Sentences with phrase «hydrocarbon sea named»
This image from the radar instrument aboard the Cassini spacecraft shows the large hydrocarbon sea named Ligeia Mare on Saturn's moon, Titan.
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The shale, named for the town of Eagle Ford, TX, is a geologic remnant of the ancient ocean that covered present day Texas millions of years ago, when the remains of sea life (especially ancient plankton) died and deposited onto the seafloor, were buried by several hundred feet of sediment, eventually turning into the rich source of hydrocarbons we have today.The shale was first tapped in 2008 and now has around 20 active fields good producing over 900 million cubic feet per day of natural gas.