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The Bureau of Economic Geology’s Bob Loucks and Shirley Dutton have compiled a comprehensive database for evaluating and forecasting reservoir quality (porosity and permeability), and for documenting mineralogy, grain size, and pore types, in the northern Gulf of Mexico onshore and offshore sandstones.

William “Bill” Ambrose and Tucker Hentz, researchers on the STARR team, retired this spring. Please join all of us at the Bureau in thanking Bill and Tucker for their voluminous, valuable contributions to the Bureau’s sedimentary geology research and in congratulating them on their well-deserved retirements.

The Hydrogen Working Group at the Bureau was formed in 2020 to conduct research on the development of a hydrogen economy at scale focusing on geological storage and market scenarios, and to investigate the potential of in situ generation of hydrogen from hydrocarbons.

The Bureau, in partnership with Sage Geosystems, will be undertaking a study for the U.S. Air Force to determine the feasibility of deploying a closed-loop geothermal energy system to supply power to Ellington Field Joint Reserve Base in Houston.

The Gulf Coast Carbon Center recently held an open house to provide updates on research and progress over the last 6 months following the GCCC's "Big Plan" of carbon capture and storage.