Annual Report 2014 - Bureau of Economic Geology

But of the laboratories and research the confluence of energy, the the crude-oil price crash of the efforts that are predominantly environment, and the economy. [...] of researchers from the Bureau confirmed the award of the has just been awarded over grant, coming on the heels of The shale oil study will be the $1.5 million to study the the completion of the team’s most comprehensive look at nation’s two most prolific shale groundbreaking study of four actual well-by-well results from the Bakken and Eagle Ford shale oil plays to date. [...] Cherokee, Rusk, Tyler, Polk, and In 2014, the STARR program During the 2012–2014 biennium, Navarro counties; the Marble completed additional the STARR program was revenue Falls Formation in Jack County; projects contributing to the positive by a net factor of 15.6x, the Cline Shale and Wolfcamp understanding of Texas resources chiefly because of several thousand formations in Howard and and associ. [...] The Bureau's to the original DOE proposal, tor of the GCCC will monitor the first support with EOR site suitability Bureau, and 3 years of geologic storage of and characterization, and help Susan the injected CO. [...] Bureau scientists provide the tools and training needed for students and teachers to learn how to measure the topography, map the Earth Science Week vegetation line and shoreline, Career Day and observe Kitty Milliken leads a GeoFORCE trip to The Bureau hosted the weather and the Guadalupe Mountains in West Texas.