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News From Tuesday, July 27, 2010
11:56:28 PM BP Oil Spill Thwarts Shell, Statoil in Arctic as Regulators Delay Drilling
Bloomberg

.... may hold 90 billion barrels of crude, equivalent to about 13 percent of the world's undiscovered resources, according to a 2008 US Geological Survey. ... [more]

9:45:12 PM Turmoil at the top
MarketWatch - USA

Enter Tony Hayward, geologist, whose task was to steer BP back to basics. Three years later, he'll be remembered for a string of PR disasters and promises ... [more]

9:32:45 PM Underground Mine Geologist
Busselton Dunsborough Mail

You will assist with aspects of the planning andamp; management of the development drilling and will also be involved in mentoring graduate geologists. ... [more]

8:02:59 PM BP breaks the mould to shape brighter future
Financial Times

... qualifications point to a broader range of skills than the narrower science and engineering focus favoured by Mr Hayward, who has a PhD in geology. ... [more]

7:14:09 PM Afghan Auction Unlikely to Attract Mining Majors
Wall Street Journal - USA

Mr. Parker joined forces with a few other geologists three years ago and put together a database of mineral deposits in Afghanistan. ... [more]

5:48:53 PM Michigan's New Natural Gas Rush: Energy and Water in Play
Circle of Blue WaterNews

The Geological Survey Office evaluates permits to determine potential effects on aquifers and local surface water systems (such as a wetland, ... [more]

4:26:18 PM The curse of BP's top job
Guardian - UK

Chief executive of BP has been something of a cursed role, if recent history is anything to go by. Tony Hayward is just the latest boss to get the heave-ho ... [more]

3:10:35 PM Accomplished Oceanographer Joins NACF for Gulf Spill Cleanup Effort
MarketWatch - USA

He earned a BS degree in Geology from Kean University of New Jersey, an MS in Geology from Lehigh University, holds a Ph.D. in Oceanography from the .... [more]

2:19:58 PM Geologists find claw prints of a 77-million-year-old dinosaur
TopNews Arab Emirates

Edward Simpson, a geologist at Kutztown University in Pennsylvania and his colleagues have discovered claw marks of a 77-million-year-old dinosaur in the ... [more]

12:49:56 PM US Gold Corporation: El Gallo Continues to Grow Regional Drilling
MarketWatch - USA

MarketWatch (press release) US Gold geologists believe there is potential to find additional ounces by better defining areas where mineralized structures intersect. ... [more]

10:45:10 AM 3 quakes strike Mindanao
Cebu Daily News - Lahug Cebu City,Philippines

.... on Tuesday but there were no reported casualties and no tsunami alert was issued either, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported. ... [more]

10:40:42 AM Hayward's Resignation Inevitable After BP Spill Undermined Safety Pledge
Bloomberg

He studied in Birmingham and then in Edinburgh, earning a Ph.D. in geology in 1982. That same year he joined BP after an invitation from then- Chief .... [more]

8:11:04 AM Mass Grave Discovery 20 Years Ago has Russian Geologist Living in Fear
Epoch Times - New York,NY,USA

Finally, as the shadow of communism began lifting in Russia, geologist Alexander Alexandrov shared his secret, a secret even Russian secret agents couldn't ... [more]

7:48:27 AM Roland Gribben: where the oil spill stands in BP's 110-year history
Telegraph.co.uk - London,England,UK

Shell at one stage was so perplexed by its inability to find oil that some of its geologists ended up on the psychologist's couch. ... [more]

5:20:22 AM 2 quakes detected at sea off southwestern Mindanao
Cebu Daily News - Lahug Cebu City,Philippines

.... the waters off southwestern Mindanao continued on Tuesday morning after the United States Geological Survey (USGS) detected two earthquakes in the area. ... [more]

5:18:37 AM Natural gas drilling coming to N.C.?
CharlotteObserver.com - Charlotte,NC,USA

At least four exploration companies are buying oil and gas leases, state geologists say. WhitMar Exploration Co. alone has filed 59 oil and gas leases ... [more]

2:36:59 AM Skyline Gold Drill Program Assays Include 34.4 Meters (m) Grading 2.89
MarketWatch - USA

MarketWatch (press release) Although the Company's geologists are uncertain of the precise orientation of the higher grade gold structures, the indications to date are that they are ... [more]

1:37:06 AM Earth's movement now recorded locally
Times-Journal

"This is a huge step forward for us as geologists," said Goodliffe. "We're going to see things that we never knew were there." The devices are part of a web ... [more]

12:51:38 AM FG launches geochemical map to boost mineral exploration
Vanguard - Lagos,Nigeria

Explaining further, the Project Manager in the British Geological Survey, Mr. Roger Key, noted that a national geochemical map will encourage mineral .... [more]

12:42:06 AM Price receives award from Geological Society of America
UNR NevadaNews - Reno,NV,USA

By Mike Wolterbeek Jonathan Price, director/state geologist and research geologist at the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, a public service department in ... [more]



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