| 01/02/2012 |
 The Secel UNITE cable-free acquisition market share has been increased with the sale of a system to United Oilfield Services (UOS), the 18th client to purchase UNITE so far. United Oilfield Services is an oilfield services company, headquartered in Poland, focused on providing critical hydraulic fracturing, modern drilling, and seismic data acquisition services to the European oil and gas industries. »» 0 comment(s)
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| 31/01/2012 |
 The largest solar particle event since 2005 has been detected by the radiation-monitoring instrument aboard the Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft, on its way from Earth to Mars. RAD Principal Investigator Don Hassler, science programme director in the Space Studies Department at Southwest Research Institute, said that they have only downloaded a few hours of data from the RAD so far, but that the event is clearly visible. »» 0 comment(s)
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An interdisciplinary project led by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) geologist Jeff McGuire, an expert in global earthquake seismology and geodesy, and John Collins, director of WHOI's Ocean Bottom Seismometer Lab, will build and install the first seafloor geodesy observatory above the expected rupture zone of the next great Cascadia earthquake. A USD1 million grant from the W. M. Keck Foundation will facilitate that. »» 0 comment(s)
In Kabul, Afghanistan, a training centre and an attached demonstration mine have been developed to support the training of mines inspectors of the Ministry of Mines in Afghanistan. The inspectors training is part of the capacity building and know-how transfer project ongoing since 2008 where GAF (Germany) is supporting the set-up and implementation of two departments in the Ministry of Mines: the mines inspectorate and the mining cadastre. 
