A new simulation will help improve artificial sand-control measures designed to help combat desertification. In the fight against desertification, so-called straw checkerboard barriers (SCB) play a ...

SAN ANTONIO — Nov. 8, 2022 — Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has created a new, more effective method to evaluate changes in sand control screens used in oil and gas production wells. The new ...

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has created a new, more effective method to evaluate changes in sand control screens used in oil and gas production wells. The new evaluation method provides a more ...

An aerial drone photo taken on May 12, 2026 shows a worker laying sand barriers in Kubuqi Desert in Hangjin Banner of Ordos, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. In recent years, Hangjin ...

LANZHOU -- After enduring harsh desert conditions, massive retired wind turbine blades are set to be locally repurposed as an innovative material used for sand control. Chinese "sand scientists" have ...

A new technology has recently been introduced in Zhongwei, Ningxia Hui autonomous region to combat desertification. [Photo by Yang Zhou / for China Daily] China has made a new breakthrough in ...

New expandable sand screens with a close weave have made drilling and completing shallow, unconsolidated gas sands off the Netherlands commercial. In the past, companies often considered these sands ...

China is taking a material that first caught public attention on the far side of the Moon and putting it to work in a much ...

"I am delighted to once again visit the Inner Mongolia, and witness a group of intelligent people in an intelligent nation utilizing high technology to develop their economy in the desert." The Ninth ...