has drilled a well -deep well

China has initiated a considerable amount of projects that are tremendously ambitious. The New Silk Routeit has been proposed to lead in the creation of Batteries for electric cars And also in the solar panel segment. Another objective is to squeeze your deserts. That is why he has undertaken the construction of huge solar farmsbut it has also begun to make kilometer holes.

One of them is the Shendi Take-1 That, with its almost 11 kilometers deep, it is a considerable feat. And it is expected to be extremely profitable.

Taklamakán. Located in the westernmost region of China, this desert is not only huge: it is a mine. A reservoir, rather, and one that the Chinese oil company Petroleum & Chemical Corporation, or saropec, is exploiting good. It is estimated that in this basin is one of the most promising oil and gas reserves in China and Sinopec has More than a hundred of wells in the region.

The problem is that it is an area where it is well buried and it is estimated that much of the reserves are between 6,000 and 10,000 meters. In November 2023, Sinopec inaugurated the Project Deep Earth 1-Yuejin 3-3xca well of more than 9,400 meters deep to extract oil in that Ultraprofunda layer. And, although it was an achievement for how quickly they built it, it has just been eclipsed by a well of a rival company.

Shendi Take-1. In the same desert, China National Petroleum corporation, or CNPC, built The Shendi Take-1, a vertical well that has converted in the deepest of Asia thanks to its 10,910 meters deep. It has broken the occasional record in confirming the presence of natural gas at that depth and one of its tasks will be to extract these resources.

Colosa In all aspects. A ‘deep hole’ attracts attention on its own, but it is much more curious if we take into account that “only” have taken 580 days to reach that depth. The most complex was those final 910 meters and it was what they invested more time: 300 days.

The question is why the last 910 meters took more than in the previous 10,000. The answer is because, as Comment The director of the platform, “each additional meter to a certain depth increases the complexity of drilling exponentially.”

We need another drill. As we deepen the cortex, the temperature increases. 10,000 meters rise above 210 degrees Celsius and the pressure is also huge, which forced the CNPC to develop an automated drilling platform with potential to reach 12,000 meters.

Not only the heads, with diamond drill, are designed to endure temperatures: a refrigerant has also been created capable of dissipating heat at that room temperature and elements such as screws have also been created to maintain their integrity at all times.

It is not something that would be done only for this well, since China’s intention is to lead in ultra -professional excavations from now on thanks to these tools of which 90% have been manufactured nationwide, which allows the tunnelador to be replicated in a simple way without having to import too many elements.

Dual purpose. Beyond extracting oil and gas, the Shendi Take-1 will allow exploration geological It makes all the meaning: when completed, 13 layers of the earth will have crossed, having the rock that is drilling more than 500 million years.

It still remains. And we say “when completed” because CNPC has confirmed that the objective remains to reach a depth of 11,100 meters. It will be then when they reach that thirteenth land layer and almost to the limit of what the drilling platform can offer. In this way, in addition to allowing the interior of the planet better in Asia, China ensures tools and capacity to exploit one of the most complicated oil reserves in the world because most of the resources (60%) are at that depth.

And yes, China will not even overcome the SG-3 well. Known as him Kola superprofundo wellit was a well that the Soviets took 19 years to complete, reaching 12,262 meters, but unlike that, whose purpose was the investigation of the lithosphere, the Shendi Take-1 will not only serve to satisfy the scientific curiosity, but to extract liquid gold in the process.

Images | CNPC (2), Sinopec

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