{"id":14616,"date":"2025-05-14T08:20:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T00:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.classic-ap.com\/?p=14616"},"modified":"2025-05-15T20:22:18","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T12:22:18","slug":"sinopec-sets-new-vertical-well-depth-record-of-5300-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.classic-ap.com\/en\/industry-news-en\/sinopec-sets-new-vertical-well-depth-record-of-5300-m.html","title":{"rendered":"Sinopec sets new vertical well depth record of 5,300 m"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"599\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.classic-ap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/01-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14617\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.classic-ap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/01-7.jpg 599w, https:\/\/www.classic-ap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/01-7-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" \/><figcaption>Sinopec Sets New Vertical Well Depth Record of 5,300 Meters.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Sinopec\u2019s Tiebei 1HF well at its Project Deep Earth Sichuan and Chongqing Natural Gas Base has been tested at a high daily output of 314,500 cu m of industrial gas flow with the vertical depth of the well reaching over 5,300 m with a 1,312-m horizontal section, setting a new record for vertical depth of shale gas wells in China.<br>Most of the resources in the Puguang Upper Permian are distributed in the ultra-deep field with a burial depth of over 4,500 m, which is regarded as a \u201cforbidden zone\u201d because of the rapid changes in the velocity of the strata. Sinopec tackled the bottleneck to realize a 100% drilling encounter rate of high-quality shale in the horizontal section with drilling precision comparable to \u201cthreading a needle in the deep underground\u201d to eventually drill the Tiebei 1HF well successfully.<br>Sinopec\u2019s self-developed 175 MPa ultrahigh-pressure (UHP) fracturing equipment optimizes the parameters on-site with different strategies for each section and opened up a \u201cman-made gas road\u201d in the high-pressure stratum at the depth of 5,300 m, bringing back all the resources from the deepest and farthest ends of the gas reservoir to maximize the development.\uff082025-05-14\uff09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sinopec\u2019s Tiebei 1HF well at its Project Deep Earth Sichuan and Chongqing Natural Gas Base has been tested at a high daily output of 314,500 cu m of industrial gas flow with the vertical depth of the well reaching over 5,300 m with a 1,312-m horizontal section, setting a new record for vertical depth of &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.classic-ap.com\/en\/industry-news-en\/sinopec-sets-new-vertical-well-depth-record-of-5300-m.html\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sinopec sets new vertical well depth record of 5,300 m<\/span> \u66f4\u591a \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classic-ap.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14616"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classic-ap.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classic-ap.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classic-ap.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classic-ap.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.classic-ap.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14619,"href":"https:\/\/www.classic-ap.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14616\/revisions\/14619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classic-ap.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classic-ap.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classic-ap.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}