Animal world
Found 2 million-year-old frog still living in oil field: 'Key' of human longevity?
When radiocarbon dating, the scientists found that the frog was 2,000,000 years old.
Oil Field
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The origin of oil
Oil is an extremely valuable source of fossil fuels, it takes hundreds of millions of years and many processes to go through, new oil fields are formed.
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Detected oil field of 1.2 billion barrels in Alaska
In an area that had been deemed to have run out of oil in Alaska (USA), oil companies said they had found a huge oil field, reserves of up to 1.2 billion barrels.
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America discovered the largest oil field worth 900 billion USD
The US Geological Survey found new oil reserves of 20 billion barrels of oil, worth about $ 900 billion in Texas, USA.
Environment
The giant deathhole in Texas expands, threatening 7,000 residents
Satellite images show that two hundred-meter-diameter death holes in Texas, USA, are becoming increasingly larger and at risk of collapse, threatening the safety of 7,00…
Environment
Determine oil fields with satellite images
A map of Earth's gravity based on satellite measurements will make it easier to find new oil fields.
New technology
Apply computer simulation techniques to find oil
On July 5, researchers at the Australian National University (ANU) said that through computer simulation, they have taken a new step toward understanding the process of…
New technology
Improve oil extraction with new techniques
The exact map of a large underground oil field was developed to direct engineers' efforts to bring oil from large rocks into wells so that the oil could be pumped up for…