Sunday, June 19th, 2011
Norwegian energy producer Statoil and its partners want to compress gas on the seabed to boost recovery. Subsea compression was recently selected as the preferred concept for Gullfaks. “Gas compression on the seabed represents an important advance in technology, and once again, Statoil is leading the way for development of new technology. This is one of
Saturday, June 18th, 2011
The dying Russian port of Amderma might become a key site in the development of offshore oil and gas fields in the western part of the Russian Arctic. Speaking at an oil and gas conference this month, Head of the Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Igor Fyodorov, stressed that the village of Amderma on the coast of the
Saturday, June 18th, 2011
The authorities in the Bulgarian capital Sofia are still mulling the route and type of the third line of the Sofia Metro, while the first two lines are still under construction. Four different options for the third line of the Sofia Metro will be presented on Monday by the Czech firm Metroproekt Prague, a consultant to the Sofia Municipality, the Monitor daily reported Saturday. Read
Saturday, June 18th, 2011
Yesterday, Google’s special cars and tricycles equipped with cameras have begun photographing streets in Poland cities – Warsaw, Krakow, Gdansk, Poznan and Wroclaw. The images will be made available in Street View, a Google Maps feature that allows users to take virtual trips around the world. Panoramic views along many streets in 27 countries are already
Saturday, June 18th, 2011
“Where am I”, asks British architecture critic Jonathan Glancey, 51, spreading his arms theatrically inside the Kamppi Center shopping mall in the centre of Helsinki. “Am I in Shanghai? Or Hamburg? Or America?” On the digital bus schedule display on the wall he looks at the names of places, supposedly to find out where he is. “This is anywhereish. Is
Saturday, June 18th, 2011
The library and archives contain medieval manuscripts, maps, plans, drawings and books compiled by monks and the dean and chapter from the Middle Ages right through to the present day. Mr Morrison said: “The monks collected manuscripts throughout the Middle Ages so they would have needed books for their own education. Read More
Thursday, June 16th, 2011
Since its eruption in early June, several NASA satellites have captured images of the ash plume from the eruption of the Chilean Volcano called Puyehue-Cordón Caulle and have tracked it around the world. NASA has collected them in the NASA Goddard FLICKR image gallery that shows the progression of the plume around the southern hemisphere.
Thursday, June 16th, 2011
On the FIG web site we publish each month a paper called the Article of the Month. This is a high-level paper focusing on interesting topics to all surveyors. It can be picked up from an FIG conference or another event. The Article of the Month in June 2011 is written by Rohan Bennett, Abbas Rajabifard,
Thursday, June 16th, 2011
While tropical forests are losing more and more leaves, victims of massive deforestation and their European cousins, they, extend from year to year. Read More
Wednesday, June 15th, 2011
The unmanned airborne reconnaissance system since March 2010 Heron 1 is used by the Operational Wing Mazar-e Sharif in Afghanistan and provides valuable information regardless of time of day for the preparation, execution and evaluation of operations under the responsibility of Germany led by Regional Command North. Read More
