After graduating from junior high school, Gu Xinyi signed up for the Chinese vocational school founded by the famous educator Mr. Huang Yanpei. What attracted him was a technical secondary school of petroleum machinery. This class can not pay tuition fees, but also pay living expenses and grants every month, which were paid by the Ministry of Fuel Industry of the then Central People's Government. Here, Gu Xinyi remembered the school motto advocated by Mr. Huang Yanpei: use both hands, be flexible, respect your career and enjoy life.
1953, Gu Xinyi graduated. At that time, the General Administration of Petroleum sent him to the Russian special class of the cadre school of China Fuel Industry Department to continue his study. After graduating three years later, Gu Xinyi could have stayed in Beijing to work, but he said, "I studied Russian for petroleum machinery and petroleum. Although Beijing has good conditions, there are no oil fields. I'd better go northwest. "
His work in Yumen lasted only three months. 1956 10, Minghua Town, southeast of Nangong County, Hebei Province, is drilling the first benchmark well in North China-"Huayi Well". Because the pneumatic drilling rig imported from the former Soviet Union was used and experts from the former Soviet Union were present to assist in the work, Gu Xinyi was sent by his superiors from Yumen as an interpreter.
1In August, 957, the "Huayi Well" lost its circulation, but the experts of the former Soviet Union were suddenly ordered to leave early. The superior asked Gu Xinyi to go back to Beijing with experts from the former Soviet Union and then stay in Beijing to work. Gu Xinyi suggested that he would stay and dig wells. "In addition to experts, I am the person who knows the performance of equipment best." At that time, the Ministry of Petroleum Industry quickly approved his request and appointed him as a mechanical technician. He began to drill wells with workers from Shandong, Hebei and Henan to find oil, from "Huayi Well" to "Huaqi Well".
196 1 First drilling of "Huaba Well" in Dongying. The news reported to Jinan headquarters said that there were oil flowers and bubbles in drilling mud. Gu Xinyi in Jinan Petroleum Machinery Factory is very excited. I heard that the drilling equipment there often breaks down. He immediately pulled up two machine tools and drove the workers to Dongying. 196 1 April, Dongying produced oil. At this time, the person in charge of oil exploration said to Gu Xinyi, "Don't go, stay in Dongying, where you are needed more."
Gu Xinyi sometimes drives his son's car on the wide road in Dongying suburb. However, in his memory, there is not a brick house in Dongying, there is not a flat road, and even a few trees can't be found. The glistening is all saline-alkali land. At that time, the headquarters of the Petroleum Exploration Department was located in Jinan, and many people were reluctant to come to Dongying. Moreover, Gu Xinyi is studying at Shandong University of Technology at night, and she will get her diploma in one year. But Gu Xinyi promised to stay. He worked in Dongying for nearly 50 years. Therefore, he eventually became an academician without a bachelor's degree.
From "Huaba well coring" to "chain pumping unit", oil workers are "going where there is an oil well", and Gu Xinyi is "going where there is equipment failure". Field practice has given him rich knowledge and experience. In the construction of Bagua Well, coring failed many times. One day, the captain of the drilling team said to Gu Xinyi, "You are a mechanic. Can you help me get the core? " Gu Xinyi knows that it is very important to solve this problem, but it is very difficult. So he called the old workers of the drilling team together to discuss the solution. A worker said, "The core pipe made in the Soviet Union is too thin." A word inspired Gu Xinyi. Within a few days, Gu Xinyi designed and manufactured a coring tool, which increased the cross-sectional area of the original core tube by four times. Workers did take out a complete core with this large-diameter coring tool designed by Gu Xinyi, which made an important contribution to the success of drilling in Huaba Well. This achievement has also directly promoted the technical progress of drilling coring tools.
1964 1 month, the oil exploration conference began, and Gu Xinyi was appointed as an engineer and served as the captain of the oil production research team in Shengli Oilfield. In view of the problem that the widely used kowtow pumping unit was not ideal for heavy oil and deep well production at that time, 1966 oilfield required to develop a new pumping unit, and the burden fell on Gu Xinyi. Gu Xinyi thought of the "liberation waterwheel" at that time. Can the principle of waterwheel pumping be applied to pumping units? However, the water well for pumping water is only a few meters deep, while the oil well is several thousand meters deep, so it is not feasible to pump oil by pumping water from the well. Gu Xinyi thought again, can the chain track movement like the waterwheel drive the sucker rod ... For half a year, Gu Xinyi's brain was not only a pumping unit, but also a pumping unit. But at this time, the "Cultural Revolution" began. As soon as Gu Xin was criticized, the newly formed "chain pumping unit" was thrown into the garbage. Since then, the work of inventing pumping unit has run aground. In the days of "standing aside", Gu Xinyi became confused and confused. Later, he thought, learning is always useful anyway. If you can't do experiments, then study. With the establishment of Shengli Oilfield Exploration and Development Technology Research Institute, the development of pumping units surfaced again, and the project was formally established. At this time, Gu Xinyi borrowed 257 books from the Oilfield Science and Technology Library. A great deal of scientific and technological knowledge accumulated during "Stand by" made Gu Xinyi, who rose again, even more powerful. Four years later, the self-invented advanced "chain pumping unit" finally came out in Shengli Oilfield. This pumping unit is not only the first in China, but also unique in the world.
An American oil investigation team visited China. They were very surprised when they saw the "chain pumping unit" designed by Gu Xinyi. It is hard to believe that China has such an advanced pumping unit.
1975, oil was discovered in Shengli Oilfield near Bohai Sea. Because the drilling platform can't drill at sea, it must build dams to drive away seawater before drilling and oil production. To this end, tens of thousands of migrant workers gathered on the beaches of the Yellow River estuary and used trolleys to transport soil to build dams. Faced with such a scene, Gu Xinyi was deeply shocked: drilling a well like this is too expensive. It would be nice to design a ship that can drill at sea. A research group headed by Gu Xinyi was established. At that time, the design of bottom-mounted oil drilling rig was still blank in China; Only the United States can do it internationally. In order to "dream boat", he took the time to learn shipbuilding knowledge, and his small home of less than 50 square meters became a studio, full of books and hung with design forms and drawings of various sizes. A few years later, with the help of Jinan Shipyard, Yantai Shipyard and Tianjin University, Gu Xinyi and others finally designed and built China's first offshore oil drilling ship-"Shengli 1".
The construction of "Shengli 1" not only makes people see the vigorous development of petroleum technology, but also enables China to have its own "shallow sea oil navy".
In the early 1980s, with the continuous expansion of offshore oil exploration, a blank area gradually appeared, namely, the extremely shallow sea and intertidal zone in the land-sea transition zone, and any shallow sea oil drilling equipment, even shallow seabed drilling vessels, could not enter.
Gu Xinyi put forward a bold idea: design and build a drilling platform that can walk by itself! Together with researchers from the oil field, Shanghai Jiaotong University and Qingdao Beihai Shipyard, after more than eight years of hard work, he finally completed this unique invention-"Shengli II". So far, this 4,000-ton platform has traveled more than 3,000 meters, not only drilling nearly 100 oil wells in shallow water, but also drilling wells in ultra-shallow intertidal zone where other drilling equipment cannot enter, and successfully drilling 6 wells in this kind of area.
This achievement won 199 1 China Patent Gold Award, 1992 National Top Ten Scientific and Technological Achievements Award and 1995 National Invention Second Prize. In addition, this achievement was exhibited at the World Petroleum Congress, which left a deep impression on the oil industry at home and abroad.
As he grew older, Gu Xinyi's body did not allow him to work at sea for a long time, so he turned his eyes back to land. He saw that more than 5,000 workover equipment in China consumed as much as 200,000 tons of diesel every year. Gu Xinyi began to screen the methods of energy storage and conceived the schemes of various parts of the energy storage workover rig. Later, after ten years of repeated development and improvement, he and researchers finally completed the invention of hydraulic energy storage oil workover rig. At present, the prototype has been running for almost six years and is in good condition. During the prototype test alone, the economic benefits of improving work efficiency and saving diesel oil reached more than 3 million yuan. After a large number of popularization and application, the annual benefit will increase by 654.38+0 billion yuan. This invention won the 1995 China Patent Gold Award, and won the second prize of the National Technological Invention in February 2003, and obtained patents from the United States, Canada and other countries.
In 2006, he began to conceive and develop a long-ring rack pumping unit to surpass the original chain pumping unit. The chain is easy to break, and the mechanism of driving the long-ring rack with pinion does not need chain, so this pumping unit is not only energy-saving, firm and reliable, but also has greater load and deeper suction. At present, four long-ring rack pumping units have been tried in the oilfield, and the earliest 1 unit has been running normally for one and a half years.
Up to now, as the real first inventor, Gu Xinyi has won the second prize of national technological invention for three times, the third prize of national scientific and technological progress 1 time, and the China Patent Gold Award for two times. 1999 won the He Li Technical Science Award. He has been rated as a model worker in Shandong Province, a super model worker in the petroleum industry and a national model worker.
From 65438 to 0995, Gu Xinyi was elected as an academician of China Academy of Engineering.
On August 28th, 2005, he won the highest prize of science and technology in Shandong Province with a prize of 500,000 yuan. He said that he would use the money to buy a house by the sea and live with his wife who has supported him for decades during the holidays, so that he can see the sea and all kinds of boats he likes.