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...While I can’t speak to what informs his metric, Four Seasons’ adventure concierges did, in fact, take me clambering over rocks, speed boating up the coast toward Los Barriles, hiking trails leading to waterfall-fed...
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...Otsuka wants to extend the use of the sensors, the size of a grain of sand, in other drugs, to treat severe mental health conditions, subject to approval by the US Food and Drug Administration....
...The sand is mixed with water and chemicals and pumped into wells at high pressure, to open cracks in the rock through which oil can flow....
...The industry is excavating dunes for frac sand, which is pumped into wells to crack open rocks and get oil and gas flowing....
...And they should remember that the global movement of solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux blossomed around a grassroots opposition to the banks funding the pipeline and the companies behind it....
...The average horizontal well was 6,200ft long and was pumped full of 106,000 barrels of fracking fluid and 4.4m pounds of sand and other materials to coax crude out of stubborn rocks, according to Rystad...
...The move was a response to local concerns raised by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe about potential damage to historic sites and the threat of oil spills....
...for YPF, Argentina’s state-controlled oil company, use a computer screen to monitor the steady advance of the drill: it has so far bored some 3,300 metres into what the company hopes is some of the best rock...
...Fracturing a well — pumping in water, sand and chemicals to open cracks in the rock, allowing the oil to flow out — can typically account for half to two-thirds of its total cost....
...I call this stretch the “green velvet rage” because the combination of sand and rolling waves creates a particular colour. It clears my mind and fills me with gratitude....
...You do that 10 days and you come home and live like a rock star for four days.” Biting cuts Then came the collapse....
...Meanwhile, Russia’s Eurasia Drilling has announced details of its plan to withdraw from the UK market via a rock bottom buyout offer....
...Designed by Germany’s Vosta and built by China Merchants Group at a cost of $130m, it can extract 4,500 cubic metres of sand and rock per hour....
...Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, involves pumping a mixture of water, sand and chemicals at high pressure into rocks deep underground to open up tiny fissures, allowing oil and gas to flow more freely...
...It’s known as “Drilling on Wall Street”: building up oil and gas assets not by pushing a drill-bit into rock, but by buying companies....
...They think they can just sling rocks at them and win,” says one venture capitalist. They are creating a new reality, or at least they appear to be — which is enough to attract money....
...“The act is flawed,” says Alan Eggers, chairman of Trans-Tasman Resources, a company proposing to mine iron sands off the New Zealand coast....
...On Rock or Sand?...
...The natural human instinct is to bury our heads in the sand and hope this will not happen, she says....
...UP currently handles more of the fracking sand needed to dislodge oil and gas from shale rock than it does actual crude....
...Since 2012, Conoco has doubled the volume of ceramic proppant – a sand-like material – it uses for hydraulic fracturing....
...Closer to land, meanwhile, some alluvial sands yield sufficient mineral deposits – as is the case with Namibian diamonds....
...The improvement of hydrofracking technology – the process of pumping massive amounts of water, sand and chemicals into a well at high pressure to break shale rocks, letting the oil and gas out – has sparked...
...Aggregates are crushed stone, gravel and sand that go into roads and are combined with cement to make concrete....
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