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Engineering new materials to replace diamonds for drilling
Diamond drilling was a break-through approach mostly used in mining industry to exploit deposits that would otherwise remain inaccessible. It also enabled the recovery of cores to examine the undergr...
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Continuous oil and natural gas resources found in Texas and New Mexico
According to United States Geological Survey (USGS), Wolfcamp Shale and overlying Bone Spring Formation in the Delaware Basin part of Texas and New Mexico's Permian Basin province contain a vast quant...
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Potential oil and gas exploitation in the North Sea
A region of the North Sea could be exploited to extract oil and gas but first scientists must clarify the geological background of the area. The 7000-km2 area of interest is the Rattray Volcan...
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Earthquake magnitude can be mitigated due to ground water pressure
According to scientists from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne EPFL and the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, pressurized ground water can reduce the intensity of seismic events. Undergroun...
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Pipeline leaks 210,000 gallons of oil in South Dakota, USA
A total of 210,000 gallons of oil leaked from the Keystone Pipeline in South Dakota, USA, on Thursday November 16, according to TransCanada, the pipeline's operator. TransCanada said that crews shu...
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Oklahoma Oil Hub Damaged by Earthquake
- Nov, 06, 2016
- News On Natural Disasters / Failures Oil & Gas Earthquake Reconnaissance
- Cushing, Oklahoma
On Sunday evening, a 5.0 magnitude earthquake struck Cushing, Oklahoma, a major oil hub and one of the nation's largest oil storage terminals. No major injuries were reported. The quake caused sign...
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Apache Corporation Reveals New Shale Deposit in West Texas
Last week, the Apache Corporation revealed its new shale deposit in West Texas, calling it Alpine High. Current estimates show the deposit to be worth over $8 billion, containing over three billion ba...
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This is the Lake of Death of Cameroon!
- Jul, 29, 2015
- News On Natural Disasters / Failures Reconnaissance Of Natural Disasters Oil & Gas
- Lake Nyos, Menchum, Northwest, Cameroon
August 1986. A terrifying noise breaks the silence of the night and immediately a poisonous gas cloud emerges from the Lake Nyos. Most residents of villages that were nearby the lake died of suffoc...
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A new oil reserve discovered in U.K.
According to the UK exploration company, Oil & Gas Investments, a major oil reserv has been recently discoveres very close to Gatwick Airport in West Sussex. The discovery news caused both excitem...
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TAPI: a pipeline initiative that moves on
This past summer, a step forward was taken for the realization of the Trans-Afghan natural gas pipeline project, also known as TAPI. TAPI is an ambitious $7.5 billion project, that aims in trasferring...
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