bonanza

Chapter 801 Residues
According to Yang Dongsheng's previous experience, the abandoned ancient city under the Taklamakan Desert either gradually declined due to the depletion of water sources, or was destroyed by war.

In these two cases, either the city has been in disrepair for a long time, or it has been greatly damaged.

But the damage to this ancient city is not serious!
Yang Dongsheng even found a lot of gold and silver treasures in the ancient city that he didn't have time to take away!
The situation is indeed a bit weird, but Yang Dongsheng doesn't understand archeology, so he can only continue to read.

Anyone who has studied geography in junior high school knows that the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau was originally a sea.

Later, the Indian Ocean plate moved and squeezed northward, and the sea became land, eventually forming the most majestic plateau on earth.

This series of movements made the land full of folds.

And this ancient city is located in the middle of a huge fold. Under the ancient city, there are rich oil and gas resources, including condensate oil and natural gas...

Some oil and gas even made their way to water wells.

Continuing to look down, Yang Dongsheng discovered more hydrocarbons.

These hydrocarbons are solid, but obviously not formed from coal, but left over from oil.

Although oil and coal are both mixtures, the main components are also carbon and hydrogen, but according to Yang Dongsheng's experience over the years, the specific components are still different.

Oil molecules are generally small.

Even thick heavy oil has only about 20 carbon atoms per molecule, and thicker bitumen has 30 to 40.

The molecular chain of coal is much longer, often more than 100.

Also, the number of hydrogen atoms per carbon atom in coal is about half that of oil.

Therefore, the coal-to-oil project is usually called "hydrogenation".

Layer by layer, this hydrocarbon continues downhill.

Depths quickly exceeded the limits of humanity's current drilling technology.

The deepest well drilled by humans so far is still the Kola ultra-deep drilling in the former Soviet Union, with a depth of 12263 meters, which is only a little more than 12 kilometers.

Yang Dongsheng's current ability can penetrate 50 kilometers underground, but he still hasn't seen the end of these hydrocarbons.

And he found that these hydrocarbons are still breaking down.

The content of substances with longer molecular chains is slowly decreasing, and a large number of substances with shorter molecular chains are newly produced.

Such as methane, ethane, propane, condensate oil, simple carbon...

Newly formed substances with lower boiling points, such as methane, ethane, and condensate, will vaporize and drill upward.

Substances with a higher boiling point, such as simple carbon, remained in place.

Yang Dongsheng remembered his combustible ice deposits in Canada, and those combustible ices would continue to regenerate.

A similar reaction should be happening deep underground there.

The greater the depth, the faster this response.

This is quite understandable. For every 100 meters of underground depth, the temperature rises by about 2.5 degrees Celsius.

This is the edge of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the crust is thick, and the temperature may not increase so fast, but 50 kilometers underground, it must be hundreds of degrees.

To put it bluntly, petrochemical industry is to use various methods to continuously pressurize and heat crude oil—sometimes some catalysts are needed to fractionate and crack crude oil.

The underground high temperature and sealed environment just replace heaters, compressors, reaction tanks, cracking furnaces and other facilities.

As Yang Dongsheng saw the detectable bottom all the way, the remaining material had almost turned into coke.

Yang Dongsheng guessed that there should be pure graphite in deeper places.

If it goes further down, as the temperature and pressure are further increased, it should be transformed into a diamond.

After a rough estimate, the carbon and hydrocarbons that can be seen under the land they are currently reclaiming are already as high as tens of billions of tons.

If these carbon and hydrocarbons are all generated by oil, then the total amount of oil that has been buried under this land may be an astronomical figure.

If this is the case for the entire junction of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the Tarim Basin, this number will be even more astonishing.

Yang Dongsheng speculated that when the Indian Ocean plate squeezed, an oil field much larger than the Persian Gulf, or multiple oil fields the size of the Persian Gulf should have been pushed to the northern plateau.

Then after hundreds of millions of years of evolution, it developed into what it is today.

If Yang Dongsheng has tens of billions of tons of crude oil, it would be a big deal.

The country's crude oil reserves are not 100 billion tons.

But after hundreds of millions of years, these oils have almost left a pile of residues.

Light crude oil with shorter carbon chains has been completely decomposed and evaporated.

Heavy crude oil and bitumen with long carbon chains are mostly turned into coke.

The remaining substances that can barely be counted as petroleum are only 50 billion tons, and they are basically bituminous, which is difficult to transport and refine.

Simply put, our country's crude oil is not good, and there is still a shortage of oil.

These crude oils are still valuable.

Yang Dongsheng tried it—the crude oil that has been clumped together can be moved.

After the confirmation, Yang Dongsheng rushed directly to Kucha, which is the second oil field that Dongsheng Mining has ever acquired, with a crude oil output of 20 last year.

Compared with the output of the whole country, this output is not worth mentioning at all, but the oil quality here is good, and most of the crude oil produced is condensate oil.

After arranging insurance measures, Yang Dongsheng put a piece of oil residue down a well.

Watching the condensate slowly dissolve the solidified crude oil, Yang Dongsheng was overjoyed.

In fact, after the tar sands bitumen oil in Canada is extracted, it must be diluted with condensate oil before it can be transported to the United States by pipeline.

Condensate is also often refined with heavier oils to improve the quality of the crude.

Yang Dongsheng immediately ordered Dongsheng Foods to give priority to reclamation along the eastern edge of the Tarim Basin.

Get out these usable crude oil one day earlier, and you will save one point of loss.

In the evening, the group lived on the oil field.

After dinner, Yang Dongsheng was calling Director Li to find out about the company's situation in recent days.

Suddenly, there was a crackling sound coming from outside the door, and there was also a rattling sound similar to birdsong.

Immediately, Zhou Ying shouted, "Yang Yue, why did you catch this thing!"

"What's wrong?" Yang Dongsheng was shocked when he heard the words and went out.

I saw the little tiger clutching the two wings of an eagle like an old hen.

This eagle is as big as a big white goose, and it is definitely an adult.

It is completely different from the little owl that little tiger picked up last time.

To be honest, Yang Dongsheng has no doubts about throwing the little tiger in this big desert. Come back next summer, the little tiger can pull up a tribe by himself.

But he still didn't expect that the little tiger could catch an adult eagle with his bare hands.

After all, she is running on the ground, and others are flying in the sky!

"Let it go soon, you are not afraid that it will take you away!" Zhou Ying shouted.

(End of this chapter)