A new-born “mole” homes in on small oil reservoirs – an
almost untapped source of income.
An innovative new oil-drilling tool concept has seen the
light of day.
The tool is being developed by scientists at SINTEF
Petroleum Research, and it has characteristics that will enable it to take on a
number of different tasks.
One of these is to bring up oil from small oil-filled
pockets that lie close to large fields on the continental shelf. Although any
single pocket may seem to be insignificant, taken together they hold very
valuable quantities of oil.