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Fracking
The case against fracking is based on ideology, not science
bostonglobe.com - Jeff Jacoby
At the same time — also thanks to fracking — America’s carbon-dioxide emissions have plummeted. By unleashing vast quantities of clean-burning natural …
4 days ago
Halliburton
Halliburton CEO sees consolidation in oilfield services as shale...
Reuters - Liz Hampton
(Reuters) - Slowing growth in the maturing U.S. shale industry and spending cuts by oil and gas customers will lead to a consolidation of oilfield-service suppliers, Halliburton Chief Executive Officer
6 days ago
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September 10
Krakatoa
The Eruption Of Krakatoa Was The First Global Catastrophe
Forbes - David Bressan
The eruption of the Krakatau (or Krakatoa) on a small island located in the middle of the Sunda Strait (at the time part of the Netherlands East Indies) in August 1883 was, in many aspects, the first catastrophe.
August 26
Rifted Margins: State of the Art and Future Challenges
frontiersin.org
Rifted margins are the result of primary processes in plate tectonic theory that include extension within a continent, and the eventual rupture of …
August 22
Lundin Makes Oil Discovery Offshore Norway
rigzone.com - Hallum Cowell
Lundin Petroleum AB revealed Monday that its wholly owned subsidiary, Lundin Norway AS, has made an oil discovery at exploration well 16/5-8s …
August 19
Calcium
Rock Forming Minerals : 10 Most Common Rock Forming Minerals
geologypage.com - Geology Page
Rocks consist of minerals. A mineral is a material that occurs naturally and is generally strong, crystalline, stable and inorganic at room …
August 19
Baker Hughes reports a rise in the U.S. oil-rig count for the first time in 7 weeks
MarketWatch - By Myra P. Saefong
Baker Hughes BHGE, +1.69% on Friday reported that the number of active U.S. rigs drilling for oil rose by 6 to 770 this week. That followed a …
August 19
The U.S. Rig Count Is Falling -- Here's Why Oil Production Keeps Rising Anyway
The Motley Fool - Adam Levine-Weinberg
Nimble shale drillers like Apache are cutting back on drilling activity due to low crude oil prices -- but they are completing previously drilled …
August 19
Earth's last magnetic field reversal took far longer than once thought
phys.org - Eric Hamilton
Earth's magnetic field seems steady and true—reliable enough to navigate by. Yet, largely hidden from daily life, the field drifts, waxes and wanes. …
August 7
Moon
Apollo Samples Reveal the Moon Is Millions of Years Older Than We Thought
Live Science - Brandon Specktor
Like Earth and the rest of the solar system, the moon has been around for roughly 4.5 billion years. But try to narrow down the planets age any more …
August 6
Mineralogy of sandstones: Porosity and permeability
geological-digressions.com - brian.ricketts@xtra.co.nz
Porosity and permeability – the flow of water and other geofluids Nearly all geological processes require the presence of water in one form or …
August 6
How to find dinosaur fossils
nhm.ac.uk - Emily Osterloff
Discover how palaeontologists find and dig up prehistoric reptiles.
July 26
How geological maps made the Apollo moon landings worthwhile
The Conversation UK - David Rothery
I still remember a cartoon in a newspaper in July 1969, just before the first Apollo moon landing. It showed the ground crew reminding the astronauts …
July 23
Christopher Columbus Kraft, NASA’s legendary flight director, has died
Ars Technica - Eric Berger
Christopher Columbus Kraft Jr.—one of NASA's founding engineers, its first flight director, and a key architect of the Apollo and space shuttle …
July 23
Halliburton
Halliburton cutting frac jobs, equipment in US and Canada
worldoil.com - 7/22/2019
HOUSTON - Halliburton is shifting strategy in its largest region to deal with subdued customer spending by shelving unused frac gear and cutting jobs …
July 22
Apollo 11 Anniversary: Everything You Need to Read on the Moon Landing
The New York Times - By THE NEW YORK TIMES
On the morning of July 16, 1969, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins lifted off for the moon. Four days later, Mr. Armstrong and Mr. Aldrin set foot on the moon’s surface, the first of 12 astronauts
July 21
Midland unemployment rises to 2.1 percent
mrt.com - Mella McEwen
Traditional summer doldrums hit each of the Texas Workforce Commission’s metropolitan statistical areas (MSA) in June as school districts shed …
July 21
Apollo 11 Moon Landing’s 50th anniversary, fascinating facts you didn’t know about the landmark space mis
thesun.co.uk - Ian Passingham
MILLIONS of people all over the world were gripped by the first lunar landing 50 years ago today – and now Sun journalist Ian Passingham has written …
July 20
Apollo 11 at 50: A Complete Guide to the Historic Moon Landing
space.com - Chelsea Gohd
On July 20, 1969, 600 million people watched with anxious excitement as Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin Jr. took their first steps on …
July 16
Five Apollo 8 Technological Breakthroughs
pbs.org
From its engine to its computer, the Apollo 8 spacecraft—and its mission—marked a revolution in spaceflight. Fuel and oxygen were injected through a …
July 10
New documentary film reveals the incredible untold story of Neil Armstrong
The Telegraph - By Catherine Gee
Featuring Neil Armstrong’s own, never-seen home recordings, this new documentary film is the closest we’ll ever come to knowing the pioneering astronaut Neil Armstrong never wanted to be famous. Yet when
June 29
Platinum
The secret of platinum deposits revealed by novel field observations in the Bushveld Complex
geologypage.com - Geology Page
Research from the Wits School of Geoscience shows how platinum deposits form in the Bushveld Complex of South Africa. Most of the world’s economically …
June 26
Apollo 11: Mission Out of Control
WIRED - Stephen Witt
Shortly after noon on July 20, 1969, as they orbited some 70 miles above the surface of the moon, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin detached their lunar …
June 25
New Estimate for an Oil Leak: A Thousand Times Worse Than Rig Owner Says
The New York Times - By LISA FRIEDMAN
WASHINGTON — A new federal study has found that an oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico that began 14 years ago has been releasing as much as 4,500 gallons a day, not three or four gallons a day as the rig has
June 25
ESAI Energy: Bakken to surpass record output despite gas bottlenecks
oilfieldtechnology.com
ESAI Energy reports crude and condensate production from the Bakken shale basin will surpass current record output into 2020. In the company’s …
June 25
Classification of sandstones
geological-digressions.com - brian.ricketts@xtra.co.nz
This post is part of the How To… series – sandstone classification In science, classification of things is one of those tasks we readily identify as a …
June 25
Shell Dinosaur Bone Beds
geowyo.com
Northeast view of Jurassic Morrison near Tri-Moon and VMNH Dinosaur Quarries Image by Mark Fisher Scenic and remote Wyoming landscape at foot of …
June 24
Fossils
How Do Fossils Form?
smithsonianmag.com - Anna K. Behrensmeyer
This is the third in a five-part series written by experts featured in the Smithsonian's new Hall of Fossils—Deep Time exhibition opening June 8 at …
June 24

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