Solving The Chalk Mystery To Generate Billions In Additional Income For Oil Industry

A piece of chalk in a laboratory in Norway may be the key to unlock a great mystery. If the mystery is solved, it will generate billions in additional income for the oil industry. Geologists, petroleum engineers, rock mechanics, physicists, mathematicians and chemists are now switching between modeling and experimental testing at the chalk laboratory. They are about to uncover the mechanisms behind water weakening. The answer to this riddle is crucial knowledge for oil companies to be able to predict the reservoirs’ behavior.

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