Chapter 1664： Development of the petroleum industry

The reason why kerosene lamps can quickly become popular in the world is not unreasonable. In the era without flashlights, the kerosene lamp, which is not afraid of wind and rain, is the only lighting tool that can be used around the clock. Of course, if you say you have the Pearl of the Night, then you can't talk ...

Not only for underground mining needs, but also in other fields, horse lanterns are also widely used. For example, the fishermen in the former hometown that Marin had thought of used horse lanterns to illuminate the fishing boats at night, and used the lights to attract fish.

In fact, after returning to Orich from Goslar with a horse lantern, Marin was entangled by Columbus and Amerigo. The two insisted that the horse lantern is of great significance to the night sailing of the ship. Therefore, the ship must be equipped with a large number of horse lanterns.

But where can Marin promise them? Because there is so little kerosene in Marin's hand!

He still used kerosene, which was newly extracted from dozens of barrels of oil in Galicia, which was not enough. Even if it is just the Goslar mine, this kerosene is far from enough!

Fortunately, Marin has sent a ship to contact Persia. If there were hundreds of ships of oil in Baku in the future, he would be able to extract enough kerosene. At least, the mine supplying Goslar is no problem.

However, this kind of energy control feels too uncomfortable. Malin thought about it, but decided to find a way to extract oil.

However, even the oil wells in the Galicia region of Poland are in other countries, which makes Marin very uncomfortable. Even if Poland has a good relationship with Marin now, what about in the future? Therefore, it is best to have oil wells in your own territory.

However, for now, Marin has very limited information. Not that he didn't know a few oil fields, but what if he knew some famous oil fields? Those big oil fields in later generations are often hundreds of thousands of meters deep. At the current technological level of Marin, oil wells with a maximum depth of 100 meters can be mined. Because of the Zhuojing well technology, the depth of excavation is about 130 meters. No matter how deep, there is no way.

According to this restriction, the only mines that can be exploited at this time are probably the island pit fields and Titusville in northwestern Pennsylvania. The main reason is that both of these oil fields have oil seedlings exposed on the ground, making it very easy to find. This is the case in the early oil fields. Only when the oil seed is exposed will it attract attention and be developed.

As long as you find the oil seedlings and then introduce the Zhuojingjing technology in Daying County, Sichuan, you can conduct preliminary development. Others dare not say that the developed oil can barely meet the critical lighting needs of the North Sea. As for civilians who want lighting, forget it, not enough ...

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In fact, Marin planned to first introduce Nanzhu from the county of Sichuan and plant it extensively on Taiwan Island, then wait a few years for Nanzhu to grow up, and then introduce the experienced craftsmen of Zhuojijing to mine in the sulfopit Petroleum.

However, the plan cannot keep up with the changes. Because in order to facilitate the mining of Goslar's silver mine, Marin even brought out the fighter in the kerosene lamp, Ma Deng, in advance. As a result, the demand for oil has greatly increased. Even if hundreds of ships of oil can be imported from Persia, it is not a long-term solution.

So, after thinking about it, Marin decided to write to Kong Tai, let him grasp it, and immediately began to introduce Zhuo Jingjing's master. As for the bamboo equipment made by Nanzhu, Marin did not want to wait any longer, and planned to buy the finished product directly from the British side. Then, it was transported to Taihu Outlet and Taitersville in northwestern Pennsylvania.

However, Northwestern Pennsylvania is currently not under the control of the Beihai State. So, after thinking for a while, Marin decided to inform Albert that he would give priority to the northwestern part of the Pennsylvania area, and then slow down in other directions. After finding this legendary area with oil seedlings exposed on the ground, they began to dig oil wells using Zhuojing technology and equipment to produce oil and extract kerosene.

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Speaking of extracting kerosene, Marin suddenly remembered a joke that in the last years of the Qing Dynasty, it seemed that Qing officials had planned to extract kerosene from coal on a large scale in accordance with the name of kerosene in order to produce kerosene.

However, it cannot be said that this idea is all wrong. Because, from coking coal, a small amount of coal tar can indeed be extracted. And some of the ingredients in coal tar can indeed be used as kerosene. However, this content is too low, the cost is too high, and has no economic value.

Of course, this argument is quite cool when used to foole others. If there are really stupid people, like the Qing people, who want to "squeeze oil" out of coal sillyly, Marin must be happy.

In fact, bituminous coal can indeed extract coal tar and can make lamp oil. But the problem is that this coal tar is distilled at a high temperature, and it is not pressed like soybean oil. The joke of the Qing dynasty was not because they wanted to extract kerosene from coal, but because they wanted to import oil extraction equipment from abroad to extract oil from coal ...

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In fact, the introduction of a large amount of oil from Persia can meet certain needs. Marin's greatest concern is not whether he can get enough oil from Persia, but the Portuguese's surveillance.

The Portuguese regard Persia as meat in their bowls and do not allow others to get their fingers dirty. Therefore, before Marin and the Portuguese reached an agreement, the North Sea ’s trade in Persia needed to be supervised by the Portuguese. In this way, the oil trade must be exposed to the Portuguese.

Although there is an excuse to buy oil for the treatment of skin diseases in animals, it is no problem to buy a few hundred ships of oil. If you buy thousands of ships a year, the Portuguese would be a ghost if they did not suspect it. In addition, the appearance of kerosene lamps will inevitably attract attention in the future ~ www.novelhall.com ~ plus the introduction of oil in the Persian death, the Portuguese will be sure to guess the connection between the two when they know it.

If the two get along peacefully, if both sides turn their backs, the Portuguese will definitely send a fleet to block the oil trade route. By then, all the kerosene lamps in the North Sea will be blind.

Therefore, Malinen could give up importing oil from the Persian Baku oil field and choose to produce oil by himself. In this way, there is no danger of leaking or being pinched by the throat.

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Moreover, in fact, Marin does not necessarily have to take the stupid method of Zhuo Tengjing to dig slowly. Because he has a steam engine!

In the 19th century, at the beginning, people used a steam engine to drill and obtain oil. After all, there was no internal combustion engine in the first half of the 19th century. The Titusville oil well in Pennsylvania was the first industrial oil well in the world based on the steam engine equipment at the time.

Therefore, Marin intends to learn this way and use steam engine equipment to dig an oil well in Titusville. Driven by a steam engine, Marin can completely abandon the original pile-type burr drill and change it to a rotary drill, which is the type of impact drill in later generations.

At that time, Marin could use high carbon steel to make roller cone bits that are commonly used in later generations, that is, three wheel heads full of steel teeth are piled together to crush any rock layer that blocks the drill bit. This kind of steel teeth is a bit similar to the "spike teeth" on the outside of the mace bar. If it rotates, it is very conducive to drilling through those rock formations, which is better than the original method of drilling. Because it is difficult to drill through the hard granite layer.

At the beginning, perhaps this method of rotary drilling was not as good as the original drill like Zhuojing. However, it is only a matter of time, as long as it accumulates over time and develops gradually, rotary drilling exceeds drilling. By then, there will be sufficient oil supply enough to develop the oil industry ...