Chinese engineers on Thursday broke ground on a new super deep borehole that will burrow far into the Earth’s crust as the country steps up its search for natural resources hidden tens of thousands of feet underground
The hole will eventually reach 10,520 meters into the ground at the Sichuan Basin in southwest China, according to state-run news agency Xinhua. The region is a major area for gas production and engineers expected to find a natural gas reserve there, the report said. The announcement came just weeks after China began drilling another super deep borehole which is slated to extend even further into the Earth with a planned depth of 11,100-meter .
” “The drilling will further reveal the secrets of evolution under the Sinian formation,” it said, referring to the way in which rocks are arranged in the Sichuan Basin. Chen Lili, deputy chief engineer of PetroChina Southwest Oil, told the state news outlet that they expected a raft of “world-class challenges” to overcome during the drilling process.
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