More action is needed to reduce illness and death among the millions of Americans exposed to silica dust at work, according to a new report. It has long been known that silica -- a natural substance found in most rocks, sand and clay -- ...
Tags: silica dust, lung disease, silicosis
In 2013, Baosteel Co., Ltd. Gained good progress in new product R & D, with all figures reaching the annual target. The unique proportion and global starting number have been increased substantially than last year, completing 152%, 133% of ...
Tags: Baosteel, metallurgy
Norwest Energy NL (ASX: NWE) is pleased toadvise that Norwest has completed a forward plan for the final phase of testing at the Arrowsmith-2 well site in the northern onshore Perth Basin, with operations scheduled to recommence in January ...
The Directors of Armour Energy Limited (ASX: AJQ) (the Company) wish to advise that the Company has exercised a right to farmin to Petroleum Retention Lease 2 in Victoria (PRL2), held by Lakes Oil NL (ASX: LKO). The farmin agreement will ...
Repsol has begun production at the Margarita 6 well in the south of Bolivia which, with six million cubic metres of gas a day, is the most productive well in the history of the country and of the whole Sub-Andean basin, which extends to ...
Nuinsco Resources Limited ("Nuinsco" or "the Company") (TSX:NWI) today reported results for six drill holes amounting to 501m, completed upon the CBay Minerals ("CBay") properties in the Chibougamau mining camp area of north-central Quebec ...
Lundin Norway AS, operator of production licence 410, has completed drilling of wildcat well 16/5-5. The well was dry. The well was drilled about 20 kilometres south of the Edvard Grieg field in the central part of the North Sea. The ...
SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- FX Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ: FXEN) announced that the Szymanowice-1 well in Poland tested gas during a drill stem test (DST) in a 28 meter section of the Rotliegend sandstone target reservoir. The ...
Norwegian Energy Company (UK) Ltd, a fully owned subsidiary of Norwegian Energy Company ASA, has entered into an agreement to sell 35 percent of UK license P2032 to Total E&P UK. After this transaction, Noreco will keep a 15 per cent ...
Gulfsands Petroleum plc ("Gulfsands", the "Group" or the "Company" - AIM: GPX), the oil and gas production, exploration and development company with activities in Syria, Morocco, Tunisia, Colombia and the U.S.A. provides the following ...
Boring is caused by today's technological innovation as previously the channels and pits etc. were dug either by men or by dynamites in case of bigger areas. Though the problem with dynamite was that they use to destroy everything in the ...
Tags: Portable Tools, Boring Machine
We went into the DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials with what we thought were realistic expectations. And generally, we had the right idea: the robots are very slow, very deliberate, and not always successful. But overall, we've been surprised ...
Tags: Robotics, Electrical, Electronics
If you have watched any of our drill or impact reviews, you are probably familiar with seeing a blue bit we use. ?In fact, we get emails all the time asking about those bits. ?A couple years back we received a request to try out some of ...
Avrupa Minerals Ltd. is pleased to announce that the Company has received favorable geochemical results from rock sampling at three different projects in southern Portugal. The projects include the Marateca and Sines licenses in the Iberian ...
Tags: mineral, exploration
The Egyptian Ministery of Petroleum has signed the Concession Agreement for the East Ras Budran Offshore area. RWE Dea is the operator, holding a share of 80%. The company plans a 3D seismic survey and one exploration well during the first ...
Tags: exploration, oil