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.
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 ... .
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 ... .
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.
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 .
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.
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 ... .
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 ... .