Yang Jing did not go to see the monument. There was nothing interesting about that kind of monument. It just recorded the past glory of this place. This place was indeed extremely glorious in the past, but compared with that glory and the current decline, the monument seemed more like a mockery, a mockery of human beings who only knew how to make endless demands on Mother Earth.
Yang Jing didn't know when this monument was built, but he thought it must have been built during Baku's most glorious period. Although Yang Jing had never seen the most glorious period here, he could imagine that at that time, Baku must have been full of derricks. Countless crude oil was continuously pumped out from the oil wells under these derricks and then shipped to all parts of the world, contributing to the development of other parts of the world.
But what about now? The steel forest that was once made up of densely packed well frames is gone, the oil workers who once worked enthusiastically are gone, and the oil tankers that were as numerous as ants are gone. Now, all that is left is the barren land and the houses that can even be described as dilapidated...
The dilapidated scene before him made Yang Jing feel an inexplicable pain in his heart, and then he subconsciously shook his head.
The oil oligarch standing next to him noticed that Yang Jing seemed to be in a bad mood, so he asked, "What's wrong? Do you think this place is a little unpopular?"
Yang Jing was stunned for a moment, then shook his head again and said, "No, I just felt the former glory from the desolation here. Although I have not seen the glory here with my own eyes, I can imagine it. But it is the glory of that time that makes the current decline even more uncomfortable."
"Haha, it's rare that you have such an idea." Alekperov patted Yang Jing on the shoulder, "You should know that I was born in an ordinary oil worker's family in this city. When I was born, it was the most glorious time of this city. Although at that time, with the development of the Volga-Urals oil and gas region, the output here dropped from 70% of the entire Soviet Union's oil production at its peak to 40%, but at that time Baku was still the Soviet Union's number one oil field. It's just that she is too old after all, and the blood in her body has been almost squeezed out by humans. She can't compare with those emerging younger generations, so she has slowly become what she is now. However, even the Volga-Urals oil and gas region and even the later Siberian oil and gas region are called the 'Second Baku' and the 'Third Baku' by us! For us old people, Baku's position in the oil and gas industry will never be replaced!"
As he spoke, the old man patted Yang Jing on the shoulder again, pointed to the barren land in the west and said, "The old oil wells under my name are distributed in that area. There are a total of 223 old oil wells, most of which are old oil wells from the beginning of the last century. Now there are less than 20 old oil wells that can still work, and the other oil wells have been sealed long ago."
"Even those old oil wells that are still working, I was planning to shut them down in the near future. There is no other way. These old guys who are much older than me don't have much left. Even if they were once extremely glorious, shutting them down is the best option for them now."
Yang Jing looked over there, and just as he had just seen, on that barren land, only a few "kowtow bug" oil pumps still working could be seen from a distance, but most of the place was still desolate, almost like a Gobi Desert.
Guo Dabao asked in a low voice: "Xiao Jing, shall we go over and take a look?"
Yang Jing shook his head and said, "There's no need to go over and watch it. You can watch it slowly when you have time later."
Although Alekperov did not understand Chinese, he could roughly guess the conversation between the two people, so he introduced: "This is the earliest oil and gas field in the entire Baku Oil and Gas District. At that time, this area was collectively called the Bibi-Heybat Oil and Gas Field. Even the name of this area was named after this oil and gas field. It was not until nearly a century after this oil and gas field was mined that its approximate reserves were figured out. At that time, Soviet oil experts concluded that the oil reserves of this oil and gas field were about 3.5 billion barrels, and the peak production was about 55,000 barrels a day, accounting for about 28% of the production of the entire Baku Oil and Gas District."
This figure made Yang Jing nod his head slightly. 3.7 billion barrels of reserves is about 500 million tons of reserves. If the recoverable reserves account for 30% of the total reserves, the recoverable reserves of the Bibi-Heybat oil field are about 1.2 billion barrels.
Not to mention the production volume before the 20th century, the oil production technology at that time was not mature. Therefore, if we count the production volume of more than half a century before the 20th century, and add the production volume of the 50 years before the 1950s, even if we calculate it based on the oil production volume during the peak period, and assume that it has been produced for 60 years, then the average daily oil production is about 55,000 barrels.
If these figures are accurate, it means that there are about 2.5 billion barrels of heavy oil left in the Bibi-Heybat field. Even if half of it is converted, there are still 1.2 billion barrels of recoverable reserves.
Of course, it is not known how many oil and gas reservoirs are underneath the Bibi-Heybat oil field. If the largest one can be found for conversion, even if only 500 million barrels of recoverable reserves can be converted, Rongbao Mining will still make a lot of money.
But this requires slow searching.
"Xiao Jing, how do you feel?"
Yang Jing shrugged his shoulders. "What can I do? These old oil fields are all like this. Whether it's Beaumont or O'Ham, they are actually no different from here. Just buy it and look for it slowly."
Hearing this, Guo Dabao nodded without changing his expression, but he was actually very happy in his heart. Obviously, since Yang Jing said that he could buy it, it meant that there must be an old oil well in the "traps" area here...
After staying here for about half an hour, the group got on the car and headed for the next old oil field.
The name of the old oil field is the same as the area where it is located, both called Surakhany, located about ten kilometers east of Baku city.
Thanks to the developed transportation, they arrived at the Surakhany oil and gas field in less than twenty minutes.
This is an area that is larger than the old oil field just now, but also more desolate. No wonder there are more than 400 old oil wells in this oil and gas area.
After getting off the car, Alekperov took the initiative to introduce the situation of the oil and gas field.
"The Surakhany oil and gas field was developed much later than the Bibi-Heybat oil field. The Surakhany oil and gas field was discovered in the late 19th century, but large-scale exploitation began in the early 20th century. In the first 50 years of the last century, the output of this oil field once accounted for 35% of the output of the entire Baku oil field, making it the oil field with the highest output in the entire Baku oil and gas field."
PS: I had to go out for something, so this chapter is a little short...
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