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How China’s Largest PetroChemichal Industrial Base is Setting New Standards for Clean Energy
- Dec, 25, 2024
- Oil & Gas Geoenvironmental Engineering Other Energy Green Infrastructure News On Projects / Industry Other News
- China, Ningbo
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
China’s largest petrochemical industrial base, the Zhenhai Refining and Chemical Base in Ningbo, has reached a remarkable milestone with the completion of its second-phase expansion. Spearheaded by S...
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$7.85 billion Mountain Valley Pipeline completed and given green light to go into service
- Jun, 10, 2024
- Transportation Geotechnics Underground Structures Other Energy Other Geotechnical Oil & Gas News On Projects / Industry Other News
- United States, West Virginia
- Authored by: Lysimachos Tigkas
Mountain Valley Pipeline, LLC, sent a letter to the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Monday, June 10, announcing the completion of the Mountain Valley Pipeline project. The same letter r...
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Submarine Internet cables can monitor seismic activity and predict earthquakes
- May, 27, 2022
- Oil & Gas Offshore Geotechnics Engineering Seismology
- Authored by: Gerasimos Livieratos
A wide network of submarine cables could be used to detect earthquakes and tsunamis or monitor how climate change alters ocean currents. These telecoms cables could be used as a giant array of deep...
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Why is the Gulf of Mexico so rich in fossil fuel deposits?
- May, 11, 2021
- Oil & Gas Structural Geology Seismic Other News
- Gulf of Mexico
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
Despite the continuous exploration, the Gulf of Mexico still has enormous quantities of oil and gas deposits. From around 335 million years ago until 200 million years ago, all land on Earth was conc...
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13,500 bored piles on a groundbreaking oil refinery project
- Aug, 05, 2020
- Pile Foundations Oil & Gas News On Projects / Industry
- India
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
Keller has delivered one of its largest projects, constructing 13,500 bored piles for the development of a groundbreaking oil refinery in Rajasthan. The project that Keller is involved in will be one...
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New crustal stress map of North America
- Apr, 23, 2020
- Structural Geology Oil & Gas Geo-Energy Earthquake Reconnaissance News On Research / Academia
- United States
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
A new study presents the first quantitative stress magnitude map that also includes horizontal stress orientations in North America. The findings were recently published in Nature Communications. Th...
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Numerous submarine landslides detected in the Gulf of Mexico
- May, 18, 2020
- Landslides Oil & Gas Slope Stability News On Research / Academia News On Projects / Industry Seismic Slope Stability
- Gulf of Mexico
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
In a new study, scientists have identified 85, previously unknown, submarine landslides in the Gulf of Mexico that occurred in a 7-year period (from 2008 to 2015). The results of the study have been...
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Evaluating the earthquake hazard of hydraulic fracturing
- Apr, 28, 2020
- Oil & Gas Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering News On Research / Academia Engineering Seismology
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
A new study suggests new guidelines in order to mitigate the earthquake risk triggered by hydraulic fracturing. Hydraulic fracturing is a drilling process that aims at connecting existing cracks in...
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Oil price drops below 18$ per barrel in the U.S.
Oil price has dropped below $18 per barrel in the United States as of April 17, 2020. It is the lowest oil price recorded since November 2001 and it is mainly caused by the inability of the market to...
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Oil, gas and chemical solutions by Keller
Planned LNG (liquefied natural gas) storage facilities may require ground improvement to increase soil bearing capacity and control settlement, deep foundations to transfer loads to competent bearing...
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