Team discovers hidden structures, invisible in traditional seismic scans, that block the pumping of oil

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Sep 8, 2025, 9:40 am127 ptsTrending
A common problem with oil wells is that they can run dry even when sound-based measurements say there's still oil there. A team from Penn State University used Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center's (PSC's) flagship Bridges-2 supercomputer to add a time dimension to these seismic measurements, as well as to analyze…

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