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China's self-developed multi-functional modular seabed trencher completed the laying of over 100 kilometers of the first offshore pipeline project in Bangladesh, setting world records in "sea land directional drilling crossing" and "deep-sea trench behind the channel," the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) announced Saturday.

Directional drilling is a technique oil-extraction companies use to access oil in underground reserves. The term deep-sea trench, also known as an oceanic trench, refers to any long, narrow, steep-sided depression in the ocean bottom at depths of approximately 7,300 to more than 11,000 meters.
Usually the depth of the buried offshore pipelines is 1.5 to 3 meters, reaching 5 meters below the seabed, which is already a highly difficult task.

Thanks to China's domestically developed multi-pulse high-power accelerator, "Shenlong-3," the depth reached an unprecedented 11 meters for the 146-kilometer offshore pipeline to go through the sea lanes.
Shenlong-3, the world's first of its kind, is a milestone in developing linear induction accelerators and China's flash radiography technology. The new project will help Bangladesh unload oil from oil tankers of over 100,000 tonnes.


Xuanji Drilling System: A jewel in the crown
In the past few years, China has seen a boom in homegrown technologies and equipment for offshore oil and gas exploration and a rise in investment in financial and human resources in the sector.

With 12 years of experience in the field, China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) has developed "Xuanji," a rotary steerable drilling (RSD) and logging-while-drilling (LWD) system for efficient exploration of offshore oil and gas.

According to CNOOC, China's largest offshore oil and gas producer, the Xuanji system can accurately control the drill bit thousands of meters underground to target oil layer and "remotely drive" the drill to stably traverse more than 1,000 meters horizontally or obliquely in the 0.7-meter thin oil layer.

Xuanji can also do real-time analysis of stratigraphic data, helping reduce the financial cost of oil-gas exploration so as to develop more marine oil and gas resources in an economical and efficient manner, said CNOOC.

On April 20 this year, the first intelligent production line of the Xuanji system was put into operation in Foshan City, south China's Guangdong Province, as part of CNOOC's "intelligent manufacturing chain" of high-end oil and gas exploration equipment.
Li Xi'en, a senior technical expert at CNOOC, told China Media Group (CMG) that the company "has adopted a strategy of 'commercializing a generation then developing the next generation' to push forward the domestic research and development of cutting-edge technical equipment."

"Currently, the Xuanji system has covered 32 function modules for three sizes of boreholes. The system's success rate has risen from 79.1 percent to 92 percent since the first test, and its key indicators have reached a global leading level. This year, we have built a production line with an annual output of 100 sets of the Xuanji system along with other high-end technical equipment, formally entering the stage of large-scale industrialization," Li said.

World's first Shenhai-1
Starting with only one platform reaching 100 meters under water, China has been making headways on the path to develop its offshore oil and gas exploration sector. The country now has 61 drilling platforms with an operating water depth exceeding 3,000 meters.
In 2012, six deep-water engineering vessels capable of working at depths of 3,000 meters were put into service, marking China's accelerated development of deep-water oil and gas exploitation equipment.

On June 25, 2021, China's first self-run 100,000-tonne semi-submersible oil and gas production and storage platform, Shenhai-1, started operation in the waters off south China's Hainan Province. By February 13, 2022, it had produced over 1 billion cubic meters of natural gas, said its operator CNOOC.
 

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The Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region located in northern China has seen major improvements in the local environment and ecology due to a series of efforts.

The area is famous for vast forests and grasslands, and has been developing based on commercial logging and farming industries which had destroyed the local environment.

Starting in 2000, a natural forest protection project was implemented in the forest of the Greater Hinggan Mountains in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, with an initial focusing on tree planting and the aim of protecting the ecosystem and mitigating environmental damage. Commercial logging in natural forests was completely forbidden in 2015, and local authorities also offered the former tree-fellers jobs as forest rangers to encourage them to become a protector of the environment.

Over the past 20 years, 511 forest management and protection sites have been established, covering about 9.7 million hectares of natural woods, alongside with a total of 29 protection areas, including nature reserves, wetland parks and forest parks, according to Chen Baishan, chairman of the Inner Mongolia Forest Industry Group.

The forested area of the Greater Hinggan Mountains in Inner Mongolia has increased by 1.39 million hectares to 10.3 million hectares since 2000.

The grasslands, which account for nearly half of Inner Mongolia's land area, are also becoming greener due to local protection process.
In 2011, the region launched a policy of grassland ecological protection, under which grazing was banned and the number of livestock was reduced to improve the grass-livestock balance, while subsidies were given to herdsmen.

So far, the subsidy funds have reached 45.5 billion yuan ($6.8 billion), benefiting more than 1.4 million households and 4.9 million people every year.

In 2020, the average grassland vegetation coverage in the region reached 45 percent, 8 percentage points higher than that in 2010.
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FairAndUnbiased

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Why no mention of the brutal attack against those women in northern China? Seems that was big news in China!
Hey maybe we should talk about National Enquirer here too. I heard Elvis and Princess Diana are still alive. And what about Amber Heard, Johnny Depp and Elon Musk? What happened with Chris Rock?

Or maybe we should keep the level of discourse above tabloid level and realize that a few nameless thugs assaulting a few random nameless women doesn't mean much?
 

james smith esq

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Thugs attacking people at a restaurant is not exactly groundbreaking news. This kind of thing happens everywhere. Plus, the police already caught the assailants so there isn't much to talk about..
Okay?

Just seems that thugs attacking folks in other countries has been much ballyhooed news, here!

Just makin’ sure that we’re aware of the double-standards we might be enacting!

Cuz, we wouldn’t want to be just like those hypocrites, right?

That’s immature strategy!
 

KYli

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Okay?

Just seems that thugs attacking folks in other countries has been much ballyhooed news, here!

Just makin’ sure that we’re aware of the double-standards we might be enacting!

Cuz, we wouldn’t want to be just like those hypocrites, right?

That’s immature strategy!
Someone already posted it in World News thread. If you are so interested in this, you could discuss it over there. As for other members posting Indian news, it isn't my problem or others' member problem. This thread never has anything about India.

And posting Indian news doesn't equal double standards. Someone also posted this incident of thugs attacking folks in China in World News thread.
 

Aniah

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Okay?

Just seems that thugs attacking folks in other countries has been much ballyhooed news, here!

Just makin’ sure that we’re aware of the double-standards we might be enacting!

Cuz, we wouldn’t want to be just like those hypocrites, right?

That’s immature strategy!
Like KYIi has said, it's already been discussed on the breaking news thread, a more active and popular thread. You might've just missed it.
 

MortyandRick

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Okay?

Just seems that thugs attacking folks in other countries has been much ballyhooed news, here!

Just makin’ sure that we’re aware of the double-standards we might be enacting!

Cuz, we wouldn’t want to be just like those hypocrites, right?

That’s immature strategy!
It was also pasted so if you cared to look closer you would see it. a few of us also commented on our. Seems pome your Cherry Picking strategy back fired. Talk about immature. complaining of double standard coming from you is rich. you were pretty happy when Ukraine was posting tons of videos showing Russian losers, but then had a hissy fit when the Ukraine war wasn’t going your way as people were posting more Russian victories. Way to cope.
 

NiuBiDaRen

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Okay?

Just seems that thugs attacking folks in other countries has been much ballyhooed news, here!

Just makin’ sure that we’re aware of the double-standards we might be enacting!

Cuz, we wouldn’t want to be just like those hypocrites, right?

That’s immature strategy!
Seriously man go pop some schizophrenia pills and see a specialist pls.
 
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