Floodwaters hit China’s largest and driest desert, Taklamakan, and created a huge lake as big as 42,000 soccer fields. State-run oil and gas enterprise Sinopec announced that the desert flood had submerged about 50 oil exploration vehicles and 30,000 sets of equipment.
“The total inundated area [of the flood] is over 116 square miles, and severely impacted the oil field’s production and exploration,” according to a Sinopec spokesperson, reported the Chinese state-run Observer on July 31.
