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Recent Energy Publications - Winter 2022

Winter 2022 Edition of the USGS Energy Quarterly Newsletter

By Energy Resources Program March 10, 2022

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Oil & Gas Publications

JANUARY 31, 2022

USGS Scientific Investigations Report 2021-5136 

Development of hydrocarbon gas standards for stable isotopic composition (δ13C and δ2H)

JANUARY 17, 2022

Outside Publication: Book Chapters from World Atlas of Submarine Gas Hydrates in Continental Margins

DECEMBER 22, 2021 

Outside Publication: Book Chapter from Encyclopedia of Petroleum Geoscience 

Vitrinite reflectance analysis

DECEMBER 15, 2021

USGS Fact Sheet 2021-3058 

Assessment of undiscovered continuous oil resources in the Bakken and Three Forks Formations of the Williston Basin Province, North Dakota and Montana, 2021

DECEMBER 3, 2021

USGS Fact Sheet 2021-3051

Assessment of undiscovered conventional oil and gas resources of China, 2020

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Outside Report: DOE National Energy Technology Laboratory Interagency Agreement

Alaska natural gas hydrate production testing: Test site selection, characterization and testing operations

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Outside Publication: Marine and Petroleum Geology

Hydrous pyrolysis of New Albany Shale: A study examining maturation changes and porosity development

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

USGS Scientific Investigations Report 2021-5085

National assessment of helium resources within known natural gas reservoirs

 

Geologic CO2 Utilization Publications

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Circular 1489

National assessment of carbon dioxide enhanced oil recovery and associated carbon dioxide retention resources — Results

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

USGS Fact Sheet 2021-3057

National assessment of carbon dioxide enhanced oil recovery and associated carbon dioxide retention resources — Summary

JANUARY 18, 2022

Outside Publication: Natural Resources Research

Decision analysis and CO2–enhanced oil recovery development strategies

 

Geochemistry, Geophysics, and Geology Publications

JANUARY 14, 2022

USGS Open-File Report 2021-1120

Implementation plan of the National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program strategy—Great Lakes (Central Lowland and Superior Upland Physiographic Provinces)

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Outside Publication: Interpretation

Multimineral petrophysics of thermally immature Eagle Ford Group and Cretaceous mudstones, U.S. Geological Survey Gulf Coast 1 research wellbore in central Texas

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

USGS Open-File Report 2021-1102 

Capacity assessment for Earth Monitoring, Analysis, and Prediction (EarthMAP) and future integrated monitoring and predictive science at the U.S. Geological Survey

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Outside Publication: Frontiers in Microbiology

Oil and gas wastewater components alter streambed microbial community structure and function

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Outside Publication: Book Chapter from Encyclopedia of Mathematical Geosciences 

Random forest

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

USGS Scientific Investigations Report 2019-5123 

Lithologic descriptions, geophysical logs, and source-rock geochemistry of the U.S. Geological Survey Alcova Reservoir AR–1–13 Core Hole, Natrona County, Wyoming

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Outside Publication: Book Chapter from Encyclopedia of Mathematical Geosciences 

Multilayer perceptrons (MLPs)

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

USGS Open-File Report 2021-1090 

Method for compiling temporally and spatially aggregated data on hydraulic fracturing—Treatments and wells

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Outside Publication: Book Chapter from Encyclopedia of Mathematical Geosciences 

Realizations

OCTOBER 16, 2021

Outside Publication: Conference Paper

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference, Society of Exploration Geophysicists 

Integration of microfacies analysis, inorganic geochemical data, and hyperspectral imaging to unravel mudstone depositional and diagenetic processes in two cores from the Triassic Shublik Formation, Northern Alaska

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Outside Publication: Outside Publication: Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies (GCAGS) Journal 

Quantitative modeling of secondary migration: Understanding the origin of natural gas charge of the Haynesville Formation in the Sabine Uplift area of Louisiana and Texas

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Outside Publication: Natural Resources Research 

Machine learning can assign geologic basin to produced water samples using major ion geochemistry

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Outside Publication: International Journal of Coal Geology 

Compositional evolution of organic matter in Boquillas Shale across a thermal gradient at the single particle level

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Outside Publication: Book Chapter from Encyclopedia of Mathematical Geosciences 

Frequency distribution

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Outside Publication: Computers & Geosciences 

Revisiting the declustering of spatial data with preferential sampling

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

USGS Fact Sheet 2021-3048 

Geochemical and mineralogical properties of Boquillas Shale geochemical reference material ShBOQ-1

 

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Chemical and isotopic composition of produced waters from the lower Eagle Ford Group, south-central Texas

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Coking coal of the United States: Modern and historical locations of coking coal mining locations and chemical, rheological, petrographic, and other data from modern samples

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Apatite and zircon U/Pb and fission track geochronologic and thermochronologic data along the Fall Line of the southeastern United States

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National assessment of carbon dioxide enhanced oil recovery and associated carbon dioxide retention resources - data release

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Stable Isotopic Data (Delta13C and Delta2H) for Reference Materials HCG-1, HCG-2, and HCG-3

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Geologic formations and mine locations for potential CO2 mineralization

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Solid bitumen and vitrinite reflectance suppression explored using hydrous pyrolysis of artificial source rock (2021)

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