Chapter 696

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

  Drilling for half a month has already spent more than five million.

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

  Guo Xiang is also a little anxious.

  She can be sure that there must be oil in this sea area, but she didn't expect to spend such a big cost, all the money is spent every day.

  "Move!" Gu Zhennan said decisively. It was expected that the oil could not be produced for the first time. How many wells he had drilled during the years as a worker was rarely successful.

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

It looks close on the map and it’s actually far away. You have to remove all the platforms and equipment and move them there. It costs a lot of money for loading and unloading and transportation, but there is no way. Oil extraction is originally a costly task. , But if the oil can be recovered, the return is hundreds of times thousands of times.

   "This well is drilled two hundred meters down to see." Guo Xiang pointed to the place marked with No. 5 well, which happened to be the oil team led by Xun Qingguo.

  Guo Xiang always felt that he had seen this piece in the news. I don’t know if it’s similar in other places and remembered it wrong.

   "Okay!" Gu Zhennan nodded, he is already doing it anyway, and it doesn't take much to drill another 200 meters deep.

  Everyone drove to the No. 5 well together, Xun Qingguo used the walkie-talkie to command, and then went down 200 meters.

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

   Suddenly "pop", a stream of air rushed straight up from the ground, a worker was rushed to the sky, and then fell heavily into the sea.

   "Blowout!"

   "Help people!"

  Everyone was shocked.

   "Hurry up, get people up!" Guo Xiang shouted, trying to rush over, Gu Zhennan pulled her tightly, "Danger!"

  Gu Zhennan has experienced two blowout accidents. The first time his master died, and the second time his head was nailed into a steel nail, it was nine deaths, and he was almost divorced from Guo Xiang. He knew the seriousness of this accident.

  There were also two workers who were hit by the airflow and fell to the side and could not get up. They seemed to be injured. The derricks were all toppled and millions of equipment were damaged.

  Someone has jumped into the sea to save people.

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

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

  The 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 rescue method is to pour dense barite mud into the well to increase the pressure to stop the blowout from continuing.

  The worker on the other side rescued the man who had fallen into the sea. Guo Xiang rushed over and saw that the man was unconscious but not dead, but was seriously injured and suffered multiple fractures throughout his body.

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

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

   Soon heavy mud was pulled over and poured mud into the well.

  Xun Qingguo ran onto the platform, and the other two injured workers were also dragged off.

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

  In case the blowout cannot be stopped here, the natural gas is likely to burn and explode, then these people here will die.

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

   "Go!" Xun Qingguo yelled, picking up the gun of the mud tanker and filling the well.

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

   "For this vehicle, we don't have much reserve in the camp!" The driver said hurriedly.

  Gu Zhennan hurriedly used the walkie-talkie to contact the command office, “Quickly, ask the local oil company for help, call the director He, and ask them to send barite over!” Gu Zhennan almost roared.

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

  She regrets a little bit, why should they let them go down another two hundred meters? If it weren't for her, there would be no trouble.

   But now..., what should I do?

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

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

  Although the oil wells are 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 let you be here alone!" Gu Zhennan roared, holding the mud gun down to fill the mud, the machine was still stirring, and the workers in charge of the mud below did not go away, and stayed on the side with tears.

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

  A few more captains and workers from the northeast rushed over. Seeing that they were still insisting, they also ran up.

  The barite from Director He was also delivered.

  "Adjust the mud and water right away and continue!" said one of the captains. He went up to change Xun Qing and came down. He is too old to hold on for long.

  The continuous flow of mud poured down, and everyone was watching from afar nervously.

  Several injured workers were pulled away by an ambulance.

   Minister Zhang and several leaders of the oil company also arrived at the command post, and Gu Zhennan was replaced by others.

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

  "Still under control for the time being!"

   "Where are the wounded?"

   "There are three of them. They are not life-threatening. They have been sent to the hospital."

   "Is there enough mud?"

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

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

  Gu Zhennan did not say a word, there is a gas layer below, and there is probably oil underneath.

   "You can't go on like this, stop immediately, it will kill people if you do this again!"

   "It has been controlled!" Gu Zhennan said.

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

  Gu Zhennan was silent, and now he can only bet on desperation.

  But he believed in his own judgment, and he has indeed controlled it now.

   "Yeah, Mr. Gu, are you a little too arrogant?" Zhang Jianliang, who came with me, was a little bit happy. He didn't listen to me a long time ago. Now I regret it, right?

   "Let me just say, why is there oil in this place? It's fine now, the oil is not hit, people almost died..."

  Unfinished words, there was a loud shout outside.

"what--"

  Everyone was shocked and rushed outside.

  (End of this chapter)