The fat guy is much more mature than before, and his training in the United States over the past few months has not been in vain.

At night, Yang Jing did not go to his own room to sleep, but slept directly in Fatty's room. In the past two years, the two of them slept in the same room. Now, both Yang Jing and Fatty wanted to experience the life they had before.

Anyway, if you stretch out the sofa in the fat man's room, it will become a very comfortable sofa bed, and it's no problem to sleep on it.

At about twelve o'clock in the evening, a strong wind suddenly blew in the desert. The howling wind made Yang Jing and the fat man lose their sleepiness. The two simply lay on their beds and started chatting.

"Fatty, you just said that the natural gas plant was attacked by the Libyans. What exactly happened?" Yang Jing asked.

"Well...what else could it be? This incident actually happened a long time ago, I think it happened in 2013, and the result was that the entire Algerian oil and gas industry suffered a huge blow because of this incident."

"Old Yang, you may not know the oil and gas production situation in Algeria. Yes, there are huge amounts of oil and gas resources underground in Algeria, and the oil is high-quality, low-sulfur, light crude oil, which is easy to extract. But why is the cost of oil extraction in Algeria always high? The fundamental reason is that most of these oil and gas fields are located in the Sahara Desert. Specifically, they are located in the desert area in central Algeria and the border area between Algeria, Libya and Tunisia. This area is also in the desert. Just like the Oham oil field we just took over, it is located in the north of the entire Algerian oil and gas field branch. Therefore, the oil here is easy to extract, but the transportation cost is too high, which directly leads to a significant increase in the cost of crude oil extraction as a whole."

Yang Jing nodded and said, "It can't be helped. If this place wasn't mostly desert, the whole of North Africa would have been swallowed up by developed countries in Europe and America long ago, right? Tsk tsk, oil, these are all seeds of original sin!"

The fat man smiled and gave Yang Jing a thumbs up.

"The attack you just asked about happened in early 2013. A group of militiamen from Libya, well, it's not quite accurate to call them militiamen, they were actually a group of terrorists. They sneaked across the Libyan-Afghan border with their weapons under cover of night and launched a terrorist attack on a large natural gas plant in In Amenas. The attack destroyed two of the three processing series of the plant, which have a total processing capacity of 3 billion cubic meters per year. It was not until the end of February 2013, two years later, that one of the three series of the destroyed processing series was restored, and the second series resumed production two months later. At the same time, the attack also caused the deaths of many workers and militants."

"In Amenas, like Borma where we are, is a city very close to the border. But we are fine here because we are to the east of Tunisia, but In Amenas is different. Libya is a few kilometers to the east of them. And not only In Amenas, but also places like Mas'oudburg, Tankaina, Zarzaitin, and Domaclenia are all located near the Libyan-Algerian border, and they used to be oil and gas fields with huge output. Now, because the output of oil and gas fields is declining, and the terrorist attack happened, many foreign oil companies have the idea of ​​evacuating Algeria. It has dealt a huge blow to Algeria's oil and gas industry. Otherwise, the Algerian authorities would not have issued several consecutive decrees to regulate and increase the efforts to attract foreign investment."

The fat man shook his head. "However, these policies do not seem to be very effective in attracting foreign investment. Many large companies are still thinking about withdrawing from Algeria. Especially those countries that participated in the Libyan war, such as France. Oh, by the way, the natural gas plant attacked by terrorists is owned by BP of the UK."

Yang Jing said: "It was under such circumstances that we took over this oil field."

"Yeah." The fat man nodded. "If most of the oil fields controlled by American oil companies were not far from the border, the primary target of the terrorist attack would have been the oil and gas fields controlled by the Americans. But the British deserved to be bombed too. Who made them so bored that they had to get involved with the United States to bomb Libya? If those fanatical Libyans don't retaliate against you, who will they retaliate against? Although our oil field is far from the Libyan-Afghan border, the French are also afraid that the Libyans will sneak across the border and blow up this oil field, so they are in a hurry to take action."

"The output of this oil field is not that good, right?" Yang Jing asked calmly.

"It's OK. The average daily output of each oil well can reach 34 tons. If this output were placed in China, it would definitely be a medium-yield oil field."

"Damn it, don't compare with anywhere else, let alone with the domestic ones. How many years have those domestic oil wells been producing? Why don't you compare with those 10,000-ton wells in Saudi Arabia? Even those old oil wells we got in Beaumont, their output far exceeds these eleven wells, right?" Yang Jing said unhappily.

The fat man fell silent.

Yang Jing asked: "If we buy this oil field, how much area can be surveyed and mined?"

"About thirty square kilometers. But it seems to be useless. The French drilled several exploration wells in this area a long time ago, but they have long been abandoned."

"Well, let me take a closer look tomorrow."

The two people talked for about an hour, and the strong wind outside mysteriously disappeared again.

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