Faster Mapping Speeds Up the Search for Oil

by max on Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006

Yes, I just read in the news, only 40% of oil in US is supplied by US, and the 1 out of every 1 mile oil drilling is successful…

“A map of salt deposits located kilometers under the ocean floor in the Gulf of Mexico, where Shell hopes to find new oil reservoirs. The map was generated using algorithms developed at MIT to analyze seismic data.”

via [technologyreview]

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