In the world, energy will always be the focus of many countries to compete, this year the global oil prices have been rising, in March is as high as nearly 140 US dollars per barrel price, although the follow-up international oil prices have slowly fallen, but today's oil prices are still floating around the $90 stage.
Speaking of the world's oil power, it has to be said that Saudi Arabia is currently the world's second largest reserve of proven oil after Canada, and now has 24% of the world's total oil exploration, which can be seen how much saudi arabia has oil, and it is also the country with the largest number of oil exporters every year.
Now there is news that China's internal oil production is expected to exceed 20 million tons, indicating that China will become the next Saudi Arabia! So is this really the case? Can the mainland's internal oil extraction really catch up with Saudi Arabia? So what kind of oil is being extracted?
In fact, there is a type of oil that the whole world is worried about, that is, "heavy oil"! This oil is located in the Jungar Basin of Xinjiang on the mainland, in this northwest region where grass does not grow all year round, hundreds of meters underground is where this heavy oil exists, and it is also known as "black amber". And this oil is not only very thick liquid, the liquidity is also very poor, resulting in the difficulty of the entire stone mining is very high, the world's countries do not like this oil, after all, it is difficult to extract, then the use value is extremely low.
Speaking of "heavy oil", the texture of this oil is very hard, and on the outside, it is actually a solid condensed state, and according to the survey, the viscosity of this heavy oil is as high as 50,000 millipa seconds. This kind of oil is actually an unconventional heavy oil, and it should be known that on the mainland, this heavy oil is more than 20 times the thickest crude oil that has been developed in the Bohai Sea.
And what does this performance say? In fact, when you look at it at room temperature, it is solid asphalt, and there is no way to flow. For example, the viscosity of honey that is often eaten in the mainland is about 3,000 millipaconds, while the creams used by girls in general are about 10,000 millipaconds, and you can think of the appearance of heavy oil.
Today, the world is facing a serious problem of resource depletion, and in this case, oil is the main energy source that all countries in the world are scrambling to buy and extract. Today's crude oil is about to be depleted, so can heavy oil be extracted? You know, many places in the world are actually stored in a wealth of heavy oil resources, if these heavy oil resources can be extracted, then the problem of dwindling oil resources can be solved!
However, the technical personnel in various countries around the world are very worried about the exploitation of heavy oil, because the extraction of this heavy oil is extremely difficult, even if the new oilfield companies on the mainland have repeatedly found many international oil companies to exploit heavy oil resources in the Zunger Basin, but over the years of continuous exploitation and exploration, there has been no good oil extraction method, and finally, experts said that the possibility of this land can extract heavy oil is very low.
Over the years, in order to exploit the heavy oil resources here, the mainland has not only built 14 pilot test areas in the Junggar Basin, but also constantly explored new mining schemes. After years of continuous development by technicians, we have finally developed a steam injection development technology, which has increased the industrial use rate of heavy oil to 65%, far exceeding that of countries around the world.
This technology is actually to find the weakness of heavy oil, the use of new steam technology, the heavy oil resources softened, enhance its liquidity, and now in Xinjiang Oilfield Company has used this technology to exploit 600 million tons of heavy oil resources, these resources will be converted into 1 million tons of oil resources capacity.
At present, because of this technology, the mainland has been promoted to many countries, helping many countries to complete the exploitation and transformation of heavy oil resources, and now because of this technology, the mainland's dependence on foreign oil has also decreased. Today, the mainland is already the world's largest producer of heavy oil, with a cumulative actual production of heavy oil of up to 20 million tons! Some international people said that with this technology, the mainland may become the next Saudi Arabia in the future, which is the world's largest crude oil extraction and export power.
Moreover, after years of continuous technology research and development, the first large-scale development oil field of offshore super heavy oil reserves in the mainland was established in the Bohai Sea region of the mainland in April this year. Although there is a certain gap between the mainland's oil production and capacity conversion and the world's top oil countries, the mainland is now constantly reducing the gap between the two sides. Moreover, with the continuous development of heavy oil technology in the future, the mainland will sooner or later reduce its dependence on imports of foreign oil.
You know, 70% of the oil resources currently on the market in the world are used for various means of transportation and transportation, because this is the main fuel that drives their operation. Moreover, not only transportation, but also agricultural production, grain cultivation and production, etc. require oil resources.
Today's heavy oil can also develop new special oils, such as aerospace, special asphalt, etc., these resources are in great demand in the world, and before the development of heavy oil technology in the mainland, they are very scarce.
Nowadays, the dependence of the mainland on foreign oil is very high, but according to the data, 70% of the remaining oil resources in the world are heavy oil resources, and these heavy oil resources are the main directions for countries to be exploited and developed in the future. As one of the world's four major heavy oil producers, the mainland's current heavy oil resources are as high as 19.87 billion tons, and the proven high of 3.55 billion tons, which are the targets for future exploitation.
However, this kind of heavy oil that is not easy to exploit, the future technology will be slowly broken by technical personnel, and sooner or later the mainland will achieve a breakthrough in the scale and economic development of super heavy oil.