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Reducing Laughing Gas from WWTPs: A Practical Engineering Approach
- May, 27, 2025
- Green Infrastructure Oil & Gas News On Research / Academia Geoenvironmental Engineering
- Netherlands
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
Nitrous oxide (N₂O), often associated with medical or culinary uses, is also a potent greenhouse gas with a global warming potential nearly 300 times that of CO₂. A lesser-known but significant sourc...
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55 Kilometres to Net Zero: Inside the Viking Pipeline Project
- May, 04, 2025
- Underground Structures Oil & Gas Geoenvironmental Engineering News On Projects / Industry
- United Kingdom
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
A new chapter in the UK’s low-carbon journey begins with the approval of a £200 million underground pipeline stretching 55 kilometers from Immingham to the Theddlethorpe Gas Terminal on the Lincolnsh...
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Coastal Erosion Crisis: Nigeria's Oil-Rich Amatu 2 Faces Extinction Without Urgent Intervention
- Feb, 07, 2025
- Erosion Oil & Gas Geoenvironmental Engineering Other Geotechnical News On Natural Disasters / Failures Other News
- Nigeria
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
Amatu 2, a coastal oil-producing community in Bayelsa State, Nigeria, faces an existential threat from severe coastal erosion. Nestled between the Atlantic Ocean and an estuary, the community has his...
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Geotechnical news recap of January 2025 now on YouTube!
- Feb, 06, 2025
- Structural Geology Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Road Embankments Earth Retaining Structures Groundwater & Seepage Levees Slope Stability Other Geotechnical Earthquake Reconnaissance Energy Geotechnics Geo-Energy Oil & Gas Other Energy Tunneling Foundation Design / Construction
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
You can now find Geoengineer.org's latest news recap video on YouTube, which includes what we found to be the most interesting geotechnical news of January 2025. Namely, these were: 1) The Denali Fa...
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Unsettling Ground: Can Oil Extraction Trigger Earthquakes?
- Jan, 18, 2025
- Oil & Gas Settlements News On Research / Academia News On Projects / Industry
- United Kingdom, Newdigate
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
A cluster of over 100 small earthquakes in Surrey during 2018 and 2019 has sparked debate about whether oil extraction activities may have been the cause. With magnitudes ranging from 1.34 to 3.18, t...
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Salt Domes: Revolutionizing Long-Duration Energy Storage in Gulf Coast
- Jan, 16, 2025
- Energy Geotechnics Geo-Energy Oil & Gas Other Energy Structural Geology News On Products & Services News On Research / Academia News On Projects / Industry
- United States, Texas
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
As renewable energy sources like wind and solar become more prominent, the need for efficient, long-duration energy storage has become increasingly urgent. A groundbreaking solution is emerging in th...
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How China’s Largest PetroChemichal Industrial Base is Setting New Standards for Clean Energy
- Dec, 25, 2024
- Oil & Gas Geoenvironmental Engineering Other Energy Green Infrastructure News On Projects / Industry Other News
- China, Ningbo
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
China’s largest petrochemical industrial base, the Zhenhai Refining and Chemical Base in Ningbo, has reached a remarkable milestone with the completion of its second-phase expansion. Spearheaded by S...
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$7.85 billion Mountain Valley Pipeline completed and given green light to go into service
- Jun, 10, 2024
- Transportation Geotechnics Underground Structures Other Energy Other Geotechnical Oil & Gas News On Projects / Industry Other News
- United States, West Virginia
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
Mountain Valley Pipeline, LLC, sent a letter to the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Monday, June 10, announcing the completion of the Mountain Valley Pipeline project. The same letter r...
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Submarine Internet cables can monitor seismic activity and predict earthquakes
- May, 27, 2022
- Oil & Gas Offshore Geotechnics Engineering Seismology
- Authored by: Gerasimos Livieratos
A wide network of submarine cables could be used to detect earthquakes and tsunamis or monitor how climate change alters ocean currents. These telecoms cables could be used as a giant array of deep...
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Why is the Gulf of Mexico so rich in fossil fuel deposits?
- May, 11, 2021
- Oil & Gas Structural Geology Seismic Other News
- Gulf of Mexico
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
Despite the continuous exploration, the Gulf of Mexico still has enormous quantities of oil and gas deposits. From around 335 million years ago until 200 million years ago, all land on Earth was conc...
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