Sentences with phrase «in hydrocarbon seas»

Scientists think Titan may also be able to support microbial life (though if that life teems in the hydrocarbon seas, it will be very different than organisms here on Earth).

Different markers might reveal life in hydrocarbon seas.

Simulations suggest that bubbling nitrogen may be the source of a blinking bright spot, or «magic island,» that Cassini spotted in the hydrocarbon sea Ligeia Mare on the moon Titan (SN: 5/13/17, p. 17).

Not exact matches

Junior oil and gas explorer West Oil NL has had a fillip to its strategy to exploit its extensive hydrocarbon ground in the Timor Sea.

With its main focus on the Timor Sea, Norwest Energy NL has landed itself plumb in the best hydrocarbon address in the region.

Indeed, at 24 per cent in 2012, it is considerably lower even than the ETR observed for the fifth North Sea hydrocarbons producer, the German Federal Land of Schleswig - Holstein, whose government has been increasing the statutory royalty rate in line with rising oil prices in recent years — from 12.5 per cent in 2003 to 21 per cent as of the time of writing — with the result that the ETR in the German sector of the North Sea in 2012 came to 33 per cent.

Nor will they talk about the fact that among the ETRs of all the large North Sea hydrocarbons producers, the UK's has been the only one not to increase very significantly over the ascending oil price cycle that began in 2000.

Second, German North Sea hydrocarbons output has always been minuscule in comparison to UK output: the former peaked in 2003 at around 40 thousand barrels of oil equivalent per day (KBOED) and is currently running at around 26 KBOED, whereas the latter peaked in 1999 at 4.6 million barrels of oil equivalent per day (MMBOED), and is currently running at around 1.4 MMBOED (i.e. thirty five times more than Schleswig - Holstein production at its peak).

In June 2000, Project Deep Spill released hydrocarbons into the sea off the coast of Norway at a depth of about 800 metres.

The scientists also found that the microbes were making quick work of many of the hydrocarbons in the deep sea plumes.

Entering orbit around the ringed world, the spacecraft will drop a probe into the atmosphere of Titan, a Mercury - size moon cloaked in an opaque organic haze and possibly covered with hydrocarbon seas.

Titan is the only place in the solar system, besides Earth, that has large bodies of liquid on its surface, though its seas are composed of hydrocarbons such as methane rather than water.

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.

Titan's north polar region, which is bejeweled with sprawling hydrocarbon seas and lakes, was dark when Cassini first arrived at the Saturn system in 2004.

Scientists think that as the seasons change in Titan's northern hemisphere, waves could ripple across the moon's hydrocarbon seas, and hurricanes could begin to swirl over these areas, too.

Almost all of the hydrocarbon seas and lakes on the surface of Saturn's moon Titan cluster around the north pole, as can be seen in this mosaic from NASA's Cassini mission.

Ultracold hydrocarbon lakes and seas (dark shapes) near the north pole of Saturn's moon Titan can be seen embedded in some kind of bright surface material in this infrared mosaic from NASA's Cassini mission.

Deepwater Horizon reduced oxygen levels in the sea 30 % (there was that much hydrocarbon to CO2 conversion by bacteria).

129 Furthermore, the fact that, in the context of applying European Union environmental legislation, certain matters contributing to the pollution of the air, sea or land territory of the Member States originate in an event which occurs partly outside that territory is not such as to call into question, in the light of the principles of customary international law capable of being relied upon in the main proceedings, the full applicability of European Union law in that territory (see to this effect, with regard to the application of competition law, Ahlström Osakeyhtiö and Others v Commission, paragraphs 15 to 18, and, with regard to hydrocarbons accidentally spilled beyond a Member State's territorial sea, Case C ‑ 188 / 07 Commune de Mesquer [2008] ECR I ‑ 4501, paragraphs 60 to 62).

the Barbados Government in a Part XV and Annex VII United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea arbitration against Trinidad relating to maritime delimitation and hydrocarbon rights