oil

WSU received more than $1.2 million from two USDA grants that fund research into improving plant oils.

WSU Snohomish County Extension launches a new program to train volunteers in best practices for oil spill response and cleanup.

When I was young geology student, I learned the basics of petroleum production as they were then understood. Deep layers of sedimentary rocks, including shale, were the “source rocks” for hydrocarbons. The source rocks were too difficult to exploit directly – it just wasn’t economical to mess with them. But through natural processes, the petroleum […]