Sentences with phrase «contaminated drilling fluid»
But there's a chance these critters hailed from contaminated drilling fluid, and whether they represent part of a living, breathing ecosystem remains up for debate.
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In March 2013, biologist Sergey Bulat of the Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute announced that this ice hosted a new form of bacterial DNA, but his claim was disputed because the sample was contaminated with kerosene drilling fluid.
The Russians have engineered their system so that when they break through into the lake, water pressure from below is supposed to push the drilling fluids up the hole, rather than letting them pour into the lake and contaminate it.