Word: extractionation
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WE CONCUR with one of the sentiments expressed in the majority position, difficult as it is to discern, buried beneath unneccesarily romanticized rhetoric. Eventual withdrawal of British troops from Norther Ireland will have to be part of any settlement there; immediate extraction of the British forces would undoubtedly lead to...
Though research on extracting kerogen from marl began in the 1920s, shale oil went undeveloped because its production cost always exceeded the market price of crude. Promises still outpace production, but during the past few years Occidental Petroleum, Atlantic Richfield and Union Oil have spent millions experimenting with shale-oil...
With the price of gold still surging-one day last week it rose $30.70 in New York, to $680 per oz.-companies are finding it profitable to crush even mountains of rock to extract the shiny metal. Homestake has been spending $270 per oz. to dig gold from a Lead...
The U.S.S.R. has moved ahead of the rest of the world in the production of steel, pig iron and cement. It ranks second in the manufacture of aluminum as well as the extraction of gold ?the two metals that respectively symbolize the modern and the primitive strengths of an...
Plentiful though it is, heavy oil poses problems that begin with getting it out of the ground. Because the crude is so sticky, less than 10% of it will flow to the surface by conventional pumping methods. One way to liquefy the goo is to force superheated steam into deep...