Guo Dabao stayed at the Baku Hilton Hotel, which is the most luxurious hotel in Baku. Before Yang Jing came, Guo Dabao had booked a presidential suite and a business suite for Yang Jing, which could accommodate Yang Jing and his group of five.
At nine o'clock the next morning, Alekperov came to the Hilton Hotel with a group of bodyguards and a motorcade to pick up Yang Jing and Guo Dabao. Today, the oil oligarch will take Yang Jing and Guo Dabao to visit the oil field.
Guo Dabao had visited the oil field with a large number of old oil wells a few days ago. This time, with Alekperov following him personally, he would naturally see it in more detail.
The 625 old oil wells purchased by Guo Dabao are located in two different areas. There are 402 old oil wells in the Surakhany district east of Baku city, and 223 old oil wells in the Bibi-Heybat district south of Baku city.
More than a century ago, these two regions were Baku’s main oil producing areas. At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, the oil production of these two regions accounted for more than 63% of Baku’s total oil production.
This morning, Yang Jing and his group went to the Bibi-Heybat district in the south. This district also has a very famous name - Bibi District.
After leaving Baku city, the convoy drove onto the E60 highway. After driving south along the highway for six kilometers, it arrived at the Bibi district on the coast.
"See, Albert? This is the earliest oil-producing area in Baku. The world's first modern oil well was drilled here." The tall Alekperov pointed to a peninsula that extends into the Caspian Sea not far away and said, "There is a monument there. It was built by later generations to commemorate the birth of the world's first oil well."
"The world's first oil well? Isn't it in Titusville, Pennsylvania, USA?" Yang Jing asked curiously. He knew something about oil, such as the world's first oil well, the world's first 10,000-ton well, and so on.
Hearing this, Alekperov smiled, "No, my dear Albert, the oil well that Edwin Drake dug in Titusville, Pennsylvania was not the first oil well in the world. Drake dug the well there in 1859, right?"
Yang Jing nodded. He still remembered world records like this very clearly.
"But thirteen years before Drake drilled that oil well, in 1846, a Russian engineer named Alexief drilled a 21-meter-deep oil well at the location of the monument in front of us using a primitive percussion drill. That oil well was the first oil well in the modern sense! The Americans are far behind, thirteen years behind us Russians."
Is there such a thing? Yang Jing was a little confused. But seeing the confidence when Alekperov spoke, it was probably true. It was just that Aleksev probably didn't know how to hype it up at the time, so he gave the title of "the world's first oil well driller" to the American Edwin Drake.
"Crude oil has been mined here for a long time, but the mining methods at that time were very backward. After the Baku Khanate joined the Russian Empire in 1806, until Alexieff drilled the first oil well, the means of oil extraction here was manual digging. At that time, the oil wells dug were only a few meters deep. There were only 136 oil wells in total, and the annual output was only more than 20,000 barrels. The oil was mainly exported to Persia, where it was used for lighting, ointments and other traditional therapies."
Alekperov was obviously very familiar with the history of this place, and he could cite many anecdotes at will, as if he was telling his own stories.
"In the early stage of oil extraction, the famous Rothschild family and the Nobel brothers controlled the oil production here. Then, half a century later in 1871, Grand Duke Ivan Mirzov monopolized the oil here. The oil workers under the Grand Duke built the world's first wooden derrick that year, and another wooden derrick the following year, and then used a balancing arm and a manual pump for primitive drilling. From then on, Baku's oil extraction industry really began to develop. At that time, all the oil wells in the surrounding area of hundreds of square kilometers were controlled by Grand Duke Mirzov. He was the real oil oligarch, and I am far behind him..." Alekperov laughed at himself.
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