America’s largest energy trade association is suing the US government, contending its timeline for upgrading oil tank cars for freight trains isn’t realistic and, in some cases, too expensive. In its suit filed on May 11 in the US District Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, the American Petroleum Institute (API) asked the […]
Comment: The Age of Innovation and How Ingenuity Became a Necessity by Neil Poxon
Neil Poxon, CEO of ProSep looks at the spur to innovation created by a low-price environment and what it means for the global oil and gas industry worldwide. On May 25, 1961, President Kennedy announced to the U.S> Congress that America would land a man on the moon and return him to Earth before the […]
Oil spill cleanup made easier
In Ohio, scientists are experimenting with a mesh that could clean up oil spills and save a lot of money in the process. Research out of Ohio State University’s nano lab has developed a type of steel mesh which traps oil, while letting water flow through it. The high-tech mesh is coated in a nearly […]
Comment: Stop drilling in the Arctic
In late March, the U.S. Department of the Interior swung the door wide open to drilling in the remote waters of the Arctic Ocean when it announced that it was reaffirming controversial Bush-era leases for the Chukchi Sea. In 2008, the Bush administration offered nearly 30 million acres of remote and poorly understood ocean to […]
Have some enviro groups gone too far comparing fracking to rape?
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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