Thursday, January 9, 2025

Crumbling County Roads: Unintended Consequence of Overwhelming Energy Industry Traffic

From Transport Topics Guadalupe Road in south Victoria County, Texas, was brand new in August 2016 after the county spent $200,000 to repave it for the first time in decades. But in the last few weeks, it began to crumble and crack, forcing county crews to patch up the deteriorating surface. “It got to the point yesterday that we had to

Iraq Wants to Build an Artificial Island, Use Seawater Injection to Increase its Oil Exports

Loking at injecting seawater into its southern oilfield deposits to boost production – with Exxon and PetroChina From Maritime Herald Increasing the export of oil is the goal of Iraq. The second largest producer of OPEC is intensifying its efforts to expand the capacity to pump and export oil. For this, it has plans that include the injection of seawater into crude deposits. In