Miscellaneous
An inside look at fracking a well
This article gives a nice, and balanced overview of the hydraulic fracturing or fracking process used to fracture rock and extract oil and gas from a formation that you could not produce from otherwise. 90 […]
Press Releases
Oil Search, Beach Energy and Carbon Energy purchase ESdat data management software licenses
Oil Search (PNG), Beach Energy (South Australia) and Carbon Energy (Queensland) have recently purchased ESdat Licences to better manage their environmental and laboratory data.
These companies join some of the major Energy Companies that have existing ESdat Licences, such as Origin Energy, Linc Energy and AGL. An extensive list of users can be found at http://esdat.net/Users.aspx
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Failures
Tampa Bay Water votes to settle reservoir suit, pay engineers $21 million in legal fees
A five year legal battle between Tampa Bay Water and HDR Engineering over a cracked and damaged reservoir is finally over. Tampa Bay Water filed suit against HDR over the failure in 2008. After a […]