Drillers position equipment at the Pengshen-6 oil well in Southwest China's Sichuan province.
JIN TIAN/FOR CHINA DAILY
China's oil and gas producer China National Petroleum Corp has dug 9,026 meters below the Earth's surface to create the deepest Asian land-based oil well. The previous record was 9,017 meters, also set by another Chinese oil major Sinopec.