China Completes First Horizontal Shale Gas Drilling in Sichuan
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China completed its first horizontal shale gas well, after 11 months of drilling, as the world’s biggest energy consumer seeks to tap its reserves of the cleaner-burning fuel.
The Wei 201-H1 well at the Weiyuan formation in the Sichuan Basin has a 1-kilometer (0.6-mile) horizontal section at a depth of about 3 kilometers, according to China National Petroleum Corp.’s online newsletter today.