Recent Publications: Energy Quarterly Fall 2020
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Fall 2020 Edition of the USGS Energy Quarterly Newsletter
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Energy Quarterly - Fall 2020
USGS Publication: Open-File Report 2020-1126 (Dec 2020)
Structure contour and isopach maps of the Wolfcamp shale and Bone Spring Formation of the Delaware Basin, Permian Basin Province, New Mexico and Texas
USGS Publication: Fact Sheet 2020-3045 (Dec 2020)
Assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources in the Upper Cretaceous Austin Chalk and Tokio and Eutaw Formations, U.S. Gulf Coast, 2019
USGS Publication: Fact Sheet 2020-3046 (Nov 2020)
Assessment of undiscovered conventional oil and gas resources of Southeast Asia, 2020
Outside Publication: Environmental Science & Technology (Oct 2020)
Utica shale play oil and gas brines: Geochemistry and factors influencing wastewater management
Outside Publication: AAPG Bulletin (Sept 2020)
Introduction to Special Issue: Gas Hydrates in Green Canyon Block 955, deep-water Gulf of Mexico: Part I
Outside Publication: AAPG Bulletin (Sept 2020)
Pressure coring operations during The University of Texas-Gulf of Mexico 2-1 (UT-GOM2-1) Hydrate Pressure Coring Expedition in Green Canyon Block 955, northern Gulf of Mexico
USGS Publication: Fact Sheet 2020-3036 (Sept 2020)
Assessment of undiscovered gas resources of the Sacramento Basin Province in California, 2019
Outside Publication: AAPG-EMD (Aug 2020)
EMD Gas Hydrates Committee annual report
USGS Publication: Scientific Investigations Report 2020-5077 (Aug 2020)
Steps taken for calculating estimated ultimate recoveries of wells in the Eagle Ford Group and associated Cenomanian–Turonian strata, U.S. Gulf Coast, Texas, 2018
USGS Publication: Fact Sheet 2020-3037 (July 2020)
Assessment of water and proppant quantities associated with petroleum production from the Eagle Ford Group, Gulf Coast, Texas, 2019
Outside Publication (Series): National Energy Technology Laboratory (June 2020) - 2018 Stratigraphic Test Well Program
- Petrophysical and geomechanical properties of gas hydrate-bearing sediments recovered from Alaska North Slope 2018 Hydrate-01 Stratigraphic Test Well
- Design and operations of the Hydrate 01 Stratigraphic test well, Alaska North Slope
- Alaska North Slope 2018 Hydrate-01 Stratigraphic Test Well: Technical results
- Gas hydrate saturation estimation from acoustic log data in the 2018 Alaska North Slope Hydrate-01 stratigraphic test well
USGS Publication: Scientific Investigations Report 2020-5042 (Jun 2020)
Procedure for calculating estimated ultimate recoveries of wells in the Wolfcamp shale of the Midland Basin, Permian Basin Province, Texas
USGS Publication: Fact Sheet 2020-3027 (Jun 2020)
Assessment of continuous oil and gas resources in the Ordovician Collingwood Formation and Utica Shale of the Michigan Basin Province, 2019
Geochemistry, Geophysics, and Geology Publications
Outside Publication: International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control (Nov 2020)
Estimating the net costs of brine production and disposal to expand pressure-limited dynamic capacity for basin-scale CO2 storage in a saline formation
Outside Publication: International Journal of Coal Geology (Nov 2020)
Examination of inertinite within immature Eagle Ford Shale at the nanometer-scale using atomic force microscopy-based infrared spectroscopy
Outside Publication: Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology (Oct 2020)
Four-dimensional thermal evolution of the East African Orogen: Accessory phase petrochronology of crustal profiles through the Tanzanian Craton and Mozambique Belt, northeastern Tanzania
Outside Publication: Minerals (Oct 2020)
Photoluminescence imaging of whole zircon grains on a petrographic microscope—An underused aide for geochronologic studies
Outside Publication: Organic Geochemistry (Dec 2020)
Comparability and reproducibility of biomarker ratio values measured by GC-QQQ-MS
Outside Publication: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (Dec 2020)
Position-specific distribution of hydrogen isotopes in natural propane: Effects of thermal cracking, equilibration and biodegradation
Outside Publication: Marine and Petroleum Geology (Nov 2020)
Characterization of the unconventional Tuscaloosa marine shale reservoir in southwestern Mississippi, USA: Insights from optical and SEM petrography
USGS Publication: Circular 1469 (Sep 2020)
Geomagnetism Program research plan, 2020–2024
Outside Publication: Chemical Geology (Sep 2020)
Origin and geochemistry of formation waters from the lower Eagle Ford Group, Gulf Coast Basin, south central Texas
Outside Publication: Frontiers in Microbiology (Sep 2020)
Repetitive sampling and control threshold improve 16S rRNA results from produced waters associated with hydraulically fractured shales
Outside Publication: Energy & Fuels (Aug 2020)
Exploring methane behavior in Marcellus Shale micropores via contrast matching neutron scattering
Outside Publication: Science Advances (Aug 2020)
Quantifying ecospace utilization and ecosystemengineering during the early Phanerozoic—The role of bioturbation and bioerosion
USGS Publication: Scientific Investigations Map 3457 (July 2020)
Structure contour and overburden maps of the Niobrara interval of the Upper Cretaceous Cody Shale in the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming and Montana
USGS Publication: Scientific Investigations Report 2018-5104 (Jun 2020)
Conceptual framework and approach for conducting a geoenvironmental assessment of undiscovered uranium resources
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