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Posted inEditors' Highlights

Drones Hunt for Impacts of Oil Exploration on Wetland Emissions

by Ankur R. Desai 19 April 201811 January 2022

Seismic lines, constructed for petroleum resource exploration, disturb Canadian peatlands, but how can we detect their impact on greenhouse gas budgets?

Recent studies show that fluid injection wells like this one can affect seismic activity far from the injection site.
Posted inFeatures

Fluid Injection Wells Can Have a Wide Seismic Reach

by S. L. Peterie, R. D. Miller, R. Buchanan and B. DeArmond 17 April 201813 January 2022

High-volume fluid injection can cumulatively increase underground pore pressure and induce earthquakes in regions unexpectedly far from injection wells, recent Kansas studies show.

A Basler BT-67 fixed wing aircraft releases oil dispersant over oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill on 5 May 2010.
Posted inNews

Oil Spill Response Knowledge Grows, but New Risks Emerge

by L. G. Shields 3 April 201818 May 2022

Oil spill expert Nancy Kinner discusses lessons learned from Deepwater Horizon, dangers of aging infrastructure and atomized dispersants, and a Russian plan that imperils Arctic waters.

New research suggests more earthquakes may be the result of fracking than previously believed
Posted inResearch Spotlights

More Earthquakes May Be the Result of Fracking Than We Thought

by S. Witman 8 February 20188 December 2022

Scientists show small earthquakes caused by fracking near Guy-Greenbrier, Ark., in 2010 that could have been early indicators of high stress levels on larger faults deeper underground.

Posted inEditors' Vox

Spills, Sediment, and Shoreline Contamination

by T. P. Clement 8 January 201818 May 2022

A recent paper in Reviews of Geophysics describes the formation and behavior of oil-sediment residues in marine and coastal environments following an oil spill.

A school in Kern County in California destroyed by the 1952 earthquake.
Posted inNews

How to Trigger a Massive Earthquake

by L. Joel 19 October 201727 October 2021

Humans may be to blame for California’s second-largest 20th century earthquake, and a team of seismologists has now proposed how that could have happened.

Posted inEditors' Vox

Where and How Can We Find New Sources of Oil and Gas?

by S. Gaci and O. Hachay 10 May 20178 November 2021

The editors of a new book on oil and gas exploration describe developments in methods for identifying oil and gas fields, and for making accurate predictions about their extractive potential.

Posted inResearch Spotlights

River's Rise Linked to Oklahoma's Largest Earthquake

by S. Witman 13 January 20179 May 2022

As human-induced earthquakes increase in frequency and magnitude, researchers race to uncover their effects on surface water and groundwater.

Processes like mining and drilling tunnels, which displace material from the subsurface, can induce earthquakes.
Posted inNews

It’s Not Just Fracking: New Database of Human-Induced Quakes

by JoAnna Wendel 22 December 201616 February 2022

In the largest compilation of anthropogenically induced earthquakes, causes range from building water reservoirs to mining.

Crews work on a relief well at California’s Aliso Canyon gas field after a leak that began in December 2015.
Posted inNews

Soil Bacteria Could Help Absorb Natural Gas Leaks

by Aaron Sidder 14 December 201618 May 2022

For the first time, new research examines the response of terrestrial soil microbes to a massive natural gas blowout and offers hope for new remediation strategies.

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