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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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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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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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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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