“Words -- so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.” -- Nathaniel Hawthorne (American short-story Writer and Novelist, 1804-1864)
As always, this post is about two things … Desulfurization resources (that’s one) … and how to access those resources (that’s two).
Today I’d like you to consider the power of combining membership in a specific LinkedIn group … let’s say, Heavy Oil … with the ability to add an RSS feed to your Google home page.
Both of these tools are free. Both are useful in their own right. But when combined effectively, the two tools multiply their usefulness by an order of magnitude.
Here, as an example, is what happened to me. As a member of the LinkedIn Heavy Oil group, I received the following notice …
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LinkedIn Groups
Group: Heavy Oil
Subject: Announcement from Heavy Oil
Hello everybody,
Just to let you know that I recently added an RSS news feed from heavyoilinfo (Schlumberger). Heavy oil news will appear in a banner, at our main page. I hope you enjoy this feature.
Regards,
Nestor
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Visiting the HeavyOilInfo site (http://www.heavyoilinfo.com/) I found a number of interesting posts, including …
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Blog
Opinions and thoughts from Dr. Kambiz Safinya (LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/kambiz-safinya/15/755/2b) .
ESP performance and reliability in heavy oil
SPE paper, "The Quest To Understand ESP Performance and Reliability at 220C Ambient and Beyond", presented at the 2009 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition in New Orleans discusses how new and improving high-temperature electric submersible pump (ESP) systems allow for more efficient production and reduced costs in heavy oil SAGD production.
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Evaluation of high rate artificial lift in Oman's heavy oil fields
In the northern region of Oman, PDO operates a heavy oil field produced from naturally fractured carbonates. In order to increase and extend production, various thermal EOR methods combined with advances in artificial lift are being evaluated.
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Geophysical monitoring of heavy oil
In our recent feature article, we discussed the use of geophysical monitoring in heavy oil with Bob Godfrey, Principal Geophysicist at the Schlumberger Heavy Oil Regional Technology Center in Calgary.
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Polymer flooding in heavy oil environments
This SPE paper discusses a new approach to improve the performance of polymer flooding in heavy oil environments.
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I liked what I saw, so I added the blog as a feed to my iGoogle page. If you have never added a feed to your page before, use the following instructions …
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Firefox users:
- Click on the iGoogle tab where you'd like to create the RSS feed gadget.
- Then visit the site or blog you'd like to subscribe to.
- Click on the orange square RSS feed icon which can usually be found in the toolbar or somewhere within the website, usually at the top.
- Choose Google from the drop down menu and if you have not specified before, select Add to Google Homepage.
- It will automatically appear in your iGoogle account under tab you last visited.
Internet Explorer and other browsers:
- Copy the RSS feed URL (In this case, the URL is: http://www.heavyoilinfo.com/blog-posts/blog/RSS)
- At iGoogle, click on the "Add Stuff" in the upper right-hand corner.
- On the left, click on "Add feed or gadget" and paste the URL in the field.
- The RSS gadget will automatically appear in your iGoogle account under tab you last visited.
source: http://www.butterscotch.com/tutorial/Subscribing-To-RSS-Feeds-With-IGoogle
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Speaking of feeds, consider adding the Desulfurization Blog (http://www.desulf.blogspot.com/) as a feed on your home page.
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