Mudrock Systems Research Laboratory Convenes 2025 Annual Technical Meeting

The Bureau of Economic Geology’s Mudrock Systems Research Laboratory (MSRL) recently brought together a large group of the consortium’s sponsors and technical partners for its Annual Technical Meeting at the Bureau’s facilities in Austin. Convened over two days, the Meeting included a full slate of fascinating presentations by a number of MSRL researchers, and two informative core workshops held in the Bureau’s core research building.

Topics covered were wide-ranging and included: Permian Basin and Haynesville stratigraphy, facies distribution, and characterization; hydrocarbon geochemistry, expulsion, migration and oil saturation studies in the Permian Basin; and effective permeability, pore analysis, and hydraulic fracturing studies in mudrock systems.

Participants also enjoyed lunch in the newly renovated Stoneburner Family Rock Garden, making it the inaugural event since the renovation completion of this beautiful retreat within the Bureau of Economic Geology complex.

Dr. Toti Larson, MSRL Principal Investigator, noted, “We spent two days with technical talks and core workshops focused on reservoir quality, geologic characterization, relative permeability, and oil quality prediction for the Delaware Basin, Midland Basin, and the Haynesville Shale. It was nice to spend time talking about subsurface geology at the core workshops!”

For more information about the research of the Mudrock Systems Research Laboratory, or to join, please contact Toti Larson.