New Technology for Nano-Scale X-Ray of Rock Pores

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 […]

This is the first time I have heard of this type of consolidation/permeability testing. I won’t try to summarize myself, here’s a bit of a description from their newsletter: Hydraulic consolidation cells, a.k.a. Rowe-Braden consolidation […]

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 […]