News articles tagged with 'petroleum'
A high-yield biomass alternative to petroleum for industrial chemicals
— 26 Nov 2010 19:49 | ChemistryA team of University of Massachusetts Amherst chemical engineers report in today's issue of Science that they have developed a way to produce high-volume chemical feedstocks including…
New oil detection technique
— 29 Sep 2010 15:44 | TechnologyCSIRO scientists have developed a revolutionary technique for the rapid on-site detection and quantification of petroleum hydrocarbons (commonly derived from crude oil) in soil, silt,…
Tofu ingredient yields formaldehyde-free glue for plywood and other wood products
— 26 Aug 2010 07:43 | ChemistryIn a real-life 'back to the future' story, scientists today reported that the sustainable, environmentally-friendly process that gave birth to plywood a century ago is re-emerging as…
Study shows deepwater oil plume in Gulf degraded by microbes
— 25 Aug 2010 10:41 | EnvironmentIn the aftermath of the explosion of BP's Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico, a dispersed oil plume was formed at a depth between 3,600 and 4,000 feet and extending…
WHOI scientists map and confirm origin of large, underwater hydrocarbon plume in Gulf
— 20 Aug 2010 10:21 | EnvironmentScientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) have detected a plume of hydrocarbons that is at least 22 miles long and more than 3,000 feet below the surface of the…
ISU researcher develops green, bio-based process for producing fuel additive
— 25 Jun 2010 11:02 | EnvironmentA new green, bio-based method for producing a much-used fuel additive and industrial chemical that is currently made from petroleum products has been developed by an Iowa State University…
Using bacteria in oil wells to convert oil to natural gas
— 17 Jun 2010 14:30 | EnvironmentSome bacteria destroy oil. Might those bacteria lead oil companies to change their methods of harvesting the energy of the oil while at the same time reducing the carbon dioxide that…
New strain of bacteria discovered that could aid in oil spill, other environmental cleanup
— 12 Jun 2010 11:36 | EnvironmentResearchers have discovered a new strain of bacteria that can produce non-toxic, comparatively inexpensive 'rhamnolipids,' and effectively help degrade polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons,…
Natural gas potential assessed in Eastern Mediterranean
— 10 Apr 2010 10:58 | Geology and palaeontologyAn estimated 122 trillion cubic feet (tcf) (mean estimate) of undiscovered, technically recoverable natural gas are in the Levant Basin Province, located in the Eastern Mediterranean…
Chemical exposure before mid-30s may be critical in breast cancer development
— 1 Apr 2010 11:36 | HealthOccupational exposure to certain chemicals and pollutants before a woman reaches her mid-30s could treble her risk of developing cancer after the menopause, suggests research published…