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August
8/6/21 University of Texas At Austin: Longhorns Launch Startup to Address the Next Frontier of Renting News Bites
8/16/21 CCS: “The stage is set for a new carbon storage economy in the Gulf Coast region” Gas In Transition Magazine 
8/19/21 Tracking water storage shows options for improving water management during floods and droughts Science Daily; UT Research Showcase; Environmental News Network; Homeland Security News Wire;  Tech and Science Post;  Mirage News Australia; NewsCaf; Smart Water Magazine;  Posibl.;
8/23/21 UT Researchers Pushing Innovative Solution at DOE’s Hydrogen Earth Shot Kickoff JSG News; WebNews; Space Daily;  Newsr; Oil gas daily
8/24/21 Studies in the Area of Tectonophysics Reported from University of Texas Austin (Seismic Features of the Permian Basin Region From Receiver Function Analysis) Physics Week
8/24/21 UT researchers to transform untapped oil into clean hydrogen energy H2 View; Gasworld; Hydrogen Central; Acapmag.com; 
8/27/21 New Jersey Diverse Sources, TikTok Citations, Instagram, More: Friday Afternoon ResearchBuzz ResearchBuzz
8/31/21 Blueprint To Change Way Communities Approach Future Energy Development MENAFN - Business & Finance News 
July
7/1/21 Russia Gets on Board, Baker Hughes Expands Efforts, and Solar Gains on Coal in India Journal of Petroleum Technology
7/2/21 Study Data from Southern Methodist University Update Knowledge of Geology (Stress-drop Estimates for Induced Seismic Events In the Fort Worth Basin, Texas) Science Letter
7/2/21 National Energy Technology Laboratory: Southeast Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership Highlights Accomplishments Targeted News Service
7/4/21 In need of critical thinking Williamsport Sun-Gazette
7/5/21 Gulf Coast Ready to Develop Carbon Storage Hub UT News; Science Daily; Environmental Weekly News; Energy Weekly News; US Fed News; States News Service; Targeted News Service; Newstex Blogs; Mirage News Australia; Business Fast; EurekAlert; Samachar Central; Scienmag; ENN (Environmental News Network); Randle Report; Watts Up With That?; ScienceDaily; Carbon Capture Journal; Oil & Gas Online
7/6/21 Matthew Bauer re: GOMRQ LinkedIn
7/7/21 EV deal shows 'Lithium Valley' could be for real E&E News
7/9/21 University of Texas At Austin: New 6G Research Center Unites Industry Leaders and UT Wireless Experts News Bites
7/22/21 Top Geology Award Goes to Ian Dalziel of The University of Texas at Austin UT News; ENP Newswire; States News Service; US Fed News; Targeted News Service; Scienmag; EurekAlert; Bioengineer; Biotech Asia News; 7th Space; Energy key facts
7/22/21 More collaboration needed to de-risk geothermal efforts  Upstreamonline.com
7/23/21 Investigators at China University of Geosciences Report Findings in Oil and Gas Research (A Deep-learning-based Approach for Reservoir Production Forecast Under Uncertainty) Energy Weekly News
7/26/21 SPE Announces 2021 Regional Award Recipients  Journal of Petroleum Technology
7/27/21 US LNG Exports Hit New Record High! Watts Up With That?; Newstex Blogs
7/30/21 New Findings from China University of Petroleum in the Area of Energy Described (A Framework for Predicting the Production Performance of Unconventional Resources Using Deep Learning) Energy Weekly News
June
6/1/21 Using Time-Series Analysis and Class-Based Machine Learning to Predict Rock Properties AAPG Explorer
6/1/21 CarbonSAFE Project Uses Core Technology to Identify CO2 Storage Potential AAPG Explorer
6/3/21 Opinion: The future of renewable energy is playing out in West Texas Houston Chronicle
6/4/21 corepytools Pypi
6/4/21 Biden's Billion-Dollar Push For EV Charging Stations Just An Opening Bid Patch.com; InsideSources; Delaware Valley Journal; NWI Times; eNews Prescott; Post-Journal Online
6/7/21 Findings from China University of Petroleum Has Provided New Data on Nanoporous (Pore-scale Perspective of Gas/water Two-phase Flow In Shale) Nanotechnology Weekly
6/7/21 New ‘GeoSign’ installed on top of Mt Bonnell to educate on geo-history of the landmark KXAN
6/6/21 5 grandes misterios sobre los océanos y sus profundidades El Universal; Es Mexico
6/15/21 West Texas (Permian) Super Basin, United States: Tectonics, structural development, sedimentation, petroleum systems, and hydrocarbon reserves AAPG Bulletin
6/17/21 Why Was $66 Billion Spent On Renewables Before The Texas Blackouts? Menopausal Mother Nature; Climatedepot.com; Free Republic
6/17/21 Holy Smoke! Texas Has Actual Volcanoes. Here’s Where to See Ten of Them. Texas Monthly
6/18/21 University of Texas Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs: Sheila Olmstead, Andrew Waxman, Ben Leibowicz Lead Team Awarded $850,000 to Study the Economics of Carbon Capture and Storage Targeted News Service
6/18/21 Commentary: Chris Woodward - If they build it, will they drive it? Edwardsville Intelligencer Online; New Canaan Advertiser Online
6/18/21 Net zero or bust: gas sector’s critical moment The Australian Financial Review; FS Sustainability 
6/19/21 UW, University of Texas-Austin Study Barriers to Carbon Capture, Use, Storage Mirage News; Wyoming Tribune; US Fed News; Coal zoom; rocketminer.com; Carbon Capture Journal
6/22/21 Study Offers Plan to Overcome Hurdles for Hydrogen Energy UT News; Tech Xplore; PressReleasePoint; States News Service; US Fed News; Targeted News Service; India Education Diary; Mirage News Australia; Austin Villager; Tech Explore; FuelCellsWorks.com; TechiLive
6/23/21 Tinker Receives Energy Leadership Award from E&P Magazine Texas Geosciences News
6/25/21 Nabors partners with VC firm Virya to scale US geothermal energy Investable Universe
6/25/21 New Paleontology Study Findings Have Been Reported by Investigators at University of Texas Austin [Late Paleozoic (Late Mississippian-middle Permian) Sediment Provenance and Dispersal In Western Equatorial Pangea] Ecology, Environment & Conservation
6/25/21 Earthquakes bumfuzzle officials Odessa American; Yahoo News; News Break; Houston Chronicle; InsuranceNewsNet Online
6/26/21 If All Goes According To (Renewable Energy) Plan, Texas Will Be Fine CleanTechnica; Zephyrnet
6/26/21 Study to Look at Economic and Political Barriers Related to Carbon Capture SweetwaterNow.com
6/29/21 UT Austin Teaming up with City of Austin and Community Members to Fight Extreme Heat austintexas.com; US Fed News; Public Now
6/29/21 Energy Transition: Blue Oil Edition Watts Up With That?
6/29/21 Trans-Pecos Tertiary Alkaline Rocks, Texas USGS - Mineral Resources Online Spatial Data 
May
5/2/21 What spending $66 billion on wind and solar power got Texas WND News Services; USSA News Online
5/3/21 Hydrogen Infrastructure Expansion Requires Realistic Framework Oil and Gas Journal
5/4/21 Hart Energy Announces E&P's '40 Under Forty' Honorees for 2021  PRNewswire; Resources News; Press-Enterprise Online;  Markets Insider; The Kane Republican (US);  Post & Mail Online; Saline Courier Online;  Finanzen.net; Punxsutawney Spirit; Ticker Technologies; WBOC-TV Online; Community Post; Observer News Enterprise; Pilot-News Online; Chroniclejournal - Markets;  Ridgway Record; Morning News; MyMotherLode.com; Oklahoman Online; Starkville Daily News Online; Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Online; Daily Press;  Minyanville Finance; Sweetwater Reporter; Wapakoneta Daily News Online; Fort Bend Herald & Texas Coaster Online; WRDE Coast TV; ProfitQuotes.com; Arizona Republic Online;  Fat Pitch Financials; What's Up Magazine; Killeen Daily Herald Online;  WORLD GEN; Buffalo News Online; Tyler Morning Telegraph Online; Mammoth Times Online
5/7/21 2021 Planning Committee GeoGulf2021.org
5/7/21 SMU Geothermal Lab News and Notes SMU Geothermal Lab Newsletter 
5/8/21 Changing World Oil Markets and the Texas Economy Center for Houston’s Future
5/13/21 Mount Bonnell GeoSign Illustrates Area’s Geologic Features austintexas.gov; US Fed News; States News Service; Austin Public Library Blog; Public Now
5/14/21 Mount Bonnell GeoSign installed Austin American-Statesman
5/17/21 New project offers insight on how Mount Bonnell came to be Fox7 Austin
5/19/21 Safi Organics Claims EarthX E-Capital Summit Climate Tech Prize 3BL Media; Newstex Blogs; Panhandle NewsChannelNebraska.com; Living Future;  Markets - Financial Content;  Business Ethics; Winslow, Evans & Crocker Online; Big Spring Herald Online; Sustain-Online; Suncoast News Network Online; Tamar Securities; Justmeans; HTV 10; Post & Mail Online; The Kane Republican (US); Starkville Daily News Online; Decatur Daily Democrat Online; Fat Pitch Financials; Arizona Republic Online; Mammoth Times Online; Inyo Register; Minyanville Finance; Borger News-Herald; Punxsutawney Spirit; Chroniclejournal - Markets; Antlers American Online; Community Post; Observer News Enterprise; MyMotherLode.com; Buffalo News Online; Pilot-News Online; Malvern Daily Record; Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Online; Ridgway Record; Oklahoman Online; KMLK; WPGX FOX 28; WDFX-TV Online; Deer Park Tribune Online; Daily Press; Livermore Finance; Morning News; Evening Leader Online; Business.poteaudailynews; Valley City Times-Record Online; Newport Daily Express; Daily Times Leader Online; Wapakoneta Daily News; Wtnzfox43; CSR International; WRDE Coast TV
5/22/21 UT scientists hunt for sand for Texas coast Austin American-Statesman
5/24/21 #ASEGWebinar Dr Shuvajit Bhattacharya Twitter
5/26/21 Blueprint To Change Way Communities Approach Future Energy Development  Value Walk; Newstex Blogs; sharewise
5/26/21 Tomlinson: A Texas road map for no-drama, sustainable energy development Houston Chronicle; San Antonio Express-News
5/27/21 Water recycling is big business Peak Oil
5/28/21 How does the geologic environment shape rockfalls in the Texas Hill Country? KXAN
5/28/21 Must-see plenary debates the industry's role in a net zero future Energy News Bulletin
5/28/21 Respect Big Bend releases blueprint for sustainable energy development Midland Reporter-Telegram
5/28/21 News from Around Campus UT Energy Bulletin
5/29/21 Courts, clients and Wall Avenue delivered rebukes to Exxon Mobil, Chevron and Shell The Shepherd of the Hills Gazette; Newstex Blogs; Watts Up With That?
April
4/1/21 Range Resources Post: Scott Tinker - PA Legislature LinkedIn
4/1/21 Scott Tinker - Interview Re: Texas Winter Storm NPR
4/9/21 Study Results from University of Texas Austin Update Understanding of Fuel Research  Energy Weekly News
4/10/21 3.3 magnitude earthquake hits Texas county KHOU-11; KTRK; WFAA; NewsBreak; KXVA; KAGS; KYTX; KCEN
4/12/21 Aerial Laser Imaging for Better Natural Disaster Preparation and Response UT News; States News Service; Targeted News Service; US Fed News; PressReleasePoint; Mirage News Australia
4/15/21 Long-serving staff members share what has and hasn’t changed in their time at UT UT News
4/16/21 East Texas earthquake detected Thursday Texarkana Gazette
4/19/21 New Findings from University of Texas Austin in the Area of Machine Learning Reported  Journal of Engineering
4/23/21 Tomlinson - Carbon capture offers promise for Texas oil and gas company future Houston Chronicle; San Antonio Express-News; Oltnews
4/23/21 South Texas Geothermal Energy Project Ready to Provide Power That Never Stops Reporting Texas
4/23/21 Findings in the Area of Basin Research Reported from China University of Geosciences  Chemicals & Chemistry
4/26/21 After the Texas Blackouts, Follow the Wind and Solar Money – All $66 Billion of It RealClear Energy
4/26/21 Texas Joins U.S. Quake Network Texas Geosciences
4/28/21 As the seas rise and storms threaten, scientists hunt for sand to strengthen the Texas coast Houston Chronicle
4/30/21 News from Around Campus UT Energy Bulletin
March
3/1/21 Sage Geosystems to explore geothermal closed-loop for U.S. Air Force base Think Geoenergy
3/2/21 How Did the Dinosaurs Die?  Dust May Solve the Cause Futurity; Webnews; PressReleasePoint
3/5/21 Scientific and realistic views on climate policy – a lesson from Scott Tinker Big Media
3/8/21 Texas Earthquake System Strengthens National Network UT News; ExBulletin; States News Service; Targeted News Service; Mirage News Australia; News Break; 
3/9/21 Asteroid dust found in crater closes case of dinosaur extinction Life Science Weekly; Space Daily
3/12/21 John Andrews Hydro International
3/12/21 Critical Thinking for Equitable Energy Enerplus 2021
3/14/21 University of Texas Bureau of Economic Geology Issues Report Entitled '2020 Biennial Report on Seismic Monitoring and Research in Texas' Targeted News Service
3/15/21 Meandering Rivers Create “Counter-Point Bars” No Matter Underlying Geology JSG News; EurekAlert; UT Research Showcase; SciTechDaily; ScienceDaily, Environmental News Network; Archaeology News Network; Scienmag; 7th Space; remonews; Vaaju; Brinkwire; Automatic Blogging
3/18/21 APPEA: Natural gas has key part to play for sustainable development India Energy News
3/22/21 Monitoring earthquakes and seismic activity in Texas Fox7 Austin
3/22/21 Instead of a Prediction, Here's a Plan ShaleMag.com
3/23/21 Link to the recent @IPAAaccess Webinar with Dr. Scott Tinker Texas Alliance (Twitter)
3/23/21 Anti-U.S. energy movement deserves more scrutiny The Telegraph; Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette; Edwardsville Intelligencer Online; New Canaan Advertiser Online; World News Network; Republic of Mining 
3/25/21 Cheap, Reliable And Clean:' Expert Shares Energy Policy Vision With PA Lawmakers Patch.com; States News Service; Publicnow.com; Standard Journal
3/25/21 Scott Tinker Testifies Before the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Energy@UT News
3/26/21 Studies from University of Texas Austin Describe New Findings in Geology (Trace-elemental and Petrographic Constraints On the Severity of Hydrographic Restriction In the Silled Midland Basin During the Late Paleozoic Ice Age) Science Letter
3/26/21 Energy sector expert speaks to state General Assembly about mitigating environmental impacts Pennsylvania Business Report
3/31/21 The American Petroleum Institute did what? As a result of local weather? – Watts Up With That? The Shepherd of the Hills Gazette 
February
2/1/21 Houston company could provide answer to Elon Musk's $100 million question Houston Chronicle
2/2/21 Biden Meets with Moderate Republicans but Aid Plans are Far Apart  Pro Farmer
2/2/21 Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Sets Feb. 3 Hearing on Global Climate Trends Targeted News Service
2/2/21 Senate committee votes on energy secretary nominee, holds hearing on addressing climate change AP Planner
2/2/21 Why I Sold BP Seeking Alpha
2/3/21 Senate Energy Committee Issues Testimony From University of Texas-Austin's Bureau of Economic Geology Director Tinker Targeted News Service
2/3/21 FEB 3 MANCHIN, COMMITTEE HOLD FIRST CLIMATE HEARING OF 117TH CONGRESS States News Service
2/3/21 THIS IS NOT SCIENCE FICTION" SENATOR KING SPELLS OUT URGENCY TO ACT ON CLIMATE CHANGE States News Service; Targeted News Service
2/3/21 Manchin opens first climate hearing, calls for putting national needs over politics Mineral Daily News-Tribune
2/3/21 Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee - Hearing DC Daybook - Policy & News Events
2/3/21 Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee The Washington Daybook
2/3/21 Barrasso: Undermining America's Energy Security Will Not Solve Climate Change Congressional Documents and Publications; States News Service; Impact News Service
2/3/21 MURKOWSKI: AMERICA MUST MAINTAIN POSITION OF POWER IN O&G, LNG PRODUCTION US Fed News; States News Service; Targeted News Service; Impact News Service; Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska; marketscreener.com; Public Now
2/3/21 State Geologist of Texas Joins Trinity University Board of Trustees  Trinity University; Yahoo Finance; GlobeNewswire; Targeted News Service; Tamar Securities; Morningstar; Chroniclejournal - Markets; Deer Park Tribune Online; jotup.co; KTVN-TV Online; Arizona Republic Online;  Benzinga; Einpresswire.com;  Daily Press; Community Post; marketscreener.com; Inyo Register; InvestorPoint.com; Spoke;  RFD-TV Online; Canadian Insider Blog;  
2/3/21 Manchin touts "all-of-the above" energy policy as he heads first climate hearing of new Congress  Charleston Gazette-Mail 
2/3/21 Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Holds Hearing on Global Climate Trends CQ Transcriptions
2/4/21 Sen. Manchin, Committee Hold First Climate Hearing of 117th Congress Targeted News Service
2/5/21 Ex-Marathon geologist Scott Tinker is Director of the UT Bureau of Economic Geology, which doubles as an industry-oriented research arm of UT/Austin, and the Texas State Geological Survey   Twitter - Colonel Drake
2/5/21 Studies from Newcastle University Provide New Data on Solid Earth Research (The Assessment of Organic Matter Young's Modulus Distribution With Depositional Environment and Maturity) Science Letter
2/5/21 An invisible, odorless gas is pitting Texas against the Biden administration CNN; erienewsnow.com 
2/5/21 Manchin holds a hearing on climate change facts (and GOP invites deniers who make s**t up) Red, Green and Blue
2/7/21 Energy and Filmmaking MIT Energy Initiative
2/8/21 University of Texas Austin Researchers Yield New Study Findings on Energy [Attitudes on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) as a Mitigation Technology within the UNFCCC] Journal of Engineering
2/9/21 Biden's climate policies raise alarm about environmental damage The Washington Times; World Tribune; Menopausal Mother Nature; Climatedepot.com  
2/9/21 News from Around Campus UT Energy Bulletin 
2/10/21 The Other Energy Transition Feat: Dr. Scott Tinker Decouple
2/15/21 TIPRO promotes education with new State of Energy report Midland Reporter-Telegram
2/15/21 ‎Episode 65: Dr. Scott Tinker from the BEG and Documentary Series "Switch" PBE Podcast
2/17/21 Check out this exciting HGS Virtual General Lunch about the Austin Chalk Trend next week!  Twitter - Houston Geol Society
2/17/21 Dastur Selected to Design and Evaluate Techno-Economic Feasibility of India’s Largest Carbon Capture and Utilization Project at IOCL’s Flagship Koyali Refinery Business Wire India; Consumer Infoline; direktbroker.de; AD HOC NEWS; IANS; trading-house.net; webindia123.com 
2/18/21 India’s largest industrial carbon capture and utilization project pv magazine India
2/19/21 New Sedimentary Geology Study Results Reported from University of Texas Austin (Micropetrographic Characterization of a Siliciclastic-rich Chalk; Upper Cretaceous Austin Chalk Group Along the Onshore Northern Gulf of Mexico, Usa) Science Letter
2/19/21 Carbon Neutral is Not Nature Neutral UT News; LubbockOnline.com; San Antonio Express-News 
2/22/21  Like Developing Nations, Texas Confronts Lingering Water Crisis  Circle of Blue
2/24/21 Asteroid Dust Found in Crater Closes Case of Dinosaur Extinction  UT News; Earth.com; Intelligencer; ENP Newswire; States News Service; USFed News; Targeted News Service; Eurasia Review; Indian Agriculture News; ScienceDaily; EurekAlert; Forbes Online; Scitechdaily; Archaeology News Network; FocusTechnica; Brinkwire; Mirage News Australia; Astrobiology;  Space Daily; News Break; Scienmag; 7th Space; Earth.com; MeteoWeb (Italy)
2/25/21 Before winter storm, Lina Hidalgo warned of Category 5 hurricane conditions. Was she right? Laredo Morning Times; Houston Chronicle
January
1/4/21 TxExplainer: What the 2021 Texas Legislative Session Has in Store for UT Austin Alcalde
1/5/21 Ken Wisian (on Making Leadership Mistakes and Defining a Culture‪)‬ Daily Jo with John Oberg
1/12/21 Assessing Impacts of Water Management Related to Oil and Gas Development on Water Resources Austin Geological Society
1/12/21 Texas well-suited to become leading US producer of low-cost hydrogen: panelists S&P Global Platts; Platts Commodity News; Platts Coal Trader; Platts Energy Trader; Platts Gas Daily; Platts Megawatt Daily
1/13/21 Rebuttal to Geological Society of London Scientific Assertion on Local Weather Change The Shepherd of the Hills Gazette; Watts Up With That?; Newstx Blogs; Business Wire; Postmedia Breaking News; National Post; Contify Energy News; Indian Oil and Gas News
1/14/21 Dastur Selected to Design and Evaluate Techno-Economic Feasibility of India’s Largest Carbon Capture and Utilization Project at IOCL’s Flagship Koyali Refinery Valdosta Daily Times; Hydrocarbon Engineering; gasworld.com; Hydrocarbon Processing; Carbon Capture Journal; Chemical Industry Digest; Acrofan; Gulf Oil & Gas (Egypt); Impact Financial News; Markets - Financial Content;  DGAP Medientreff;  BusinessWire.com;  jotup.co; Canoe.com; National Post; Winslow, Evans & Crocker Online; Financial Post Magazine; Tamar Securities; Winnipeg Sun; SW Iowa News Source; Benzinga; Chronicle Tribune Online;  Manchester Times; Cadillac News Online; Killeen Daily Herald; Argus-Press; marketscreener.com; Chroniclejournal - Markets; Digital Journal; Ridgway Record;  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette;  Intellasia.net; Accountability Central; Spoke; Lezard (EN); NS Energy; AZoCleantech.com; MRC Plast;  Chemical Engineering Online; Foreign Investors on India; PROCESS WORLDWIDE Online; Chemical Industry Digest;   
1/19/21 UT-Austin partners with Chinese institute later deemed a security risk by Department of Education The College Fix;  Colorado our Community Now
1/20/21 We must go honest to 'go green' The Hill; UT News; National Wind Watch: Wind Energy News; 
1/21/21 Alex S. Broun Geology Collection donated to the University of Texas Bureau of Economic Geology Wimberley Valley Watershed Association; Wimberly View; News Break
1/21/21 Toxic substance or water supply? Lawmakers to weigh whether wastewater from oil fields could replenish the state's aquifers The Texas Tribune
1/22/21 Studies from University of Texas Austin in the Area of Structural Geology Reported (Salt Diapir Downbuilding: Fast Analytical Models Based On Rates of Salt Supply and Sedimentation) Science Letter
1/26/21 9-1-1 Lone Star episode centers around volcano erupting in Austin Fox7
1/29/21 Reports Outline Sedimentary Geology Study Findings from University of Texas Austin (Sedimentology of the Upper Pennsylvanian Organic-rich Cline Shale, Midland Basin: From Gravity Flows To Pelagic Suspension Fallout) Science Letter
1/29/21 Study Findings on Fuel Research Are Outlined in Reports from University of Texas Austin (Digital Rock Techniques To Study Shale Permeability: a Mini-review) Energy Weekly News
1/29/21 Houston company could provide answer to Elon Musk's $100 million question Houston Chronicle
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