News tagged with sea drilling
Canada unveils Arctic drilling rules
Canada's energy regulator rolled out new rules on Thursday allowing for alternative ways to deal quickly with blowouts in the Arctic other than drilling relief wells.
Dec 15, 2011 |
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Dead Sea drilling research project portends ominous future for Middle East
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers drilling in the center of the Dead Sea have found that approximately 120,000 years ago, the area became so dry the Sea dried up completely, or nearly so, and worse, it ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 07, 2011 |
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International research team to bore into tectonic plates off Japan
An international research team will use the deep-sea drilling vessel Chikyu to bore into an area where two tectonic plates meet to study the movements of the plates that caused the Great East Japan Earthquake, according to ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 15, 2011 |
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LLNL partners with SWAY to launch deep sea offshore wind demonstration
The amount of wind blowing off the California coast is teeming with potential.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Jun 10, 2011 |
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BP to resume deepwater drilling in Gulf of Mexico: report
BP will resume deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico in July, some 15 months after the British energy giant was thrown into crisis after a fatal oil spill in the region, a newspaper said Sunday.
Apr 03, 2011 |
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Scientists drill beneath Dead Sea in search of priceless data
If you thought you couldn't get any lower than the Dead Sea, think again. You can go under it.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 21, 2010 |
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US sets up security zone around BP oil spill site
A security zone has been set up around the site of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico to safeguard any evidence of the environmental disaster earlier this year, the Justice Department said Wednesday.
Oct 28, 2010 |
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Investigating potentially hidden damages in the Gulf of Mexico
Chuck Fisher, Penn State professor of biology, is familiar with the Gulf of Mexico, and more specifically with the unique and rarely seen world miles below the surface. Following the Deepwater Horizon drilling ...
Oct 22, 2010 |
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Salvage operation could offer up clues to US oil spill
Efforts this weekend to salvage BP's blowout preventer could bring to the surface a key piece of evidence in the inquiry into the largest maritime oil spill in history.
Aug 27, 2010 |
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Great Barrier Reef corals unveil sea level and climate changes
(PhysOrg.com) -- Groundbreaking preliminary findings from the Great Barrier Reef show climate change has not been smooth and continuous but may have been characterised by several rapid changes.
Jul 30, 2010 |
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Scientists Drill Deepest Hole off New Zealand
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists aboard the research ship the JOIDES Resolution recently drilled two kilometers into Earth’s crust, setting a new record for the deepest hole drilled through the seafloor on a single ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 04, 2010 |
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Geoscientists Drill Deepest Hole in Ocean Crust in Scientific Ocean Drilling History
(PhysOrg.com) -- For eight weeks beginning in November 2009, off the coast of New Zealand, an international team of 34 scientists and 92 support staff and crew on board the scientific drilling vessel JOIDES ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 25, 2010 |
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Feds designate polar bear habitat in Alaska
(AP) -- The Obama administration said Thursday it is designating more than 200,000 square miles in Alaska and off its coast as "critical habitat" for polar bears, an action that could add restrictions to ...
Oct 22, 2009 |
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Digging for answers to climate change
Forty miles off the Jersey Shore, an international team of scientists is grappling with a worrisome phenomenon: The oceans are slowly rising. The researchers are not studying the sea itself. Living for weeks at a time on ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 19, 2009 |
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New Danish research shows how oil gets stuck underground
It is a mystery to many people why the world is running out of oil when most of the world's oilfields have only been half emptied. However some of the oil that has been located is trapped as droplets of oil in small cavities ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 11, 2009 |
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