Seepages

The tar springs, or "seepages," indicate to the oil prospector where deposits of oil may possibly be found. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

The natural gas seepages may well be the result of different dynamics on Mars and Earth, but Mumma considers the comparable sizes to be significant. ❋ Marc Kaufman (2011)

While some mannerisms are seepages from our own archive of odd behaviours or picked out from the world around us, sometimes they seem to just materialise on the page. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The company has been encouraged by hydrocarbon seepages in Greenland, but has yet to make a commercial discovery. ❋ Konstantin Rozhnov (2011)

A lot of the times the cardboard would stick, and overspray underspray little seepages. ❋ Marina Cashdan (2010)

Admiral THAD ALLEN (U.S. Coast Guard): It is the collective opinion of the folks that are talking about this that the small seepages we are finding right now do not present, at least at this point, any indication that there is a threat to the wellbore. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Confrontations continued over last weekend as tests showed possible seepages on the seabed, leading Adm. Allen on Sunday to issue a terse directive for BP to make preparations to let the oil start flowing to the surface again. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I was up there on the dyke trying to plug this seepages or leaks. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Are you implying that of the 20 or so incident reports a day, that all of them were caused by natural seepage, and that all of these seepages which occured at oil and gas facilities was a coincidence and that the incidents were actually natural occurences? ❋ Unknown (2008)

Can it be that education is undervalued by the current democratic actors or that the conditions for accessing the fund does not permit for the usual huge financial seepages into the wrong hands? ❋ Unknown (2009)

Although energy companies have developed many techniques that can reduce the spills and seepages [6] that have occurred across the country, they are usually left to implement them when and if they choose, meaning protections can be entirely different between drilling fields a couple of miles apart. ❋ ProPublica (2009)

Lowland rain forests occur as small habitat pockets with rare tropical flora in Eucalyptus, Barringtonia or Melaleuca (paperbark) dominated vegetation of two types: rain forest associated with springs and seepages; and rain forest on freely draining land. ❋ Unknown (2008)

For many centuries, oil seepages had been noted on the arid Aspheron Peninsula, an outgrowth of the Caucasus Mountains projecting into the land-locked Caspian Sea. ❋ Daniel Yergin (2008)

In various parts of the Middle East, a semisolid oozy substance called bitumen seeped to the surface through cracks and fissures, and such seepages had been tapped far back into antiquity—in Mesopotamia, back to 3000 B.C. The most famous source was at Hit, on the Euphrates, not far from Babylon and the site of modern Baghdad. ❋ Daniel Yergin (2008)

Some of these seepages, along with escaping petroleum gases, burned continuously, providing the basis for fire worship in the Middle East. ❋ Daniel Yergin (2008)