Oil Rig against sunset.

Deep Sea Solutions

Looking for oil beneath the ocean is a needle-in-a-haystack challenge, but bacteria that consume hydrocarbons can help identify promising places to drill. The Scotian Slope, a 160,000-square-kilometre swath of seabed south of Nova Scotia, is an attractive but challenging area for oil exploration. The energy industry has invested $37 billion in offshore development in Atlantic […]

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