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Bengal Energy Announces Drilling Results of Koki Exploration Well in Australia's Cooper Basin
2014-06-14 11:02:14| Apparel - Topix.net
The Koki-1 Well failed to define a commercial hydrocarbon accumulation and has been plugged and abandoned.
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Unesco commends Soco decision to halt drilling in world heritage site
2014-06-14 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) has said it commends British oil and gas exploration firm Socos decision to abandon drilling plans in a Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) world heritage site. Earlier this week, the firm and WWF, which had conducted a year-long campaign against its operations in the Virunga national park, released a joint statement. It stated that Soco would halt operations in the national park, commit to avoiding operations in other world heritage...
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Oil drilling causes widespread contamination in the Amazon rainforest
2014-06-13 20:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Decades of oil extraction in the Western Amazon has caused widespread pollution, raising questions about the impact of a new oil boom in the region, according to a team of Spanish researchers presenting at a conference in California. Led by Antoni Rosell-Mele of the Universitat Autnoma de Barcelona, the team assembled a database of chemical analyses taken from 18 wastewater dumping sites from 10 different Amazon tributaries from 1983 to 2013. They looked at nine pollutants including lead, mercury...
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Oil Company, WWF Agreement Could Prevent Drilling In Virunga National Park
2014-06-11 23:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: An agreement announced Wednesday between a London-based oil company and a wildlife protection group could prevent oil drilling in a national park in Africa where 200 endangered mountain gorillas live. A joint statement by SOCO International PLC and Switzerland-based WWF said there will be no exploratory drilling in Congo's Virunga National Park, which is Africa's oldest, unless the government and the U.N. cultural agency UNESCO agree it would not threaten the park's world heritage status. As...
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Drilling Bits
2014-06-11 23:02:00| Transmission & Distribution World
BURNDY introduces several new auger bit designs for the utility industry. read more
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