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May 4, 2022

UTIG Students Take Top 2022 Departmental Awards

Congratulations Abby Varona (MSc), Kevin Meazell (PhD), and Sebastian Ramiro-Ramirez (PhD) who took three of the top nine student research awards at the UT Jackson School of Geosciences Department of Geological Sciences 2022 Departmental Awards! The annual awards recognize extraordinary efforts in the 2021-2022 academic year. The awards were presented by department chair Daniel Stockli,… Continue Reading UTIG Students Take Top 2022 Departmental Awards

Filed Under: GOM2 News, homepage-news, News Tagged With: Abby Varona, awards, Flemings Group, Kevin Meazell, Peter Flemings, Sebastian Ramiro-Ramirez, student awards

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

April 24, 2019

New Equinor Fellow Marks Next Step for UT Research into Unconventional Hydrocarbons

The University of Texas at Austin (UT) is a leader in unconventional energy resources research, particularly shale reservoirs. That’s according to one of this year’s Equinor Fellows, Sebastian Ramiro-Ramirez, a graduate research assistant at UTIG and a PhD student at the University of Texas Jackson School of Geosciences, who was awarded over $60,000 to study… Continue Reading New Equinor Fellow Marks Next Step for UT Research into Unconventional Hydrocarbons

Filed Under: energy-slideshow, Geophysics Blog, homepage-news, News Tagged With: Energy, Flemings Group, Sebastian Ramiro-Ramirez, shale, student awards, unconventional reservoirs

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