He is known as the "most handsome academician", and at the age of 87, he still sticks to the front line of scientific research
He is the first academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in the field of petroleum exploitation in mainland China, and is known as "the most handsome academician in China", but his appearance is his most noteworthy label. He is Wang Demin, the founder of China's oilfield layered exploitation and chemical flooding technology, and a number of scientific research achievements have provided technical guarantee for the stable production and production increase of Daqing Oilfield.
The academician registration form commented on his work: "These processes are the most significant, difficult and advanced technologies for oilfield development in the world." In 2016, the International Minor Planet Center officially named the asteroid No. 210231 "Wang Demin Star". Let's take a look at his story ↓
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The bright stars of the oil industry have always been on the road of scientific research
The moment that can make Academician Wang Demin feel excited is not that he has won many awards, not that his name flashes in the night sky, and not because he is called "the most handsome academician" who has become popular on the Internet, but the moment when he saw the "black gold" gushing out of the Daqing Oilfield. For him, the "highlight moment" of life is not at all about the glory of all eyes, but more about inner satisfaction.
△ A one-inch photo of Wang Demin when he was young
Wang Demin: There is no need to compare a person who is engaged in technology and oil by his appearance. Honors don't particularly excite me, because when I got them, I was still researching other things, and I didn't have time to think about honors, so I couldn't get excited.
Wang Demin's life script is far from the black oil. Her grandfather is a well-known "holy hand of surgery", her father has been studying for beauty since she was a child, and her mother is a Swiss girl who is proficient in four Chinese. However, due to the times, his Chinese-Swiss mixed-race identity made him close to a perfect score in the college entrance examination, but he was rejected by Tsinghua University and Peking University. Fortunately, the Beijing Petroleum Institute gave this young man a "glimmer of life".
△ Wang Demin
Wang Demin's enrollment was the culmination of the implementation of the first "Five-Year Plan," when the mainland was completely dependent on imports of oil, and was once labeled as "poor oil." Foreign experts have threatened: "China will not have large oil fields, and the meagre oil production is not enough for lighting." "The oil imported from abroad is often detected to carry horse manure, which is really a deliberate attempt to make things difficult for China.
It just so happened that when graduation was approaching, good news came from the northeast: Songliao had discovered a huge oil field! When the news reached the school, the students cheered and rushed to tell each other. Wang Demin recalled that at that time, everyone knocked on the washbasin and shouted everywhere, "The oil is out!" and "There is a big oil field!" "Everyone was very excited, and for many years they felt that China needed oil, and our task was to find oil." ”
The 260,000-square-kilometer Songliao Basin is vast, and the hope of China's oil industry lies there. Wang Demin was determined to rush to the front line, and even when he heard his mother euphemistically ask if he wanted to stay in Beijing, he did not look back.
In the first column of the volunteer book, he solemnly wrote: "The needs of the party and the needs of the motherland are my first choices;In the second column, he directly filled in the Songliao Oilfield, which later became the Daqing Oilfield.
△ Wang Demin's student ID card downloaded from the Internet (AI restored)
02 The light of wisdom in the oilfield cowshed creates brilliance with the "Songliao method".
When Wang Demin first arrived at the oil field, he was assigned to the pressure measurement group, and lived in a cowshed at night, and the lighting leaned against the house to burn "crude oil", often so that people's faces were black, and only a mouthful of white teeth could be seen in the night. During the day, he pulled hundreds of pounds of winches with his bare hands more than a dozen times, but he enjoyed it, "the blue sky is bright with a star, and the wasteland is a bonfire red".
Bitterness and tiredness are nothing, what really bothers Wang Demin is that the effect of "well testing" is not ideal, and the large error leads to a very low oilfield recovery rate. Wang Demin boldly speculated that the well testing methods prevailing abroad are not suitable for China's oil fields, and the Chinese must rely on their own derivation of oil testing methods.
Others seem to be talking about a dream, but Wang Demin is screwing up, just to make the dream come true. After intensive physical labor during the day, he studied Russian at night and studied Soviet literature.
Time is a race against time. In the Spring Festival of 1961, the unit overcame the difficulty of food shortage and distributed flour and meat filling to everyone. In order to save time, Wang Demin rolled out half a catty of dough into a basin-sized dough, wrapped two extra-large dumplings, and turned around to return to the office after eating.
After more than 100 days of hard work, Wang Demin finally deduced the "Songliao method", which is in line with the unique oil well pressure calculation formula of the local oilfield, which is twice as accurate as the internationally used Heno method, and the Daqing oilfield has caught up with and surpassed the world's advanced level for the first time. Wang Demin was unusually promoted to engineer at the age of 24.
△In 1965, Wang Demin (1st from right) pulled the steel wire to do a fishing test in the No. 3 test well of the Oil Production Technology Research Institute.
Two years later, Premier Zhou Enlai announced in his "Report on the Work of the Government": "The mainland is basically self-sufficient in petroleum products!" The deafening applause lasted for a long time. The surging emotions in Wang Demin's heart are also like waves in the sea, wave after wave.
Wang Demin: Of course I am one of all the oil people who are excited, and I feel that we have worked hard to fulfill our promise and will do our best to shake off the hat of "China's poor oil"!
△In 1972, Wang Demin invented the eccentric injection oil production process in the Daqing Oilfield Oil Production Technology Research Institute.
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A pioneer in scientific research who is determined to solve the dilemma of the oilfield
In 1980, Wang Demin developed the "flow-limiting fracturing method", and the oil reserves of the Daqing oilfield soared by 700 million tons, which is equivalent to finding another large-scale oilfield, bringing hundreds of billions of yuan of income to the country, when he was 43 years old. In the laboratory, colleagues always found white and black powder on the corners of his mouth, and later learned that Wang Demin was eating milk powder and coffee sent by his mother, and he even felt that the time to boil water in the kettle was wasted.
△In 1996, Wang Demin (middle) and researchers engaged in tertiary oil recovery observed the simulated core.
In the mid-80s of the last century, the Daqing Oilfield encountered a new crisis. The traditional water injection and flooding method had serious problems, and out of 100 tons of oil produced, 95 tons were all water. Moreover, each water-injected oil well consumes the electricity consumption of a county. In front of Wang Demin, it is always the most difficult dilemma to solve.
Wang Demin: When we wash clothes, the oil can't come down, so we add soap to turn the oil into foam, and when the foam is removed, the oil is gone, which is equivalent to the oil being extracted.
The metaphor of soap bubbles sounds simple, but in practice it is a worldwide problem. Wang Demin withstood the pressure and led the team to develop a polymer that could replace the flowing water injected into the ground and "force" out the crude oil hidden deep in the stone holes.
The miracle of three oil extractions, the first of its kind in China, is unparalleled in the world. Even today, the world's average oil recovery rate is only 30%, but the Daqing oilfield is close to 60%.
Wang Demin's outstanding achievements have made many foreign companies hand him olive branches, but he has not wavered in the slightest and has taken root in Daqing all his life.
△In 1997, Wang Demin studied the beneficial development of difficult-to-recover reserves in the periphery of Daqing Oilfield.
△In 1997, Wang Demin discussed problems with colleagues at the scene.
In Wang Demin's mind, scientific research is a race with no end. In 2020, the four oil production and injection production in the same well successfully passed the acceptance, and after the promotion and application, it will "trigger a great change in the global reproduction of old oilfields". To this end, he brought his son, Wang Yan, chief engineer of the first oil production plant of Daqing Oilfield, who was also his student, to study together.
Fathers and sons, when it comes to his father, Wang Yan's biggest feeling is one word - strict.
Wang Yan feels that his father can deduce the details of almost all work projects step by step very strictly. Moreover, if a job changes, how other aspects will change in the future, he will think very carefully in advance, which shows that his logical thinking ability is very strong.
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In his old age, he adhered to the oilfield and lived a thrifty life and adhered to his original intention
At four o'clock in the afternoon every day, it is Wang Deminlei's untouchable work phone time to understand the project progress of each oilfield, check each data, and arrange the next step...... Faced with one technical difficulty after another, the 87-year-old blurted out without the slightest hesitation. Wang Demin believes that working 12 hours a day, 7 days a week, will allow him to work for the country for 30 more years. Such a high-intensity work is no less than that of a young man, Wang Demin does it day after day, while his personal life is very simple, including three meals a day. A bowl of oatmeal porridge at noon, he thought it was already a good meal. Wang Demin said that the only reason for his self-discipline is that the Daqing Oilfield still needs him, and he wants to witness the realization of the old oilfield's wish to regain its youth.
Wang Demin: If you see the needs of the country, you will work for the rest of your life, and you will continue to work on any difficulties and problems in the middle.
▌Source of this article: CCTV News WeChat public account