I was saddened, this week, to hear of the passing of Dr. Andrej Lichtarowicz, who died on the the 6th of this month. As Mark Fairhurst noted, Dr. Lichtarowicz, on the faculty at Nottingham University, was a sterling early contributor to the waterjetting community, from its birth back in the early 1970’s. He gave a […]
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When mankind first began cutting out flints to make the tools and weapons that helped make primitive life more successful they often used either bone antlers or stones from the river as the tool to cut into the chalk or other host rock that held the flint. For thousands of years as rock was excavated […]
September 15, 2014 Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration and Drillinginfo, Inc. The Powder River Basin, well known for its abundant coal supply, is experiencing a turnaround in oil production. Production has rebounded from a low of 38,000 barrels per day (bbl/d) in 2009 to 78,000 bbl/d during first-quarter 2014. Although U.S. oil production growth is […]