No Oil, But A Record Nevertheless
It turns out the Lone Star never managed to find any oil in the region, so the hole was eventually abandoned. So while they never found what they were looking for, they did set a new record for the deepest hole on Earth, a record it held for the next five years. In June 1979, one of the boreholes in the Kola Peninsula (referred to as SG-3) took over the lead with a new record, and by 1983 the record reached further highs with astronomical new depths. It is difficult to get one’s head around, but try and imagine how quite wonderous a whole that is only nine inches wide, going an incredible 39,000 feet through the crust of Earth!
No Oil But A Record Nevertheless
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