Next Big Future  June 11, 2023 China has been exploring the deep Earth for many years. China has started drilling a 6.2 mile (10,000 meters) superdeep borehole into the Earth’s crust in China’s large oil-bearing basin – the Tarim Basin of northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. In May 2023 they completed building a 12,000-tonne offshore drilling rig to mine the geological reserves of natural gas. In the deep hole drilling will penetrate over 10 continental strata or layers of rock formation, go beyond the Cretaceous system, a series of layered rocks below the oldest tertiary deposits and above the […]