“Then we started drilling and things went amazingly well ... So, by examining the chemicals that appear along the cylindrical rock core, microbiologists are hoping to determine the conditions ...

I was part of an international team which retrieved a record-breaking 1,268m-long drill core (a long cylindrical sample of rock collected by the drill) of mantle rock from the seabed. This sample ...

The fourth Antarctic campaign of the Beyond EPICA-Oldest Ice project has achieved a historic milestone this week, by successfully drilling a 2800-metre-long ice core, consisting of ice from the ...

fastest drilling beyond 10,000 meters on land, and deepest core sampling in Asia. Using core samples, rock cuttings and logging data, the researchers created Asia's first 10,000-meter geological ...

China National Petroleum Corp announced on Thursday that it has completed the drilling of the deepest vertical well in Asia, with a borehole reaching a depth of 10,910 meters in one of China's ...