XOM Sets Extended Reach Record -- Not a Bakken Story, But Maybe Some Day

Link here.

Data points:

• XOM's subsidiary, Exxon Neftegas Limited, offshore far east Russia
• Sakhalin-1 Project, an international consortium
• Odoptu OP-11 well: total depth -- 40,502 feet (12,345 meters or 7.67 miles)
• World record for extended-reach drilling (ERD)
• Horizontal reach of 37,648 feet (11,475 or 7.13 miles): also a world record of horizontal reach
• Record-setting well completed in 60 days

Wow, a 7-mile horizontal lateral and almost 8 miles to total depth.