Seabed Drilling

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World's largest metamorphic rock oilfield begins drilling

ECNS 25 Apr 2024

Bozhong 26-6 in Bohai Sea, the largest metamorphic rock oilfield worldwide, began drilling, April 24, 2024 ... It is expected to drill more than 160,000 meters, equivalent to drilling through 18 Mount Qomolangma.

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Where can I see the solar eclipse in UK and US? The key timings

The Times/The Sunday Times 08 Apr 2024

Rock carvings in Ireland dating from 3340BC may be humanity’s earliest record of a solar eclipse ... For much of human history, solar eclipses were regarded as portents of doom ... World ... Mars’s influence on climate and currents revealed by seabed drilling ... .

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Fining big polluters can reduce environmental damage, but only if the fines match the crimes

Phys Dot Org 08 Apr 2024

This is ... Oil giant Suncor Energy—$9 billion in 2023 earnings—has a history of repeatedly polluting the Athabasca River with sediment and sewage, in addition to and toxic releases during seabed drilling in offshore Newfoundland ... Citation.

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The Antarctic Circumpolar Current Is Speeding Up – And It’s Not The First Time

IFL Science 27 Mar 2024

Advertisement ... These cores are not easy to collect; besides the challenge of drilling into the seabed when the ocean above it is kilometers deep, those driving winds make for some of the roughest waters on Earth ... Image credit. Gisela Winckler ... .

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How floating wind farms could be the secret to Britain

The Daily Mail 25 Mar 2024

Cables attach to the seabed and hold a small platform in place ... Since it would be too expensive, or simply impossible, to drill into the seabed, the better solution is for turbines to float above it.

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New Sliema ferry landing facilities completed

The Malta Independent 22 Mar 2024

The agency's contractors have completed the complex quay structure, which extends almost three stories underwater, supported by concrete piles drilled even deeper into the seabed ... ADVERTISEMENT .

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Six innovative ways to float skyscraper-sized wind turbines

The Conversation 21 Mar 2024

You may have seen a wind turbine in the sea before, but chances are you were looking at a “fixed” turbine – that is, one that sits on top of a foundation drilled into the seabed ... Also, their seabed “footprint” is small due to the taut lines.

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Mars’s influence on climate and current revealed by seabed drilling

The Times/The Sunday Times 12 Mar 2024

For centuries, astrologers claimed that the movements of distant planets steered the fates of those on Earth ... The study analysed nearly 300 sediment cores drilled from the seabed over the past half century ... Related articles ... .

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Netherlands won't permit gas drilling in sensitive Wadden Sea, government says

Natural Gas World 06 Mar 2024

Mining minister Hans Vijlbrief said new projections for an accelerated rise of sea levels due to climate change had altered the picture for gas drilling at the site, increasing risks that extraction could pose for the seabed.

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How do you stop a glacier from melting? Put up an underwater curtain.

Grist 11 Feb 2024

The Seabed Curtain project, if implemented, would be one of the biggest geo-engineering programmes ever undertaken ... A pipe – with holes drilled along it – would be laid down along the seabed and air pumped through it.

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Investigation under way as semisub rig ‘unintentionally’ drops equipment

Upstream Online 06 Feb 2024

Diamond Offshore Drilling’s harsh environment semi-submersible rig Ocean GreatWhite has dropped its riser to the seabed while in UK waters on charter with UK supermajor BP ... riser dropped to the seabed.

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Investigation under way as semisub rig "unintentionally" drops equipment

Upstream Online 06 Feb 2024

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How do you stop a glacier from melting? Simple – put up an underwater curtain

The Observer 04 Feb 2024

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Bridge over sea waters: Overcoming five challenges to construct the MTHL

Hindustan Times 11 Jan 2024

For this bridge to come up, the engineers had to commission a sonar (sound navigation and ranging) study to identify the location of the pipelines’ alignment on the seabed ... They also used special drilling equipment and methods.

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Organizer of '24 Olympics Seeks Way to Keep Surfing in Tahiti

Voa News 10 Dec 2023

That led local authorities to halt the construction ... Critics on the island have voiced fears for coral reefs, fish and other aquatic life when the tower's foundations are drilled into the seabed and mounted on concrete ... .