Newshot 11.68 Days: China's 6,000-Meter Deep Shale Oil Drilling Speed Sets a New Record
IT之家 November 14 news, according to CCTV News, today (the 14th), the reporter learned from Sinopec that the Fengye B13HF well in the Shengli Oilfield has set a new record for the shortest drilling cycle of an onshore shale oil well at a depth of 6,000 meters in China with a drilling cycle of 11.68 days, providing a new path for speeding up and reducing costs in the large-scale, cost-effective development of deep shale oil.
The report said that the Fengye B13HF well, which has just set the 11.68-day drilling record, is located at the Minfeng No. 8 platform wellsite in the Shengli Jiyang Shale Oil National Demonstration Zone in Dongying, Shandong. At present, the first batch of 12 oil wells at the wellsite have all been completed, with an average drilling cycle of 13.83 days and daily footage exceeding 2,000 meters, achieving a collective leap in drilling capability.
Wan Xuxin, a senior expert of the Sinopec Group, introduced that we pioneered the "new well factory" model, which means multiple rigs share one system and drill in a flow-line, batch manner, using the least resources and the greatest energy to turn the underground "impossible" into the "certainly possible" on an assembly line.
The Shengli Jiyang shale oil is deeply buried, with high formation temperatures and complex fault structures, and was once judged by foreign companies as having "no commercial exploitation value," making it a world-class development challenge. The shale oil team of the Shengli Oilfield deepened geological and engineering integration and operated with the "new well factory" operation model. Drilling efficiency at the Minfeng No. 8 platform increased by 75%, the drilling cycle was shortened by 82%, single-well investment dropped by 55%, and labor was reduced by 30%. The annual drilling capacity of a single rig increased from 4-5 wells in the past to more than 10 wells, with efficiency doubled and costs significantly reduced.
IT之家 noted that as an important unconventional oil and gas replacement resource, China has abundant shale oil reserves, which have become an important replacement area for stable and increased domestic crude oil production. In recent years, China's shale oil exploration and development have made breakthrough progress, with cumulative proven reserves of 1.84 billion tons and output exceeding 8.5 million tons in 2025, showing good prospects for exploration and development.
Currently, shale oil has been discovered in 21 countries and 75 basins worldwide, with recoverable resources of 70 billion to 80 billion tons. China is rich in shale oil resources, mainly distributed in the five major basins of Bohai Bay, Ordos, Songliao, Junggar, and Sichuan, and considerable reserves have also been proven in 8 small and medium-sized basins such as Qaidam and Jianghan, with recoverable reserves of about 32 billion barrels, ranking third in the world.
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