Partnership Receives Grant for Carbon Sequestration
EuroMARC Ocean Drilling Program
ITT Completes Drinking Water Safety Project in China
Geothermal Electricity for Kenya's Rift Valley
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Building a Telescope at the South Pole - Drilling into Ice Researchers are working to build the world's largest neutrino telescope in the Antarctic ice, far beneath the continent's snow-covered surface. Dubbed "IceCube," the telescope will occupy a cubic kilometer of Antarctica when it is completed in 2011. Rather than a giant lens aimed at the heavens, the IceCube telescope consists of kilometer-long strings of 60 optical detectors frozen more than a mile deep in the Antarctic ice, and drilling for the project is a 24/7 operation.
Accolades for Aquifer Remediation Project The Department of the Interior recently honored a team of scientists and collaborators for developing and implementing a remediation plan for a contaminated aquifer in northeastern Montana, which supplies water to nearly 3,000 residents of Poplar in the Fort Peck Indian Reservation.
Partnership Receives Grant for CarbonSequestration The DOE has awarded $66.9 million to the Big Sky Carbon Sequestration Partnership to fund a project that will inject a million tons of carbon dioxide into the sandstone rock layer beneath southwestern Wyoming. The 8-year carbon sequestration study will spend the first 2 years building infrastructure and drilling an 11,000-foot well into the sandstone rock layer west of Big Piney, Wyo.
EuroMARC Ocean Drilling Program Scientific marine drilling and coring can shed light on both the deep and shallow sub-seafloors to advance our knowledge in the Earth and environmental sciences.
ITT Completes First Rural Drinking Water Safety Project in China ITT Corp. has completed two new rural water treatment plants in China, as part of a pilot project to tackle the country's rural drinking water issues. The two plants, which utilize leading water-treatment technology, will supply more than 10,000 local residents with purified water that meets or surpasses the national standards.undefined
Geothermal Electricity for Kenya's Rift Valley In East Africa's Rift Valley,
project testing of advanced seismic and drilling techniques has been completed, and has exceeded all expectations. Wells of steam, able to generate 4 MW to 5 MW of electricity, and one yielding a bumper amount of 8MW, have been hit using the new technology.
Coming Events
Jan. 5-7 Idaho Ground Water Association Convention Boise, Idaho 208-888-0988 www.igwa.info
Jan. 8-10 Colorado Water Well Contractors Association Conference Denver 303-759-2294 www.cwwca.org
Jan. 14-16 Wisconsin Water Well Association Annual Ground Water Conference Wisconsin Dells, Wis. 608-875-2062 www.wisconsinwaterwell.com
Jan. 15-16 Louisiana Ground Water Convention & Trade Show Alexandria, La. 225-223-6560 www.lgwa.org
Jan. 18 New Mexico Ground Water Association Winter Meeting Albuquerque, N.M. 505-867-9500 www.nmgwa.org
Jan. 20-21 Empire State Water Well Drillers Association Annual Meeting Rome, N.Y. 315-339-8960 www.nywelldriller.org
Jan. 20-22 UCT International Conference & Exhibition San Antonio 301-694-5243 www.uctonline.com
Jan. 22-23 Kansas Ground Water Association Convention & Trade Show Hutchinson, Kan. 620-548-2669 www.kgwa.org
Jan. 25-28 Minnesota Water Well Association Convention Duluth, Minn. 651-290-6260 www.mwwa.org
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McElroy Manufacturing Inc. now offers Low Profile Rollers, a new option for high-density polyethylene pipe jobsites. Designed to be easy-to-transport, rugged and tip-resistant, the rollers are best suited for 4-inch- to 20-inch-diameter pipe. They feature a modular design and a sealed ball-bearing construction. Storage is compact with a crate that holds 40 rollers.
The Low Profile Rollers can be ordered through McElroy's network of distributors. For more information, or to find a distributor, visit
www.mcelroy.com.
New Ultra-high-pressure Pumps to Help Increase Oilfield Capacity
Flowserve Corp.
, a leading provider of flow control products and services, has announced the successful start-up of what the company believes to be the highest-pressure deep-water injection centrifugal pumps in operation worldwide.
At Shell Oil Co.'s Ursa/Princess Waterflood project in the Gulf of Mexico, the pumps will inject high-pressure water into the sea bottom field to force out otherwise unrecoverable oil.
The project is expected to extend the life of the applicable Gulf of Mexico field by 10 years.
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