{"id":43359,"date":"2025-02-20T21:50:39","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T18:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=43359"},"modified":"2025-02-20T21:50:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T18:50:39","slug":"china-completes-drilling-of-asias-deepest-well-in-xinjiang-desert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/20\/china-completes-drilling-of-asias-deepest-well-in-xinjiang-desert\/","title":{"rendered":"China Completes Drilling of Asia\u2019s Deepest Well in Xinjiang Desert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China has drilled 10,910 meters underground, creating the deepest well in Asia, according to China&#8217;s state news agency, Xinhua, on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Shenditake-1&#8221; well is located in the Tarim Basin in the Taklamakan Desert, in Xinjiang, western China.<\/p>\n<p>The China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) carried out the drilling as part of a scientific project to explore oil and gas deposits and advance research on Earth&#8217;s history and subsurface geology.<\/p>\n<p>Drilling began on May 30, 2023, and lasted for more than 580 days. However, it reached a depth of over 10,000 meters at a faster rate than any other onshore drilling project.<\/p>\n<p>The final 910 meters of drilling took about 300 days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China has drilled 10,910 meters underground, creating the deepest well in Asia, according to China&#8217;s state news agency, Xinhua, on Thursday. The &#8220;Shenditake-1&#8221; well is located in the Tarim Basin in the Taklamakan Desert, in Xinjiang, western China. The China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) carried out the drilling as part of a scientific project to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43360,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43359\/revisions\/43360"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}