This was the second time that Yang Jing flew to the Mediterranean within a month. The last time he went to Cyprus with Gege, and this time he simply flew directly to the southern coast of the Mediterranean.
As the capital of Algeria, Algiers, located on the southern coast of the Mediterranean, is a very beautiful city. This city full of Japanese style and ancient Roman charm is a pearl on the southern coast of the Mediterranean.
However, Yang Jing had no time to appreciate this beautiful city. He slept for more than ten hours in the hotel, then went downstairs in high spirits. After having breakfast, at around five in the morning, a group of fourteen people and six cars set off directly.
It is still more than 1,100 kilometers from Algiers to the small town of Borma where the oil fields are located. In the absence of any highways, they will have to travel on the road for nearly 17 hours.
From Algiers, we took the A1 highway, then followed this highway across the Tell Atlas Mountains, the largest mountain range in Algeria. After passing through Bouira, an important town in northern Algeria, we turned onto the N8 highway, then crossed the Sahara Atlas Mountains and entered the Sahara Desert.
As the largest country in Africa, Algeria actually has a very small area of land available. In the north of Algeria, there are two parallel mountain ranges. The one in the north is the Tell Atlas Mountains, and the one in the south is the Sahara Atlas Mountains. After the Sahara Atlas Mountains, there is the Sahara Desert, which occupies 85% of Algeria's total land area.
In other words, the whole of Algeria is almost entirely desert and mountainous, and the only plain area is a small area on the southern coast of the Mediterranean.
Such a topography would be a disaster for an agricultural country. However, in the desolate and almost uninhabited Sahara Desert, there are huge amounts of oil and gas resources.
The Sahara Desert in Algeria contains a huge amount of oil and gas resources. The reserves of natural gas alone are as high as 707 trillion cubic feet, and the reserves of crude oil are 5.7 billion barrels! And this is only the estimated number based on one-third of Algeria's land area. Two-thirds of Algeria's land area has not been surveyed at all...
Such abundant oil and gas resources are enough to make Algeria one of the richest countries in Africa.
Now, 97% of Algeria's electricity comes from natural gas, a figure far beyond that of China and even many other countries in the world.
Most of Algeria's oil and gas fields are distributed in the central and eastern regions, and almost all of them are located in the Sahara Desert. For example, Borma, the destination of Yang Jing and his team this time, is located in the eastern desert of Algeria - this desert is part of the Sahara Desert.
Because of the topography, when Yang Jing and his team drove through the Sahara Atlas Mountains, they could still see lush vegetation all around them. But when they left this huge mountain range, all they could see was yellow sand all over the sky...
Most of the deserts in Algeria are gravel deserts with relatively large particles. Compared with the Taklimakan Desert in China, the deserts here are more rugged.
This was Yang Jing's first time in the Sahara Desert, which immediately perked up his sleepy spirit.
Taking the steering wheel from Chris, Yang Jing drove on the N8 highway himself. Although this road is not a highway, it is much easier to drive than domestic highways.
The road is not wide, a standard two-way two-lane highway, about the same width as a county road in China. But the road is very flat, and there are basically no vehicles on the road. Beyond the sand-control ditches on both sides of the road, there is endless yellow sand. Against the backdrop of the intoxicating blue sky, driving at high speed in this desert will make people feel inexplicably excited.
The road was as smooth as the floor at home, and there were not many cars. Yang Jing once increased the speed to 200 kilometers per hour, but in the vast desert without any reference points, even at 200 kilometers per hour he did not feel fast.
Occasionally, small villages and towns can be seen on both sides of the road. Yang Jing was also very curious as to why the residents there could survive in the Sahara Desert.
It was the knowledgeable Chris who gave the answer.
"Boss, the Sahara Desert is not entirely desert, especially in Algeria. Thanks to the tall Sahara Atlas Mountains in the north, there are many seasonal rivers in the desert in Algeria. These rivers have water during the flood season, but they dry up during the dry season. Although these rivers are dry and there is little water on the surface, there is abundant groundwater here. This groundwater gushes out in the Sahara Desert, forming small oases, which feed countless people living in the Sahara Desert."
"In the language of the local people in Algeria, these oases are often named 'springs' or 'wells'. For example, Borma, where we are about to go, was developed based on the Duleman Well and the Roman Well. And the big oasis we are about to pass in front is called the Beraihem Spring."
Life is truly magical and tenacious. If Yang Jing had not seen it with his own eyes, he really could not imagine that there were so many human beings living in oases in the Sahara Desert, which is known as the "Sea of Death".
They may have lived here for hundreds or thousands of years, and they may have become unable to tolerate such harsh conditions, but the instinct of life still prompts them to continue to survive in such an environment.
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