Jinzhou 9-3 Oilfield, located in the northern sea area of Liaodong Bay, is the northernmost offshore oilfield in China, with the shallowest water depth and the most serious ice conditions in winter. In today's "New Year Walk to the Grassroots", the reporter visited the iron giant on the sea and a group of people behind the giant.
In February, temperatures dropped to minus 10 degrees Celsius in the Liaodong Bay of the Bohai Sea, the northernmost oil field in the Chinese Sea, surrounded by endless sea ice.
At this time, not far from the deck, the "Binhai 608" oil tanker is struggling to lean towards the platform, ready to carry out the first export operation, but due to the influence of sea ice flow speed, the berthing can not be completed, and around it, three icebreakers are increasing their horsepower and continuing to break the ice.
During the Spring Festival, more than 60 employees stuck to the platform.
Huang Haosheng, Export Supervisor of CNOOC Jinzhou 9-3 Oilfield: The third boat also appeared, and I asked the ship just now, and now the gust is close to level 8.
Heavy sea ice accumulates between tankers and platforms, and if left unchecked, the accumulated force is enough to move the diameter of 7The 5-centimeter mooring cable broke off, the icebreaker started the propeller at the stern, carefully washed away the broken ice with the current, and after repeating it many times, the tanker finally docked firmly at the side of the platform, and the export officially began.
Rao Dongdong, Director of CNOOC Jinzhou 9-3 Oilfield: Now I am very relieved, the export operation is a small test, but in the winter, it is a big test for us.
Every winter here is accompanied by the impact of sea ice and the howling of the sea breeze.
The 17,000-square-meter deck is covered with complex pipelines, cables and hundreds of sets of oil and gas production and processing equipment, from the turbine generator set with a precise structure to the crane about 20 floors above the sea surface, and the maintenance team has to conduct a detailed inspection of all freezing points every two hours.
Li Shenhao, a mechanic at CNOOC Jinzhou 9-3 Oilfield: The wind is particularly strong, and it is difficult to breathe. We have to go through this every year, and everyone is persevering, so we dance with the ice.
The reporter took the cage and set off by boat with the operator Lao Geng, all the way to the south, to an unmanned platform.
The production of the Jinzhou 9-3 oilfield has been highly automated, and the unmanned platform will transport the ** to the oil storage tank of the central platform through the pipeline, but in such an ice period, in order to ensure the normal operation of all equipment, Lao Geng will spend two days a week stationed here.
CNOOC Jinzhou 9-3 Oilfield Operator Geng Qingxian: 360-degree sea view room, right?
Reporter: The sea view is quite big, and the house is quite small.
Every two hours, Lao Geng has to check all the meters at the side of the well. In the cold, small things like a loose screw or a little freezing of a tube can cause an abnormality. Last year, Lao Geng guarded the platform for seven days in a row, and he drew this national flag when he rested. This year's Spring Festival, Lao Geng specially brought the Spring Festival couplets to paste, and he stubbornly felt that even if there was only one person, the sea ** could not be without the flavor of the New Year.
Geng Qingxian, operator of CNOOC Jinzhou 9-3 oilfield: This is very close to the land, more than 40 kilometers, you can see the brilliant lights of the land, especially at that time, sometimes I feel homesick. Look at the direction of home, think like this.
Reporter: I think our eyes are red, and we didn't say anything.
Geng Qingxian, operator of CNOOC Jinzhou 9-3 oilfield: It is true that we are used to this industry, how to say it.
Lao Geng and his colleagues always say that they are used to it, and they are used to the sun and wind, freezing and cold, and being away from the city......But whenever they talk about their habits and family gatherings less and leaving more, their eyes instantly reveal what they are thinking about as ordinary people.
This Spring Festival, when people are running in the direction of home, another group of employees from all over the country rushed back to report to the sea.
Reporter: There is also a guitar, whose guitar does this guitar belong to, is it yours, why do you still bring the guitar?
Bai Kunpeng, intern operator of CNOOC Jinzhou 9-3 Oilfield: It's the New Year, everyone sings and sits together for the New Year, and has fun.
Shi Bingxu, intern operator of CNOOC Jinzhou 9-3 Oilfield: I am from Urumqi, and I am also from Xinjiang.
Shi Bingxu and Bai Kunpeng came to "9-3" together after graduating from college last year, and they had to stay at sea for 28 days in a row every time they worked shifts. In Xiaobai's backpack, there is his favorite fruit dan peel stuffed in by his parents, and Bing Xu brought the New Year's money from his grandparents' bag.
Reporter: Did you just stuff the money into you?
Shi Bingxu, trainee operator of CNOOC Jinzhou 9-3 Oilfield: Yes, grandparents are very tough. Is this airable? Five hundred dollars, given to us every year.
When they go to work, they are still children in the eyes of their families.
9-3 "Older than their age, they have maintained their safety production for 25 cold winters, and they have also fought against the weather, sea ice and their own mining laws year after year. Last year, through a set of production measures such as oil stabilization and water control, fine adjustment, etc., the production potential of the oil well was stimulated, and the old oil field returned to the camp of daily production.
Shi Bingxu, trainee operator of CNOOC Jinzhou 9-3 Oilfield: We come here batch by batch, and oil also comes out batch by batch from the bottom, creating value, which is to prove that it still has strength and can struggle, we are like this here, and oil is also like this in this place.
Every morning meeting, I will sit at the entrance door against the wall, in front of me is a very senior supervisor, I have lost count of how many days before the morning meeting will take out his mobile phone, look through his wife and children's **, he should also be homesick. ”
This is a passage written by Shi Bingxu in his mobile phone, which was his first rotation when he came to "9-3", the first 28 days.
Shi Bingxu, trainee operator of CNOOC Jinzhou 9-3 oilfield: This is my first 28 days at sea, but I don't know if it's his, their first, dozens or even hundreds of 28 days.
Home is far away, in dreams, and in my heart, on this sea of ice, there is always a group of people who are sticking to it.
Shi Bingxu's diary, they are also homesick, but they need to fight for a better future and strive for the Bohai Oilfield to produce 40 million tons. On the Jinzhou 9-3 platform where I am located, there is such a group of people, and in the vast sea area that I can't see, there are thousands of seniors piloting. Our generation should be self-reliant, and we must also engrave the spirit of patriotism, responsibility, struggle and innovation into our bones.