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Oil and Gas

Today is the International Day Against Fracking

By: Franyi Sarmiento, Ph.D., Inspenet, October 11, 2022.
Today, October 11, is the International Day Against Fracking, it is commemorated with the aim of raising awareness in the world population of the serious environmental and social damage caused by this technique to extract fossil fuels from the subsoil using pressurized water.

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Mining

In Brazil they discuss practices to create healthy soils from mining waste

By: Franyi Sarmiento, Ph.D., Inspenet, October 11, 2022.
The second edition of the Virtual Seminar “Creating healthy soils from mining tailings and waste”, promoted by the Secretary of Geology, Mining and Mineral Transformation (SGM) of the Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME) will be held today Tuesday 11 , from 9:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., and will be broadcast on the Brasil Mineral YouTube channel.

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University of Antofagasta advances in the development of lithium batteries

By: Franyi Sarmiento, Ph.D., Inspenet, October 10, 2022.
The University of Antofagasta, in Chile, through the Center for Advanced Research on Lithium and Industrial Minerals (Celimin), concluded the FIC-R project called Construction of lithium batteries via green processes, with a series of important scientific advances in the generation of new knowledge and patents.

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Hocol announces natural gas discovery in Colombia

By: Franyi Sarmiento, Ph.D., Inspenet, October 10, 2022.
Hocol, a company of the Ecopetrol Business Group, announced the successful drilling of the Coralino-1 well, which shows the presence of natural gas in northern Colombia. According to the company, there is gas at various levels of the reservoir rock associated with the Ciénega de Oro Formation, the main producing rock of the Lower Magdalena Valley.

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