Abu Dhabi, UAE – Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) has just set a world record of drilling the longest well in the world with a measurable depth of 15,240 meters deep, which is about 50,000 ft at its upper zakum concession in October, 2022.
This record breaking milestone of having the longest oil well is 800 feet longer than the previous world record set in November, 2017 by Russia’s ExxonNeftegaz and was drilled from Umm Al Anbar, one of ADNOC Offshore’s artificial islands which serves as a hub for offshore drilling and operations in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). It supports ADNOC’s efforts to responsibly expand production capacity of its lower carbon intensity oil and gas resources as part of an extended reach well project designed and led by ADNOC Offshore in partnership with its strategic collaborators— ExxonMobil and INPEX/JODCO.
What this means for the UAE’s oil and gas giant is that the extended reach wells will tap into an undeveloped part of the giant Upper Zakum reservoir and will have the potential to increase the field’s production capacity by 15,000 barrels of oil per day, without having any need to expand or build new infrastructures.
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With the first oil well being drilled in Texas in 1866 with a bit of about 100 feet (30.48 meters) deep, a research into other past record breaking longest wells take us as far back as in May, 1997 when the first record breaking longest oil well was drilled by BP in the United Kingdom (UK) with a measurable depth of 10,658.07 meters and was also followed with Total’s 11,184 in March, 1999 in Argentina.
This feat has also demonstrated ADNOC’s commitment to reduce its operational costs and deliver an increased efficiency to their customers while striving to reach its daily oil and gas production capacity targets.
A brief analysis by the Energedia team has taken a look into analyzing the longest record breaking oil wells in the world from 1997 till the current longest well in 2022 and this data is represented and summarized in the chart as below even as we expect and welcome more record breaking strides and innovations in the energy, oil and gas sector.
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