中国古油井考

TEXTUAL RESEARCH OF OIL WELIS IN ANCIENT CHINA

程希荣

Cheng Xirong

今天对古代的石油井进行一番考证,既可加深认识人类地学思想的发展,又可得到有关人类凿井工艺技术(包括录取地下地质资料的技术)演进的历史证据,这是颇有意义的。

It is documented that China had its own oil wells already in 980 AD.Because,oil wells drilled in Yanchang County,northern Shaanxi Province,were recorded in"Peaceful Miscellanea"by Li Fang,etc.of the North Song Dynasty(the book was written in 980 AD).Oil wells in counties of(now called)Yanchang,Yanchuan and Yijun,etc.Shaanxi Province,were also written down in"The Central Annals of the Yuan Dynasty"by Bo Lanxi,etc.The recorded history of these oil wells is 300,235 years earlier respectively than that of oil and brine-bearing wells in Jiazhou region noted down then by Cao Xuequan in"Miscellanea of Central Sichuan".Furthermore,the publication of the book"Peaceful Miscellanea"is about 100 years earlier than that or"Mengxi Sketches and Notes"of Shen Kuo,thus the term of"petroleum"was not initiated by Shen Kuo.

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