Outside of science, oil companies have drilled deep and narrow to extract oil, and mining companies have dug large and wide to extract copper and diamonds.

China’s state energy company CNOOC said today it had discovered a new oil field in the South China ... per Chinese media reports, making the well the deepest ever drilled in the country.

World’s first oil well was found in this country ... The well was 21 meters (about 69 feet) deep, and it was excavated for industrial purposes. It was the first oil well that was dug using ...

BP has successfully started up of the world's deepest ... Production. Oil and gas production naturally declines as reservoir pressure drops. Subsea boosting can reduce well back-pressure, thus ...