Chapter 382 Oil Seedlings

Japan is a country extremely short of resources, especially oil... By the end of the war, Japan even reached the point of using pine roots to boil pine root oil as aviation fuel. This is obviously closely related to Japan's failure to find oil in China. relation.

It is not that Japan has never looked for oil in Northeast China. In fact, after Japan occupied the three northeastern provinces, the Japanese exploration team has not stopped looking for oil in Northeast China.

Moreover, there is a lot of oil in the Northeast, such as Daqing, Liaohe, Jilin, and Jidong... But the Japanese failed to find it with their two-kilometer oil exploration technology, and the shallowest depth of the Daqing oil field is only about one thousand meters.

The reason is mainly due to the wrong strategic direction of focusing on finding oil fields along the coast.

The key point is to drill 2,000-meter wells along the coast and 1,000-meter wells inland.

The Liaohe Oilfield along the coast has a depth of 6,000 meters, so of course no wells at 2,000 meters can be found.

The Daqing Oilfield in the inland area is 1,000 meters shallowest, and wells of 1,000 meters cannot be found... It is said that the wells drilled by the Japanese are only one or two hundred meters away from the discovered oil fields.

Therefore, if the idea that there are oil fields in the Qinchuan area spreads to Japan... and a 2,000-meter well is drilled casually in Daqing, history may very well be rewritten.

"Captain!" Seeing Qin Chuan's silence, Colonel Slain handed Qin Chuan a cigarette and said, "Even if we find oil, we can't hide anything. What should happen will still happen!"

"No, we can!" Qin Chuan said.

"How to do it?" Colonel Slaine spread his hands helplessly.

"Do you remember the method of finding oil that Professor Backhouse said?" Qin Chuan asked.

"You mean... what kind of anticlines, basins, etc.?"

"No, I'm talking about the method of searching for oil and gas, the original method!"

"Uh-huh!" Colonel Slain nodded: "I remember this. Find the oil first, and then dig it into the ground. This is the easiest!"

"Yes!"

"But what's the use of hiding this from us?" Colonel Slaine looked at Qin Chuan in confusion.

"Of course it works!" Qin Chuan explained: "If we are looking for oil based on the basin and anticline oil accumulation theory, it proves that we are sure that there is oil in the interior of North Africa. This will be confirmed when we find the oil!"

"Oh!" Colonel Slaine couldn't help but nodded after hearing this: "But if... we found the oil based on the oil and gas signs, it can only be said to be a coincidence!"

"Yes!" Qin Chuan replied: "So, we have to take the initiative to leak some information, saying that we accidentally found black sand, and start exploring from there..."

"You're crazy, Captain!" Colonel Slain interrupted Qin Chuan: "You will expose us in advance. The British will take corresponding measures against us if they hear this!"

"But this is much better than them discovering the oil theory, isn't it?" Qin Chuan replied: "In order to cover up more important things, we have to make a small sacrifice, so that even if the British know that we have discovered something inland They won’t think of Libya and Egypt when it comes to oil fields. What’s more, even if they take any measures, we can deal with them!”

Colonel Slaine couldn't help but fell silent, because Qin Chuan's words did sound reasonable.

After thinking about it, Colonel Slain said to the adjutant: "Lucas, let Professor Backhouse come here!"

"Yes, Colonel!"

"Captain!" Colonel Slain asked as the adjutant left: "You seem to firmly believe that there will be oil here. Can you tell me why?"

"Because we have only one way out, Colonel!" Qin Chuan replied: "Don't you see it? The reason why General Rommel sent us to assist the exploration team is also because of this, so we have to consider all the issues carefully. This relationship Whether the entire Afrika Korps survives here!"

Colonel Slaine couldn't help but nodded when he heard this. He also knew this. Germany's oil was simply not enough to support the two-front campaign in the East and North Africa. Especially after the Afrika Korps had a fleet, the demand for oil skyrocketed. In fact, there was also a campaign to blockade Britain.

The Afrika Korps is a secondary battlefield. Germany's fuel supply here has been unable to keep up with demand. This will undoubtedly put the Afrika Korps in danger of collapse.

"Colonel!" Professor Backhouse walked in at this moment.

"Professor!" Colonel Sline motioned Professor Backhouse to sit down in the chair and said, "The captain suggested that we disclose some information about the oil fields appropriately."

"Why?" Professor Backhouse cast a puzzled look at Qin Chuan.

"In order to conceal the fact that there is oil in the interior of North Africa!" Colonel Slain explained: "I want to know...if we pretend to find oil based on oil and gas, can we conceal it?"

"Oh!" Backhouse couldn't help but nodded slightly when he heard this. After thinking about it, he replied: "I think this is feasible, Colonel!"

"Why?"

"Because there has been such a precedent!" Professor Backhouse replied: "Last July, the British dug out oil while digging trenches in Saudi Arabia. But until now... we still generally believe that the inland is poor in oil or has little oil. area. If it weren’t for the captain, we would still be searching along the coast!”

Colonel Slain nodded: "In other words, we can create a similar incident!"

"Yes!" Professor Buckhouse replied: "For example, we can say that we found oil seeps when we were digging wells for water, and then everyone will ignore this as another special case, and they will still believe that the oil field is on the seashore!"

Colonel Slaine fell silent after hearing this.

Professor Buckhouse asked again: "This will bring us danger, right?"

"Professor, this is a problem we need to consider!" Colonel Slaine said: "You can leave, thank you very much!"

After Professor Buckhouse left, Colonel Slaine said to Qin Chuan helplessly: "You are right, Captain! This can indeed deceive them, but have you ever thought about... how much impact this will cause?"

"Of course!" Qin Chuan replied.

First of all, this matter must be concealed from Hitler, otherwise it can't be considered a scam at all under the influence of the British "super secret".

Of course, Rommel and others are still unaware of this.

Secondly, as Colonel Slaine said, the British will take action because they know that the Germans have dug up oil seeps, and these actions may threaten the safety of the exploration team or affect the exploration process.

More importantly, if the British inferred from this that the African Corps was short of oil and that this situation would be alleviated in the near future due to the discovery of oil, they might seize the opportunity to launch a large-scale offensive in an attempt to break through the Gabes Line of Defense before the oil fields came into production.