Sentence examples for detects oil from inspiring English sources

But, Mr. Wells said, if the monitoring detects oil or gas coming up through the sea floor, engineers could reopen the well immediately.

It will detect oil spills at sea and forest destruction on land: the aim is to deliver warnings of flood, ice and fire within an hour.

"Development of technologies that would be able to help detect oil in ice, and cold-adapted bioremediation technologies, are in their infancy," he points out.

Barber and his group recently received $28 million in funding from the Canadian government to study ways of detecting oil in Arctic ice.

These results suggest the detected oil slick is a thin floating oil rather than a thick spill.

Based on the detected oil droplet edges the equivalent oil droplet diameters are derived and compared with a model of maximum droplet diameter.

Snow, ice and oil reflect radio waves in different ways, allowing oil spills to be seen beneath the surface".The ability to detect oil in icy water is improving, but the options for cleaning it up remain limited".Oil and waterGPR has been shown to be particularly effective in detecting oil under snow.

Skimming, for instance, cannot be done in rough seas and is often limited to daylight hours because of the difficulties in detecting oil at night.

To detect oil trapped beneath two metres of ice, the helicopter must hold the ring just three metres above the surface.

During the early days after the Spindletop discovery, oilmen turned to "doodle-buggers"—soothsayers who claimed to be able to detect oil underfoot using a forked stick.

There is a big demand to detect oil content in drilling fluid in real time at well site in the petroleum industry.