The "gas harvesters" of the Gobi Desert are sticking to the desert and fully preparing for war and ensuring supply
CCTV News: In order to produce more gas, gas extraction workers have been sticking to the sparsely populated wilderness for years, ensuring a continuous source of natural gas extraction. Let's take a look at their story together.
The current flood season in Yulin, northern Shaanxi has just passed, and gas pipelines are prone to being suspended and damaged. In order to ensure the safety of natural gas production, gas extraction workers have been busy early in the morning, inspecting the direction of the pipeline extension step by step.
Ye Tao, a gas worker at the Second Gas Production Plant of Changqing Oilfield, China National Petroleum Corporation: If the car gets here, it won't be able to pass. If we walk over these two sand dunes in front, today's patrol task will be completed.
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Although the current pipeline inspection has reached a high level of intelligence, there are still some remote and rugged areas that require workers to walk for inspection.
Ye Tao, a gas worker at the Second Gas Production Plant of Changqing Oilfield, China National Petroleum Corporation: Even if it's far away, we have to go. The gas pipeline is connected to the production station on one end and to thousands of households on the other. Pipeline safety is the safety of gas supply, and we must not be careless.
In the depths of the Maowusu Desert in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, gas extraction workers also have to hike through deserts, Gobi, and grasslands every day.
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In order to ensure the optimal operation of natural gas production equipment during the peak winter supply period, gas production workers conduct comprehensive maintenance of the equipment that has been in operation for a year at this time every year. After a maintenance season, everyone was sunburned.
As the largest natural gas production base in China, this year, Changqing Oilfield has deployed natural gas supply guarantee work for this winter and next spring five months in advance. More than 8000 gas extraction workers are sticking to the wilderness and desert, fully preparing for supply guarantee work.