bonanza

Chapter 672

"The subsidy is more expensive than the direct import of wheat? Has no one thought of buying a batch of wheat from abroad to cheat the subsidy?" Yang Dongsheng asked.

"Of course there are, and there are many more! But those who can do this are princes and ministers, and those who dare to investigate are dead!" James Whistler continued, "Actually, it seems that if they are all fraudulent subsidies, It’s a good thing for them! But they did grow a lot of food, and as a result, after decades, they used up all the fresh water!”

It takes an average of 1000 tons of fresh water to produce one ton of wheat. The Middle East has little precipitation and a large amount of evaporation. This figure has to be doubled.

At its peak, Saudi Arabia produced more than 400 million tons of wheat every year, in addition to a large number of flowers, alfalfa, and dates, which were exported in large quantities.

In the past few decades, Saudi Arabia has almost exhausted all the groundwater that can be pumped. For Saudi Arabia, most of this fresh water is non-renewable, and a lot of groundwater is even left over from the ice age.

The weather in Saudi Arabia is hot, and people cannot live without water.

In order to ensure the water for residents’ daily life, Saudi Arabia had to build a seawater desalination plant again. Now 70% of Saudi Arabia’s drinking water comes from seawater desalination, and the cost per ton exceeds 10 RMB.

Not to mention the corruption caused by food subsidies, the damage to the country-maybe this is nothing to Saudi Arabia.

Due to the depletion of water sources, the Saudi wheat production has fallen sharply, and it has become a food importing country again.

Although the royal family is mostly trash, there are always a few visionaries.

At present, Saudi Arabia can buy enough food by exporting oil, but the oil will always be exhausted.

The population of Saudi Arabia has been growing rapidly over the years, while international food production has fluctuated. Once there is a problem with the food supply, it will definitely cause chaos across the country.

It is a good deal for them to exchange some oil fields that are on the verge of depletion in exchange for food security.

Since the first barrel of crude oil was produced in 1938, a total of hundreds of oil fields have been discovered in Saudi Arabia, more than half of which have been depleted or are on the verge of depletion. The length of the oil pipeline in the country exceeds [-] kilometers. Oil terminal.

The Saudi side gave them seven oil fields with a contract period of 20 years.

After returning home at night, Yang Dongsheng looked at the data and called up the [-]D map of Saudi Arabia.

The oil quality of these oilfields is not very good, mostly heavy crude oil.

There is only one light oil field, and the production is still very small.

Most of the oil fields given to them are near the Persian Gulf.

Saudi Arabia's onshore oilfields produce mostly light crude oil, while offshore oilfields produce mostly heavy crude oil.

These old oil fields should be developed in the same batch. The oil pipeline passes through each oil field in turn, and finally leads to the seaside, where there are oil depots and even oil terminals.

It’s just that most of the pipelines are old, and the water depth of the wharf is very shallow, so it can only dock oil tankers with a capacity of less than 2 tons.

However, precipitation in the Middle East is scarce. Although after many years, these oil pipelines and oil storage facilities have not been corroded too much. The main reason is that the valves and pumps have been blocked by various impurities and waxes due to the age.

Most of these oilfields are heavy crude oil with a high waxy content. After being pumped out of the ground, it gradually solidifies as the temperature drops.

Cleaning up these solid things was easy for Yang Dongsheng!
It is not a problem to modify the water depth of a dock.

If the capacity of the oil depot is not enough, Yang Dongsheng can even build an underground oil depot.

According to the report, the annual crude oil output of these seven oil fields is about 500 million tons, which is not worth mentioning compared to Saudi Arabia's annual output of hundreds of millions of tons, but it is still much better than the two oil fields obtained by Yang Dongsheng in China up.

After Yang Dongsheng scanned the underground of these seven oil fields, he found that there were about [-] million tons of crude oil remaining in these oil fields. In addition, Yang Dongsheng also discovered a large number of oil layers that were not exploited at all, with reserves of more than one billion tons.

The land that Alice got is around these oil fields.

Within five years, Alice will reach an annual wheat output of more than 200 million tons on Saudi land, and maintain this output until the end of the contract.

If not, not only will the oil well be taken back, but Alice will also have to pay huge compensation.

In the spirit of taking as much as he could, James Whistler acquired more than 2000 million acres of land.

Saudi Arabia doesn't care how much land Alice wants. They occupy more than half of the Arabian Peninsula, with a land area of ​​more than 200 million square kilometers.

You can see that there are many huge circles on the ground here.

This kind of farm is very common in the United States and Australia. In the center of these circles is a water well. After the water is pumped from the ground, a huge cantilever with wheels is used to rotate and spray the water well.

These huge cantilevers can sometimes be as long as a kilometer.

However, the groundwater here has already dried up. In the past few decades, Saudi Arabia has consumed hundreds of billions of cubic meters of fresh water!
Yang Dongsheng carefully crafted a water storage structure under the 2000 million mu of land.

Then Sheng got 2 million cubic meters of fresh water from Greenland, 2 million cubic meters is 0.2 cubic meters per kilometer, which is a drop in the bucket for Greenland, which has a total freshwater reserve of several million cubic meters.

But Yang Dongsheng thinks 2 million cubic meters should be enough.

The original irrigation method in Saudi Arabia is too wasteful. Due to the strong water seepage capacity of the sandy soil and the thick sandy soil layer, the pumped water will quickly seep into the ground.

In order to maintain the moisture on the soil surface, water needs to be continuously pumped out and sprayed to the ground. It is during this process that a large amount of water is evaporated.

The root system of wheat is mostly distributed within [-] centimeters underground. Yang Dongsheng can make an anti-seepage layer according to this depth. The water will still seep into the sand, but not very deep. small.

According to Yang Dongsheng’s previous experience in Algeria, using this method, there will be more than ten cubic meters of water per mu. In the future, about 10% of the water will be added every year, and the wheat will be able to have a good harvest. What’s more, Yang Dongsheng will deliberately lower the wheat yield per mu in these places. , can not give too much water.

After dealing with the land, Yang Dongsheng began to carefully observe the situation underground.

The mineral reserves under these lands are good, including gold, silver, copper, and iron, but the most abundant is oil.

Although this land has been developed for more than half a century, Yang Dongsheng has discovered many undeveloped oil layers, with a total of about 30 billion tons.

Seeing that the oil quality is mostly heavy crude oil, Yang Dongsheng feels that many of these crude oils should have been discovered, but the oil quality is too poor and the reserves are too small to be exploited.

Yang Dongsheng was taken aback suddenly when he saw the edge of the land on the inland side.

A huge oil belt appears here, and the texture is still rare light crude oil.

The crude oil has almost gathered into a large underground lake. Yang Dongsheng has never seen an oil field with such good conditions.

And looking at it this way, what he saw was only the edge of the oil field.

Yang Dongsheng walked along the edge, marveling as he watched, the conditions of this oil field were almost against the sky.

Large reserves, good geological conditions, good oil quality!

"What kind of oil field is this?"

Yang Dongsheng thought for a long time, and suddenly his heart moved, and a name suddenly appeared in his heart. This is the world's largest oil field-Ghawar Oil Field.

(End of this chapter)