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Geotimes
March 2004
Kasey White
A New Era of Ocean Drilling Sets Sail As the JOIDES Resolution arrived in Galveston, Texas, last September after completing its 110th and final Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) expedition, scientists celebrated the many advances made during the program. mark for My Articles similar articles
Geotimes
September 2006
Carolyn Gramling
All Aboard the School of Rock The JOIDES Resolution, a 143-meter drill ship originally designed for oil exploration and converted for scientific exploration of the ocean floor, now has another new gig: It doubles as a floating classroom for earth science educators. mark for My Articles similar articles
Popular Mechanics
April 3, 2009
Trevor Williams
Ocean Drilling: How the Past Can Provide Clues to our Planet's Future Climate By pulling cores of ancient ooze from beneath the ocean floor, scientists hope to learn how the Earth responded to climate change 50 million years ago and how it may react to future warming. mark for My Articles similar articles
Popular Mechanics
April 17, 2009
Trevor Williams
Ocean Drilling Tech: Exploring Seabed History With 600,000 Pounds of Pipe On the rig floor of the JOIDES Resolution, Joe Attryde turns up the water pressure in the drill pipe to 2500 psi, enough to break the shear pins holding the core barrel three miles below the ship and plunge the barrel another 30 feet into the deep sea sediment. mark for My Articles similar articles
Geotimes
March 2004
The Global Lakes Drilling Effort A long history of research on relatively young lake basins illustrates the utility of studying lake sediments for information on such diverse topics as past climate, landscape modification, biological evolution, regional tectonics and hydrocarbon formation. mark for My Articles similar articles
Popular Mechanics
February 19, 2010
Trevor Williams
On Thick Ice: Live From An Antarctic Drilling Trip The Integrated Ocean Drilling Program is exploring the ocean floor around Antarctica to learn how the ice sheet reacted in warmer climates of the past and how they might respond to future warming. mark for My Articles similar articles
Geotimes
August 2005
Drilling project finds fault A drill rig in California is being used to research the San Andreas fault. mark for My Articles similar articles
Geotimes
March 2006
Powell et al.
Drilling Back to the Future Antarctica plays a fundamental role in sea-level change and ocean chemistry, and has the potential for important societal impacts over human timescales. mark for My Articles similar articles
Geotimes
December 2004
Rasoul Sorkhabi
Deepwater: Petroleum's Third Wave A new wave of discovery is in full swing, with petroleum exploration reaching offshore environments deeper than ever before. mark for My Articles similar articles
Geotimes
October 2007
Moran & Backman
The Arctic Ocean: So Much We Still Don't Know In 2004, the Arctic Coring Expedition team took three ships to the Arctic to drill a core near the Lomonosov Ridge. The team's results are teaching us more than we ever knew about the past 65 million years in the Arctic. mark for My Articles similar articles
Popular Mechanics
April 9, 2009
Trevor Williams
Up Close With Ocean Cores: JOIDES Scientists Put the Seabed Under the Microscope Among the 30 geologists and oceanographers on the research ship JOIDES Resolution are seven paleontologists who specialize in the small fossil shells that make up the bulk of the deep-sea sediment cores we drill. mark for My Articles similar articles
Popular Mechanics
May 23, 2008
Erik Sofge
The Next 5 Extreme Research Machines You Need to Know There's room for more than one groundbreaking megamachine in today's scientific pantheon. Around the globe, natural mysteries are under assault from all kinds of colossal devices. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
January 2005
Robert Williams
Drilling Machine Explores Ocean A remotely operated underwater drilling system that can operate at depths of up to 4,000 meters is being developed by Schilling Robotics LLC, for the Marum Center for Marine Environmental Sciences of the University of Bremen. mark for My Articles similar articles
The Motley Fool
September 29, 2010
Travis Hoium
DryShips Inks a Drilling Deal One of DryShips' four drilling vessels finally has a place to drill. mark for My Articles similar articles
Popular Mechanics
April 2006
Barbara Maynard
Fire in Ice Natural gas locked up in methane hydrates could be the world's next great energy source -- if engineers can figure out how to extract it safely. mark for My Articles similar articles
Geotimes
July 2007
Kathryn Hansen
Ancient Ocean Burps A sediment core extracted from the ocean floor off the coast of Baja, Calif., indicates two "burps" of carbon dioxide were once released from a deep, stagnant part of the ocean. mark for My Articles similar articles
Geotimes
March 2004
Nakada & Eichelberger
Looking Into a Volcano: Drilling Unzen Geologists have long wanted to peer inside a volcano. Although we have good evidence from extinct and eroded volcanoes of their inner structure, we know little about the conditions in and near active volcanic conduits. mark for My Articles similar articles
Wired
August 21, 2007
Amanda Griscom Little
Pumped Up: Chevron Drills Down 30,000 Feet to Tap Oil-Rich Gulf of Mexico A recent discovery by Chevron has signaled that soon there may be vastly more oil gushing out of the ultradeep seabeds -- more than even the optimists were predicting four years ago. But there are still big questions to be answered before Jack starts filling gas tanks. mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
February 2005
William Sweet
Victor Zagorodnov: Getting High on Glaciers How did a Russian who worked his way through an institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, earning degrees in electrical engineering and hydrology, end up working in Ohio for the world's leading research group in the field of tropical and subtropical glaciers? mark for My Articles similar articles
Geotimes
March 2004
Sara Pratt
A Fresh Angle on Oil Drilling Now, horizontal drilling seems more relevant than ever. With the ongoing debate about opening up more of Alaska's North Slope to oil exploration, the discussion often turns to new technologies that may have the potential to make oil extraction more efficient, more cost effective and more environmentally sound. mark for My Articles similar articles
Wired
July 2004
Brendan I. Koerner
The Seismic Underground It's the sweet spot of the San Andreas fault, the perfect place to build the ultimate earthquake science lab. It's also 2 miles straight down. mark for My Articles similar articles
The Motley Fool
May 19, 2011
Travis Hoium
Why "Drill Baby, Drill!" Is a Stupid Motto Increased drilling in the U.S. would have a minimal impact on oil and gasoline prices. mark for My Articles similar articles
Geotimes
June 2004
Naomi Lubick
Tapping Methane Hydrates in the Gulf The research program in the Gulf of Mexico, officially known as the Chevron Texaco-Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Industry Project, will assess the threats of drilling through unstable methane hydrate and other gas deposits, from collapsed boreholes to the potential to destabilize offshore slopes. mark for My Articles similar articles
BusinessWeek
May 6, 2010
Coy & Reed
Lessons of the Spill Poised for dramatic expansion, high-tech offshore drilling was considered ultra-safe. Then came BP's Deepwater Horizon disaster. What the company - and the industry - must do to bounce back. mark for My Articles similar articles
This Old House
Norm Abram
All About Bits Master Carpenter Norm Abram offers these techniques for using drill bits. mark for My Articles similar articles
Popular Mechanics
April 2008
Carl Hoffman
Onboard High-Tech Oil Rig, U.S. Answers to Rising Prices Ever-increasing fossil fuel demand has companies going farther and digging deeper for oil than ever before. Here is a look at America's most promising patch. mark for My Articles similar articles
BusinessWeek
October 3, 2005
China And Japan: A Quarrel Over Energy Japan is fretting that China appears to be drilling for oil or natural gas near a disputed border in the East China Sea. mark for My Articles similar articles
The Motley Fool
April 30, 2007
David Lee Smith
Can You Dig It, Exxon? ExxonMobil is the operator on the world's longest measured depth extended-reach well. But what does it mean for investors? mark for My Articles similar articles
The Motley Fool
June 22, 2007
Toby Shute
Transocean Books Another Biggie The leading offshore driller's backlog is as dynamically positioned as its drillships. Investors, take note. mark for My Articles similar articles
The Motley Fool
December 19, 2011
Travis Hoium
Another Tragedy Hits Offshore Drilling Just as the industry began recovering from the Deepwater Horizon disaster, a rig sinks off the coast of Russia. mark for My Articles similar articles
Wired
August 24, 2009
Christopher Mims
Hammers, Water, Lasers Make Deep Drilling Easier The process of punching a well hasn't changed in a century, so researchers are focusing efforts on the development of a new generation of drills to improve drill time. mark for My Articles similar articles
Wired
December 2004
Sylvia A. Earle
The Wild Blue Under The more we understand about life in extreme environments, the greater chance we'll know where to look in space. mark for My Articles similar articles
The Motley Fool
May 19, 2011
David Lee Smith
Shell's Looking Strong Shell might be on the verge of initiating new activity in three separate and promising oil and gas venues. mark for My Articles similar articles
Smithsonian
December 2005
Lawrence M. Small
A Whale Called Phoenix A very large mammal will help tell an even weightier tale -- about the ocean in this crowded, challenging century. mark for My Articles similar articles
Geotimes
July 2004
Naomi Lubick
Ocean Management 101 In a recent report, the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy calls for a uniform national policy on ocean research -- including management of coastal areas such as the West Coast. mark for My Articles similar articles
The Motley Fool
October 27, 2005
Robert Aronen
Diamond Delivers the Gold This quarter's numbers from Diamond Offshore demonstrate that the deepwater drilling business remains strong. The company can hardly be called cheap at current prices, but earnings growth is quickly bringing the ratios down to earth. mark for My Articles similar articles
The Motley Fool
May 7, 2008
Toby Shute
Transocean Is Coastin' This company's drilling deep, and drilling for keeps. mark for My Articles similar articles
The Motley Fool
October 13, 2010
Travis Hoium
Hold the Applause for End of Drilling Ban Ending the moratorium lifts drilling shares, but there are new rules to follow. mark for My Articles similar articles
The Motley Fool
November 24, 2010
Travis Hoium
DryShips Goes All-In on Drilling DryShips just can't sit still adding the option for another four ultra-deepwater drillships to its arsenal. mark for My Articles similar articles