Why ethane is a key indicator to identify gas migration

Ethane is a reliable geochemical tracer that can be used as a single line of evidence to identify a potential gas migration issue. Ethane and longer chain hydrocarbons are produced during the thermal degradation of organic matter (kerogen) over geological timescales. Microbial …

Is Google Good for Environmental Consulting?

Your gut answer to that question is yes, especially if you are old enough to have experience searching journals and science publications at the university library.  In case you missed that opportunity it went something like this: searching information on monochromatic computer screens, printing search results on dot matrix printers,…

Guilt by Association – Untrusted Research if Funded by Oil Industry?

I have to admit that I am a little jealous. I was checking into the research that was completed on the Gulf oil spill at the website: gulfresearchinitiative.org. I was preparing a presentation on how the oil spill in the gulf might impact monitoring of the Alberta oil sands. I…