Chapter 2092 The North Sea Is Out of Oil?

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After Yang Cheng listened to William's reminder, after much deliberation, she decided to inform Roman of the news, after all, he was in charge of the oilfield operations.

Then he heard another incredible news that the oil under the North Sea was almost exhausted.

"What's the situation?" Yang Cheng asked with staring eyes while holding the phone.

"I don't know either. The sudden news seems to have come from Scotland." Roman said truthfully.

Yang Cheng rubbed her chin, thought for a while and asked, "Is someone spreading rumors on purpose to achieve a certain purpose?"

"for example?"

"Such as creating conflicts between Scotland and England?"

Roman pondered, "I don't know about Jason. No one can tell whether there is oil under the North Sea. At least our oil fields still have huge reserves. It will not be a problem to mine for another three years, but according to the rumors circulating in the market now Looking at it, North Sea oil can only support human exploration for 10 years at most.”

Yang Cheng snorted, "10 years? Too little, it's impossible."

"Yeah, I also think it is impossible. Judging from the oil production volume of major companies, it is not difficult to double this number again."

Yang Cheng rubbed his temples, his head is muddled now, "Okay, Roman, in short, you must be vigilant, and you must not let the scheme of BP's bastards succeed."

"Don't worry, Jason, as long as the three of us are united, BP will have nothing to do with us."

"Yes, unity~" Yang Cheng murmured the word and hung up the phone.

William asked, "How was it? What did Roman say?"

"He said that news has recently come out that the North Sea is running out of oil."

William froze for a moment, then said subconsciously, "This is impossible."

"Why do you say that?" He felt that what William said so firmly must have a basis.

"Similar news has been reported many times, but there is a fact that the production of oilfields peaked in 1999, and production and reserves have been declining year by year since then. At that time, some experts believed that the North Sea oilfields would be completely exhausted by 2020.

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In the early 1970s, some experts predicted that the oil fields in the North Sea would be completely exhausted by the year 2000.

At that time, people who believed in the peak oil theory held a pessimistic attitude, thinking that many new oil fields would not be discovered in the world, and the remaining resources would not be able to bear the burden of human survival.

But the facts have proved that the life of the oil field will be longer than expected. With the advancement of technology, the production period of the North Sea oil field can continue to be extended, and the oil recovery rate of some oil wells is no longer just 35%, but can reach 70%. "

Yang Cheng also thought it was impossible, and he agreed with William's words. sixth book bar

However, when this rumor is combined with William's reminder, this matter becomes interesting. In recent years, the frequency of new oilfield discoveries in the North Sea has become less and less frequent, and the oilfield controlled by the three of Yang Cheng, It is precisely the largest one discovered recently, with extremely rich reserves, but the news has been well controlled from the source, and not many people know the news.

Of course, they didn't expect the news to be kept secret forever. After all, where there are people, there are rivers and lakes. Ordinary staff can't do anything for money, so leaking news is normal.

Just imagine, when BP can't find new oil fields, and there happens to be an oil field that is not so legal and has abundant reserves under your nose, even if the guarding the oil field is a beast, you should try to touch the other party's beard ?

After all, in the face of profit, it is nothing to take a little risk!

Speaking of which, the North Sea Oilfield has been legendary from the very beginning, and it can be regarded as ill-fated. If it hadn’t been for the Phillips Petroleum Company’s desperate drilling of the last well in 1969, the fate of this super oilfield might have been buried forever. Under the known deep sea.

Before the 1960s and 1970s, the hat of an "oil-poor country" had always been the biggest energy problem plaguing Western European countries.

Although the Soviet Union closest to Western Europe is a major oil-producing country, in the context of the Cold War, ideological opposition and national security concerns prevented Europe from importing oil from the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union was close at hand, and the Middle East was not far away, but geographically In the world, there are always great risks. The operation of industrial society is inseparable from oil, but the lifeblood is in the hands of others. These powerful countries in Western Europe can be said to be grieving.

In order to develop the economy, the "oil-poor" Western European countries started a battle for oil. Britain strengthened its control over the Middle East, the Netherlands worked hard to maintain its special status in Indonesia, and France dug wells in French Guiana to find oil and vigorously expanded oil import channels.

The focus of the business is still the Middle East, which has huge production capacity, and the United Kingdom is also the former suzerain country of the Middle East countries. According to the logic of rogues, the local oil industry has a share of the British.

However, under the impact of the national liberation movement that emerged in the 1960s, the influence of the "suzerain" in Western Europe has disappeared. Not only did the major energy companies in the Middle East no longer listen to the call, but they united to impose an "oil embargo" on Western countries. .

A sudden oil embargo will force Americans to start gasoline rationing tickets. For Western Europe, which hardly produces oil, the risk is too great

In order to deal with the severe problem of oil shortage, European countries led by the United Kingdom have to turn their attention to the North Sea, which has not been developed on a large scale.

However, due to the exposed bedrock of the surrounding land and the harsh ocean conditions, the North Sea has been neglected for a long time at this time, and from the perspective of oil exploitation, the North Sea, with its complex seabed topography and harsh sea climate, is really not an ideal place for exploration. great place.

However, in order to be able to extract oil in a short period of time, the United Kingdom released the right to explore oil fields in the North Sea, and first divided the country's one-third of the North Sea into 960 blocks (each block is about 259 square kilometers) , to issue exploration licenses to oil development companies around the world by means of bidding.

What distressed the British government was that even though the UK had made huge concessions in oil exploration rights, major global oil companies at that time were still not interested in this. After the bidding ended, 60% of the sea area was still unoccupied.

Not only that, after the UK released its exploration rights, dozens of oil companies participating in the bidding failed to drill a single oil well that could be put into production, and fell into a loss-making situation.

As oil has not been extracted for several years, the "North Sea Oil-Free Theory" began to spread in Europe, arousing the sensitive nerves of all parties.

Until December 1969, after three years of exploration and spending more than 30 million U.S. dollars, Phillips Petroleum Company could no longer afford the exploration losses in the North Sea oilfields, so the company management decided to abandon the North Sea after drilling the last well and "retreat". back to camp".

It was precisely this hopeless well that brought a glimmer of life to the North Sea oilfield and changed the energy landscape in Europe ever since.

The last well drilled by Phillips Petroleum Company is just above the "Ekofisk Oilfield". It has been proven that the Ekofisk Oilfield is about 13 kilometers long from north to south and 7 kilometers wide from east to west, with recoverable oil reserves of 200-300 million tons, 107.2 billion cubic meters of natural gas.

This good news gave a shot in the arm to the companies that were exploring in the North Sea at that time. Soon after, many oil companies marched into the North Sea oil fields, and set up their positions on the British side close to the Norwegian sea. The North Sea ushered in a bright future. time!

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