China's desert oilfield hits record: 8,080m deep core from 500m-year-old rock
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Mon, 5 October 2026
1 report- Times of India21:09first to report
China’s Fuman Oilfield in Xinjiang has extracted 26.86 million tons of oil and gas equivalent from ultra-deep formations beneath the Taklimakan Desert. Engineers also recovered rock cores from a record depth of 8,080 metres at the Zhentan-1 well. The rocks are estimated to have remained buried for about 500 million years, according to CNPC and CCTV.
Tue, 6 October 2026
2 reports- Index.hr (Croatia)10:11
KINA u pustinji Taklamakan buši rekordnih osam kilometara duboko kako bi osigurala pristup golemim, skrivenim rezervama nafte i zemnog plina.
- tportal (Croatia)10:21
Najveće kinesko pustinjsko naftno polje Fuman, smješteno na rubu pustinje Taklamakan u autonomnoj pokrajini Xinjiang, proizvelo je više od 26 milijuna tona nafte i plina iz ležišta dubljih od 6000 metara, izvijestio je kineski list Global Times, pozivajući se na državnu naftnu kompaniju CNPC