Greenhouse solar plant for cheaper extraction of oil
(PhysOrg.com) -- A Californian company has found a way to reduce the cost of making steam for use in extracting oil from old oil fields: they heat the water using free sunlight.
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Satellite images reveal where large amounts of methane are being released in Permian Basin
An international team of researchers has found a way to isolate individual methane contributors in the Permian Basin. In their paper published in the journal Science Advances, the group describes using satellite images to ...
Development threatens tropical forests, researchers say
Tropical forests in the Amazon, Indonesia, and Mesoamerica face multiple threats from mining, oil, and gas extraction and massive infrastructure projects over the next two decades, according to a study by Clark University ...
Environment
Dec 4, 2018
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Banned industrial solvent sheds new light on methane mystery (Update)
Since 2007, scientists have been searching to find the cause of a sudden and unexpected global rise in atmospheric methane, a potent greenhouse gas, following almost a decade in which concentrations had stayed relatively ...
Environment
Apr 17, 2017
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Methane levels have increased in Marcellus Shale region despite dip in well installation
Despite a slow down in the number of new natural gas wells in the Marcellus Shale region of Northeast Pennsylvania, new research led by Drexel University finds that atmospheric methane levels in the area are still increasing. ...
Environment
Feb 9, 2017
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Trapping climate pollutant methane gas in porous carbon
As talks of global warming are once again making headlines, scientists have renewed their efforts to understand how to best limit its effects. For example, sequestrating short-lived climate pollutants, such as methane and ...
Condensed Matter
Dec 2, 2015
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Scientists use ocean waves to monitor offshore oil and gas fields
A technology developed by Stanford scientists for passively probing the seafloor using weak seismic waves generated by the ocean could revolutionize offshore oil and natural gas extraction by providing real-time monitoring ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 28, 2015
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Space-based methane maps find largest US signal in Southwest
An unexpectedly high amount of the climate-changing gas methane, the main component of natural gas, is escaping from the Four Corners region in the U.S. Southwest, according to a new study by the University of Michigan and ...
Environment
Oct 9, 2014
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Researchers challenge study on hydrofracking's gas footprint
(PhysOrg.com) -- A Cornell study's contention that hydraulic fracturing would be worse for climate change than burning coal is being challenged by another study, also by Cornell researchers.
Environment
Mar 5, 2012
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Extraction influences seismicity at some hydraulic fracturing sites in Ohio
A decade's worth of research at oil and gas operations in the central and eastern United States has confirmed that fluid injection from hydraulic fracturing and wastewater disposal can induce seismicity.
Earth Sciences
Apr 20, 2023
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