Chapter 696 Accident

Two days later, six wells have been drilled to more than 3,000 meters below the sea, but none of them has produced oil.

The drilling has cost more than five million yuan for half a month.

At this rate, fifty million won't take long, let alone a year. If no oil can be recovered within half a year, I am afraid it will last for less than a year at all.

Guo Xiang was also a little anxious.

She was sure that there must be oil in this sea area, but she didn't expect that it would cost so much. It's all money that goes down every day.

"Let's move!" Gu Zhennan said decisively. It was expected that the first time he couldn't get oil out, no matter how many wells he drilled in the past few years as a worker, he rarely succeeded once.

"Move all to the next point." Gu Zhennan pointed to the circled position on the map.

It looks close on the map, but it's still far away. If you want to dismantle all the platforms and equipment and move them there, it will cost a lot of money for loading, unloading and transportation, but there is no way. Oil extraction is a costly job. , but if the oil can be recovered, the return is also a hundred times thousand times more.

"Go down this well for another 200 meters and see." Guo Xiang pointed to the place marked with the No. 5 well, which happened to be the oil team led by Xun Qingguo.

In Guo Xiang's impression, he always felt that he had seen this piece on the news.

"Okay!" Gu Zhennan nodded, he was already doing it anyway, and it wouldn't take much to hit another 200 meters.

Everyone drove together to No. 5 Well, Xun Qingguo was instructing with the walkie-talkie, and then went down another 200 meters.

The rumbling sound of drilling sounded again, and the workers were instructed to manipulate the drill pipe to start drilling down.

With a sudden "pop", a stream of air rushed up from the ground, and a worker was swept up into the sky, and then fell heavily into the sea.

"Blowout!"

"Hurry up and save people!"

Everyone was shocked.

"Quick, bring people up!" Guo Xiang shouted, about to rush over, but Gu Zhennan held her tightly, "Dangerous!"

Gu Zhennan has experienced two blowout accidents. The first time his master died, and the second time his head was stabbed with a steel nail, it was a near-death experience, and he almost divorced Guo Xiang. He knew the seriousness of this kind of accident.

There were also two workers next to them who were hit by the airflow and fell to the side and couldn't get up. They seemed to be injured.

Someone has jumped into the sea to save people.

"Quick, go and pull the mud, and barite, pull a lot of heavy mud..." Gu Zhennan shouted.

Pick up the walkie-talkie and give the command, "All the heavy mud will be pulled over to Well 5, the sooner the better!"

Blowout occurs mainly because there is a natural gas layer underground. After drilling, the pressure balance between the gas layer and the underground is broken. The most common emergency method is to pour a high-density barite mud into the well to increase the pressure to stop the blowout from continuing.

On the other side, the worker rescued the man who had fallen into the sea. Guo Xiang hurried over and saw that the man was in a coma, but he was not dead yet, but he was seriously injured and suffered multiple fractures all over his body.

"Quick, call the command office to call an ambulance!" Guo Xiang shouted, first helping the wounded to bandage the wound.

Gu Zhennan immediately used the walkie-talkie to give orders to the command office.

Soon heavy mud was pulled over and filled the well.

Xun Qingguo ran onto the platform, and the other two injured workers were also pulled down.

"You all go, far away..." Xun Qingguo shouted.

If the blowout here can't be stopped, the natural gas is likely to burn and explode, and all these people here will die.

"Team Xun!" Gu Zhennan shouted, his eyes reddened.

"Let's go!" Xun Qingguo shouted, picking up the gun of the mud tanker and pouring it into the well.

Gu Zhennan pulled the driver who was driving over, "How many barites are there?"

"Just this car, we don't have much reserves in our camp!" the driver said hurriedly.

Gu Zhennan hurriedly used the walkie-talkie to contact the command office, "Quick, ask the local oil company for help, call Director He, and ask them to send barite over here!" Gu Zhennan almost shouted.

On the other side, Guo Xiang walked away with a few injured workers. She knew that she would not play a role here, and it would be a burden to keep her, so she could not drag Gu Zhennan.

She regretted it a little, why did they let them drill down another 200 meters, if it wasn't for her words, it might not have happened.

But now..., what to do?

This call for help, everyone knew that there was a blowout accident here, and Director He immediately sent someone to pull the barite over.

Minister Zhang happened to be having a meeting in the province, and he rushed here as soon as he heard the situation.

Although the oil well is now contracted to Gu Zhennan, the state must come forward when a major accident occurs.

Gu Zhennan also rushed up, the mud stirred, and the mud continued to spray out, hitting him and Xun Taiguo, and the helmets were knocked off.

"What are you doing here?" Xun Qingguo shouted.

"I can't leave you here alone!" Gu Zhennan shouted, desperately holding down the mud gun to pour mud down, the machine was still stirring, and the workers in charge of the mud didn't leave, and stood by the side with tears.

Guo Xiang watched from a distance, tears could not stop falling.

Several more captains and workers from the northeast rushed over, and when they saw that the two were still insisting, they also ran up.

The barite from Director He's side was also delivered.

"Immediately adjust the mud and water, continue!" said one of the captains, going up to replace Xun Qingguo, he was too old and couldn't last long.

A steady stream of mud poured down, and everyone watched nervously from a distance.

Several injured workers were pulled away by ambulance.

Minister Zhang and several leaders of the oil company also came to the command office, and Gu Zhennan was replaced by others.

"How is the situation now?" Minister Zhang asked.

"It's still under control for now!"

"What about the wounded?"

"There are three, not life-threatening, who have been sent to the hospital."

"Is there enough mud?"

"Director He has already provided support, and the mud-water cycle has been re-established."

"What? Doesn't that mean the well is still being drilled? This is a major accident, why doesn't it stop?" someone said.

Gu Zhennan didn't say a word. There was a gas layer underneath, and there was probably oil underneath.

"You can't go on like this, stop right now, you'll be killed if you go on like this!"

"It's under control!" Gu Zhennan said.

"Control? This kind of accident is so easy to control? How many people will die if it explodes? Can you afford this responsibility?"

Gu Zhennan was silent, and now he can only gamble.

But he trusted his own judgment, and he did have it under control now.

"Yeah, Mr. Gu, are you a little too conceited?" Zhang Jianliang, who came along with him, was a little happy. He didn't listen to me for a long time. Do you regret it now?

"Let me just say, how can there be oil in this place? It's alright now, the oil didn't hit, and people almost died..."

Before the words were finished, there was a sudden shout from outside.

"what--"

Everyone was startled and rushed outside in a hurry.

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