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January 24, 2020

Expanded Portfolio Brings New Relevance to Long-Running Gulf-Basin Program

By Constantino Panagopulos For 25 years, an industry-sponsored research project led by the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG), has provided its members with a depositional history of the offshore northern Gulf of Mexico. Now for the first time, UTIG’s Gulf Basin Depositional Synthesis (GBDS) program, will offer its members analysis of the entire… Continue Reading Expanded Portfolio Brings New Relevance to Long-Running Gulf-Basin Program

Filed Under: energy-slideshow, Geophysics Blog, homepage-news, News Tagged With: Energy, GBDS, Gulf Basin Depositional Synthesis, Gulf of Mexico, John Snedden, Zach Sickmann

August 12, 2019

A day in the lab: Microbial life and the origin of methane hydrates

Massive natural gas reserves, trapped within methane hydrate deposits in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico, have the potential to power the US with natural gas for hundreds of years. The GOM² project is a multi-disciplinary, long-term, commitment by the University of Texas at Austin in partnership with academic and governmental colleagues to drill, sample and… Continue Reading A day in the lab: Microbial life and the origin of methane hydrates

Filed Under: energy-slideshow, Geophysics Blog, GOM2 News, homepage-news, News Tagged With: Energy, Flemings Group, GOM2, methane hydrate, UT Pressure Core Center

July 8, 2019

Meet The Exploration Geophysics Trailblazers: Part 4

In March this year, students from the University of Texas Jackson School of Geosciences presented research at the annual meeting of the UT-Austin EDGER Forum, an industry consortium that sponsors education and research in exploration geophysics. Research carried out by the group spans laboratory experiments, numerical simulations and field data analysis, a combination that is… Continue Reading Meet The Exploration Geophysics Trailblazers: Part 4

Filed Under: energy-slideshow, Geophysics Blog, homepage-news, Meet the UTIG Student, News Tagged With: EDGER Forum, exploration geophysics, graduate students, PhD students, student profile

June 27, 2019

UT Study Shows How To Produce Natural Gas While Storing Carbon Dioxide

New research at The University of Texas at Austin shows that injecting air and carbon dioxide into methane ice deposits buried beneath the Gulf of Mexico could unlock vast natural gas energy resources while helping fight climate change by trapping the carbon dioxide underground. The study, published May 26 in the journal Water Resources Research,… Continue Reading UT Study Shows How To Produce Natural Gas While Storing Carbon Dioxide

Filed Under: energy-slideshow, GOM2 News, homepage-news, Media Releases, News Tagged With: carbon storage, CO2, methane hydrate

June 3, 2019

Meet The Exploration Geophysics Trailblazers: Part 3

In March this year, students from the University of Texas Jackson School of Geosciences presented research at the annual meeting of the UT-Austin EDGER Forum, an industry consortium that sponsors education and research in exploration geophysics. Research carried out by the group spans laboratory experiments, numerical simulations and field data analysis, a combination that is… Continue Reading Meet The Exploration Geophysics Trailblazers: Part 3

Filed Under: energy-slideshow, Geophysics Blog, homepage-news, Meet the UTIG Student, News Tagged With: EDGER Forum, exploration geophysics, graduate students, PhD students, student profile

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