Bureau of Economic Geology

University of Texas at Austin

Bureau Media Coverage: 2019

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July 2019
7/3/2019 Reducing energy poverty through education ESI Africa
7/5/2019 Researchers from University of Texas at Austin Report New Studies and Findings in the Area of Sedimentary Geology (Stratal Architecture of a Halokinetically Controlled Patch Reef Complex and Implications for Reservoir Quality: a Case Study From ...) Science Letter
7/8/2019 Balcones fault line dead, but UT monitoring others Fox 7 Austin; KDFW-TV Online
7/9/2019 In den USA tauchen gigantische Löcher im Boden auf - sie sind die Strafe für menschliche Gier  Business Insider Deutschland 
7/9/2019 Managing CO2 output Southeast Texas Business Journal
7/11/2019 2019 URTeC Returns To Rockies Roots American Oil & Gas Reporter Online
7/16/2019 Buried treasure trove of animal antiquities  Beeville Bee-Picayune 
7/22/2019 Project Works To Map And Monitor Aquifers And Springs Around Balmorhea State Park Marfa Public Radio
7/23/2019 New Map Outlines Seismic Faults Across DFW Region SMU Research; Bright Surf;  EurekAlert; WebNews Academic
7/23/2019 Many Dallas-Fort Worth Area Faults Have the Potential to Host Earthquakes, New Study Finds UT News; Stanford Report; States News Service; Targeted News Service; Mirage News Australia; Scienmag; Bioengineer; EurekAlert; ENN (Environmental News Network); Bright Surf;  Health medicine Network; NewsCaf;  ScienceDaily; LongRoom.com; POST Online Media; PreventionWeb; PressReleasePoint
7/24/2019 New Study Finds Faults Under North Texas Are Sensitive to Earthquakes NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth; KXAS-TV Online; 
7/24/2019 New Map Reveals More than 250 Fault Lines in Dallas-Fort Worth Area, Illustrating Potential Earthquake Risk The Weather Channel
7/25/2019 Billion Dollar Boxes (Photo Essay) UT News
7/25/2019 A Dallas Quake? New Mapping Outlines 251 Faults Across DFW Region Homeland Security Today
7/25/2019 Wastewater injection can make faults twice as likely to fail, quake study says  Dallas Morning News
7/26/2019 News Roundup: Researchers Map North Texas Fault Lines Vulnerable To Oil and Gas Drilling Texas Standard
7/30/2019 Wastewater injection could trigger earthquakes along a Texas fault system, UT researchers find KXAN-TV
7/31/2019 Monthly: Orocobre increases 1% on below average volume Australian Company News Bites - Stock Report
June 2019
6/3/2019 Railroad Commission, BEG collaborate on Surface Casing Estimator tool Midland Reporter-Telegram; San Antonio Express-News
6/4/2019 Change in the World Starts at Home UT News
6/5/2019 Elon Musk is building SpaceX's Mars rockets in a tiny Texas hamlet. But getting them off the ground there may be harder than he imagined. Business Insider
6/6/2019 What to Do About CO2? Try Stuffing It Into the Gulf of Mexico Wired; Grist
6/7/2019 Paleontology; Study Findings from University of Texas at Austin Provide New Insights into Paleontology (The Lapara Creek Fauna: Early Clarendonian of South Texas, Usa) Science Letter
6/9/2019 East Texas natural gas could get boost from pipeline, terminal project  Longview News-Journal; CommsMEA.com; Energy Monitor Worldwide (Jordan)
6/12/2019 First presentations of keynote speakers – TCCS-10 #SINTEFblog
6/14/2019 Reports on Chemical Engineering from China University of Petroleum (East China) Provide New Insights (Competitive Adsorption of Methane and Ethane In Montmorillonite Nanopores of Shale At Supercritical Conditions: a Grand Canonical Monte Carlo ...) Chemicals & Chemistry
6/20/2019 “Carbon Neutral Oil” Is Promising, But Far From Guaranteed Houston Public Media
6/20/2019 2019 NARO Texas Convention - July 21-23 GoHaynesvilleShale.com
6/21/2019 Climate change: The problem Texas business leaders are afraid to name Houston Chronicle; San Antonio Express-News
6/24/2019 UT tackles climate change, resource management with multidisciplinary approach The Daily Texan; U-Wire
6/27/2019 Unearthing the Ancient ‘Texas Serengeti’ The Alcalde; Medium
6/29/2019 ‘Energy sprawl’ threatens Texas’ wide-open spaces Houston Chronicle
May 2019
5/1/2019 Planet Texas 2050: For a Better Tomorrow Texas Connect
5/1/2019 Intel Rendering Framework and Intel Xe architecture poised to advance studio workflows Guru3D.com; ExtremeTech
5/2/2019 Foundation Goal is to Respect Big Bend Country Jeff Davis County Mountain Dispatch
5/3/2019 Researchers from University of Texas at Austin Report Findings in Oil and Gas Research (Dip-related Changes In Stratigraphic Architecture and Associated Sedimentological and Geochemical Variability In the Upper Cretaceous Eagle Ford Group In ...) Energy Weekly News
5/3/2019 Study Results from University of Texas at Austin Provide New Insights into Solid Earth Research (Tracer-guided Characterization of Dominant Pore Networks and Implications for Permeability and Wettability In Shale) Science Letter
5/5/2019 Get the scoop on the program, speakers, events at OTC Houston Chronicle
5/6/2019 Partnership Seeks to Fight Climate Change and Help Caribbean Nation’s Economy UT News; States News Service; Targeted News Service; Sciencemag; EurekAlert; Bioengineer; PressReleasePoint; iNews Cayman; Global Warming Focus
5/6/2019 East Texas Energy Symposium May 7 at East Texas Oil Museum The Gilmer Mirror
5/6/2019 Digitalization is Changing Offshore Operations Journal of Petroleum Technology
5/7/2019 East Texas Energy symposium offers community inside look at oil industry EastTexasMatters.com; ketknbc.com
5/8/2019 Advocates aim to rejuvenate energy industry Kilgore News Herald
5/10/2019 Storm water banking could help Texas manage floods and droughts Science Daily; Morning Ag Clips; States News Service
5/11/2019 Climate Change Partnership Spectrum News
5/11/2019 Weatherford Planning to File for Bankruptcy InvestorVillage
5/12/2019 Driftwood project would move gas from Haynesville, Permian to the world  Longview News-Journal; Panola Watchman; ArabianSupplyChain.com; Energy Monitor Worldwide
5/13/2019 Offshore industry: 'We really need to be serious' on climate EnergyWire
5/13/2019 Storm Water Banking Could Help Texas Manage Floods and Droughts UT News; Sciencemag; EurekAlert; Bioengineer; NewsCaf; Bright Surf; LongRoom.com; Eurasia Review; Times of News; WorldPRONews; States News Service; Health medicine Network; Terra Daily; PreventionWeb; Municipal Sewer & Water; Space Daily
5/13/2019 Saving storm water to manage flood and drought? Researchers say it's possible KXAN-TV
5/13/2019 Caribbean universities partner with American counterpart on climate change Caribbean News Now!; MENA FM; Middle East and North Africa Financial Network
5/14/2019 Rocky Mountains Shale, Production Optimization Bakken, DJ & Powder River Congress 2019 EIN Newsdesk; OilVoice
5/17/2019 Studies from University of Texas at Austin Add New Findings in the Area of Geology (Accommodation-versus Supply-dominated Systems for Sediment Partitioning To Deep Water) Science Letter
5/18/2019 Banking flood waters could help in time of drought KLBJ-AM
5/20/2019 Digital Geologic Map of Amistad National Recreation Area and Vicinity, Texas and Mexico  US Official News
5/22/2019 Plotting a radical middle ground to reduce energy poverty through education  Orient Daily; Oilman Magazine; SweetCrude Reports
5/23/2019 CO2 Captured from a Coal Power Station Aids Oil Recovery  Valve Magazine
5/30/2019 EQInfo - Global Earthquakes  ZD Net
April 2019
4/1/2019 Airborne Lidar for Archaeology in Central and South America Lidar Magazine
4/1/2019 OTC Starts Another 50 Years by Looking to the Future Journal of Petroleum Technology
4/3/2019 Energy Industry Forecast Expert to Give Presentation at OCU Publicnow.com
4/3/2019 You are Invited! Sustainable Energy Transitions Lecture with Dr. Scott Tinker Landnews; Oklahoma Gazette
4/5/2019 Office Space Then & Now Movie Locations
4/11/2019 Geology Expert to Visit, Give Lecture on Energy MediaOCU
4/11/2019 SWITCH: Green Drinks April Film Screening Eco-Business
4/11/2019 Ancient “Texas Serengeti” Had Elephant-Like Animals, Rhinos, Alligators and More UT News; Science Letter; Indian Agricultural News; Targeted News Service; States News Service; WebNews - English; HeritageDaily – Archaeology News; Bioengineer; Scienmag; ScienceDaily; EurekAlert;  Bright Surf; A Magical Journey; Ideas, Inventions And Innovations; TreeHugger; Before It's News; ZME Science; Archaeology News Network; Geology Page; ZME Newstex Blogs; POST Online Media; Off the Kuff 
4/12/2019 Climate and energy solutions require setting politics aside The Hill; UT News; WebNews - English; UT Energy Bulletin
4/15/2019 Hydrocarbon accumulation processes and mechanisms in Lower Jurassic tight sandstone reservoirs in the Kuqa subbasin, Tarim Basin, northwest China: A case study of the Dibei tight gas field AAPG Bulletin
4/15/2019 Geologist - Access to energy key to ending global poverty The Journal Record
4/15/2019 Fossils reveal elephant-like animals once roamed Texas earth.com news; Mother Nature Network
4/16/2019 Tenth oil-and-gas gathering set May 7 at KC Kilgore News Herald; Tribune Content Agency - Business News
4/16/2019 As Nature Claims Shipwrecks, Historians Can Only Watch Texas Standard; KUT-FM; KERA-FM
4/16/2019 Ghawar vs. Permian Basin: Is There Even a Comparison? Journal of Petroleum Technology
4/17/2019 Green energy isn’t really green, geologist explains The Oklahoman
4/19/2019 Findings Update Understanding of Subsurface Research (Investigation of Seismic Attributes, Depositional Environments, and Hydrocarbon Sweet-spot Distribution In the Serbin Field, Taylor Formation, Southeast  Science Letter
4/21/2019 Energy symposium set May 7 at KC Longview News-Journal
4/26/2019 Greenhouse Gases - Research Conducted at University of Texas at Austin Has Provided New Information about Greenhouse Gases  Science Letter
4/30/2019 Study Results from University of Texas at Austin Update Understanding of Engineering - Spatial Discrimination of Complex_ Low-relief Quaternary Siliciclastic Strata Using Airborne Lidar Physics Week
March 2019
3/5/2019 50 years of displaying the offshore's best Energy Oil and Gas
3/10/2019 Dr. Scott Tinker: Lecture and Q&A Oklahoma City University
3/10/2019 Bulletin - Bureau Of Economic Geology Publications, Issue 57 Epub Trendd
3/14/2019 More homes evacuated in Georgetown due to gas leak Fox 7 Austin
3/15/2019 Energy expert to speak at OCU NewsOK.com; The Daily Oklahoman; Public Now
3/18/2019 Texas Solar Power Company – Renewable Energy, rent roof space for solar panels Bakersfield Finance
3/19/2019 The Art in the Forest Peter Zeihan
3/26/2019 Energy documentary producer to speak at OCU The Journal Record
3/27/2019 Geology lecture-MUD38_Bugs under stress-Compression of marine sediments beneath the seafloor. US Fed News
3/28/2019 Four Years of Studies in Texas Leads to Conclusion That Groundwater Contamination is Not From Drilling The Daily Digger
3/31/2019 Hydraulic fracturing key to educational affordability The Daily Texan
February 2019
2/1/2019 Coxsackie environmental documentary series HudsonValley360
2/1/2019 Energy, Carbon and Poverty: Seeking the Radical Middle Cspg
2/1/2019 Analysis - Australia's rolling blackouts may provide lessons for Texas grid operator  S&P Global Platts; Platts Coal Trader; Platts Megawatt Daily; Coal Zoom; 
2/4/2019 Fifth Annual UT Energy Week Explores New Innovations & Technologies, Emerging Markets & Trends UT News; Targeted News Service; States News Service; WebNews - English
2/4/2019 Hill Country Town Picks Up Pieces After Sand Plants Head West KUT; KERA-TV; KUHF-FM 
2/5/2019 UT Energy Week Kicks Off In Austin  Patch
2/6/2019 Sharp bends make rivers wander Science Daily; UPI; Breitbart; Fiormarkets.us; NASA Landsat Science; UT Research Showcase; EurekAlert; Bright Surf; Newscaf; LongRoom.com; Health Medicine Network; Times of News; Seed Daily; Space Daily; Phys.org
2/7/2019 Renewables, nuclear, CCS to play role in decarbonized economy: experts  S&P Global Platts; Platts Megawatt Daily; Coal Zoom
2/7/2019 Water In Energy conference gears up for second year Midland Reporter-Telegram; PR Newswire; Plus Company Updates; Global English (Middle East and North Africa Financial Network); Contify Energy News; WebNews - English;  Fat Pitch Financials; Sweetwater Reporter; MyMotherLode.com; Observer News Enterprise; Mammoth Times Online; Benzinga; Daily Press; Ridgway Record; KUAM-TV;  Punxsutawney Spirit; WFMZ-TV; Numbers Marketplace; Daily Herald - Cook County Online; Finanzen.ch Online; WVIR-TV; Oklahoman Online; Decatur Daily Democrat Online; Pilot-News Online;  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette; WLNE-TV; KXTQ-FM; WBCB TV; My Lubbock TV;  KFMB-TV; Finanzen.net; Ticker Technologies; Telemundo Lubbock;  Double T 973; Oldies 97.7 FM; Antlers American Online;  Chronicle-Journal Online; Starkville Daily News Online; Community Post; Post & Mail Online; KFMB-FM; Valley City Times-Record Online; Evening Leader Online; KFMB-AM; finanzen.at; The Kane Republican;  Lezard (EN); Malvern Daily Record;  Big Spring Herald Online; KXTQ-FM; Wapakoneta Daily News; Erie News Now; Inyo Register; Saline Courier; Spoke; KTVN-TV;  KXXV-TV;  Morning News; InvestorPoint.com; VB Profiles;  WICZ-TV; KEYC-TV; Morningstar StockInvestor; Markets Insider; KLKN-TV; Renewable Energy World North America; NewsChannel 36; KQCW-TV; KITV-TV; KOTV-TV;  NewsBlaze;  WFMJ-TV; Daily Times Leader; KASA-TV; FOX 34; GoEvnts.com; KWTV-TV; Buffalo News; WORLD GEN; WBOC-TV; KLCW-TV - CW Lubbock; WZVN-TV; Virtual Press Office; WSIL-TV; RFD-TV; KLBB-FM; Stock Market Summary for Today; Oil gas daily; One News Page; KAKE TV;  Oil & Gas 360; 
2/8/2019 Geologic Modeling of Eagle Ford Facies Continuity Based on Outcrop Images and Depositional Processes Energy Weekly News
2/8/2019 Blackstone bets $500 million on growing full-cycle water management trend Midland Reporter-Telegram
2/13/2019 The geology of Texas: stratigraphy  Texas ScholarWorks
2/14/2019 UT power plant makes a lot of energy but which buildings require the most? The Daily Texan
2/15/2019 Ground Motion Model for Small-to-Moderate Earthquakes in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas Science Letter
2/18/2019 Cover - A multi-data view of the Gulf of Mexico offshore basin Petroleum Geoscience
2/22/2019 Understanding the West Texas Earthquake Problem UT News
2/22/2019 Keeping Up with the Older Generation Proves Costly and Futile in the Permian Journal of Petroleum Technology 
2/25/2019 Earthquake monitoring is important to the Permian Basin Midland Reporter-Telegram
2/25/2019 Carbon Sequestration with Dr. Susan Hovorka The American Shoreline Podcast Network
2/25/2019 Researcher details issues that could hamper production growth Midland Reporter-Telegram
2/26/2019 Bigger Players winning Permian profitability game Unconventional Oil & Gas Monitor
2/27/2019 Conventional in Unconventional—Where’s The Love? Dillinginfo Blog
2/27/2019 Chesapeake, Devon, Apache to speak at sand and water conferences PR Newswire; Contify Energy News; WebNews - English; Sweetwater Reporter; Observer News Enterprise;  Mammoth Times Online; Pilot-News Online; Decatur Daily Democrat; Pittsburgh Post-Gazette; Ridgway Record; Antlers American Online; Daily Press; Punxsutawney Spirit; Chronicle-Journal Online; Post & Mail Online;  Evening Leader Online; Valley City Times-Record; WFMZ-TV; Markets Insider; finanzen.at; The Kane Republican; Yahoo Finance; Oklahoman Online; Malvern Daily Record; Finanzen.ch Online; Big Spring Herald; Lezard; Arizona Republic; Wapakoneta Daily News; Saline Courier; Starkville Daily News;  Morningstar StockInvestor;  Community Post; Finanzen.net; Inyo Register; Ticker Technologies; InvestorPoint.com; Morning News; Benzinga; KUAM-TV; Double T 973; Telemundo Lubbock; Oldies 97.7 FM; WBCB TV; numbers Marketplace; KXTQ-FM; My Lubbock TV; KFMB-TV; One News Page; WBOC-TV; KFMB-AM; KAKE TV; Spoke; jotup.co; NewsBlaze; KXXV-TV; WFMJ-TV; KOTV-TV; Erie News Now; WSIL-TV; RFD-TV Online; Daily Herald - Cook County Online; MyMotherLode.com; Fat Pitch Financials; KTVN-TV; KASA-TV; WVIR-TV; FOX 34;  KXTQ-FM; KWTV-TV; Daily Times Leader; Renewable Energy World North America Online; KEYC-TV;  KITV-TV; KLBB-FM; KLCW-TV - CW Lubbock; WICZ-TV;  Oil gas daily; GoEvnts.com; Buffalo News Online; WBOC2-TV; Oil & Gas 360; Gaining Green; 
January 2019
1/2/2019 New shale gas drilling methods boost production potential Energy Monitor Worldwide
1/4/2019 Energy Mexico 2019 Anuncia LoS Avances De Su Congreso Internacional Noti.mx; Teorema.com.mx; Clase Turista Online
1/8/2019 LGS Luncheon – January 2019 lafayettegeologicalsociety.org
1/14/2019 Energy, Carbon and Poverty: Seeking the Radical Middle – CSPG: February 28, 2019 EnergyNow.ca
1/14/2019 Does Lightning Strike Twice? GEO ExPro
1/14/2019 UT: Recoverable gas from future US shale wells on rise OGJ Newsletter
1/15/2019 This metal is powering today's technology-at what price? National Geographic Magazine Online
1/16/2019 Ice Age climate caused sediment sourcing 180 in Gulf of Mexico  EurekAlert; UT Research Showcase; Global Warming Focus; Scienmag; Bright Surf; Health Medicine Network; LongRoom.com; Newscaf; Science Daily; Ocean News & Technology
1/17/2019 Texas PUC directs ERCOT to implement price adder, market efficiency reforms  S&P Global Platts; Platts Energy Trader; Platts Megawatt Daily; SNL Power Daily; SNL Financial Daily; SNL Canada Energy Week; SNL Power Policy Week; SNL Generation Markets Week; SNL Electric Transmission Week; SNL Power Daily with Market Report
1/18/2019 Atmospheric services industry may emerge from oil and gas Houston Chronicle; Laredo Morning Times; San Antonio Express-News
1/21/2019 A new Editor for North America - Steve Laubach Journal of Structural Geology
1/22/2010 Private Company Successfully Demonstrates Deep Geologic Disposal of Prototype Nuclear Waste Canister Power
1/23/2019 EIA's New England power grid interactive webpage links supply to demand S&P Global Platts
1/23/2019 The Haynesville: A Natural Gas Bellwether EnerCom Inc.; Newstex Blogs; Oil & Gas 360; JD Supra;
1/23/2019 Texas regulators to mull utilities' role in energy storage SNL Power Policy Week; SNL Generation Markets Week; SNL Canada Energy Week; SNL Renewable Energy Weekly; SNL Power Daily with Market Report; Platts Megawatt Daily; Platts Energy Trader; FERC Power Report
1/24/2019 Houston oil company makes two $1 million gifts to save popular West Texas swimming hole Houston Chronicle
1/26/2019 A Two Way Street Mentoring at Beloit is a beautiful thing to see in action US Official News
1/31/2019 Updated analysis of major shale plays shows increase in recoverable natural gas UT Energy Bulletin
1/31/2019 MEDIA ADVISORY: Energy Politics, Emerging Technologies and New Markets to be Debated During UT Energy Week UT News; States News Service