Los Angeles rose because of oil, and still-working oil pumps can be seen everywhere in the city's streets and alleys. But at the same time, with the continuous development of society, Los Angeles residents' tolerance for these ubiquitous old oil wells has almost reached a limit.
Many working oil wells are even located in residential areas. When the oil engines are working, the noise generated makes the surrounding residents miserable. People have also been criticizing that the production of oil wells will cause a certain degree of pollution. Therefore, many people are now opposed to the continued operation of those oil wells in downtown Los Angeles, and there are even proposals to shut down these working oil wells.
As for the secondary or even tertiary exploitation of old oil wells, that is even more difficult.
In 2006, in order to extract oil, St. James Petroleum Company in Los Angeles injected high-temperature steam into an oil well. This is a common method of oil extraction, using steam to heat the thick oil to make it flow and facilitate extraction.
However, things did not go as the company had imagined. According to the Los Angeles-based non-governmental organization Center for Land Use Interpretation, the pressure deep underground caused the sticky oil to seep to the surface, bubbling up from sewers, basements and even roads, emitting "toxic gases."
This old oil well of St. James Oil Company is located on Hill Street in downtown Los Angeles. The relevant departments urgently closed the street and evacuated more than 130 residents in the surrounding area. It took several weeks to extract the oil that had seeped into the basement of the residence and resurface the road...
Because of this incident, St. James Petroleum Company was sued.
The working oil wells are opposed by the residents. If you want to reopen an old oil well, wouldn’t that be asking for trouble?
Before the 1950s, no one cared even if you drilled a new well, let alone opened one.
But now, the entire Los Angeles Basin is occupied by the city, and there is almost no vacant land in the huge basin. How do you drill a well?
This is the Greater Los Angeles area, the second largest metropolitan area in the United States after New York!
In such a prosperous metropolitan area, if you want to reopen old oil wells, it is absolutely difficult. It is not like before. Los Angeles used to rely on oil. Now people don’t rely on this black liquid with a strange smell. They have finance, movies, tourism, and many other ways to make money. That kind of black oil is no longer welcome here!
After several days of investigation, Yang Jing and Lin Dan came to a fact that had to be accepted.
It's easy to find old oil wells in Los Angeles, there are tons of them waiting for you. But it's harder than climbing to the sky to open a well and start mining again!
So after several video calls with Zhao Meng who was far away in San Francisco, Yang Jing and Lin Dan had to return to Beaumont, Texas again.
Compared to Los Angeles, Beaumont is better! It has a large area and a small population, and it also has a world-class Spindletop oil field. Most importantly, the old oil field that was reopened last time is here.
If we can continue to "find" one or a group of old oil wells here, it will be quite convenient to exploit them.
After the group arrived in Beaumont and rested for a day, Yang Jing boarded the rented helicopter.
In Yang Jing's words, buddy has to perform the "Great Qi-Watching Technique" in the air and try to find another one or a group of old oil wells located at the "gate of life"!
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