The risk of man-made earthquakes due to fracking is greatly reduced if high-pressure fluid injection used to crack underground rocks is 895m away from faults in the Earth's crust, according to new research.
Earth Sciences
Feb 27, 2018
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Wastewater created during oil and gas production and disposed of by deep injection into underlying rock layers is the probable cause for a surge in earthquakes in southern Kansas since 2013, a new report in the Bulletin of ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 19, 2018
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Injection molding enables large-scale production of polymer and plastic materials with micrometer-sized features. Now, A*STAR scientists have developed a method for creating mold templates with high precision and few defects.
Engineering
Feb 15, 2018
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Efforts to stop human-caused earthquakes by shutting down wastewater injection wells that serve adjacent oil and gas fields may oversimplify the challenge, according to a new study from seismologists at Southern Methodist ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 13, 2018
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Stanford geophysicists have developed a detailed map of the stresses that act in the Earth throughout the Permian Basin in West Texas and southeastern New Mexico, highlighting areas of the oil-rich region that could be at ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 8, 2018
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A team of materials scientists at NYU Tandon School of Engineering has developed the first process to 3-D print components of syntactic foam—extremely strong and lightweight composites used in vehicles, airplanes, and ships. ...
Engineering
Feb 7, 2018
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Man-made earthquakes in Oklahoma, USA, are strongly linked to the depth at which wastewater from the oil and gas industry are injected into the ground, according to a new study led by the University of Bristol.
Earth Sciences
Feb 1, 2018
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In work that offers insight into the magnitude of the hazards posed by earthquake faults in general, seismologists have developed a model to determine the size of an earthquake that could be triggered by the underground injection ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 20, 2017
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Proposals to reduce the effects of global warming by imitating volcanic eruptions could have a devastating effect on global regions prone to either tumultuous storms or prolonged drought, new research has shown.
Earth Sciences
Nov 14, 2017
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A rash of earthquakes in southern Colorado and northern New Mexico recorded between 2008 and 2010 was likely due to fluids pumped deep underground during oil and gas wastewater disposal, says a new University of Colorado ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 24, 2017
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