Friday, February 25, 2011

OIL - Well the world's longest

With a length of 12,345 meters, the well of the OP-11 Odoptu offshore oil field, located in the Sea of Okhotsk, north-eastern island of Sakhalin in the Russian Far East, is the most large land drilling wells in the world, reports Ogonyok. This project known as Sakhalin-1 is operated by Exxon Neftegas international consortium, which includes among others two Russian companies, one Japanese and one Indian.

Well OP-11 has a particularity: it does not descend vertically, but extends almost parallel to the surface of the sea over 11 miles. "An ingenious device that allows to exploit the deposits are more difficult to achieve," said the Russian weekly.

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