Military technology unlocks geology
Issue 220
- 18 Nov 2011
| 1 minute read
According to SouthWest Energy chairman and chief executive Tewodros Ashenafi, the use of full-tensor gravity (FTG) geophysical surveying technology – initially developed by Bell Labs for the US Navy’s mapping of stealth submarines and more recently applied in Uganda by Tullow Oil – had proved invaluable, even if it initially caused suspicion in the heavily militarised Ogaden region
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