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The Motley Fool
November 14, 2008
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Supercomputing Our Way to Energy Security Spanish oil major Repsol is using a new supercomputer to better visualize oil accumulations lying deep beneath the ocean floor.   |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2008
Justin Mullins |
The Church of Microsoft The software maker tries to get ahead of the move to hundreds of processor cores per chip in a deal with the MareNostrum supercomputer |
Wired
August 21, 2007
Amanda Griscom Little |
Pumped Up: Chevron Drills Down 30,000 Feet to Tap Oil-Rich Gulf of Mexico A recent discovery by Chevron has signaled that soon there may be vastly more oil gushing out of the ultradeep seabeds -- more than even the optimists were predicting four years ago. But there are still big questions to be answered before Jack starts filling gas tanks. |
IEEE Spectrum
February 2011
Peter Kogge |
Next-Generation Supercomputers Supercomputers are now running our search engines and social networks. But the heady days of stunning performance increases are over |
Geotimes
October 2003
Mohammad Al-Gailani |
Assessing Iraq's Oil Potential Iraq is one of the most hydrocarbon-rich countries in the Middle East, and in the future, it could become one of the primary oil producers in the world. |
BusinessWeek
July 11, 2005
Otis Port |
Tapping Gushers Beneath The Gushers Many engineers are reassessing the riches that may lie hidden under low-flow oil wells. |
Geotimes
May 2007
Kathryn Hansen |
Deep Earth May Hold an Ocean Earth's deep interior, more than 1,000 kilometers below the surface in the mantle, could prove to be a watery place. That's the conclusion researchers drew from an anomaly uncovered by the first global map of Earth's lower mantle, using a new type of seismic analysis. |
The Motley Fool
October 30, 2009
Toby Shute |
Repsol's Supercomputer Strikes Black Gold Using a supercomputer and reverse-time migration imaging technology, Spanish oil major Repsol YPF thought it could improve its chances of hitting offshore oil and gas targets. And they were right. |
Scientific American
September 2008
Lucas Laursen |
Seismic "Noise"--Oil Prospecting Data Could Decipher Ocean Mixing A ring of warm, salty water in the Atlantic was recently imaged with seismic survey data taken 15 years ago |
Geotimes
October 2004
Megan Sever |
Super Waves Sink Ships For centuries, sailors have reported giant walls of water rising up out of nowhere, and for the first time, satellite observations are confirming the existence of such rogue waves. |
Geotimes
December 2004
Lisa M. Pinsker |
A Passive Approach to Healthy Oil Production A technology first used to help with mine safety has evolved into a tool for the oil and gas industry, with potential in application for sequestering carbon. |
BusinessWeek
September 18, 2006
Mark Morrison |
Plenty Of Oil--Just Drill Deeper The discovery of reserves in the Gulf of Mexico means supply isn't topping out. |
InternetNews
June 22, 2005
Clint Boulton |
IBM's Blue Gene Tops Supercomputer List Six of the top 10 world's fastest supercomputers are made by IBM. Intel chips and clusters are the top architectures. |
Salon.com
October 29, 2001
Damien Cave |
Stuck in the Gulf Could Central Asian oil, piped through a rebuilt Afghanistan, wean the West from the Mideast? Chances are slim... |
Popular Mechanics
October 23, 2009
Tyghe Trimble |
Wave Power Desalination Plant Coming Soon to Texas With seawater filtered with energy from wave power filling corn-based plastic bottles, I have as close as you can get to environmentally friendly bottled water. |
Geotimes
July 2005
Hirsch et al. |
Peaking of World Oil Production: Is the Wolf Near? We are finding less and less oil in spite of vigorous efforts, suggesting that nature may not have much more to provide. As such, many credible analysts have recently become much more pessimistic about the possibility of finding the huge new reserves needed to meet growing world demand. |
Popular Mechanics
April 2010 |
How a Hurricane Wavemaker Works (With Video!) To engineer better buildings, researchers at Oregon State University's Wave Research Laboratory bust walls with waves generated by this artificial tsunami machine. |
Geotimes
December 2004
Naomi Lubick |
Global Oil Hot Spots As consumers continue to face higher gas prices at the pump, petroleum geologists continue to search the world for oil and natural gas. |
Financial Planning
October 1, 2005
Richard Vodra |
The Next Energy Crisis Diminishing oil supplies could be considered a variable that, like inflation, should be part of a judicious financial plan. Here's what advisers and consumers need to know. |
Geotimes
April 2007
Kathryn Hansen |
Ocean Waves Drive Earth's Hum High-energy near-shore waves are the main source of energy for the constant seismic background noise known as Earth's "hum." |
Geotimes
June 2005
Naomi Lubick |
Double-Crossing the Core A team of scientists has taken the properties of a mineral from the Earth's lower mantle, together with seismic observations of the core-mantle boundary, to propose a new model that could elucidate the heat engine that drives Earth. |
