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Tools for Possibilities: issue no. 200

Materials Testing Consultants, Inc. Announces Strategic Acquisition of Wisconsin-Based GeoTest, Inc.

Transaction expands regional footprint, technical capacity, and testing capabilities across the Great Lakes engineering and consulting market GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. and MADISON, Wis.,...

Geothermal needs better tools for superhot drilling. Hephae can help.

Thousands of feet beneath the desert valley of southwest Utah, a slender tool tucked inside a drill pipe is barreling through hot granite. The rod-shaped device, built by the start...

CSIR tests digital rock-sounding technology at Harmony Gold’s Mponeng mine

South Africa's Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), through the Mandela Mining Precinct's advanced orebody knowledge programme, has completed an underground proof...

Chiyoda Corp. and Sage Geosystems to conduct feasibility study on next-generation geothermal technology

Chiyoda Corp. and Sage Geosystems have signed a memorandum of understanding to jointly conduct a technical and commercial feasibility study of high-pressure surface facilities requ...

Long-term enhanced geothermal test begins in Utah

The test will study “unknown variables required to ensure long term EGS production remains commercially viable,” said Kristie McLin, principal investigator at the Frontier Observat...

Smart Geological Anchors: An IoT-Based Landslide Early Warning System

What if geological anchors could sense impending landslides? Embedded strain sensors and IoT intelligence enable earlier warnings, reducing risks to lives and infrastructure. Lands...

Underground Conditions Platform CivilGrid Raises $26M

Josh Mackanic worked on some of Pacific Gas & Electric’s top projects and managed more than $500 million in business in 10 years as an engineer at the California utility.

CoTec Provides Update on Commercial Deployment of Multi-Gravity Separator Technology

CoTec advances commercial deployment of SCMG2 multi‑gravity separator, establishing dedicated testing and demonstration platform at Corem.

GreenVibe Concrete Sensors Put Lab Results to the Test

A costly high-rise repair helped convince one project team that real-time measurements from inside curing concrete could provide insights conventional laboratory testing had missed...

Petram Wins Jonathan Merage Global Subsurface Tech Challenge

Petram Wins Jonathan Merage Global Subsurface Tech Challenge Creation-Space helps award $40,000 prize for earth-space innovation Megan Wallin-Kerth Mon, 08/24/20...

Carbonation-Empowered Offshore Deep Cement Mixing Enables Undredged Land Reclamation

A new study in Communications Engineering reports a construction strategy that could change how offshore reclaimed land is stabilized—using carbonation to strengthen deep cement mi...

Data at geothermal site show promise

Ground engineering trio for Sizewell C

Balfour Beatty Ground Engineering, VSL Systems (UK) Ltd , and Bachy Soletanche will team up to deliver geotechnical works for Sizewell C, including piling, soil mixing, diaphragm w...

Robertson Geo partners with Agerion

Companies combine geoscience expertise for offshore wind projects

The Fast Lane: 3 Ways Geothermal Companies Can Get More Heat

Geothermal Energy Has Enormous Potential. These 3 Technologies Could Help the Industry Dig Deeper, Hotter, and More Profitable Wells. “The Fast Lane” series zooms in on some of the...

Ballast Protection Trials

In September 2014 TrackTex Anti-Pumping Geocomposite was supplied to Norfolk Southern for installation on the Whitethorne District of Virginia. The aim was to determine how effecti...

Local Geology Inspires Vision for Energy and Minerals Lab at Colorado School of Mines

Collaboration between the U.S. Geological Survey and Colorado School of Mines brings a complicated design to life.

CSIR-NGRI, DGH Sign MoU To Strengthen Cooperation In Geoscientific Exploration

Dr Nagulapalli said India’s growing energy requirements made it necessary to strengthen domestic exploration through modern technologies, scientific expertise and institutional col...

An old-school geothermal giant rides the tech’s newfound popularity

Over two decades ago, Ormat Technologies began a big experiment on a swath of rugged land near the Hot Springs Mountains in western Nevada. The geothermal company was already prod...

New geothermal resource to drive collaboration and speed up development

Clean Air Task Force has launched the Geothermal Frontier Knowledge Sharing Platform, a free tool that maps institutional research capacity and country-level geothermal profiles in...

Geologist 2, Exploration Technical at AngloGold Ashanti

Who We Are   AngloGold Ashanti is a global gold mining company with a diverse, high-quality portfolio of operations, projects and exploration activities across 10 countries on four...

OceanSound Partners-backed Certerra acquires Skyrise Engineering and Testing in Florida

Skyrise Engineering and Testing, founded in 2022, has grown into one of South Florida's most trusted geotechnical and materials testing firms, led by founders Eric Stern and Richar...

Trimble helps ensure earthworks go to plan

Trimble has launched software to connect its modelling software with earthworks positioning systems, making it easier to implement civil engineering plans.