China started drilling ultra-deep holes in 2023 in a hunt for oil

This yr, the China Nationwide Petroleum Company began drilling what would be the deepest gap in China and be among the many deepest holes on the planet, within the north-western province of Xinjiang.

An announcement in Could from China’s state-run information company Xinhua stated the undertaking was “an unprecedented alternative to review areas of the planet deep beneath the floor”, drilling down greater than 11,000 metres into the billion-year-old strata of the distant Taklamakan desert.

The undertaking’s extra…