Environmental activist Sharon Wilson of Earthworks seems to have started a new rallying call against the oil and gas industry by claiming that a recently passed bill in the Texas state legislature was allowing “Texas fracking rape.” “Fracking victims I have worked with describe it as a rape,” Wilson wrote in a blog post protesting […]
Spill clean up a messy business
Marine oil spills can be extremely difficult to deal with. In the sea of Cardiff, Wales engineers from a European research project are testing a new prototype that cleans oil spills quickly, efficiently and more cheaply than existing methods. “What we’ve developed is a net which can float on the surface of the water, without […]
Hungry bacteria could be answer to oil spill clean ups
Chemicals are regularly used to help clean up oil disasters, to break up the oil/water emulsion, making oil more soluble and thus removing it from the surface water. Scientists in Germany are looking at away to get away from the chemicals and use an oil eating bacteria instead Having said that, oil-degrading bacteria are not […]
Is there a link between fracking and earthquakes?
Over the last few years, Oklahoma has experienced an insane uptick in earthquakes. The count went from just a couple per year back in the mid-2000s to over a thousand in 2010. Those numbers grew alongside a boom in the state’s natural gas drilling industry. There is now a heap of peer-reviewed research finding that […]
Improving the oil recovery rate
Right now it is estimated that only about 40% of an oil reservoir can be extracted through conventional oil recovery techniques using pumps and water/gas injection methods. There is another recovery system that may be able to change that. It’s called Enhanced Oil Recovery technology (EOR). It is designed to extract the remaining oil from […]
There’s not a smaller computer in the world!
At one time you needed a large room to house a computer – now there’s more than enough room on a coin. The Michigan Micro Mote is the smallest autonomous computer in the world at just one millimeter cubed. It’s the culmination of about ten years work for the University of Michigan’s computer science department. […]
Using shock waves to eliminate water in fracking
The oil industry is struggling to come up with new technology these days in an attempt to cut costs considering the low price of oil. Here is one technique that may gain favour with the industry according to Oilprice.com Shockwaves may be used to assist with fracking. Shockwaves can be used to initiate fractures in […]
Lingering impact of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill
The dispersant most often used during the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill might cause damage to cells in human lungs and in the gills of fish and crabs, according to a study published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal. The study by researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, published in the PLOS One online […]
Comment: Fracking debate – against it
Here is part two in a letter writing debate that occurred in the Baltimore Sun. The topic is fracking. It’s a process used in the oil and gas industry to extract the resources from hard to get to places. The industry touts its benefits and those against it are afraid of it’s negative effects. Unless […]
Comment: Fracking debate – for it
The fracking debate is being waged all over North America. The oil industry loves using the process to extract hard to get to oil. Those against it are afraid fracking is responsible for using too much water, for contaminating ground water and for causing earthquakes. This is the first of two letters to the Baltimore […]
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