale at the bottom."
Mang Wenxing smiled sinisterly: "Then increase the extraction efforts. We have to race against time with the Indians. As long as we drain all the oil, they will definitely have to temporarily seal up this oil field."
The base manager thought for a while and said, "If we increase the number of vacuum pumps and oil extraction pipelines, we can probably increase the capacity to 80,000 barrels per day."
"Just follow the limit . By the way, how much oil can the supporting oil pipeline transport every day?"
The base director replied as if he knew everything: "The daily limit is 100,000 barrels, and the base's strategic reserve can store 1 million barrels."
"Expand the reserves, but don't build them together. Try to build a 5 million barrel oil reserve here."
“I’ll write a planning proposal.”
Mang Wenxing listened to the low hum in the pipe, which was like the flowing tide, like the symphony in the Golden Hall of Vienna.
Hongsavadi doesn't have much oil and natural gas, so he tried to "borrow" from his neighbors.
Did he know that the series of oil and gas fields in the river valley plains of Assam contained at least 200 million tons of oil and hundreds of billions of cubic meters of natural gas?
In addition, there are hundreds of millions of tons of coal, tens of billions of tons of oil sands and oil shale.
If these energies can be "borrowed", Hongsavadi's energy potential will be further enhanced.
Just as the Nanyun base was secretly sucking away the oil from the Digboy oil field.
The oil well managers of Tianzhu Petroleum Company also found that the oil production of several oil wells was declining rapidly.
Oilfield manager Sandy was in the office. After hearing the report from his subordinates, his face looked a little grim. He asked with a headache:
“Engineer Murray, can you adopt remedial measures to restore the oil well’s productivity?”
"If the company can afford a production cost of $40 per barrel, it can use steam drive technology to extract the heavy oil at the bottom." Murray looked like he was doing nothing.
"40 dollars is too high." Sandy looked conflicted.
In fact, they were not surprised by the decline in oil well productivity. After all, India's oil consumption has been rising year by year in recent years, and its local oil fields have been squeezed to the limit.
So they did not suspect that the oil had flowed away on its own.
This is another reason why Mangwenxing is attacking the Assam oil fields, which are on the verge of depletion.
When the oil is gradually exhausted, the Indians will only think that they have exhausted the oil field.
As for oil sands and shale oil, it is estimated that the Indians currently do not have the technology and capital to exploit them.
You should know that the place with the largest reserves of oil sands and shale oil in the world is not America, but America's little brother, the Maple Leaf Country. It is estimated that when converted into oil, the scale is over one trillion tons.
But the cost of mining is also very touching.
Even European and American oil companies that have been dealing with shale oil and oil sands find that these two types of oil reservoirs are difficult to exploit and the costs are unacceptable.
In a place like India where there is no infrastructure, the cost of mining would probably be sky-high, so it would be better to import oil from our good friend Lucia.
Therefore, Mang Wenxing has already anticipated the other party's reaction. Once Assam's oil is gradually exhausted, the oil fields in this area will definitely be sealed one after another.
At that time, he could help Tianzhu exploit oil sands and shale oil while the other party was sealing the wells.
However, due to the different strata heights and the gradually increasing distances between this series of oil fields in Assam, a safe and hidden route needs to be carefully planned.
