Shenhai Well: first well deeper than 1,000 m
Pozo Shenhai: primer pozo de más de 1.000 m
- Date
- 1835 · confidence high
- Place
- Zigong, Sichuan, China
- Credited to
- Zigong salt workers
- Field
- Matter & energy
What it is
A brine and gas well drilled by cable-tool percussion to a depth of 1001 m. It was the deepest well in the world in its time.
Drake's well (Pennsylvania, 1859) used a similar cable-tool percussion method but reached only 21 m.
What it led to
- large-scale exploitation of brine and gas at Zigong
- technical reference for oil drilling