PetroChina Tarim Oilfield's deep-earth Tarko 1 well breaks the 10,000 metre mark

Brief introduction

The 10,000-metre deep well team has conquered a series of world-class problems one after another, and promoted China's first 10,000-metre exploration well, the Deep Earth Taco 1 well, to break the 10,000-metre mark, becoming the world's second land-based and Asia's first vertical depth of more than 10,000-metre wells, and creating a record of the world's shortest drilling time for 10,000-metre deep wells today. From the preliminary exploration to supporting equipment development, from 10,000 metres drilling to the next coring work, from dozens of units, tens of thousands of front and back of the staff, carrying the dream of several generations of petroleum people, working day and night, collaborative, in 9,000 metres deep "no man's land" chiseled a road, to ensure that the deep ground Taco 1 well drilling depth successfully exceeded 10,000! The drilling depth of the TAKO 1 well has successfully broken 10,000 metres, leading China into the "10,000-metre era" and demonstrating PetroChina's courageous and resolute role as the "pillar" of energy supply.

General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that to march to the deep part of the earth is a strategic scientific and technological problem that we must solve. PetroChina's Deep Earth Tarko 1 well is China's first scientific exploration well designed to exceed 10,000 metres in depth, shouldering a major mission of scientific exploration and pre-discovery, and has become a landmark project for the construction of the country's strategic scientific and technological power and the world's highland of energy and chemical innovation.

On 30th May 2023, a siren came from the hinterland of Taklakan Desert, and the drilling of Deep Earth Taco 1 well was officially started, which opened the "10,000-metre era" of China's deep earth drilling. 4 March 2024, Deep Earth Taco 1 well was successfully drilled to 10,000 metres, which renewed the record of Asia's deepest straight well, and made the world's forest of deep wells from now on have a "Chinese depth". "China's depth".

Born out of the depth, to the difficulty. 2023 May, Tarim Oilfield joint Western Drilling, Gem Machinery, Engineering Institute, Exploration Institute, Materials Institute and other units to form PetroChina 10,000-metre deep well attack team. Under the leadership of the party group of the Group, the team based on deep-earth science and technology self-reliance, and successfully overcame a series of world-class problems such as well structure design, overloaded drilling tools, rock breaking in complex hard strata, resistance to ultra-high-temperature fluids and downhole tools, etc., and refreshed a number of records, successfully breaking the 10,000-metre mark, which made the well the second land-based well in the world, and the first one in Asia with the vertical depth of more than 10,000 metres, and created a deep-earth brand for PetroChina, This has laid a solid foundation for PetroChina to build a deep-earth brand and master the deep-earth discourse system.

If you don't want to make things easy, you will be successful; if you don't want to avoid things, you will advance. The TAKO 1 well is connected to the "10,000-metre underground palace" and tens of thousands of people's hard work and dedication. From the preliminary exploration, to determine the location of the well; from the rig design, to build the well site; from 10,000 metres, to the next step of the core exploration, the team carries the dreams of several generations of petroleum people, the pursuit of millions of petroleum people, vigorously carry forward the spirit of petroleum and the Daqing spirit of the spirit of Ironman, the battle of the sea of death, the challenge to the forbidden zone of life, in the expectation of all the people, and successfully complete the 10,000-metre stage of the drilling well drilling tasks.

Under the joint efforts of the team, the well breakthrough 10,000 metres was successfully selected as one of the top ten domestic science and technology news in 2023; CCTV launched 50 rounds of reports for nine consecutive days during the Spring Festival, and the topic was on the hot list of all major media platforms; on the occasion of the opening of the National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, the breakthrough of 10,000 metres has become a sensational news story that stirred up the country and even the world, with more than 3,500 related reports on the whole network, and it became a hotly debated topic among the representatives of the energy and science and technology sectors of the two sessions. Xinhua News Agency is "marking the following deep space, deep sea exploration of nature's feat, China in the field of deep earth to achieve a major breakthrough", highly valued 10,000 metres deep earth drilling project.

The drill bit continues to go down, the mysterious stratum of billions of years ago is waiting for their next exploration.