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Of circulation lost and regained, and the proving of the Brass Thill seam
Just back from a spell on site with the drilling team – Scott, Aaron and Jason – where I found them successfully vanquishing an incident of “lost circulation”. What’s that? To explain, I first need to explain that when we’re drilling, we pump a drilling fluid (basically water with some special additives, typically natural muds [...]
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Nuclear “Reach Out”
 I have had a busy couple of days getting out and about meeting with a range of different stakeholders who all have an interest in the Government’s programme to facilitate the development of nuclear new build. It all started last Friday with a request from a local community who live near to the proposed [...]
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Drilling for real
Today’s the day we started drilling in earnest, and we’ve made great progress, even though the team had to break off from regular work many times throughout the day to make sure we gave our guests from the press the chance to capture the coverage they needed. It was an early rise for us, as [...]
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All set to explore Newcastle’s hidden energy
Here we are, all set to start drilling for real in our biggest adventure yet: pursuing natural hot water which we have good reason to believe is lurking 2000m below the unsuspecting streets of Newcastle upon Tyne. My name’s Paul Younger, and I’m Director of the Newcastle Institute for Research on Sustainability (NIReS), based at [...]
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Climate science in action
While negotiators were working on agreements to limit greenhouse gas emissions in Cancun, my research group from the British Antarctic Survey were battling the rough seas of the Southern Ocean to further our knowledge of the key physical processes that will determine our future climate. Of the carbon dioxide emissions human activities generate each year, [...]
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