1988: Back to the human world for a few years

Chapter 618 Help

Simply put, since the founding of the People's Republic of China, the country has always attached great importance to the development of technology in the petrochemical field, and it took decades to complete the process of "one pursuit and four milestones".

In the 1950s, the oil refining team, led by returned overseas students such as Min Enze and Wu Baoshen, embarked on a long march to surpass Britain and catch up with the United States. The old five golden flowers of the s and s and the new five golden flowers of the s and s have enabled domestic oil refining technology to gradually catch up with the levels of Europe and the United States... This is the so-called "one chase".

As for the "four milestones", they actually refer to four milestone technological breakthroughs or events in the petrochemical field.

The first milestone occurred around 1985, when the Petrochemical Research Institute concluded through research and calculation that the catalytic cracking process of America Shi Wei (an oil processing technology and engineering company that was as famous as UOP at the time) that China Petrochemical Corporation was preparing to introduce would experience thermal imbalance and a series of problems resulting from it, which directly refuted Shi Wei's thermal shock theory. However, the leaders of China Petrochemical Corporation went against the majority and introduced five sets.

Sure enough, after the first unit was put into operation, it caught fire and burned due to excessive heat load in the regenerator.

The reason why this event is considered a milestone is not that it involves any technological breakthrough, but that it has broken the Chinese people's superstition about advanced foreign technology and proved that China also has real technical experts.

However, this incident also caused the scientific research leaders of the Petrochemical Corporation to remember Li Zaiting for the rest of his life, resulting in the fact that he was the only great scientist in China who won the first prize of the National Invention Award but was not awarded the title of academician.

The second milestone occurred this year, in 1990, when experts including Li Zaiting and He Mingyuan from the Petroleum Research Institute invented the DCC catalytic cracking deep cracking process and supporting catalysts, building a new bridge between secondary petroleum processing and chemical raw material production in the world. They subsequently won the National First Prize for Invention…The first prize for invention at that time was not like it is now. It was the highest scientific and technological award that was not to be underestimated.

Afterwards, the American Shiwei Company, which had been slapped in the face by Li Zaiting, took the initiative to ask to be the overseas agent of this technology and export this technology abroad. This made the world gradually begin to look at China's petrochemical technology in the right light.

The third milestone event happened ten years later. In 2001, the technology for maximizing the production of isoalkanes by catalytic cracking was invented. It was a world first, but it only won a second prize. The inventor was Professor Xu Youhao. Currently, almost all fuel-type refineries in China use this technology.

However, although this technology was not finalized until ten years later, in fact, there should have been some research on it in the early 90s, and it is possible that a prototype and ideas had already been developed.

The fourth milestone event, the world's first technology for producing caprolactam by combining amorphous alloys and magnetically stabilized beds in 2005, has little to do with this book, so I will not go into details... But what is interesting is that under the guidance of Professor Min Enze, Professor Zong Baoning, who invented this technology, had a main team with members who, like Professor Xu Youhao's team, were mostly scientific researchers who had joined the work before 1990. And he himself, because of an insider, became the second person after Professor Li Zaiting to win the first prize for invention but not be elected an academician.

(I wrote a few hundred words just to emphasize once again that the scientific research strength of China during this period was not as bad as everyone thought. The reason why those regrettable situations occurred later, and even Professor Li Zaiting left the Institute of Petroleum Science and Technology, had nothing to do with the technology itself.)
Back to the topic, knowing this history, you will naturally understand why the office leader's face looked so ugly after hearing the three words "Li Zaiting"... Since it is called the Ministry of Petroleum and Chemical Industry, then in terms of relationship, it is naturally closer to the Petrochemical Corporation.

"Is it reasonable?"

"Team Leader Zhang, I hope you will pay attention to your wording. This project communication meeting is based on helping the Zhongyuan Oilfield expand its business batch by batch!"

"In other words, all chemical projects should accommodate as many workers as possible from the Central Plains Oilfield without destroying the existing industrial structure of Texas;"

"The Dezhou region already has a series of refining and chemical units such as the Linyi Refinery and the Dezhou Refinery. If we do not introduce a series of foreign advanced technologies including UOP's isomerization technology, but instead adopt domestic DCC processes and technologies, how can we ensure the interests of the Zhongyuan Oilfield?"

The leader slammed the table heavily. "Or is it that if the DCC process is not adopted, your Dahua Company will not allow the Zhongyuan Oilfield to build an oil refinery in Dezhou? Is this your personal opinion, Team Leader Zhang, or does it represent the opinion of your Dahua Company? "

Since the end of last year, under the operation of Drilling Company No. 1, in addition to the surge in the number of gas stations, large and small local refineries have also sprung up in Texas like mushrooms after rain.

Although local refineries are not well-known nowadays, they can contribute considerable tax revenue to the local area. As long as they are "guided", they can provide a steady stream of orders to the equipment production units of the oil system, and provide a steady stream of funds for the research and development and technological iteration of these equipment production units. Therefore, with Yang Mo's tolerance, the local refineries in Texas have formed an industrial cluster of a very large scale in just one year.

Inspired by what happened in Texas, the headquarters also began to consider supporting local refineries, and has already started negotiations on the Tianjin-Dongying oil and gas pipeline project. It plans to immediately try to incubate a small-scale local refining industry in Dongying once the negotiations yield results.

The only difference between the two sides is that Texas tolerates the development of the local refining industry in order to provide a relatively stable environment and space for the upgrading and iteration of domestic chemical equipment; while the command center intends to incubate a local refining cluster, more out of some considerations, and intends to form a deeper industrial interaction with CNOOC.

Since even the Dongying Command is no longer opposed to the local refining industry, how could Cai Zhengwei and his team not seize such a valuable opportunity?

Therefore, the idea of ​​allowing the Central Plains Oilfield to take advantage of the Tianjin-Dezhou oil and gas pipeline and invest in medium-to-large refineries in Dezhou was immediately put on the table... Although there are many local refineries in Dezhou, they are all small-scale private refineries. The production processes of the two are different, and the audiences of the products they produce are also very different. In addition, China's oil and petrochemical products are still in short supply at this time, so there is actually no direct competition, and it can solve the problem of a large number of employee diversions. It can be said to be a perfect solution.

But now Zhang Jun's mention of "Li Zaiting" has aroused the leader's sensitive nerves.

For him, the DCC catalytic cracking deep cracking process and the supporting catalyst technology are no longer as simple as technical issues, but rather a question of taking sides. How can this be accepted?

Of course, this kind of thing cannot be said openly, after all, DCC won the first prize in the national invention award!

But this does not prevent him from talking about the "interest protection" of the Zhongyuan Oilfield.

The implication is obvious: since it is domestic technology, there is no application barrier for you. The current local refining cluster in Texas is so large. If you wait until two or three years later and start to play the game of corporate mergers and reorganizations, merging small refineries into a bunch of medium and large refineries, and applying this DCC technology, what will happen to the Central Plains Oilfield?
Dezhou itself is a small piece of land of your Dahua Company, and the Central Plains Oilfield will have to rely on the Tianjin-Dezhou oil and gas pipeline for its survival in the future. If you do this, how can others have the qualifications to fight back?

If we don’t build technical barriers and create distinctions from the very beginning, how can we ensure the long-term interests of the Zhongyuan Oilfield?

Will they have to find another place to relocate their industry?

Of course, these are just the reasons on the surface, but the most heartbreaking one is the sentence "Is this your personal idea, Team Leader Zhang, or is it the idea of ​​Dahua Company?"

It is not difficult to see from the previous fragmentary words that the practical application of DCC technology was an idea proposed by the fat boy Zhang Jun out of the passion of young people, and it was not instructed by Yang Mo. It is even possible that the two had never communicated about this matter before.

Since it was not Yang Mo's instruction, there is naturally no need to worry too much.

Without sufficient strength and bargaining chips to support you, and without even the most basic equal status, your passion is nothing but a joke. I have lived for most of my life and have seen all kinds of passionate young people. Is it your turn to point fingers at me?

After hearing the three heart-breaking remarks from his leader, Zhang Jun's face turned pale.

All the people present, except for a few special team leaders including himself, are powerful leaders, and the difference in level between the two sides is not even a little bit.

It was indeed a bit outrageous to abruptly propose technical application standards without Yang Mo's authorization; once misunderstandings and conflicts arose between the two parties, his narrow shoulders would not be able to bear such a heavy responsibility.

I subconsciously clenched my fists, struggling between retreating and fighting hard, when I suddenly heard someone touching the microphone.

"Leaders, I don't understand technology, so I shouldn't interrupt you on this matter. But after listening carefully, I think what Team Leader Zhang said makes sense."

"Dahua Company is the designated management operator of Dezhou Urban Property Fund Company, and Dezhou Urban Property Fund Company shoulders the important task of industrial upgrading in the region. Any action may be over-interpreted by the outside world, so some things must be prevented... After all, the southern media like to use our northern enterprises as examples now!"

When he turned around, he was surprised to find that the person who spoke was Ding Xiang, who was known as the human seal in Dahua Company.

Just as Zhang Jun was looking at him in confusion, wondering why he suddenly stood up to support him, he saw Ding Xiang smiling and looking around at the Zhongyuan Oilfield delegation and the office leader: "Since the leader wants to know whether it is our Dahua Company's opinion that DCC technology must be applied in the refining project..."

Ding Xiang spread his hands in a humorous manner: "I'm sorry, I'm just the party secretary in charge of party building work. I have no right to interfere in such business matters, so...how about we take a ten-minute break during halftime?"

The implication is obvious. Since both parties hold different opinions, why not just call and ask Yang Mo what he thinks?
You can hit me, or I can hit me.

Zhang Jun can't represent the opinions of Dahua Company, but Yang Mo can at least represent it, right?

Although it seemed that Ding Xiang was trying to smooth things over, anyone with eyes could see that he was actually trying to support Zhang Jun.

The leader looked at Ding Xiang deeply and nodded slowly: "Okay, I propose that we adjourn for ten minutes!"

snort!
I didn't realize that Dahua Company has also started to talk about unity.

It was something that could have been covered up with a few light reprimands, but now even the company’s party secretary has stood up.

Huh~
Is the reputation of your Dahua company valuable?
"No need to thank me. Dahua Company is a whole. We must learn to advance and retreat together at all times. Even if we are facing the leader, we still have to argue with reason!"

When the people in the conference room left, Ding Xiang glanced at Zhang Jun who was full of gratitude and answered lightly.

This statement seems a bit pretentious.

Yang Mo is a person who values ​​face the most, and judging from some previous signs, Yang Mo is not very close to the Ministry of Petroleum and Chemical Industry. If he dares to sit back and watch Zhang Jun get scolded when he makes a reasonable request, he, as the party secretary, will definitely have a hard time when he returns.

Don't doubt it, Yang Mo is just so domineering. ………………

ten minutes later.

The leader of the assistance office returned to his seat with no emotion.

Anyone who is not a fool should be able to see that during the recess just now, the other party did not hear the result he wanted from Yang Mo.

After coughing twice, the leader tapped the microphone in front of him and said, "Regarding the new refining and chemical project, after preliminary communication with Zeiss and Mr. Yang of your company, we have agreed in principle to adopt the DCC catalytic cracking deep cracking process and the supporting catalyst technology."

Upon hearing this, Zhang Jun clenched his fists hidden under the table.

YES!

Teacher Li’s invention can finally be put to good use!
Chen Feiyu, you idiot, you swore before that DCC would just lie in a filing cabinet and collect dust. Just wait and see how I’m going to slap you in the face when I get back this time!

Just when I was excited, I suddenly heard the leader's tone a little unhappy: "But the next issue we need to discuss is that if DCC technology is adopted, then the new refining and chemical project of Zhongyuan Oilfield in Texas will face greater and greater challenges over time;"

"For risk prevention purposes, we can only reduce the number and scale of local refining projects."

"But if this happens, the relocation and resettlement of the employees of the Zhongyuan Oilfield will be affected... I hope that after you return, you can give General Manager Yang a good feedback on this issue and come up with some remedial plans as soon as possible!"

Obviously, this leader also knows that when state-owned enterprises engage in refining and chemical projects, there will naturally be a series of problems such as high labor costs, excessive loss of raw materials and equipment, otherwise he would not have said such words as "there will be challenges".

But at the same time, the reason why he said "I will report the situation to your General Manager Yang afterwards" also shows that the other party did not give Yang Mo any suggestions such as remedial plans on the phone just now.

As to whether he forgot to mention it or didn’t dare to mention it, I don’t know.

However, after the meeting resumed, they still brought up the matter. It was obvious that this was just in case, as they intended to put the blame on Zhang Xiaopang, who had publicly proposed the application of DCC technology.

Zhang Jun, who noticed this, couldn't help but feel worried... The work of transferring employees in the Central Plains Oilfield was hindered, and this was really too much of a responsibility.

Unexpectedly, the next second, another voice sounded beside him:
"Leaders, in fact, if the new project is just to ensure that the staff diversion work of Zhongyuan Oilfield can be carried out in an orderly manner, I have an immature idea here, I don't know if it will work..."

Turning around, he saw Huang Tao, one of the three newly appointed deputy directors of the Chemical Project Department.

The man, who was about 30 years old and was said to be a process engineer, said in a clearly restrained tone, "The Dezhou area has been stepping up its environmental protection efforts over the past year or so. This is a hard requirement for the region. Not only the new refining and chemical projects in the Zhongyuan Oilfield, but also the local refineries and all manufacturing companies must strictly comply with it."

"So in order to meet this requirement, the scientific research units under the Dongying Command have been strengthening relevant technical research since this year;"

"Among all the research projects, there is one... which is the environmentally friendly treatment and utilization of oil-based cuttings (soil brought out during drilling)."

"This technology has made a breakthrough. As long as a special process is used, the oil-based rock cuttings can be decomposed to obtain a large amount of crude oil;"

"Although the conversion rate is not high, based on a single station processing capacity of 1000 tons per day, the average daily output of crude oil is only a few dozen tons, but the advantage is the large business volume... In Texas alone, there are more than drilling teams working non-stop, and these drilling teams produce at least tens of thousands of tons of oil-based cuttings every day."

"So the oil-based rock cuttings produced by the local drilling team alone can support ten medium-sized base stations... Based on the capacity of 150 employees per medium-sized base station, that would be 1500 employees. It is a labor-intensive and technology-intensive complex project."

"And ten medium-sized base stations are not the limit. If we can reach a consensus with the headquarters, we can include drilling teams within a radius of 350 kilometers in our business scope... More than 700 drilling teams need to process oil-based rock cuttings every day, which is enough to support more than 30 medium-sized base stations."

"30 base stations means 4500 employees, which is comparable to a large oil refinery!"

At this point, Huang Tao seemed to be afraid that the crowd would not understand, and quickly added: "Don't worry that the environmental treatment business of oil-based rock cuttings will not be profitable. The reason why the business radius is designed to be 350 kilometers is to take into account the cost of vehicle transportation... In other words, the value of the crude oil generated after the environmental treatment of oil-based rock cuttings is enough as long as it can cover the transportation costs of the vehicles."

"In Texas, the environmental protection expenses of chemical companies account for about 1% to 3% of their total revenue, depending on the size of the company and the difficulty of harmless treatment.

"Drilling teams are mobile operators with special circumstances and lack of basic conditions. It is impossible for them to equip themselves with environmental protection equipment during the operation period. So leaders can actually communicate with the headquarters to see if they can increase the environmental protection fee for these drilling teams based on their output value... It doesn't have to be much, 0.2% of the annual output value of a single well is enough."

"With these environmental fees, even if the crude oil recovered from the oil-based rock cuttings business is used to pay for the transportation of the soil, this project can still make a lot of money;"

"After collecting environmental protection fees, Zhongyuan Oilfield can use part of its revenue to deal with conflicts between workers and farmers during the drilling process, and use a series of new technologies, including plant enrichment environmental restoration technology, to repair the local environment.

"This can not only generate profits, but also solve problems for the drilling teams, resolve conflicts between workers and farmers, and even give birth to a second project to solve the problem of more employee diversion. Why not do it?"

Harmless and environmentally friendly treatment of oil-based rock cuttings?

The scale of employee diversion is at least 4500 people?

Still profitable?

At this point, not only the leader of the office, but even the delegation from the Central Plains Oilfield began to be interested.

No one knows better than them how much of a headache the oil system has to deal with in terms of relations between local workers and farmers when operating in the field.

As long as there is a way to deal with the oil-based rock cuttings and subsequent environmental issues, the command center will definitely be willing to pay the money.

This issue……

Seems somewhat reliable!

………………

Three hours later.

The first project meeting is finally over.

As the crowd walked out of the conference room, the fat boy Zhang Jun shook his dizzy head and called out to Huang Tao in front of him: "Minister Huang, thank you so much for today!"

This assistance operation organized by the ministry is very important for the Central Plains Oilfield, and equally important for the Dongying Command. Even if we don’t consider the factors on Cai Zhengwei’s side, the relationship between the Central Plains Oilfield and the Dongying Command determines that he cannot bear the accusation of “hindering the progress of the diversion of Central Plains Oilfield employees.”

Huang Tao just smiled stiffly when he heard this, as if he was a technician who only knew technology and didn't know human relationships. "My classmate participated in the research on the environmentally friendly reprocessing technology of oil-based cuttings. I just wanted to help him... As for who finally adopted this technology, it doesn't matter."

Zhang Jun's forehead darkened when he heard this.

Why did the gratitude in my heart disappear so suddenly?

This person is really bad at speaking!
Depend on!
I originally wanted to invite this guy to have a drink with me, but now my mood is gone!
Huang Tao glanced at him, then turned and left expressionlessly, but a smile flashed in his eyes.

Sister Zhuo, this guy is so noisy,

Are you sure that if you continue to help like this, others won't be able to see the trick?

Tsk tsk,

But speaking of which...

It’s great to be young!
(End of this chapter)