A group of ESD investigators led by Jonny Rutqvist recently conducted numerical simulation studies to assess the potential for injection-induced fault reactivation and notable seismic events associated with shale-gas hydraulic fracturing operations.
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The First Partnership Workshop of the LBNL/UC-Davis Predictive Agricultural Initiative focused on how to sustainably manage agricultural systems for a growing world population under changing environmental conditions.
Read MoreLBNL Deputy Director Horst Simon, in a message to the Lab, announces a wealth of Lab activities related to Earth Day and Earth Week, and invites all Lab employees to learn how they can make a positive impact.
Read MoreThe RPSEA program recently announced a new call for proposals “RFP: 2012UN001” under RPSEA Program: Unconventional Onshore.
Read MoreThe DOE NETL program recently announced a new funding opportunity “FY2013 Unconventional Gas and Oil Technologies, De-FOA-0000894.
Read MoreThe large storage volume needed for geologic carbon storage to be effective requires injection into pore space saturated with saline water in reservoir strata overlain by cap rock.
Read MoreESD ‘s Tim Kneafsey, Jonathan Ajo-Franklin, and former ESD scientist Dmitriy Silin recently conducted a core-scale experiment.
Read MoreThe flowing fluid electric conductivity (FFEC) logging method is a well-logging technique used to estimate flow rate, salinity, transmissivity, and the hydraulic head of individual fractures or high-permeability zones intersected by a wellbore.
Read MoreA team of scientists (including ESD’s Quanlin Zhou) recently developed an experimental setup for conducting core-flood experiments of supercritical CO2 and water under pressures higher than 8.00 MPa and a temperature of 40°C.
Read MoreIn a recently published paper, ESD’s Preston Jordan (and former ESD head Sally Benson) project worker safety likelihood for a mature carbon capture and storage (CCS) industry, using government and private analog industry data.
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