Sentences with phrase «chinle drilling project»

«These specific technologies can reduce the risk of drilling problems, so they could easily save $ 100,000 to $ 200,000 per drilling project by increasing the knowledge of the geological formations,» says Colleen Kennedy, an analyst at Lux Research, a technology market research firm.

As Exxon Mobil's CEO, Tillerson helped steward the company's entry into post-Soviet Union Russia, developing deep connections with the Russia elite business class and meeting with President Vladimir Putin repeatedly to discuss issues such as the joint Arctic drilling project Exxon Mobil developed with Russian government - backed energy companies.

Over the year, the company has cut drilling projects and cut a tenth of its workers.

Oil service companies are getting hit because they are focusing their efforts on offshore drilling, an industry struggling due to low oil prices that can not justify conducting more typically lucrative deep - water drilling projects.

Perth - based hydrocarbon explor - er Hardman Resources NL is on track to develop its gas drilling project near Rome in Italy as the next stage of its exploration programme.

Canadian and global petroleum companies have since spread mines and deep - drilling projects across northern Alberta's gargantuan reserve — oil sands production has nearly quadrupled since 2000 to about 2.5 million barrels per day.

Is a multi-well horizontal drilling project off of a single surface location materially different than a small - scale oil sands project?

W&T Offshore Inc. and Baker Hughes, a GE company (BHGE), announced a strategic partnership related to W&T's joint exploration and development program, which includes 14 drilling projects, most of which are operated by W&T in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM).

Griffin Perry co-owns Grey Rock Energy Partners, which runs funds that buy into oil and natural gas drilling projects.

Fifteen to twenty years from now, that $ 15 billion in retained earnings won't go towards new drilling projects.

Total expects to grow its overall production by 4 percent this year and the start of new drilling projects will likely lead to larger production gains in the years ahead.

Australian scientists have welcomed the success of a five - year Greenland ice core drilling project that is expected to reveal a record of more than 130 000 years and provide an insight into future global climate.

The commission has declared a moratorium on Marcellus Shale drilling projects in the Delaware River basin until the rulemaking process is complete.

Data from a 1970s international research effort to explore the subsurface of the region, called the Dry Valleys Drilling Project, found tantalizing geophysical evidence — seismic and electrical resistivity data — that hinted at liquid water deep below.

This spring, the Japanese National Oil Company, one of the partners in the Mallik Project, will also begin its own hydrate - drilling project off the coast of Japan.

With so many drilling projects, «it's like going fishing in the Everglades, in the Rocky Mountains and in Northern Canada», says Bell.

The conflict, says LeVine, is about whether that science needs to be completed before drilling projects commence.

The drill's filters, which clean water being pumped out of the borehole, became clogged with black dust — «volcanic ashes from some past large volcanic eruption,» speculated Slawek Tulaczyk, a glaciologist from the University of California, Santa Cruz, who has studied this region for two decades and co-leads the drilling project.

China, India, and South Korea have begun methane hydrate drilling projects, and Japan has invested a billion dollars in a test production program.

The Japan Trench Fast Drilling Project (Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Expedition 343 and 343T) installed a borehole temperature observatory 16 months after the March 2011 moment magnitude 9.0 Tohoku - Oki earthquake across the fault where slip was ~ 50 meters near the trench.

The Japan Trench Fast Drilling Project rapid response drilling expedition sought to sample and monitor the fault zone directly through a series of boreholes.

A research project called the Arctic Coring Expedition linked to the Integrated Ocean Drilling Project headed north, hoping to find traces of this phenomenon to explain how it had happened.

LIFE AND DEATH Rock samples collected from the Chicxulub crater during a drilling project in the Gulf of Mexico earlier this year suggest that microbes returned to the site within hundreds of years of the dino - killing impact.

This research evolved into the Deep Sea Drilling Project, which has sampled sea - floor sediment around the globe.

The findings are impressive, says Gerhard Kuhn, a marine geologist at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven, Germany, and Germany's representative in ANDRILL, an international sediment - drilling project in Antarctica.

The study, part of the National Science Foundation - funded Whillans Ice Stream Subglacial Access Research Drilling project (WISSARD), was supported by UC San Diego's John Dove Isaacs Chair in Natural Philosophy awarded to Fricker.

Both the UK and French drilling projects are funded as part of the EU collaboration.

Stacked cores from the Chinle drilling project.

«A deep drilling project in Antarctica could commence within the next 3 - 5 years,» Fischer states.

She is mixing seawater from the San Francisco Bay and volcanic rock from the Western United States to find the right formula, and is also leading a scientific drilling project to study the production of tobermorite and other related minerals at the Surtsey volcano in Iceland.

To study this process, researchers have initiated a drilling project, remarkably similar to the one at the San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth.

Risky business In 2011, an independent engineering report commissioned by the NSF concluded that the drilling project suffered from financial pressure, lack of a clear project manager and some questionable technical decisions.

Priscu is looking forward to a similar U.S. effort called the Whillans Ice Stream Subglacial Access Research Drilling project next year, which will use a similar approach of melting a hole with hot water in order to reach the river - fed Whillans Ice Stream in West Antarctica.

The Obama administration is facilitating drilling projects on federal land in western North Dakota by expediting environmental reviews.

This picture may be about to change in light of a study of deep - sea rocks and sediments led by John Parkes, a microbiologist at Cardiff University in the U.K.. By visiting oil - drilling projects at two sites in the Pacific in 2002, Parkes and colleagues obtained samples as deep as 400 meters beneath the seafloor.

Frontiers of Geophysics Lecture Joanna Morgan, Professor of Geophysics at Imperial College London and Co-Chief Scientist of the IOPD - ICDP Expedition 364 Chicxulub Impact Crater Drilling Project, will deliver the Frontiers of Geophysics Lecture, «Chicxulub: The End of an Era,» from 12:30 — 1:30 p.m. in the New Orleans Theater, located on the second floor of the Morial Convention Center above Hall I - 1.

We thank V. C. Smith at the University of Oxford for electron probe microanalysis; the coprincipal investigators of the Lake Malawi Drilling Project (C. A. Scholz, A. S. Cohen, and J. King) and other members of the drilling team; A. Noren and A. Myrbo (LacCore) for assistance with sampling; T. Shanahan for producing a thin section of the Toba interval; A. Lingwall and E. T. Brown for assistance with scanning XRF; J. Halbur for TEX86 analyses; and B. Bandli for SEM images.

Scientific drilling in the Great Rift Valley: The 2005 Lake Malawi Scientific Drilling Project — An overview of the past 145,000 years of climate variability in Southern Hemisphere East Africa

In 2005, scientists with the Integrated Ocean Drilling Project drilled 1,416 meters (4,644 feet) below the North Atlantic seafloor and claimed to have come within just 305 meters (1,000 feet) of the Moho.

Ohmoto, working with Dr. Yumiko Watanabe, research associate, Penn State; Dr. Hiroaki Ikemi, former Penn State post doctoral fellow; and Dr. Simon R. Poulson, former Penn State doctoral student now a professor at University of Nevada, and Dr. Bruce E. Taylor, Geological Survey of Canada, report in the August 24 issue of Nature the isotopic, mineralogical and geochemical results of drilling cores recovered by the Archaean Biosphere Drilling Project in the Pilbara Craton, Pilbara, Australia.

But Gulick, part of a 2016 drilling project to explore the asteroid's crater, said there was little evidence for sufficient amounts of organic matter at the Chicxulub impact site.

James Kirkpatrick, a postdoctoral researcher from UC Santa Cruz, is among the scientists on board and posted a report on the web site of the Japan Trench Fast Drilling Project (JFAST), Expedition 343 of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program.

UC Santa Cruz scientists involved in ambitious drilling project to measure properties of the fault that caused the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami

IODP agreed to fund the project, known as the Japan Trench Fast Drilling Project (JFAST), or IODP Expedition 343.

For those curious about this particular drilling project, here's a short video report I put together several years ago after roaming Greenland for several days, including a flight up to the summit and the metal tube standing where this core was extracted.

A big new Nature paper summarizing findings from one of the most important drilling projects on Greenland has important implications for the fate of the ice sheet in a warmer world.

Since then, a number of new proxies and seafloor coring and drilling projects have produced a wealth of additional data.

Brigham - Grette is the U.S. Chief Scientist of the Elgygytgyn Lake Scientific Drilling project, a multinational program leading to the first unprecedented recovery of a 3.6 million year old record of Arctic paleoclimate in 2009.

«Statoil is removing the «oil» from their name at the same time they are trying to add risky Australian deepwater drilling projects to their portfolio and expand into the pristine...

http://www.nbi.ku.dk/english/news/news13/greenland-ice-cores-reveal-warm-climate-of-the-past/ «The new results from the NEEM ice core drilling project in northwest Greenland, led by the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen show that the climate in Greenland was around 8 degrees C warmer than today during the last interglacial period, the Eemian period, 130,000 to 115,000 thousand years ago.»