Happy Tycoon

This is the second time Yang Jing flew to the Mediterranean Sea within a month. The last time he went to Cyprus with Gege, this time he simply flew directly to the south coast of the Mediterranean Sea.

As the capital of Algeria, Algiers is a very beautiful city located on the southern coast of the Mediterranean Sea. This city full of Romantic style and charm of ancient Rome is a pearl on the southern coast of the Mediterranean Sea.

But Yang Jing didn't have time to appreciate this beautiful city. He slept in the hotel for more than ten hours, and then went downstairs energetically. My six cars hit the road directly.

There is still more than 1,100 kilometers to go from Algiers to Borma, a small city where the oil field is located. Without any highway, the group of them will have to drive for nearly 17 hours on the road.

Take the A1 highway from Algiers, and then climb over the Algeria's largest mountain range, the Taylor Atlas Mountains, and turn to the N8 highway after passing through the northern Algerian town of Bouvera, and then cross the Sahara Atlas The mountains completely entered the Sahara Desert.

As the largest country in Africa, Algeria actually has very little land to use. In the north of Algeria, there are two parallel mountain ranges. The mountain range in the north is the Taylor Atlas Mountains, and the Sahara Atlas Mountains in the south. After passing the Sahara Atlas Mountains, it occupies the entire Algeria. 85% of the country's land area is the Sahara Desert.

In other words, the whole of Algeria is almost except for the desert and the mountains, and the plain is only a small area on the southern coast of the Mediterranean Sea.

Such a topography would be a disaster for an agricultural country. However, in the desolate and almost uninhabited Sahara Desert, there are huge oil and gas resources.

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

With so many oil and gas resources, Algeria is enough to make Algeria one of the richest countries in Africa.

Now, 97% of Algeria's electricity generation comes from natural gas. This number is far below that of China and even many countries in the world.

Most of Algeria's oil and gas fields are located in the central and eastern regions, almost all in the Sahara Desert. It seems that Borma, the destination of Yang Jing and the others this time, is located in the great eastern desert of Algeria-this desert is part of the Sahara Desert.

Because of the topography, when Yang Jing and the others drove in the Sahara Atlas Mountains, they could still see lush vegetation all around them, but when they left this huge mountain range, all they could see was the sky. yellow sand

Most of the deserts in Algeria are gravel deserts with relatively large particles. Compared with the Taklamakan Desert in China, the deserts here are rougher.

This was the first time Yang Jing came to the Sahara Desert, which immediately revived his sleepy spirit.

Taking over the steering wheel from Chris, Yang Jing drove on the N8 road himself. Although this highway is not a highway, it is much easier to travel than domestic highways.

The road is not wide. A standard two-way, two-lane road is about as wide as a county road in China. But the road is very flat, and there are basically no vehicles on the road. Beyond the anti-sand ditch on both sides of the road, there is yellow sand that can't be seen at a glance. Against the background of the blue sky, driving at high speed in this kind of big desert will make people feel inexplicably excited.

The road was as smooth as the floor of the house, and there were no cars. Yang Jing once raised the speed to 200 kilometers, but in the desert without any reference, even at 200 kilometers per hour, he didn't feel fast.

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

Still the well-informed Chris gave the answer.

Boss, not all of the Sahara is desert, especially in Algeria, thanks to the tall Sahara Atlas Mountains in the north, there are many seasonal rivers in the desert in Algeria, during the wet season, These rivers have water, but in the dry season, these rivers dry up. However, although these rivers are dry and there is no water on the surface, there is quite a lot of groundwater here. These groundwater gushes out in the Sahara Desert, Small oases have been formed, feeding countless people living in the Sahara desert.

In the language of the local people in Algeria, these oases are often called spring or well. There is also this big oasis that we are going to pass through ahead, and its name is Bailaiheim Spring.

Life is really miraculous and tenacious. If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, Yang Jing really couldn't imagine that there are so many human beings living in oases in the Sahara Desert known as the Sea of ​​Death.

They may have lived here for hundreds of thousands of years, and they may not be able to bear such harsh conditions, but the instinct of life still urges them to continue to survive in such an environment.

The convoy galloped along the road opened 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 sky quickly darkened during the somewhat boring itinerary. 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 does not feel hot.

Boss, you'd better take out some clothes. I'm afraid there are still more than three hours before we arrive at the destination. After the sun has completely set, the temperature here will drop sharply. If you don't want to catch a cold, you'd better wear Put on some thick clothes. Chris reminded Yang Jing while driving.

But this time Yang Jing didn't follow suit, he wanted to experience the legendary feeling of wearing tulle at noon and cotton at night. In the desert area, the temperature difference between day and night is huge. It is no joke to experience spring, summer, autumn and winter in one day.

Just 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 distinction between winter and summer in the Sahara. In December, the temperature here can reach 37-8 degrees during the day, but at night, the temperature here will quickly drop to below zero.

Just like today, the temperature at noon was close to 50 degrees, Yang Jing was wearing shorts and a T-shirt, and the air conditioner in the car was turned on to the fullest, so that he could bear it. He has seen the high temperature in the desert area during the day, and now he wants to experience the temperature in the desert area at night.

As a result, the facts caused Yang Jing to suffer a moderate loss.

Chris parked the car on the side of the road and changed into a jacket, but Yang Jing was still shorts and a T-shirt, and everyone else changed into jackets or jeans, so they all looked at the big boss there Pretend to compare.

As a result, it was better than not installing it. At nine o'clock in the evening, about 70 kilometers away from Borma, Yang Jing felt that his feet did not belong to him.

Chris looked at the boss stomping there from the corner of his eyes, and asked with a smile, Boss, do you want to turn on the heater?

Yang Jing didn't speak, but took the clothes from the back seat silently, changed them in a few steps, and then reached out to turn on the warm air, only then did he feel that he had returned to the world.

By this time the temperature outside had dropped below ten degrees.

At around 10:30 in the evening, the group finally arrived at their destination, Borma.

Borma said it was a city, but it was not even as good as a village in Huaxia. The length and width of the entire city are no more than 500 meters, and there are not even a thousand residents.

The city is located right on the border between Algeria and Tunisia, and the edge of the city is less than four kilometers away from the border in a straight line.

There is no way, although this city is extremely small and pocket-sized, it is also an out-and-out city. In fact, it is extremely difficult to have such a city in the depths of the Sahara Desert. Just like the settlements that Yang Jing saw on the way here, each settlement has only one or two hundred people. Compared to those settlements, Borma is indeed a city.

But Yang Jing and the others 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 and the others turned a corner from Borma, drove northward 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. Surrounding this medium-sized oil field with reserves of 58 million tons, there is also a living quarter built entirely by oil extraction workers and their families. At the same time, next to this oil field, there is also a small refinery.

Although the sky was completely dark, the lights here were brightly lit. Powerful diesel generators provide sufficient electricity for this place, and the crude oil pumped from a thousand meters deep underground, after preliminary refining in that small refinery, separates enough diesel oil to make the diesel oil here The generator does not have to worry about running out of oil.

Several huge oil tanks stand in the refinery, like a few giant titans, and a thick pipeline extends from the refinery to the east of Tunisia.

This oil pipeline extends from the Hassi Messaoud oil field in the west, which is the largest oil field in Algeria and the tenth largest oil field in the world's top ten oil fields.

The largest oil field in Algeria has a total of three oil pipelines extending to the port cities on the Mediterranean coast, two of which extend northward to the two oil ports of Arzew and Bejaia in Algeria, and the other oil pipeline goes east. Borma entered Tunisia and finally arrived in the Tunisian port city of Gabes.

The oil pipeline that Yang Jing saw was the oil pipeline from the Hassi Mesaoud oil field to Gabes