OCR Text |
Show X-raying Oil Fields 1 : " ' 1 A new advance in petroleum research re-search is this X-ray machine, which takes pictures of how oil, gas, and water flow thru rocks thousands of feet underground. The X-ray focusses on samples of oil well rock, into which fluids found below ground are injected. The resulting X-ray pictures reveal in miniature how oil behaves in various earth formations. An engineer en-gineer in Gulf Research Laboratories, Labora-tories, which pioneered the development, de-velopment, is shown adjusting a cylindrical rock sample, while a secretary prepares to record X-ray findings. The machine is expected to lead to "greater percentage of oil recovery. |