USGS Energy Program

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Our produced waters database and viewer have been updated with 23 new datasets and a fresh new look. Check it out for all your #geochemistry needs! https://t.co/XNvWwEHkJv

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It’s here, our one-stop shop for all large-scale #SolarEnergy facilities that we made with @BerkeleyLab & @ENERGY! See all 3700 large-scale #solar plants in the US in this interactive map: https://t.co/Vok9pOBuOJ

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Our latest #data release documents the total neutron scattering of methane in samples from the Niobrara Formation at wet-gas maturity level: https://t.co/sBk5Ztmkvb

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We have a new coal assessment! We estimate 08 billion short tons of available surface #coal & 2.4 bst of underground available coal resources in Wyoming’s Cherokee Coal Bed: https://t.co/fSrYNgfm04 @USGS_WY @WyGeoSurvey

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We’ve got a new #oilandgas assessment! We estimate 0.8 billion barrels of #oil and 16 trillion cubic feet of #natgas in the Smackover Formation that spans Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida: https://t.co/45zQ2Z2rqj #energy

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We have a new report out evaluating the use of machine-learning and geostatistical approaches for spatial modeling geoenergy resources: https://t.co/PKhPIWcMYf #energy #geology #MachineLearning #AI

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Our next #oilandgas assessment takes us to Morocco, where we estimate 3.8 billion barrels of #oil and 20.7 trillion cubic feet of #natgas off the Atlantic coast of Morocco: https://t.co/XavwMpLhFS #energy #petroleum #geology

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We have a new #natgas assessment! We estimate a mean of 5.2 trillion cubic feet of coalbed #naturalgas in the Vermejo Formation and Raton Formation northeast of Santa Fe in New Mexico: https://t.co/35zjvfs958 #energy #geology #petroleum

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With the rise of both continuous #oilandgas development & interest in storing carbon in geologic features, there’s more interest in studying the pores in organic matter of source-rock reservoirs. Here’s a #data analysis of that very topic: https://t.co/7GnaWUyBuY #Energy

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We’ve got a new paper out using Worldview-3 imagery to map abandoned #uranium #mines in Texas: https://t.co/dvJcaaqIEb @OSMRE #Energy

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We’ve got a new study out estimating the potential #energy & #carbon dioxide storage potential for Western Europe: https://t.co/LhOJuFKs3g We estimate 36.7 gigatons of CO2 could be stored with #oil reservoirs accounting for 32% of that total & #NatGas reservoirs the remaining 68%

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New #data release! We’ve got evidence here that ductile strain in greenschist rocks in Taiwan led to natural graphitization: https://t.co/5Mom1cFW8y #Energy

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We have a new paper that broadens the description of sedimentary organic matter from the conventional use of #coal petrography to include palynological & geochemical sedimentary organic matter: https://t.co/6wCmq0YAai #Energy

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We’ve got a new #OilandGas assessment out! It’s the Bakken, but not *the* Bakken-this one’s in northwestern Montana, and we estimate about 200 million barrels of #oil and 1 trillion cubic feet of #NatGas: https://t.co/1IyOUYxDtD #Energy

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It's Great American Outdoors Day! We love the outdoors, because that's where fieldwork happens. And fieldwork takes us to spectacular places like this one in Alaska. We hope you enjoy your outdoors today! #geology #FieldworkFriday #Fieldwork #GreatAmericanOutdoorsDay #Outdoors

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Earlier this week, we released an analysis of graptolite & bitumen for thermal overmaturity. Here’s the #data that went into that analysis: https://t.co/hNhGuPtP1j #Energy

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We’ve got a new #OilandGas assessment out! This one’s up north, where we estimate 7.8 billion barrels of #oil & 463.7 trillion cubic feet of #natgas: https://t.co/tKHeVQfRjq #Petroleum #Energy

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Check out this feature by our own Dr. Carolyn Ruppel and @oceanexplorer authors on a newly discovered ecosystem of tube worms that live on methane seeps near the ocean margin of the Aleutian Islands: https://t.co/0FsSG0epGg

📷: NOAA Ocean Explorer

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We’ve got a new #data release that contains bulk chemical data for fly ash samples from the Atkinson Heat and Power Plant in Fairbanks, AK and @NIST Standard Reference Materials used for quality assurance and quality control: https://t.co/wDhtmyQA5E #Energy

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Ever wonder what happens to an oil & gas well that reaches the end of its life? Sometimes it creates problems. Billions of 💲 of problems, in fact.💸 Check out how we're helping address these problems: https://t.co/zF3XIIJwg7

📷: @USFWS