Geologists In Norway Are Using Drones With Cameras To Hunt For Oil 44
garymortimer writes "Geologists have long used seismology on the bottom of the ocean or have been throwing dynamite from snowmobiles when they look for oil. But now researchers at Centre for Integrated Petroleum Research, a joint venture between the University of Bergen and Uni Research, have found a new preferred method – using drones to map new oil reserves from the air. ... The group’s main task is to create digital maps in 3D of potential oil fields. Using laser scanners, infrared sensors and digital cameras, the researchers create realistic, virtual models. ... Pictures shot with the help of a drone complement the images from low-level terrain that the researchers already have in hand. The end result is more precise and complete 3D models."
Where's the proof? :) (Score:3)
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If they did, there's a good chance they'd be letting out trade secrets that other oil companies could use too.
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I guess this is publicly funded research, so the results should be available. That being said, it's kind of refreshing to not even have the ability to RTFA.
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Hey, you don't need a link. You can't trust stuff on the Internet. Trust me.
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Advertising banners and messages ...
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When you hover your mouse over the map it says "oil"
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When you hover your mouse over the map it says "oil"
Only if you have "Tool Tips" enabled.
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http://www.uib.no/news/nyheter/2013/05/the-drones-of-oil [www.uib.no]
There you go :)
This would work great in the Middle East. (Score:1)
Nothing new (Score:3, Insightful)
I work for a geoscience company, this isn't new technology just a refinement or techniques already in use
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I work for a geoscience company, this isn't new technology just a refinement or techniques already in use
Isn't that how it always works? Refine something, paste a new buzz-word to it, and Profit! ?
Re: Nothing new (Score:2)
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Yeah. Like Cessna 172s. I'm not sure why this is so different from flying around in a single engine prop plane - the kind you can rent for a couple of hundred per hour. Or buy for a small multiple of a drone cost. And it comes with a pilot so you don't have to worry (too much) about crashing.
Dream job (Score:4, Insightful)
throwing dynamite from snowmobiles when they look for oil
Damn, I should have been a geologist.
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throwing dynamite from snowmobiles when they look for oil
Damn, I should have been a geologist.
"What's all that dynamite for?"
"Who cares? it makes a real fucking cool boom..."
Trust me (Score:2)
You walk into an AutoZone looking for a case of 10W50 with a lit stick of dynamite and the clerks will help you out pretty damn fast.
I wanted to be one - a geologist (Score:1)
I wanted to be a geologist because i think rocks are cool.
The program meant taking - almost majoring in all: chemistry, physics, math, earth science (geology).
Good god! 15+ course hours of ALL lab science for 4 years!
When physicians bitch about their training, I just smile to myself and think of the geologists.
Please, a year of calculus, physics, chemistry, organic chem and biology to get into med school? That's it? And then to study what's basically sr. level science for a year or two and then learning
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It's not too late. :)
Fascinating link, thanks! (Score:5, Funny)
Mediocre summary as usual, but TFA was really well written and interesting!
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Very funny. It wasn't that impressive [www.uib.no], but I think this is the link they forgot.
Aerial mapping is not new ... (Score:4, Insightful)
EXTRA!! EXTRA!! READ ALL ABOUT IT! (Score:1)
Pornographers shooting scenes from the air using DRONE technology!
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Why not just (Score:2)
The Radio (Score:2)
I have no problem with drones flying around uninhabited border areas looking for stuff. Fly 'em around the US national parks to look for poachers or campers in trouble, patrol the borders of Canada and Mexico, monitor oil pipelines - whatever.
I have a major problem with them flying around inhabited areas. The RF spectrum is relatively clean out in the boonies. When you get into inhabited, and especially industrial areas, it gets downright vicious. You have high tension power lines, cell towers, microwave re
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Norway's mostly uninhabited anyway, so it shouldn't be a problem in this case.
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Makes me want to see what the RF spectrum of a city would look like from street view levels - I'm imagining seeing all the buildings in X-rays and all the noise sources looking like sparklers reflected by the steel frames, walls and signs.
Drill baby drill (Score:2)