Yang Jing did not go over to see the monument. That kind of monument was nothing to see, it only recorded the glory here. This place was indeed extremely glorious before, but compared with its current decline, that monument seemed more like a kind of ridicule, a kind of ridicule that humans only know to ask for endless demands from Mother Earth.

Yang Jing didn't know when this monument was built, but it must have been built at the most glorious time of Baku. Although Yang Jing had never seen the most glorious time here, he could think of it. At that time, Baku must have been full of derricks at all times. Countless crude oil was continuously extracted from the wells under these derricks and transported to all parts of the world, contributing to the development of other parts of the world.

But what about now? The steel forest made of dense derricks has disappeared, the oil workers who once worked hard have disappeared, and the number of tankers like ants has disappeared. Now the only thing that is left is the wasteland that is not long and the houses that can even be described as dilapidated...

The declining scenery in front of him made Yang Jing feel inexplicably painful, and then he subconsciously shook his head.

The oil oligarch standing beside him saw that Yang Jing was not in high spirits, so he asked, "What? Do you think of this place a little bit disliked?"

Yang Jing was stunned for a moment, then shook his head again and said, "No, I just felt the glory of the past from the desolation here. Although I had never seen the glory of the place with my own eyes, I could imagine it. But it was the glory of that time that made the current decline even more uncomfortable."

"Haha, it's rare that you have this idea." Alecperov patted Yang Jing on the shoulder, "You should know that I was born in an ordinary oil worker family in this city. When I was born, it was the most glorious time of the city. Although with the development of the Volga-Ural oil and gas area at that time, the output here dropped from 70% of the entire Soviet oil production to 40%, Baku was still the first oil field in the Soviet Union at that time. But after all, she was too old, and her body blood had been almost squeezed by humans and could not be compared with those emerging descendants, so she gradually became what she is now. However, even the Volga-Ural oil and gas area and even the later Siberian oil and gas area were called "Second Baku" and "Third Baku" by us! For us old people, Baku's position in the oil and gas industry will never be replaced!"

As he said that, the old man patted Yang Jing's shoulder again, pointed to the barren land to the west and said, "The old oil wells under my name are distributed in that area. There are 223 old oil wells, most of which are old oil wells from the early 2000s. There are less than twenty old oil wells that can still work, and the other oil wells have long been closed."

"Even the old oil wells that are still working, I was going to shut down soon. There is no way. These old guys who are much older than me have no more things. Even though they were once extremely brilliant, now, shutting them down is the best choice for them."

Yang Jing looked up and said, as I saw just now, on that barren land, you can only see several "kowtow bug" pumps that are still working from a distance, but more places are still desolate, almost like a wasteland like the Gobi Desert.

Guo Dabao asked in a low voice: "Xiaojing, are we going to take a look?"

Yang Jing shook his head and said, "There is no need to go over and see it. Let's wait until you have time in the future."

Although Alec Perov did not understand Chinese, he could roughly guess the conversation between the two, so he introduced: "This is the earliest oil and gas area in the entire Baku oil and gas area. At that time, this area was collectively called the Bibi-Heybat oil and gas field. Even the name of this area was named after the oil and gas field. After nearly a century of exploitation, the oil and gas field was discovered. At that time, the Soviet oil experts concluded that the oil and gas field had an oil reserve of about 3.5 billion barrels, and the output at its peak was about 55,000 barrels a day, accounting for about 28% of the entire Baku oil and gas area."

This number made Yang Jing nod slightly. The reserves of 3.7 billion barrels, or about 500 million tons, are calculated based on the exploitable reserves accounting for 30% of the total reserves, the exploitable reserves of this Bibi-Heybat oil field are about 1.2 billion barrels.

I won’t talk about the amount of mining before the 20th century. The oil production technology was not mature at that time. Therefore, if we count the amount of mining in more than half a century before the 20th century, plus the amount of mining in the fifty years before the 1950s, even if we calculate the oil output at the peak, we will count the 60 years of mining, then the average daily oil output is about 55,000 barrels.

If these figures are accurate, it means that there are still about 2.5 billion barrels of heavy oil left in the Bibi-Heybat field, and even half of them have 1.2 billion barrels of mineable reserves.

Of course, it is not known that the Bibi-Heybat oil field is composed of several oil and gas reservoirs. If the largest oil and gas reservoir can be found for conversion, even if it can only convert 500 million barrels of mineable reserves, Rongbao Mining will make a lot of profit.

But this needs to be found slowly.

"Xiao Jing, how do you feel?"

Yang Jing shrugged, "What can it be done? This kind of old oil fields looks like this. Whether it is Beaumont or Oham, it is actually no different from here. Buy it and find it slowly."

Hearing this, Guo Dabao nodded without changing his face, but he was actually already happy. Obviously, since Yang Jing said he could buy it, it means that there must be an old oil well in the "living door" area here...

After staying here for about half an hour, the group got on the bus and rushed to the next old oil field again.

The name of the old oil field is the same as the area where it is located. Both are called Surakhany, which is about ten kilometers east of Baku city.

Thanks to developed transportation, the group arrived at the Surakhany oil and gas area in less than twenty minutes.

This is an area with a larger area than the old oil field just now, but also more desolate. No wonder there are more than 400 old oil wells in this oil and gas area.

After getting off the bus, Alec Perov took the initiative to introduce the situation in the oil and gas area.

"The Surakhany oil and gas area was developed much later than the Bibi-Heybat oil field. The Surakhany oil and gas area was discovered in the late 19th century, but the real large-scale mining was still in the early 20th century. In the first fifty years of the last century, the output of this oil field once accounted for 35% of the entire Baku oil field, making it the highest-yield oil field in the entire Baku oil and gas area."
Chapter completed!