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13,500 bored piles on a groundbreaking oil refinery project

Keller has delivered one of its largest projects, constructing 13,500 bored piles for the development of a groundbreaking oil refinery in Rajasthan. The project that Keller is involved in will be one...

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New crustal stress map of North America

A new study presents the first quantitative stress magnitude map that also includes horizontal stress orientations in North America. The findings were recently published in Nature Communications.  Th...

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Numerous submarine landslides detected in the Gulf of Mexico

In a new study, scientists have identified 85, previously unknown, submarine landslides in the Gulf of Mexico that occurred in a 7-year period (from 2008 to 2015). The results of the study have been...

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Evaluating the earthquake hazard of hydraulic fracturing

A new study suggests new guidelines in order to mitigate the earthquake risk triggered by hydraulic fracturing. Hydraulic fracturing is a drilling process that aims at connecting existing cracks in...

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Oil price drops below 18$ per barrel in the U.S.

Oil price has dropped below $18 per barrel in the United States as of April 17, 2020. It is the lowest oil price recorded since November 2001 and it is mainly caused by the inability of the market to...

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Oil, gas and chemical solutions by Keller

Planned LNG (liquefied natural gas) storage facilities may require ground improvement to increase soil bearing capacity and control settlement, deep foundations to transfer loads to competent bearing...

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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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Bridge Replacement in Growing Cairo, West Virginia

Cairo, a small town in West Virginia, began growing in truck traffic when the oil and gas industry started taking roots in the city. The old bridge proved to be insufficient for the Average Daily Tra...

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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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