Chapter 628： Shale oil

And now, with America's impending fuel shortage, American scientists have begun to develop biofuels! They first used rapeseed oil methyl ester in the engine and burned it for 1,000 hours, proving that this fuel is completely flammable! Also, they define biodiesel as renewable fatty acid monoesters. This is two years earlier than in history.

At the same time, these scientists continue to study the use of fatty acid methyl esters or ethyl esters instead of diesel fuel, that is, to use fatty acid monoesters from animals or plants, including fatty acid methyl esters, fatty acid ethyl esters and fatty acid propyl esters, to replace diesel fuel for combustion. Because of the urgency of reality, their research progressed quickly.

Except for small cars that use gasoline, all heavy trucks use diesel as fuel. As long as the problem of diesel is solved, the current fuel problem can be solved!

Hearing this, Reagan was very happy: "In this case, let's industrialize production on a large scale. It is imminent to solve our fuel problem. If this technology is promoted on a large scale, even the energy problems in Western Europe will be together. solved.

"However, this will lead to more serious food problems." James said.

lack of food! Biodiesel is produced from plants and animals! This will naturally lead to a very complicated problem. The area of ​​arable land in the world is limited to a certain extent, and the amount of food that can be grown is also limited. In this way, if the technology of biodiesel is developed, it will inevitably consume a large amount of food. Part of the world is going to starve!

"Okay, this is really a good shortcoming!" Hearing James' words, Bush patted his thigh and said: "We must not only use these technologies ourselves, but we must promote the biodiesel technology to the whole of Europe. !"

With his political insight, Bush immediately discovered the advantage of this shortcoming, which could just be used to attack the Soviet Union!

Since the 1970s, the Soviet Union has imported grain from Western Europe! Until this year, the Soviet Union is still importing grain from Western Europe. What does this mean? The Soviets had limited agricultural production technology and could not use the existing land to produce enough food! Therefore, the Soviet Union needs to import food to be able to meet their needs!

In the past, Western Europe exported grain and the Soviet Union exported oil, so both sides could be said to have what they needed. But now, under the manipulation of the Soviets, the price of oil in the world has begun to increase substantially! In this way, not only can Western Europe not use grain as a weapon, it must also require the Soviets to export oil!

This is of course something Western Europe does not want to see. If they find that they can use food to produce fuel, what will happen? Of course, the grain was used to make fuel, not to be exported to the Soviet Union! In this way, the Soviets will go hungry!

Moreover, use food to make fuel and cause food shortages in the world, then according to the relationship between supply and demand, the price of world food will increase! This is good for Western Europe, and it is good for America, because they all have surplus food!

"Yes, our technology needs to be vigorously promoted! In the early days, we can even support these enterprises through the government!" Reagan also said.

The capitalist economy is about self-reliance and self-destruction. There are few projects that the government actively supports. Now, Reagan has made up his mind that this project must be transformed into productivity as soon as possible!

"However, this can only make biodiesel. In addition to diesel, we also need gasoline and aviation fuel." James continued: "So, relying on biodiesel alone cannot meet our current needs. We also need new Petroleum industry. Now, our petroleum experts are still developing shale oil extraction technology.”

Shale oil! This concept has been very hot in later generations. In the United States, Monterey, California is the main reserve of shale oil in the United States. It is believed to have 13.7 billion barrels of recoverable shale oil reserves, accounting for 2/3 of the United States. Therefore, also known as the American shale revolution and the new golden age of energy, the United States used to be a pure oil importer, so it must maintain energy security in the Middle East, but then what? The United States even competes with Saudi Arabia in exporting oil!

Although this concept was fired in later generations, the history of shale oil is not short.

Oil shale, also known as oil shale, is a high-ash sedimentary rock containing combustible organic matter. The main difference between it and coal is that the ash content exceeds 40%, and the main difference from carbonaceous shale is that the oil content is greater than 3.5%. In fact, it can be simply said that oil shale is a kind of oil-bearing minerals. Removing the minerals and separating the fuel oil is the production process of this shale oil.

As early as 800 years ago, oil shale was used as fuel for making pottery in Fushun, China. Just like coal at that time, this mineral was burned directly. The production of shale oil by the industrial method of dry distillation of oil shale began in the first half of the 19th century. In 1835, France built the world's first shale oil plant, which retorted oil shale to generate shale oil, and then produced kerosene, paraffin, etc. for lighting. The United Kingdom started shale oil production in 1862, and by 1937, Western European shale oil production reached 500 kilotons.

It is a pity that this method of production is relatively expensive Since crude oil has been mined in the Middle East, a large amount of high-yield self-spraying crude oil, as long as a hole is dug in the ground, the crude oil will be sprayed by itself, so The cost is very low, and a barrel is only about a few dollars. Therefore, the shale oil industry in Western European countries has been shut down one after another, and there are cheap oil imports.

But now, things are different!

Oil is no longer cheap! The world crude oil price has soared to a high price of one hundred and twenty dollars a barrel of oil! Such oil prices are a major blow to the economy of the Western world! The high oil price will affect the transportation industry, cause the price of all consumer goods to rise, and will affect the downstream products of the petrochemical industry, causing prices to rise!

Under such circumstances, the development of shale oil has been put on the agenda again!

"After the demonstration of our oil experts, now, the exploitation of shale oil will be reduced to about $80 per barrel. If further large-scale production is carried out, it will definitely be reduced, and it may eventually be reduced to $50 per barrel. In this case, our shale oil is still very competitive." James said: "And now, looking at this trend, the world crude oil price will remain at a high level for a long time, our shale oil industry It is imminent for the full launch of the website." (To be continued.) To find this site, please search for "" or enter the URL: