Besides using high-tech drilling to recover more oil from existing wells and making smaller fields cheaper to develop, they are keen to see more activity west of the Shetland islands.
In the Arctic refuge, it was argued, the 70's-era technology that turned swaths of Alaska's North Slope into a seething industrial zone was a thing of the past; ice roads, as well as high-tech drilling techniques, could limit the industrial "footprint" of a particular drilling site to just a few acres.
Sanctions also prevent Russia's oil and gas industry from accessing the high-tech drilling and surveying equipment needed to exploit Arctic resources.
New techniques have been developed to "sidetrack" a well when the pipe gets stuck or to control the pressures and temperatures found five miles down into the earth's crust with blow-out preventers and special purpose high-tech drilling rigs.
Manual and low-tech well drilling techniques have potential to assist in reaching the United Nations' millennium development goal for water in sub-Saharan Africa.
By being one of the first colleges to fit players' helmets with accelerometers, Virginia Tech learned more about which practice drills were more dangerous and perhaps more modifiable than others, said Dr. Gunnar Brolinson, the team's head physician.
According to the U.K. Office of National Statistics, when you drill down to tech and telco professionals in the U.K., only 3.9percentt are female programmers and software developers, a number that has gone down from 10percentt in 2007.
They bring pricey, high-tech equipment, from microseismic sensors to drilling rigs that walk, like something out of "Star Wars".
"One of the biggest problems is that medical school training embeds a culture focused on hi-tech solutions and with an emphasis on drilling down to fine details, with care pathways that reflect that," she said.
Dubbed "hole-punch display," this tech is essentially a hole to be drilled into the place in which the selfie camera is placed.
Another low-tech solution is to drill small holes in the bottom of plastic buckets or trash cans, place them around the trees and shrubs, and fill them with water.
