My Italy

The internal combustion engine on the drilling platform is constantly working, and the drilling team has long been accustomed to the rumbling noise. Some of them seem so ordinary. Only the sound of counting from time to time lets people know how many meters of depth have been drilled.

"2789 meters."

"2790 meters."

"…………"

Counting sounds from time to time seems so boring, but it is an essential part of digging a deep well. Especially when the depth of drilling is quite deep, you need to let everyone know every time you drill one meter. Because the deeper you drill underground, the more complicated the situation becomes. At this time, you need to report the numbers at any time to keep everyone alert.

"2796 meters."

Just as the person reporting the numbers reported the current drilling figures, he suddenly heard a "pop" sound, and then saw the pressure gauge surge, and then the drill bit sank.

"If there is any situation, go and ask the captain to come over and take a look."

"It's too late, the pressure gauge is already worth its weight in gold."

Sure enough, as soon as these words were spoken, the working platform began to shake. Everyone knew that there was something strong underground rushing towards the ground along the pipe they were drilling.

"No, it's a blowout! Call Captain Robinson over quickly."

"The feeling is much stronger than the last blowout. It's hard to run quickly. I feel like I can't hold it in anymore. It's too dangerous here."

They were so panic-stricken that they had no idea that a treasure that had been buried for hundreds of millions of years would soon be revealed.

"Boom!"

There was a loud bang, which scared everyone and hid further away. The black liquid broke through the restraints and rushed directly into the sky.

Robinson and Garcia, who were on their way, were stunned when they looked at the black spray column that was 100 meters high.

"God, there's so much oil down here!"

Compared to the surprised deputy, Robinson turned around and hugged his deputy.

"See, Garcia, we did it, we did it," he said, pointing to the erupting oil column in the distance. "If the company doesn't give us double oil production reward this time, I won't be done with them."

"Let's put the reward aside for now. The most important thing is that we quickly block the wellhead."

After regaining consciousness, Garcia quickly stopped his captain from dancing, pointed at the players who were avoiding the oil rain, and hoped that the captain would come up with a solution quickly.

"Hurry up and call the rest of the people in the camp and ask them to bring the cement."

Looking at the oil pillar hundreds of meters high in front of him, Robinson felt a headache when he came back to his senses. He had no confidence in stopping the blowout.

This is indeed the case. After three days of rescue work, they had used up all the cement and could only watch the continuous eruption of oil continue to rain.

However, apart from being unable to stop the blowout, there is also good news. First of all, this oil is light and low-sulfur and is very high-quality oil. Secondly, the well they drilled is estimated to eject thousands of tons of oil every day. , according to calculations, there are at least 100 million tons of oil fields underground.

All this news was quickly spread to Benghazi, to the Italian Petroleum Company, and to King Carlo's desk.

In front of Carlo's desk, Mr. Anderson, the general manager of Italian Petroleum Company, listened respectfully to Carlo's instructions.

"Has the oil well stopped blowing out?"

"Your Majesty, thanks to the efforts of hundreds of oil workers, the blowout has been stopped."

Jean Carlo summoned the general manager of the oil company precisely because of the good news that Libya was producing oil. It was difficult for Mr. Anderson to talk about it before, because he ordered the Italian oil company to invest a lot of money in Libyan oil exploration, and the performance of the oil company was previously ridiculed by many people for searching for oil in the deserts of North Africa. It's better to just look for water.

Of course, we don’t know what the motivations of these people are, but of course they questioned that the oil company was wasting the funds reported to them by the state, and it was published in several newspapers.

Well now, oil companies have discovered oil in Harigai, enough to make people shut up.

"What are you going to do next?"

Faced with Carlo's inquiry, the head of Italian Petroleum immediately spoke. "Your Majesty, our Italian oil company plans to carry out intensive drilling in the Harige area to expand production capacity. In addition, we will also carefully explore the oil reserves in the area. In addition, we cannot relax the exploration work in other parts of Libya."

Anderson is very confident about exploration work in other areas, because oil fields are rarely isolated. It is like digging for potatoes. As long as you find one, there must be more.

Carlo felt relieved after seeing that his oil company was extremely concerned about Libya's oil production.

Now that the oil company has taken it seriously, what else can he say, other than encouragement.

Of course, for oil companies, the discovery of oil in Libya must be taken seriously. After all, it is close to the mainland, unlike Balikpapan, which is half a world away. Secondly, although the current oil consumption is due to electric lighting, the role of oil is much less.

But Anderson is very confident about the future of oil, because oil not only produces kerosene, but also can be used as a fuel supply for internal combustion engines such as gasoline and diesel. It has a bright future.

Although there are not many internal combustion engines nowadays, their efficiency far exceeds that of steam engines, which determines the status of their replacement. If you think about the steam engines that are now spread across all walks of life, you can think of the vast market for internal combustion engines in the future, and by then oil will definitely be the indispensable blood of future industries.

Of course, oil has a bright future, but it is only the future, but in addition to looking at the future, we also need to look at the present. The current dilemma of oil means that more people must use oil, so the internal combustion engine needs to be promoted as a standard equipment for using oil.

(This is also one of the main reasons why Rockefeller invested in Ford, to sell oil and promote cars, which is not quite perfect.)

Of course, this is a far-fetched topic. Regarding the news that Italians discovered oil in Libya, only a few economic newspapers published this news. At this time, the importance of oil has not yet been realized, and even cars are still toys for the aristocrats and rich people.

As for the diesel engine, well, mines and inland water transportation both need such powerful internal combustion engines, because in addition to the advantage of high horsepower, the quality of burning waste oil is worthy of praise. The only disadvantage is that the noise is relatively loud. Also a bit expensive. (Diesel at this time is just waste oil and very cheap)

Therefore, everyone ignored the news of the discovery of oil in Italy. Of course, some people have noticed it, but unfortunately, Rear Admiral Fisher, who serves as the commander of the British Empire's West India Naval Task Force, is not yet a big shot, so his opinions are not enough to attract other people's attention.