A doctor who travels through two eras

Lin Sanqi stopped people from pouring wine, explaining with a smile:
"Director Wu, everyone, I'm from the South and have a low alcohol tolerance, so please forgive me. Also, I'm here on business, not for drinking. I'm about to head back to the South."

"You've really gotten me drunk. Wait until I'm drunk when I board the plane and fly away, then you won't regret it. I've given you a chance. Whether to pour me more drinks or not is up to you, Director Wu."

Director Wu's lips twitched, and he looked at Minister Zheng with a pleading expression.

Minister Zheng, being a shrewd man, could tell at a glance who was telling the truth and who was lying. So he gestured to the crowd with his eyes, and then said with a smile:

"Alright, Minister Lin is a man of action, so let's skip the formalities. Tonight, I'll set a rule: we'll drink less, or even none at all, and eat more food. We can't waste this table full of delicious food."

This is only possible in the Great Northern Wilderness. In the capital, who could afford such a lavish New Year's feast? Even for higher-ups, the most they'd get is a bowl of braised pork. I felt a little guilty eating like this.”

Director Wu quickly offered a few explanations:

"Minister, this meal of wild game didn't actually cost much. We got it by exchanging it with the local people. We just used some grain coupons or cloth coupons."

Furthermore, to ensure the leaders' peace of mind regarding their meals, all the grain and cloth coupons were provided by me personally, without spending a single penny of collective funds. Please rest assured, Minister, I, Old Wu, know where the red line is.”

Upon hearing this, Lin Sanqi nodded inwardly.

Only cadres like these and oil fields like these are worth helping.

If Daqing Oilfield were to become like the petroleum system cadres of decades later, Lin Sanqi would also turn a deaf ear and say he couldn't help.

This is also why he was willing to come to Daqing in the freezing cold; he definitely wanted to come and inspect it in person, after all, the petroleum system is too…

After several rounds of dishes, Lin Sanqi had eaten her fill and let out a satisfied burp, saying:
"Director Wu, I have a favor to ask. Could you please make a few more portions of the wild game for me tonight, such as venison, roe deer meat, chicken stew with mushrooms, and bear paws, so I can take them with me?"

Lin Sanqi was thinking that since this delicacy had become extinct in later generations, he should take advantage of the fact that he could get his hands on it now and make a lot of it so that he could bring it to his family in another time and space to taste.

They cooked it all up, and the family ate it secretly. After they finished eating, they took the bones to another dimension to throw them away. Absolutely no one would know.

People from Dongguang even eat people from Fujian, let alone these cute little animals.

Upon hearing this, Director Wu was secretly delighted.

He wasn't afraid of Lin Sanqi making demands. If Lin Sanqi made demands, it meant that Lin Sanqi felt at ease and would definitely provide assistance to Daqing Oilfield in the future.

"Alright, Minister Lin, don't worry. Wait a day or two. Rest assured, I will immediately arrange for people to purchase wild game from several nearby counties. I guarantee that Minister Lin will come with high expectations and leave satisfied."

Lin Sanqi leaned back in her chair, then asked while touching her stomach:
"Alright, Minister Zheng, and Director Wu, I'm already indebted to you for your generosity. Tell me, what kind of assistance do you want?"

Upon hearing this, Minister Zheng realized that the young man in front of him liked to be straightforward and direct, so he stopped being coy.

"Comrade Sanqi, if it were a personal request, I, Lao Zheng, wouldn't be so shameless. But if it's a request for the public good or for the country, then I'll speak the truth."

As I mentioned before, we currently have no shortage of oil. Not to mention other oil fields, the Daqing Oilfield alone is enough to supply the entire country's needs.

The old problem remains: we currently lack oil refineries and refining technology, and have no way to convert petroleum into gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel. This is something that causes us great anxiety.

Currently, the most advanced oil refinery in China is the Lanzhou refinery, but it supplies more than half of the country's refined oil products. We can't simply dismantle the Lanzhou refinery and transport the parts to Daqing.

Lin Sanqi nodded. As mentioned before, the Lanzhou plant was aided by the Soviets, while the Daqing plant was built domestically.

Then, the Lanzhou plant has an annual output of 40 tons, while the Daqing plant has an annual output of only 15 tons, a huge difference.

In terms of oil production, Yumen Oilfield produces more than 100 million tons a year, while Daqing Oilfield's annual output has reached more than 1000 million tons, and its potential is huge, with oil everywhere underground.

Therefore, the Ministry of Petroleum was eager to build a large-scale oil refinery in Daqing to meet the national supply of refined oil products in one fell swoop.

Lin Sanqi pondered for a moment and said:

"I'm a layman when it comes to oil refining; I don't understand your technology. But I visited the Daqing Refinery this afternoon. Your scale is huge, with tens of thousands of workers. Why is your output so low?" Director Wu sighed and replied.

"Our backwardness is comprehensive, and we must admit that."

For example, the Lanzhou plant, which received aid from the Soviet Union, adopted technologies such as delayed coking, fluidized bed catalytic cracking, platinum reforming, and urea dewaxing, as well as corresponding catalyst manufacturing processes.

In addition, there are more advanced processes such as hydrocracking, natural gas steam reforming for hydrogen production, and alkylation, which the Soviet experts were unwilling to teach us at the time and kept secret from us.

The direct consequence of this is that our workers know how to operate the machines and how to add catalysts, but we do not understand the manufacturing principles of the machinery, the specific components of the catalysts, or how they are produced.

Without solving these two problems, we cannot replicate Soviet technology, and therefore cannot produce advanced oil refining equipment.

Lin Sanqi asked curiously, "So what oil refining technology are we using now?"

Director Wu replied:
"Currently, we are still using the kettle-type vacuum distillation method from decades ago. To put it simply, it is a separation technology that uses heating to evaporate and then condense the liquid. The core equipment includes a distillation kettle, a heating device, a condenser, and a receiving tank."

Oil can also be produced using vacuum distillation in kettles, but the yield is very low, energy consumption is high, and pollution is severe. This was the method we used to refine oil in Yan'an before liberation.

If internationally advanced technology can produce 300 kilograms of gasoline from one ton of oil, our vacuum distillation method can only produce a maximum of 100 kilograms, which is a huge waste of precious oil resources.

Furthermore, the quality of the fuel is relatively poor, which is why we cannot supply aviation kerosene to the Air Force.

Lin Sanqi remained silent, thinking to himself that this was yet another country that was penniless and destitute, both in the pharmaceutical and oil sectors, and indeed in every aspect of the nation's development.

If Danfan, that bald man, hadn't been busy fighting the civil war and focusing on economic development back then, our country wouldn't be in such a state of complete isolation across all sectors.

Seeing Lin Sanqi deep in thought, Minister Zheng and Director Wu exchanged a glance, both feeling a little anxious:

"No, Minister Lin, aren't you going to ask us what kind of advanced oil refining equipment we need?"

Lin Sanqi burst into laughter upon hearing this, thinking to himself that this was the 1960s, while the equipment he was about to transport, even if it was secondhand, would be equipment from 40 or 50 years in the future.

Technological development is advancing rapidly, and the gap of a few decades is enormous.

Have you seen a certain domestic electric vehicle that can launch three updated versions within a year? It's far ahead of the competition, isn't it?

"I won't ask. After all, it's like talking to a brick wall for someone like me who's not an expert. Besides, I don't even know what kind of oil refining equipment I can get for you, so I can't answer that."

Overcome with emotion, Minister Zheng grabbed Lin Sanqi's hand.

Lin Sanqi was so angry that she shook him off repeatedly, thinking to herself, "What's wrong with you? Is it okay to touch a man's hand so easily? This is Daqing, not Chengdu."

"Comrade Sanqi, are you really willing to help us introduce advanced oil refining equipment? That's wonderful! We've been thinking about it day and night."

Lin Sanqi waved his hand and said:
"Now you all need to think quickly about what size oil refinery you want, such as how many tons of refined oil you want to produce per year."

Minister Zheng and Director Wu were stunned again, then their eyes lit up. Minister Zheng gritted his teeth and said:
"We can be a bit ahead of time, ideally with a refinery that can produce 10 million tons of refined oil per year. This would not only guarantee the current supply of refined oil nationwide, but also leave room for potential future increases in consumption."

In fact, at this time, the saturated consumption of refined oil in the country was about 300 million tons, and Minister Zheng had already tripled the demand.

Ten million tons?
Before coming to Daqing, Lin Sanqi had also done some research on his phone. He learned that most large oil refineries in China now produce tens of millions of tons of refined oil products annually.

For example, Maoming Petrochemical and Huizhou Petrochemical in Guangdong Province have an annual output of more than 20 million tons.

Even for a medium-sized refinery like Guangzhou Petrochemical, the annual output of refined oil products exceeds 1400 million tons.

In another timeline, any oil refinery could supply the entire country with refined oil products. Lin Sanqi felt a pang of regret for Minister Zheng.
This opportunity was given to you, but you old man are useless. (End of Chapter)