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You won't have to dig deep to find fun this Sunday with a program at the Buena Vista Museum of Natural History and Science.
First word THE year 2025 is turning out to be as epic and historic as the time during the 17th century when the world shifted belief from the Ptolemaic system which stated that the Earth lies at the ...
Khadidja Hassane Abdoulaye, Secretary of State for Petroleum, Mines and Geology at Chad’s Ministry of Mines and Geology, has ...
Mantle plumes are important geologic processes—they interact with plate tectonics, create rich mineral deposits, and even ...
The New York State Oil Producers’ Association will induct five men into its Wall of Fame, located at the Pioneer Oil Museum’s ...
The Strategic Petroleum Reserve, established because of the 1970s energy crisis, was created to ensure that the U.S. had emergency fuel if global or domestic fuel supplies were disrupted.
The short documentary “He Just Wanted To Talk About Geology… Now He’s A YouTube Star” follows 63-year-old Myron Cook as he films a new YouTube video in Hot Springs State Park. What begins as a ...
They pinpointed these reserves using advanced testing that monitors brine, a highly saline fluid often found in deep geological formations. “The potential for increased U.S. production to replace ...
Petroleum engineers design equipment that extracts oil from reservoirs, which are deep pockets of rock that contain oil and gas deposits. To do this, they spend a lot of time gathering and ...
A 2012 Google Earth photo captured a hill formation in Sudan that bears a striking resemblance to human lips. Not much is known about the unusual landmark, but researchers have guessed how it formed.
The Trump administration is moving to repeal Biden-era curbs blocking oil drilling across most of the mammoth petroleum reserve in Alaska that’s home to an estimated 8.7 billion barrels of ...
The National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska is an ecologically sensitive expanse of land about 600 miles north of Anchorage, bounded by the Chukchi Sea to the west and the Beaufort Sea to the north.