"Shale gas revolution! A magnificent turnaround in the U.S. energy structure!", this is a shocking title written in the most eye-catching position of the website. Even the recently popular news about Lu Qiujian's wedding was included in this article

The article overwhelmed the following.

What is shale gas? In professional terms, it is biogenic or thermogenic natural gas that mainly exists in organic-rich mud shale and its interlayers in the form of adsorption and dissociation; in more easily accepted terms, it is petroleum.

Natural gas is generated from shale in the formation, and then migrates to sandstone, limestone and other reservoirs and is preserved. Those stored in the interlayer have been exploited by people for more than a hundred years and have provided energy for human industrial processes.

Direct power oil and gas.

Now after a long period of mining, the oil and natural gas that are located in the interlayer and are more convenient to mine have been almost explored by humans! According to the reserves that have been explored so far, it will not take more than a few decades to activate the blood. The proven oil

The reserves cannot meet human needs! So people began to wonder, since there is oil in the interlayers of shale, is there also oil and natural gas in the shale that makes up these interlayers?

This is like putting flour in a cloth bag. After pouring the flour out and patting the bag, there will always be a lot of flour stuck to the cloth bag. If a little adds up, this is also a big gain.

For this reason, experts in related fields have explored shale oil and gas. They were surprised to find that there is quite a lot of oil and natural gas stored in shale, which is enough to meet human use for many years to come. If these energy sources can be used

If it is exploited, then the energy crisis facing mankind can be pushed back! However, due to the dense structure of shale, it becomes extremely difficult to exploit shale oil and gas. At present, the oil and natural gas discovered can still meet human needs.

Under this situation, many countries lack investment in shale oil and gas extraction technology!

However, there are always some people who are ahead of others! Like most technological breakthroughs in the past century, this shale gas revolution still broke out in the United States! In 1997, hydraulic fracturing technology was completed; in 1999

In 2005, multiple fracturing technology matured; in 2002, horizontal well drilling technology was invented; in 2005, horizontal well staged fracturing technology directly led to an explosion in shale gas production efficiency!

This series of technological advancements has allowed the shale gas extraction volume in the United States to skyrocket from 2.2 billion cubic meters in 1999 to 56 billion cubic meters in 2008. In just ten years, production increased by 25 times.

More.

The consequence of the shale gas revolution is that Americans' dependence on traditional energy sources such as oil and coal has been greatly reduced, and the proportion of natural gas in the total energy consumption of the United States has rapidly increased.

From the perspective of energy security, Americans have richer energy reserves and their dependence on overseas oil has been greatly reduced. They now only need to import oil from several core countries such as Canada, Saudi Arabia, and Mexico to meet their basic domestic needs.

The demand is there! There is no need to get involved in oil countries where the situation is more sensitive, and the security of national energy is effectively guaranteed.

From an international political perspective, the Americans can be said to be free from the influence of OPEC. They no longer need to burn countless dollars in the deserts of the Middle East because of oil. They can use more relaxed means to do so.

Dealing with issues in the Middle East. In the future, the United States will withdraw its troops from Iraq and plan color revolutions in several Middle Eastern countries. It can be said that they are all affected by the shale gas revolution. Otherwise, they are unlikely to want the Middle East to become the chaos it will be in the future.

But what does this have to do with China? This is why Qin Feng asked Lu Qiujian to read this article! China is a country with a higher demand for overseas oil than the United States. China has now become an international crude oil supplier.

The biggest buyers in the market! The Chinese can be seen almost everywhere in the world where there is oil. In order to ensure domestic energy security, the Chinese have spent a huge amount of money and are also constrained in the handling of international affairs. From time to time

must be forced to accept malicious blackmail from certain countries!

This article lists several cases in which China has suffered losses in overseas oil purchases to illustrate how painful it is to have energy controlled by others! The article seems relatively normal up to this point, which reflects the author's good professionalism and enthusiasm.

Sincere patriotism.

But then the article took a 180-degree turn. It began to question China's science and technology development strategy! It pointed the finger at Lu Qiujian! Compared with the illusory space exploration plan, it seems that this kind of shale gas

Mining technology is what China should invest more in, right?

According to the latest survey data, China has nearly 100 billion cubic meters of shale gas and more than 1.5 billion tons of shale oil reserves. If the funds from the Xihe Plan are used for the development of shale oil and gas technology, there will be

With the successful experience of Americans ahead of them, it will not take long for them to master this advanced technology!

By then, China's energy security will no longer be controlled by others, and domestic reserves alone can meet demand! Although Xihe's plan will also play a very important role in the long run, the immediate matter is the most urgent thing.

What? If China’s energy security cannot be guaranteed, what will happen even if it can successfully land on the moon?

Finally, the author used an extremely sensational tone to call on Lu Qiujian to temporarily reduce the funding for the Xihe Project and hand over these funds to the shale oil and gas extraction technology research department. He just said, Professor Lu, please slow down.

Wait for the people of China!

If it were a direct attack on Lu Qiujian's research, his qualifications as a Nobel Prize winner and the repeated breakthroughs of the Xihe Project in the past two years, not many netizens would respond to this article. But take out the shale of the United States

Taking the gas revolution as the starting point, the author of this article did not question Lu Qiujian's professional skills and the great significance of Xihe's plan. He just used this article to create a point of view: Space exploration is important, but the immediate threat is

This needs to be resolved as soon as possible!

Space exploration technology is too far away from ordinary people, and oil and natural gas are inseparable from almost everyone. When I think of the mature shale oil and gas extraction technology, I can save a lot of money every month by refueling! So!

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