Mark Simpson

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Oil & Gas Industry
Mapped: The World's Biggest Oil Discoveries Since 1868
visualcapitalist.com - Nicholas LePan
The sourcing and distribution of energy is one of the most pressing issues of our time. Just under one billion people still lack basic access to …
November 8
Mark Simpson
flipped into MOSTLY GREEN STUFF
The Physical Impossibility of Renewable Energy Meeting the Paris Accord Goals
instituteforenergyresearch.org - IER
Mark Mills has a new report and an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal entitled “If You Want ‘Renewable Energy,’ Get Ready to Dig” that point out the …
August 22
Mark Simpson
flipped into OIL BUSINESS DAILY
Oil & Gas Industry
The Permian Basin Is Facing Its Biggest Threat Yet
Bloomberg - Kevin Crowley
The cowboy-booted wildcatters who figured out how to squeeze crude from shale rock are used to booms and busts, but this time it feels different. In …
October 24
Mark Simpson
flipped into OIL BUSINESS DAILY
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 …
September 13
Mark Simpson
flipped into OIL BUSINESS DAILY
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
September 4
Mark Simpson
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September 10
Mark Simpson
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Geology
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.
Sep 8, 2016
Mark Simpson
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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
Mark Simpson
flipped into OIL BUSINESS DAILY
Oil & Gas Industry
Lundin Makes Oil Discovery Offshore Norway
rigzone.com - Andreas Exarheas
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
Mark Simpson
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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 …
July 2
Mark Simpson
flipped into OIL BUSINESS DAILY
Oil & Gas Industry
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 on Friday reported that the number of active U.S. rigs drilling for oil rose by 6 to 770 this week. That followed a declines in …
August 16
Mark Simpson
flipped into OIL BUSINESS DAILY
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 17
Mark Simpson
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Earth Science
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
Mark Simpson
flipped into One Small Step
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
Mark Simpson
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Hydraulic
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 4
Mark Simpson
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How to find dinosaur fossils
nhm.ac.uk - Emily Osterloff
Discover how palaeontologists find and dig up prehistoric reptiles.
July 24
Mark Simpson
flipped into One Small Step
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 19
Mark Simpson
flipped into One Small Step
Space Exploration
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 22
Mark Simpson
flipped into OIL BUSINESS DAILY
Halliburton
Halliburton cutting frac jobs, equipment in U.S. 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
Mark Simpson
flipped into One Small Step
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 20
Mark Simpson
flipped into OIL BUSINESS DAILY
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 19
Mark Simpson
flipped into One Small Step
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
Mark Simpson
flipped into One Small Step
Space Exploration
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
Mark Simpson
flipped into One Small Step
Apollo Missions
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 …
January 14
Mark Simpson
flipped into OIL BUSINESS DAILY
U.S. crude oil production surpassed 12 million barrels per day in April
eia.gov
U.S. crude oil production reached another milestone in April 2019, totaling 12.2 million barrels per day (b/d), according to EIA's latest Petroleum …
July 8
Mark Simpson
flipped into One Small Step
Film
The Telegraph
June 28
Mark Simpson
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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 22
Mark Simpson
flipped into One Small Step
Buzz Aldrin
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 24
Mark Simpson
flipped into OIL BUSINESS DAILY
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 26
Mark Simpson
flipped into OIL BUSINESS DAILY
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

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