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Happy Tycoon - Chapter 375

Published at 29th of September 2021 01:40:06 PM


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Yang Jing flew to the Mediterranean twice in a month. The last time he went to Cyprus with gege, this time he simply flew directly to the South Bank of the Mediterranean.

As the capital of Algeria, Algiers, located on the South Bank of the Mediterranean, is a very beautiful city. This city is full of * * * customs and ancient Roman charm. It is a pearl on the South Bank of the Mediterranean.

But Yang Jing didn't have time to enjoy the beautiful city. He slept in the hotel for more than ten hours. Then he went downstairs in high spirits. After a breakfast, at more than 5 a.m., a group of 14 people and six cars went straight on the road.

It is still more than 1100 kilometers from Algiers to Borma, the small town where the oil field is located. In the absence of any highway, their party has to drive on the road for nearly 17 hours.

From Algiers, I got on the A1 highway, and then climbed over the Taylor Atlas Mountains, the largest mountain in Algeria. After passing through buvila, an important town in northern Algeria, I turned to the N8 highway, and then crossed the Sahara Atlas Mountains to completely enter the Sahara desert.

As the largest country in Africa, Algeria can actually use a small area of land. In the north of Algeria, there are two parallel mountains, the Taylor Atlas Mountains in the north and the Sahara Atlas Mountains in the south. After passing the Sahara Atlas Mountains, it is the Sahara desert, which accounts for 85% of Algeria's total land area.

In other words, the whole of Algeria is almost a mountain except the desert, and the plain is only a small area on the South Bank of the Mediterranean.

Such landform is a disaster for an agricultural country. However, in the desolate and almost uninhabited Sahara desert, there is a huge amount of oil and gas resources.

The Sahara desert is located in Algeria. It contains a huge amount of oil and gas resources. The reserves of natural gas alone are as high as 707 trillion cubic feet, while there are 5.7 billion barrels of crude oil! Moreover, this is only the estimated figure of one-third of Algeria's land area, and two-thirds of Algeria's land area has not been surveyed at all

With so many oil and gas resources, Algeria has become one of the richest countries in Africa.

Now, 97% of Algeria's power generation comes from natural gas. This figure is far less than that of China and even many countries in the world.

Algeria's oil and gas fields are mostly distributed in the central and eastern regions, almost all of which are located in the Sahara desert. It's like that Yang Jing's destination, Borma, is located in the eastern desert of Algeria, which is part of the Sahara desert.

Because of the landform, when Yang Jing drove in the Sahara Atlas Mountains, they could see lush vegetation around them, but when they left the huge mountains, all they saw was the yellow sand in the sky

Most of the deserts in Algeria are conglomerate deserts with large particles. Compared with the Taklimakan Desert in China, the desert here is more rough.

This was Yang Jing's first visit to the Sahara desert, which immediately invigorated his sleepy spirit.

Taking the steering wheel from Chris, Yang Jing drove on the N8 highway himself. Although this highway is not an expressway, it is much easier to walk than the domestic expressway.

The road is not wide. The standard two-way two lane highway is almost as wide as the county road in China. But the road is very flat, and there are basically no vehicles on the road. Outside the sand prevention ditches on both sides of the road, you can't see the marginal yellow sand at a glance. Against the background of the blue and intoxicating blue sky, driving at high speed in this big desert will make people have an inexplicable excitement.

The road was flat and had a fight with the floor at home, and there was no car. Yang Jing once raised the speed to 200 kilometers, but in the desert without any reference, he couldn't feel fast even at 200 kilometers per hour.

Occasionally, small villages and towns can be seen on both sides of the road. Yang Jing is also very strange about why the residents there can survive in the Sahara desert.

The well-informed Chris gave the answer.

"Boss, the Sahara desert is not all desert, especially in Algeria. Thanks to the tall Sahara Atlas Mountains in the north, there are many seasonal rivers in the desert in Algeria. In the wet season, these rivers have water, but in the dry season, these rivers dry up. However, although these rivers dry up, they can be seen on the surface There is little water, but there is abundant groundwater here. These groundwater gush out in the Sahara desert, forming small oases one by one, and feeding countless people living in the Sahara desert. "

"In the language of Algerian locals, these oases are often referred to as' springs' or 'wells'. For example, Borma, where we are going, is developed by relying on dureman wells and Roman wells. There is also the large oasis we are going to pass through, which is called bailaiheim spring."

Life is magical and tenacious. If it weren't for what she saw with her own eyes, Yang Jing really can't imagine that there are so many human beings living in the Sahara Desert known as the "sea of death".

They may have lived here for hundreds of years, and they may have had enough of such bad conditions, but the instinct of life still urges them to continue to survive in such an environment.

The motorcade sped along the highway opened up from the desert. Soon, Yang Jing lost the excitement of seeing the desert at the beginning. Chris took over the steering wheel and continued to drive forward.

The weather soon darkened during some boring journey. Compared with the high temperature of more than 40 degrees and close to 50 degrees during the day, in the evening, even if the air conditioner is not turned on, the car doesn't feel hot.

"Boss, you'd better take out some clothes. I'm afraid we still have more than three hours to reach our destination. After the sun sets completely, the temperature here will drop sharply. If you don't want to catch a cold, you'd better put on some thick clothes." Chris reminded Yang Jing while driving.

However, Yang Jing did not follow suit this time. Instead, he wanted to experience the legendary taste of "wearing Tulle in the afternoon and cotton in the evening". In desert areas, the temperature difference between day and night is great. It's no joke to experience spring, summer, autumn and winter in a day.

Like the Sahara desert, this is the region with the largest temperature difference between day and night in the world. In winter... Well, there is no difference between winter and summer in the Sahara. In December, the temperature here during the day can reach 378 degrees, but at night, the temperature here will quickly drop below zero.

Just like today, the temperature at noon is close to 50 degrees. Yang Jing wears shorts and T-shirts and turns on the air conditioner in the car to the full. Only then can she stand it in front of her. He has seen the high temperature in the desert during the day. Now he wants to experience the temperature at night in the desert.

As a result, Yang Jing suffered a big loss.

Chris pulled over to the side of the road and put on his jacket, but Yang Jing still had shorts and T-shirts, and others put on jackets or jeans, so they all watched the big boss put on clothes there.

As a result, it was better than not. At more than 9 p.m., about 70 kilometers away from Borma, Yang Jing felt that her feet did not belong to her.

Chris just looked at the boss stamping his feet and grinning and asked, "boss, do you want to turn on the warm air?"

Yang Jing didn't speak, but silently took her clothes from the back seat, changed them into three times five divided by two, and then stretched out her hand to turn on the warm wind. Only then did she feel like she was back in the world.

At this time, the temperature outside has fallen below 10 degrees

At about 10:30 p.m., the party finally arrived at the destination Borma.

Borma says it's a city, but it's not even as good as a village in China. The whole city is only 500 meters long and wide, and there are not even 1000 residents.

The city is located on the border between Algeria and Tunisia. The edge of the city is less than four kilometers away from the border

No way. Although the city is very small, it is also a city to the letter. In fact, it is extremely difficult to have such a city in the depths of the Sahara desert. It's like those settlements Yang Jing saw on her way here. There are only one or two hundred people in a settlement. Compared with those settlements, Borma is indeed a city.

However, Yang Jing and his family can't live in Borma yet. They have to rush to the oil field seven kilometers away from Borma.

Along a gravel road, Yang Jing turned a corner from Borma, drove north for about ten minutes, and arrived at the real destination - oham oilfield.

This oil field was developed by France's total in the late 1980s. Around this medium-sized oil field with reserves of 58 million tons, there is also a living area completely established by oil mining workers and their families. At the same time, there is a small oil refinery next to the oil field.

Although it was completely dark, the lights were bright here. The powerful diesel generator provides sufficient power here, and the crude oil pumped from a place thousands of meters deep underground, after the preliminary refining of that small refinery, the separated diesel is enough to make the diesel generator here worry about no oil to burn.

Several huge oil tanks stand in the refinery like several giant Titans, and a thick pipeline extends from the refinery to Tunisia in the East.

This oil pipeline extends from Hassi mesaoud oil field in the West. Hassi mesaoud oil field is the largest oil field in Algeria and the 10th largest oil field in the world.

The largest oil field in Algeria has three oil pipelines extending to the port cities along the Mediterranean coast, two of which extend northward to the two oil ports of alze and bejaya in Algeria, and the other oil pipeline enters Tunisia through Borma in the East, and finally arrives at the port city of Gabes in Tunisia.

The oil pipeline Yang Jing saw is the oil pipeline from Hasi mesaoud oilfield to Gabes





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