1988: Back to the human world for a few years

Chapter 12 For My Own Life

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On the construction site, under the No. 1 derrick on the east side, the overloaded diesel engine emitted bursts of eardrum-aching roars, coupled with the low buzzing sound of electric current, which was enough to make any normal human collapse.

Under the derrick, dozens of people gathered densely, milling around like ants on a hot pan, but no one dared to move.

That's right.

Even though a stuck drill is a major construction accident that requires the entire team to assemble and be ready to take orders at any time, when the accident actually happens, a group of people can only stand there helplessly and can do nothing.

"Chen Laoyao, have you contacted the engineering team yet?!"

Sun Jian, dressed in a dirty work suit, was pacing around under the derrick with red eyes, his voice full of frenzy.

A sturdy worker poked his head out of the communication room and said, "Captain, there is only an intern technician answering the phone at the engineering brigade... The other party said that the engineer on duty was sick these two days and asked for leave to rest... The dispatch office also said that this is a major battle period, and except for this engineer on duty, the rest of the engineering brigade has gone to the grassroots level of each drilling team for rotation inspections!"

"CNM... call each drilling team immediately and ask the engineering team if it's their turn... Damn! What are you still standing there for? Call now!"

Sun Jian cursed viciously, paced back and forth for a few times, then rushed to the technical room and looked at the technician on the team with reluctance: "Xiao Wang, is there really nothing you can do?"

A young man wearing glasses stopped his work and looked at the guy helplessly: "Captain, please understand, I am a technician, not an engineer!"

As he spoke, the young man pointed to the thick stacks of information on the table and said, "My job is to split the construction drawings and construction requirements according to the arrangements of the engineering brigade, convey them to you, monitor and calculate the data in real time and then give feedback... If there is any mistake when setting up the derrick, I can still help, but accidents like drill jamming... I really can't help!"

Sun Jian groaned in disappointment when he heard this.

Although he knew that the technicians accompanying the team were completely different from the technicians in the engineering brigade, he was still frustrated and roared in his heart when he heard that the technicians accompanying the team could not be relied on in this emergency situation. The communication and transportation in Qilu in 1988 were far from comparable to those in later generations. This place was in the wilderness. If the technicians of the engineering brigade arrived too late and Well No. 1 did not perform the correct pretreatment, resulting in the production progress not meeting the standards, or even the entire well being scrapped, then not to mention the bonus for the whole team this year, even his position as team leader, which he had worked so hard to get, would be gone.

Suppressing his anxiety, Sun Jian shouted at the bewildered drillers, "Why are you standing there like an idiot? Hurry up and get moving! Hurry up and make preparations before the engineers from the engineering team arrive!?"

“Jiang Bo, quickly find a few people to work with the technicians and write down all the numbers of the hydraulic pump, cement pump, and directional gauge… Remember to find the previous data as well. They will definitely be useful when the engineers come!”

"Wu Yongbo, quickly take people to carry two tons of cement from the supply room. In case there is a well leak, this stuff will be useful!"

“You Xiaoer, take a few people and go to the equipment storage area to conduct a surprise inspection of the drill bits, rods, and chains… In addition to checking the integrity of the equipment, rearrange them by model and specification… It’s a mess over there now. If you can’t pull out the right model in the first place, I’ll skin you alive!”

"Yes! Captain!"

"Okay, boss!"

After Sun Jian's call, the group of drillers seemed to have found their backbone. Regardless of whether their captain's orders were useful or not, they immediately took action.

Seeing a group of people scatter like birds, Sun Jian sighed heavily. When he was hesitating whether to go into the communication room and shamelessly make a phone call to those mortal enemies to surrender, he caught a glimpse of two lonely figures on the construction site out of the corner of his eye.

kindness? ?

It's those two college students.

Looking at the still clean work clothes on the other person, Sun Jian felt a surge of anger in his heart.

"What are you two still standing there for? The whole team is busy, and you two are the only ones standing here like stupid doves!" Sun Jian, who was having troubles all the time, spoke in a tone as if he had eaten three pounds of dynamite.

"Well, that... Captain Sun, there is no one to arrange for us two!" Seeing Sun Jian looking like he wanted to eat someone, Tu Lili's voice was trembling.

"No one to arrange for you? If no one to arrange for you, you'll find work for yourself! Go! You two fucking pussies, the female one follows Wu Yongbo to carry cement, and the male one follows You Xiaoer to carry drill rods!" Although he knew that they were not to blame for the other party being left behind, Sun Jian, who had finally found a vent for his anger, spoke with a tone full of disgust as if he was venting his anger.

Ah? ?

Tu Lili was about to agree with a bitter face, but Yang Mo next to her almost jumped up.

You know, a bag of cement weighs 50 kilograms. Even for an ordinary man, it is difficult to carry it, let alone a girl... Well, women are never treated as women on field construction sites, and there is a tradition of treating women as men in front-line oil units, so this can be barely explained.

But if he were asked to carry a drill rod, that would be fatal. Depending on the length and type, this thing can weigh from 50 kilograms to more than kilograms.

In this age where everything depends on your hands, as long as you pay attention on weekdays, anti-drilling rods are not a very dangerous thing;

But if you encounter an emergency dispatch, especially on a rainy day or in a muddy construction site like the one now, the risk factor for the drill rod increases exponentially - this thing is made of steel and is a tubular object that is extremely easy to slip. If your shoulder or foot slips, you may have to lie in bed and watch the neighbor Wang come to visit you for the rest of your life.

But Yang Mo knew his own business. Although he was nearly 1.8 meters tall, which was not short in the current Qi and Lu, but... in terms of physical strength and endurance, compared with those ordinary drillers, he was no different from a piece of waste!
No!

A drill jam accident could take ten days or half a month. We can’t take the risk of losing our life here!
Looking at a dozen drillers wearing high-top rubber shoes and walking around with some difficulty on the muddy construction site, Yang Mo immediately made a decision in his mind.

………………

"What!? It was fine that you just let us be herdsmen before, but now at this point... you actually let two college students and elites of the general office carry cement and drill rods!?"

Before Tu Lili agreed, Yang Mo jumped up with an incredible expression on his face and his eyes full of suspicion and regret. Even his right hand, which was pointing at Sun Jian, began to tremble, as if the other party had done something evil that was unforgivable.

Frightened by Yang Mo's exaggerated reaction, Sun Jian was stunned for three seconds before rudely slapping Yang Mo's right hand away and shouting, "What are you pointing at? If you point again, I'll tear your arm off! You two college students who know nothing, what else can you do except help with some manual labor!?"

Unlike Tu Lili, whose face was turning green and red, Yang Mo's face was filled with deep surprise and bewilderment: "You don't understand shit? No... Captain Sun, this is what the General Manager's Office told you when they were going through the handover procedures with you?"

Sun Jian was stunned again when he heard this.

It is not the first or second time that the company has arranged for new employees from the headquarters to go to the grassroots for training, and the things written on the handover documents are all similar clichés. In Sun Jian's impression, all the young people who come from the headquarters to go to the grassroots are useless people who know nothing.

Therefore, apart from the basic information, he had never carefully understood the actual situation of these two people from beginning to end.

Wait a minute...

Listening to what this boy said, it seems that this newly established comprehensive office and these two people are different from the college students who went to the grassroots level before...?
Catching the suspicion in Sun Jian's eyes, Yang Mo sighed heavily, turned his head to look at Well No. 1, where the noise had not stopped, and said in a dull tone: "It's just a stuck drill... How many meters have you drilled in Well No. 1?"

The first half of the sentence was spoken softly, but the second half suddenly became fast and urgent, with a tone full of unquestionable authority.

Hearing this commanding tone, Sun Jian subconsciously replied: "As of midnight last night, Well No. 1 has drilled 1859 meters!"

As soon as the words came out of his mouth, Sun Jian felt something was wrong, and the look he gave Yang Mo was immediately filled with anger and embarrassment.

Yang Mo seemed not to see his eyes. He turned his head to look at the derrick not far away and nodded. "1859 meters, fortunately, we just entered the apatite layer not too deep. It is likely that the drill is stuck due to sand settling. The problem should not be a big deal... Captain Sun, I'm not saying anything bad about you. After all, you are an experienced driller. When you encounter a drill stuck, you should turn the drill rod upside down at the first time. Don't you know? If you keep drilling like this, what will happen if the well wall collapses in a large area!?"

Hearing Yang Mo's rude rebuke, Sun Jian was stunned for three seconds. Not only was there no anger on his face, but there was a hint of uncertain joy.

"Xiao Yang... No, Master Xiao Yang, you... You are a technician seconded to the General Office by the Engineering Team?" This sturdy man who looked like a wild panda spoke with great caution and his waist bent involuntarily. He no longer had any of his previous momentum.

But there is no way, these days the front-line employees of the oil units are not convinced by anyone but the technical staff represented by the geological brigade/engineering brigade - apart from the fact that they are truly highly educated, the more crucial thing is that from the moment the first hammer is struck, all the work of the drillers is carried out under the remote control of others; and once any accident occurs, these technical staff are the ones they can really rely on!

Although there is no direct affiliation, from a certain perspective, these technicians are their real breadwinners and direct superiors.

Therefore, when he thought that the young man in front of him who had been thrown aside before was most likely a technician seconded from the engineering brigade, Sun Jian subconsciously lowered his posture - of course, this was also because Yang Mo's tone of voice was too similar to those of the technicians.

Yang Mo didn't answer after hearing this. He smiled and said bluntly, "Captain Sun, do three things right now:"

"First, try to reverse it immediately, and then ask the people on the derrick to report the readings of the rotary table, the weight indicator and the mud pump;"

"Second, immediately have this shift of drillers on duty conduct an internal investigation to see if anyone dropped a hammer or a knocking bar into the drill pipe... Also, question the driller in charge of the brake handle and make him tell the truth to see if the drill slipped due to improper operation;"

"Third, immediately send someone to take a water sample from the drill pipe... The sampling depth should be set at 1859 meters. After the water sample is taken, send it to the analysis room immediately. I need to find out the cause of the drill jam... By the way, the most basic tools such as the gravity bucket and viscometer should be available in the analysis room, right?"

Hearing Yang Moru's instructions like a machine gun, not only were the arrangements methodical, but also like the engineers he had met before, every sentence was stuck to the point; Sun Jian immediately had no doubts in his heart, and without saying a word, he immediately picked up the intercom and yelled...

(End of this chapter)