Science news articles about 'oil rigs'

... rainforest left on Earth, may soon be covered with oil rigs and pipelines. According to a new study, over 180 ... Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and western Brazil. These oil and gas blocks stretch over 688,000 ...

... use include schools, social service offices, places of worship, military bases, prisons, commercial ships, oil rigs and underwater research stations. The self-guided treatment project ...

... "We now need to investigate how to replicate this effect in a 'real' life situation to protect land from natural disasters such as tsunamis, and defend other structures such as oil rigs in the ocean."

Scientists trial cutting technology in hospitals to dissect human bone and tissue

... and the Ferrybridge power station cooling towers in England in 1965. In water, the vibrations regularly damage docks, oil rigs and coastal buildings. "For the past 25 years, engineers--- ...

... but his most lucrative company was Klondike (Caterers), which serviced oil rigs. In 1988, Clyde Petroleum, of which he was a director, bought 12 gas fields, a sizeable proportion of the ...

... of underwater applications, such as port security, surveillance, early tsunami detection, autonomous oil rig inspection, autonomous underwater vehicle navigation, and marine research. "These hair ...

Tired of being hassled by the Man? Start your own country (and government), says the Seasteading Institute, whose design-contest winners put a glossy sheen on life atop a glorified oil rig.

... method someday might shield submarines from sonar, planes from radar, buildings from earthquakes, and oil rigs and coastal structures from tsunamis. "We have shown that it is numerically possible to ...

... eastward. The estimated minimum central pressure is 999 millibars. Last night, sixteen-foot waves were reported from an oil rig located 20 miles off the coast of Pensacola, ...