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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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
Geotimes August 2005 |
Drilling project finds fault A drill rig in California is being used to research the San Andreas fault.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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?  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
This Old House Norm Abram |
All About Bits Master Carpenter Norm Abram offers these techniques for using drill bits.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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?  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
The Motley Fool May 7, 2008 Toby Shute |
Transocean Is Coastin' This company's drilling deep, and drilling for keeps.  |
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.  |
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.  |