The rise of nanometers

January 2, 2012.

The undercurrent caused by the Wall Street Journal's crude oil market research report continues to ferment around the world.

As the protagonist of the incident, he has remained silent and has an indifferent attitude, leaving the world's major crude oil producers confused for a while.

But as time went by, these crude oil producers began to secretly investigate this matter. If you don't investigate, you won't know. If you investigate, you will be shocked.

China's gas vehicle sales last year, as well as the proportion of fuel vehicles converted to gas, are constantly rising.

If the current development trend is followed, it is expected that the proportion of gas vehicles in China will increase to 40-50% around 2015, and will increase to 70-80% around 2020.

China's annual fuel consumption reaches 230 million tons. Once more than half of it switches to gas, this means that fuel consumption will be suppressed to less than 100 million tons. The 130 million tons of fuel that will be cut off may lead to the collapse of the crude oil market. .

For major crude oil producers, this incident is intolerable and frightening to them.

After a secret conference call, they each took action and decided to join forces to teach this arrogant big customer a lesson.

The windy and snowy Far East.

In the outer Northeast region in January, there is only a vast expanse of white between the sky and the earth, and thick white snow accumulates on the birch and pine trees.

In this ice and snow, there is a rough Slavic city-Skovorodino isolated.

Opposite Skovorodino is Mohe County across the Heilongjiang River.

The city of Skovorodino has a small population, only about 10,000 people. It is located on the border of the Far East interior. The dilapidation here is visible to the naked eye. The streets are very spacious, but unusually deserted.

On the edge of the small town, the Tyner Oil Pipeline passes through the town and is a very important node.

The worker responsible for maintaining this section of the transportation pipeline inspected the transportation pipeline and then drove back to the valve control station.

The control valve is not far from Skovorodino, where there is an independent three-story concrete building and a steel structure factory building wrapped with pipes.

Stationmaster Afonia looked at the weather outside. The snowstorm seemed to be getting bigger and bigger, and a snowmobile parked at the door of the control station.

A young man jumped off the snowmobile, patted the snow on his body, and said casually: "Mr. Station Master, the situation is normal."

"Well! You can get off work."

"See you tomorrow."

Looking inside the valve control station, the employees left after get off work one by one. In the end, only security guard Valentin, security inspector Vitalyevich, and station manager Afonia were left.

The three of them drank hot cocoa and chatted.

Suddenly, at the moment when the sun went down, a low roar of an engine gradually approached from a distance, but the three of them didn't pay much attention.

After a while, the engine sound stopped at the door of the valve control station, and then there was a knock on the door.

Security guard Valentin cursed and went to open the door.

"Which bastard?"

The moment he opened the iron door, Valentin froze there, and then slowly raised his hands.

Soon there were several beating sounds in the room. Valentin, the stationmaster, and the security inspector were tied to their seats and fell into a coma.

Inside the valve control station.

A group of masked men in white clothes quickly and skillfully closed the valves of the transportation pipeline and pulled the maintenance switch. Immediately, the valve control station on the Mohe side cooperated and evacuated the remaining crude oil in the pipeline.

Half an hour later, the Mohe valve control station closed the valve.

The masked man opened an inspection gate designed on the pipeline and put an electric inspection vehicle into the pipeline.

It's just that this inspection truck has several extra packages of cubes, which look like compressed biscuits, with some wires and timers plugged into them.

The leading masked man looked at his watch and waved.

The timer on the inspection vehicle started to beat, and the vehicle quickly moved inside the pipeline toward the bottom of the river.

Ten minutes later, a low muffled sound came from the transportation pipeline located at the bottom of the river.

In the Skovorodino Valve Control Station, the masked men were gone, leaving only the three Valentins who were tied up in the security room.

The abnormal situation here was quickly discovered.

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Daqing.

As the end point of the Taina line branch, not only is the branch of Two Barrels of Oil located here, but also the branch of Lucia Petroleum Company is here.

Around two o'clock in the morning.

Yevgraf, the branch manager of Lucia Petroleum Company, urgently met with Li Chaoguang, the head of Daqing Petroleum Company.

The sleepy Li Chaoguang immediately became energetic as soon as he heard about the Taina line.

"Manager Li, I want to inform you of a very regrettable news. Just six hours ago, a group of unknown persons attacked the Skovorodino control station of the Taine Line. They destroyed the river bottom transportation pipeline."

Hearing Yevgraf's explanation, Li Chaoguang felt tense at first, then calmed down. He asked a little coldly:

"What is the damage? When can it be repaired?"

Looking at the calm Li Chaoguang, Yevgraf always felt that something was wrong, but he did not know the real situation at the Skovorodino control station. He could only follow the instructions of the head office and report this to Daqing Petroleum. thing.

"Manager Li, the damage caused by the attack is very serious. More than half of the river bottom pipeline is now filled with water. It is estimated that it will be difficult to clear within half a year. Maybe we need to consider building a new river bottom pipeline."

Li Chaoguang still looked calm: "I understand, tell President Andreev a message for me. I hope you will repair the pipeline as soon as possible. I will report this matter to my superiors."

"Uh...Okay." Yevgraf hesitated, but finally swallowed the doubts in his heart.

Both the boss and Li Chaoguang acted too calmly, as if the interruption of the Taina line was a trivial matter.

But Yevgraf is very knowledgeable, and it is better not to understand many things in depth. He comes in a hurry and leaves in a hurry.

door.

Li Chaoguang, who was wearing a military coat, looked at Yevgraf's leaving figure. In the flying snow, his bloated body, coupled with the thick leather coat, looked particularly clumsy.

"You guys played a good trick, I hope you won't regret it."

As soon as he heard about this, he knew the other party's trick. He probably didn't want to openly fall out, but he didn't want to supply crude oil, so he simply blew himself up and blew up the pipeline, deliberately looking for excuses to delay time.

When the Energy Alliance formulated its strategy, it evaluated the safety of the Taina Line and the Kazakh Line. The Energy Alliance would not fully trust overseas crude oil producers.

The 90 million tons of imported crude oil reserves are prepared to completely cut off supply.

Mao Zi's reaction was expected by the Energy Alliance.

There may be many "accidents" next.

After patting the snow on his body, Li Chaoguang turned around and walked into the house. He reported the matter to the head office, and the head office's response was also very cold.

But as soon as day breaks.

Domestic media still reported intensively on this matter, creating a phenomenon of imminent shortage of crude oil supply.

Then they quietly raised the price of gasoline and diesel from 9.7 yuan per liter to 9.9 yuan per liter.

The Energy Alliance's comprehensive control has begun, with the purpose of forcing owners of fuel vehicles to switch to gas.

Seeing the rising prices of gasoline and diesel, many car owners cursed while filling up.

Indeed, many people can't stand it anymore and plan to switch to engines.

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