Word: brine
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...conference on geopressure at the University of Southwest Louisiana in November, a research team that had converted an abandoned gas well into a geopressured test hole reported recovering 10,300 bbl. a day of superheated gas-saturated brine, which yielded up 1.5 million cu. ft. of gas. The Department of Energy's David Lombard estimates that a geopressured well would have to yield 40,000 bbl. of water a day for five to ten years to turn a profit. Whether the reservoirs can produce at that volume is one of the questions to be answered by drilling a series...
...Immigrants is unexpectedly peaceful and happy after the turbulent and troubled tale Fast spins through most of the 389 pages. Almost any other author would have left Dan Lavette dead, his stomach perforated with ulcers. But Fast leaves him tanned, muscular and poor, smelling of fish and brine, married at last to the Chinese lover he would not wed before. One can almost see Fast the grinning Zen Buddhist, sitting in his solar-heated home, tying off the novel with a quote from Lao Tzu about the wisdom of stepping off the merry-go-round of ambition...
...bristles with care for its surroundings. About half of the line is elevated, protecting Alaska's fragile permafrost from melting under the 180°F. temperature of the oil as it leaves the ground at Prudhoe. More than four miles of the underground sections are specially insulated. Refrigerated brine is pumped through pipes beneath the pipeline to protect the permafrost...
...National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Award for our cover story on alcoholism (April 22, 1974), assembled by Senior Editors Ruth Brine and Leon Jaroff, Associate Editor Gerald Clarke and Researcher Jean Bergerud...
...took the correspondents to gay bars, once noted for their gamy ambience. Many have now become clean, well-lighted places where straights feel unthreatened, if not wholly at ease. Behavior Writer John Leo wrote the story, which was researched by Anne Hopkins and Gaye Mclntosh and edited by Ruth Brine...