CCTV News:Thin body, wearing a pair of short-sighted glasses, hurried through the gravel road between wells and stations in the northwest oilfield on the northern edge of Taklimakan desert … … For more than 20 years, Mao Qianming’s image has been deeply branded into the minds of the old workers in No.1 Oil Production Plant. He presided over and participated in more than 30 inventions, 7 of which were patented by the state, with a cumulative cost reduction and efficiency increase of more than 50 million yuan, making outstanding contributions to technological innovation of enterprises.
Mao Qianming, born in 1973, is the second generation of oil. After graduating from high school, Mao Qianming inherited his father’s footsteps and entered Jiangsu Petroleum Technical School. In 1994, after graduating from Mao Qianming Technical School, he was assigned to the cementing team of the underground operation brigade of Northwest Petroleum Bureau.
In 1998, due to an accidental opportunity, Mao Qianming solved the problem that the rubber bladder was vulnerable when the cement tank was cemented. This small transformation enabled Mao Qianming to win the "Five Small Inventions" award of the underground operation brigade that year, and also made Mao Qianming, who tried to invent for the first time, feel happy. Since then, the seeds of the invention have begun to take root in his heart.
In May, 2001, Mao Qianming worked as a patrol worker in the patrol maintenance team of No.1 Oil Production Plant. At that time, one of the important tasks of the inspector was to grease the Christmas tree. A group of three people, one filled with grease and two injected with grease, were extremely tired because of the high pressure, and injected at most two wells in the morning.
After work, Mao Qianming lay in bed and began to wonder how to make an automatic grease injection device. Until one day, when he saw the foot-pedal oil gun, he was inspired and decided to transform the grease gun according to the principle of the foot-pedal oil gun.
At first, Mao Qianming thought that the transformation work was very simple, but the result was one after another failure. Some colleagues advised him not to toss about, but Mao Qianming didn’t want to give up. He found out that there were enterprises specializing in high-pressure materials and equipment in Korla, and he provided sketches for manufacturers to process. After dozens of experiments, after more than a year of improvement, Mao Qianming finally succeeded. The newly developed high-pressure pneumatic grease injection pump can automatically press, with simple operation, safety and reliability. It can be operated by one person, and the efficiency is improved several times.
With this invention, Mao Qianming won the national patent certificate for the first time.
In 2005, Mao Qianming found that sealing grease injection became the biggest headache for everyone when maintaining wellhead valves every month. Mao Qianming, who is good at thinking, started thinking about the grease injection gun. He drew sketches again and again, and finally the prototype of a pneumatic grease injection pump driven by high pressure came out.
Later, Mao Qianming found a processing plant, from perfecting drawings to mold processing, from installation and debugging to improvement and correction. Mao Qianming ran the processing plant and the oil well site. In order to achieve the expected effect, hundreds of experiments were carried out in the field. After a year and a half of running and hard work, a brand-new grease injection equipment was put in front of everyone. This high-pressure pneumatic grease injection pump has the characteristics of automatic pressing, safety, reliability and simple operation. It only needs one person to operate, and the efficiency is 6 times higher than before.
One of Mao Qianming’s most memorable inventions was due to a "bleeding accident". On that day, when a colleague of Mao Qianming was standing on the Christmas tree, his finger was accidentally caught on the hanger of the pumping unit, and he was bleeding profusely. Mao Qianming and his workmates took turns to hold the wounded and wait for rescue. They waited for a full hour before the rescuers arrived to rescue the workman and take him to the hospital.
Afterwards, Mao Qianming didn’t sleep well for several nights in a row. He thought hard about how to prevent this kind of accident. After repeated research with colleagues, the rope hanger fork and sensor loading and unloading tool were born! This tool can replace the manual installation of test instruments, avoiding the staff from being injured again.
Over the past 20 years, with more than 20 technological innovations, Mao Qianming has successively won the titles of "National May 1st Labor Medal", "National Post Expert" and "National Most Beautiful Young Worker", and has become a leader in the field of skill operation in Northwest Oilfield.
"The distance between us and innovation is like a glass door. As long as we bravely pick up the hammer, we will open the door to innovation." Mao Qianming said. (Source: Economic Daily tianshan net)