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Volume 71, Issue 88,
Monday, February 13, 2006
News Radios can help find oil New, efficient oil drilling technology will help reduce price of gasoline COUGAR NEWS SERVICES Researchers at UH are developing new instruments to use in drilling oil in order to curb the price of fuel in the United States. Richard Liu, UH professor of electrical and computer engineering said the radios created by the University's Well Logging Laboratory to transmit data from the bottom of a well are about the size of a grain of salt. Liu is also the director of the Well Logging Laboratory. "Our research could have a great impact on oil prices," Liu said. "Oil prices include everything, and drilling and exploration are pretty big portions of the cost. If the technology we're developing is viable, then costs would get tremendously reduced." The new technology will result in more efficient drilling, Liu said. "When you get more information from down hole, you have a better understanding of the well's formation. The drilling becomes more efficient, which could result in lower gas prices for everyone," Liu said. Because temperatures in oil wells can exceed 300 degrees Fahrenheit, there is currently no way to send data from the bottom of a well to the top where it can be analyzed. "The information is there. You can measure it, digitize it, store it, but you cannot send it to the surface," Liu said. The new technology was presented at the Industrial
Consortium hosted by the Cullen College of Engineering.
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