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Kochi : State-run Oil and Natural Gas Corporation on Sunday launched its first ultra-deep sea oil exploration in the Kerala-Konkan basin with spudding operation being started at the site.

A Laclede Gas official said this afternoon that it will pay the woman who called police and led them to the alleged thief who was posing as one of the company's workers to gain access to the homes of elderly people in St.

Since 2000, when the boom really got going, just over 10,000 gas and oil wells have been drilled in the Peace River region.

Kuwait-based Gas & Oilfields Services Co (Gofsco) said it has signed a $122m contract with Kuwait Oil Co to provide oil field services. The contract covers the provision of slicklines, long metal wires used for the maintenance and monitoring of oil wells and pipelines, and associated services, the company said. [AMEInfo.com]

Oman's ministry of oil and gas has signed an agreement with Halliburton Worldwide Limited to establish the seismic phase of the Oman Oil and Gas Data Repository, Oman's news agency has reported. Under the contract, Halliburton will supply and install the required hardware, software and services. Halliburton will also operate OGDR with seismic data and provide maintenance and support services for hardware and software during the contract term, and will also train the ministry's staff who will take over operations after all initial data is loaded. [AMEInfo.com]

Braskem and Acinplas have signed a partnership for supplying green polyethylene from a 100% renewable source. The resin will be used to manufacture plastic films that will be transformed into a ...

Photo © Michael Dawson / University of California at Merced. In the world's oceans, water circulates in currents that stretch between the continents and glide along coastlines. Water from the deep mixes with shallower water through vertical movements called upwellings and downwellings. This complex ebb, flow, rise, and fall of seawater—also known as ocean mixing—transports energy, churns nutrients, and stirs dissolved gasses. To understand the driving forces behind ocean mixing is to understand a key element of marine environments. That's why a pair of scientists from Caltech attracted a lot of attention when they suggested an unconventional way in which ocean water may be mixed. Researchers Kakani Katija and John Dabiri proposed that marine animals drag ocean water along with them as they swim through it. They went on to suggest that the cummulative movement of animals, especially small ones such as jellyfish and krill, could mix water on a scale comparable to tha

(Yale University) To combat the many fetal deaths that occur annually because the placenta is too small, researchers at Yale School of Medicine have developed a method to measure the volume of the placenta, which provides nourishment to the fetus.

With oil and natural gas prices far below last year's levels, Stone Energy Corp.