Tag: make-production
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In slump, oil firms turn to labs, data centers for help
In a basement lab of a North Dakota research center, Beth Kurz and an assistant are peering through a scanning electron microscope, studying samples from the state’s vast Bakken shale oil formation. Kurz, a hydrogeologist, is part of a team, which looks at using carbon dioxide to coax more oil out of wells that have…
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In slump, oil firms turn to labs, data centers for help
In a basement lab of a North Dakota research center, Beth Kurz and an assistant are peering through a scanning electron microscope, studying samples from the state’s vast Bakken shale oil formation. Kurz, a hydrogeologist, is part of a team, which looks at using carbon dioxide to coax more oil out of wells that have…
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Europe on cusp of self-induced humanitarian crisis: UNHCR
“Europe is on the cusp of a largely self-induced humanitarian crisis”, the UN refugee agency's spokesman Adrian Edwards told a news briefing. The UNHCR also urged all EU member states to reinforce their capacity to register and process asylum seekers through their national procedures as well as through the European relocation scheme.