Chapter 65: The Cutting Edge of Oil Exploration

  After spending several days in the library, Su Cheng's map of the Nan'erzhuang oil field became increasingly complex, and he soon identified three abandoned wells.

  To be on the safe side, he also included two uncertain oil wells, making a total of 5 wells.

  Everything is ready, Su Cheng calls up Xiao Pang, and they head to the Oil Field Headquarters again to look for Wei Kong for a contract.

  Wei Kong smiled and asked: "Are you thinking of taking over the oil well in Nan Er Zhuang?"

  "Hey, how did you know?" Xiaopang was surprised first.

  "The southern second villa's Jiang Ning Gui is a personal item." Wei Kong chuckled twice, opened the drawer, and revealed a peony: "Just throw it down and leave, I can only put it away too."

  Su Cheng raised an eyebrow and asked, "What does he want?"

  "Let me tell him the oil well you've chosen." Wei Kong said meaningfully, "Also, he said that the Nan Er Zhuang operation area is preparing to deepen its production capacity. Recently, he hopes our office will not contract out the abandoned oil wells in Nan Er Zhuang."

  Su Cheng smiled wryly and shook his head, saying: "People fear fame, pigs fear strength, even a useless oil well needs to be handled with care."

  "Others' abandoned oil wells are indeed abandoned, but the one you chose in Suzhou produces over a hundred tons per day." Wei Kong said with a half-true and half-false smile.

  The oil well's output can't be faked. Su Cheng thought about the daily income of 700,000 to 800,000 and his anger dissipated a lot, he just said: "How should we deal with it now?"

  "I don't know which oil wells you want to choose, so there's no way to tell him." Wei Kong chuckled twice and said: "If you're not in a hurry, then wait and see. He can't keep digging deep into production capacity forever. If you are in a hurry..."

  "Huh?"

  Wei Kong took out a stack of files from the drawer and smiled: "If you're in a hurry, let's sign the contract directly. The oil field office is not their Nan Er Zhuang office, nowadays which operation area doesn't want to deeply excavate production capacity, they all do it like this, what's the point of building a third production company?"

  It is still extremely rare for someone like Wei Kong to do so.

  Su Cheng wanted to say something, but Wei Kong blocked him and said: "If you want to thank me, just get a bottle of Wuliangye original liquor next time, don't learn from Jiangning Gui."

  "Alright." Su Cheng Zheng nodded, pulled out a prepared well number, and copied it onto the document while saying: "Actually, even if we tell Jiang Ning which wells to drill, he still won't be able to strike oil."

  "You're quite famous, aren't you? People have been saying that you've been running to the library for several days. Just the other day, someone saw Jiang Ninggui going to the library in the morning with a cigarette tucked away, borrowing books that you had borrowed before... What a pity, he couldn't understand them."

  "This guy... But about what happened two days ago, how did you know just like you saw it with your own eyes?"

  "Who in the oil field doesn't know each other? The whole command center is leaking like a sieve, the more confidential the document, the faster it spreads."

  Su city was silent.

  After signing the contract, Wei Kong stamped the office seal and personally took the contract to find someone to sign it. It took half a day to complete the contract, and then he handed it over to Su Cheng: "Time is tight, so the cost can't be reduced. The contract is for 10 years, with an annual fee of 10,000 yuan. Five wells are worth 50,000 yuan. If Jiang Ning wants to play tricks again, you can use this contract to deal with him."

  Su Cheng took a closer look and found that Secretary Bo Rong and Deputy Secretary Lin Yonggui's seals were also on it, and he couldn't help but thank Wei Kong again.

  After the two of them stamped their seals, the subcontracting contract not only became more complete and legal, but also gained an advantage in terms of level. Unless Jiangning Guiniu went to Beijing, there was no place to file a lawsuit. Apart from Wei Kong's willingness to help, this also involved the face of Suzhou City. Otherwise, if they were replaced by unfamiliar oil field leaders, Bo Rong and Lin Yonggui would definitely not care.

  Monday.

  The 578 well in Nan'erzhuang, which had been silent for years, was drilled again. Li Yao's drilling team spent four days moving the equipment and finally set up the re-drilling operation.

  Jiang Guining looked up at the steel frame with a sense of discontent, and walked up to Li Yao to ask him this and that. As he was the head of the Nan Er Zhuang work area, the latter also responded with one sentence after another, although he himself didn't know much either.

  Several oil bosses also gathered in front, wanting to see if the owner of the legendary "Thousand Barrel Well" could create another glorious moment. The tone was mixed with skepticism and admiration, and a tall man said bluntly: "If this well wins the bet, Boss Su will be the first among us."

  "It doesn't matter if we win or lose, we've already fallen behind. What's this low-resistance oil well? Who understands it? Who has even heard of it?" The short guy pointed to the sky and said: "You know why? They're from Beida!"

  After a while, Su Cheng drove the Jeep and arrived at the destination in a cloud of dust.

  The director of the Drilling and Oil Recovery Research Institute, Qian, and two other researchers, threw up as soon as they got off the car.

  Xiao Pang happily handed over the prepared toilet paper and wet wipes, pretending to be a kind brother, saying: "Riding in my master's car is more exciting than a roller coaster ride. Ah, don't cry, you guys are still relatively close, once... I understand, I understand, when riding in the car, it's so bumpy that you can't even cry if you want to, no big deal, go ahead and cry... Is this brother not speaking because he bit his tongue? In my master's car, no matter how scared you are, you can't make a sound, next time you'll understand, sigh, don't cry..."

  Su Cheng was completely unaware and strolled along the roadside for a while.

  It wasn't until the 80s that he had never entered a village before, and the images in his memory were almost stuck in the 4th or 5th year. Compared to his hometown, Nan'erzhuang relies on oil fields and is not very poor. The crimson gate and glazed tile roof can be seen everywhere, giving Su City a feeling of being in a rural area at the end of the 90s.

  However, the mark of the times will always exist. What one sees most is family planning propaganda slogans:

  "One man gets rich, the whole village is tied up!"

  "One person gets honored, the whole family is glorified."

  "When you see it, grab it."

  ……

  "It is better for a family to be destroyed than for a country to perish."

  ……

  What makes Su City admire is a sentence with a sense of technology that transcends time and a view of honor and shame, hanging high on the white wall at the corner of the road: "Take wearing a condom as an honor, take not caring as a shame."

  "How advanced." Su Cheng thought to himself: Could it be that some unfortunate time-traveler, after finally arriving in the 1980s, actually ended up doing family planning work?

  When Su Cheng turned around, Dean Qian and others had already returned to their normal complexion.

  Su Cheng immediately asked: "How's the oil well?"

  Dean Qian stroked his chin, took a deep breath and said: "Little Su, as a graduate of the Chinese Department of Peking University, how do you know about low-resistance oil wells?"

  "When I was studying in the library, I learned it." Su Cheng said perfunctorily, then asked: "Are you sure it's a low-resistance oil well?"

  Dean Qian shook his head and said, "This is the cutting-edge field of our oil extraction industry. I'm not sure for now. Little Su, you've only been in the oil field for a few months... If I were to say, it's better to take another look. Low-resistance wells have many differences too, not every type can be perforated. This one well is worth tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands."

  What he said was tactful enough, but the core is actually distrust of Su City's judgment. Without the aid of instruments, the judgment of low-resistance oil wells is extremely difficult and also extremely inaccurate. As for such instruments, even the Oil Drilling Research Institute does not have them all.

  Su Cheng's self-taught success didn't impress Principal Qian. The Petroleum Department has 6 subordinate petroleum universities, who isn't struggling to study for 4 years and still can't touch the top field.

  Su Cheng didn't care what he thought, and directly said: "Dean Qian, I've already contracted the oil well, and the drilling team has also moved over. You see, how about designing a sidetracking operation plan first, and then we'll talk."

  Dean Qian nodded helplessly and let the two researchers get busy. They came this time to collect guidance fees.

  Several oil bosses excitedly surrounded the table, like a group of rabbits, one moment peeking from behind the tall one's back, the next moment peeking from behind the short one's back...

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