sequestration training, outreach, research & education

STORE at the UN Conference

more

The carbon sequestration site at Cranfield Field outside of Natchez, Mississippi is a centerpiece of STORE's Research and Technology Transfer Initiative.

Highlights of field trips to Cranfield include a tour of Denbury Resources' gas-separation facility, venting of CO2 from a flow line at an injection well, viewing of core of the injection and confining zone intervals of the Tuscaloosa Formation, and viewing of monitoring instrumentation. READ MORE>>

 

Katherine Romanak Discusses CCS as part of the NAE Grand Challenges Initiative at UT Austin

On January 30, 2012, Dr. Katherine Romanak spoke as part of the National Academy of Engineering initiative called the Longhorn Grand Challenges Scholars Program at The University of Texas at Austin. Engineering students are studying the Grand Challenges in engineering as outlined by the National Academy of Engineering. Carbon capture and storage is one of the Grand Challenges.  Katherine spoke about geologic CO2 storage and careers in carbon management. View the video of the presentation "Geologic CO2 Storage".


STORE Partners with Chevron and Denbury Resources to Train Petroleum Engineers from University of Stavanger

STORE members Jon Olson, Hilary Olson and Vanessa Nuñez-Lopez were contracted by Chevron to put on an educational workshop for 50 visiting students from the University of Stavanger who spent a week in Houston, Texas learning more about U.S. oil and gas operations. Graduate students from the Dept. of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering (Iona Precious Williams and Li Ji) helped deliver the workshop on January 19, 2012 at Chevron's office. In addition, Denbury Resources partnered with STORE to host the students at a field trip of the Hastings Field, south of Houston.


 


Can Potatoes Power the Planet?

STORE Public Outreach Video Series: Potatoes?


View our YouTube channel with all of our public outreach videos!


STORE at the Florida Association of Science Teachers 2011 Conference

STORE, in partnership with the TXESS Revolution, provided the keynote speakers on Energy and Climate Change Mitigation Technology, along with workshops for teachers and science specialists, at the 2011 Florida Association of Science Teachers Annual Conference in Orlando, Florida (October 19-22, 2011). Over 800 people participated in the conference.


Photo: Drs. Katherine Romanak (Bureau of Economic Geology), Kathy Ellins (Institute for Geophysics), Hilary Olson (Institute for Geophysics) and Jon Olson (Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering) were part of a team of scientists and engineers from The University of Texas at Austin at the recent FAST meeting. 


2011 Rio Grande Valley Science Association Annual Conference

The Fall 2011 Rio Grande Valley Science Association Conference was attended by over 500 teachers from across the Rio Grande Valley, October 7-8, 2011, at PSJA (Pharr-San Juan-Alamo) North High School in Pharr, Texas. STORE provided the opening speaker and several workshops for the conference, highlighting energy sources and challenges, as well as carbon sequestration.

Dr. Jon Olson of STORE spoke at the RGVSA Conference on Friday evening.Dr. Jon E. Olson of STORE was the featured speaker for the Friday night (October 7, 7pm) opening of the conference at PSJA North High School. His presentation, Energy Sources and Energy Challenges, reviewed this country’s energy usage and what role it plays in our way of life. There was some light-hearted quizzing to assess the audience’s energy IQ. Fossil fuels and alternatives were compared. Technologies for climate mitigation, namely carbon sequestration and the use of CO2 in enhanced oil recovery methods were also presented. The latest headline in the news, hydraulic fracturing for shale gas, was briefly discussed in the context of its impact on water resources and the potential for earthquakes. Finally, the opportunity for energy careers in petroleum and geosystems engineering was discussed. The lecture was free and open to the general public.

Midwestern Governors Association Delegation, Houston, Texas

The Midwestern Governors Association (MGA), in partnership with the Great Plains Institute (GPI), the University of Texas’ Alliance for Sequestration Training, Outreach, Research and Education (STORE), Denbury Resources, Southern Co. and the Southern States Energy Board (SSEB), organized a public-private regional delegation to Texas and Mississippi during September 27-30, 2011 to focus on commercial enhanced oil recovery using carbon dioxide for tertiary production, or CO2-EOR. The delegation visited commercial CO2-EOR operations and received expert briefings about technical, economic, project development, and environmental aspects of EOR and about successful policies and public-private partnerships that have helped expand the commercial CO2-EOR industry in the Gulf Coast region, including opportunities for using this technology for storage of CO2. STORE contributed a workshop (presentation links on our website) on Wednesday, September 28, at the Houston Research Center, which included presentations and viewing of Frio cores.

STORE Partners with Rio Grande Valley Science Assocation and GirlTalk for "Energy and You in the 21st Century" Workshop

In partnership with the Rio Grande Valley Science Association and GilrTalk, STORE provided curriculum and instruction for an energy workshop for incoming 6th- to 8th-grade girls from the Rio Grande Valley area as part of the organization's Engaging Girls in Science Camp, June 6-9, 2011.

STORE members, Dr. Jon Olson and Dr. Hilary Olson provided curriculum and instruction for a summer workshop, Energy and You in the 21st Century, for incoming 6th- to 8th-grade girls from the Rio Grande Valley area.

 

Topics included energy resources and challenges, climate change, carbon mitigation and carbon sequestration. Students completed hands-on lab activities as well as problem sets that involved higher level math, including some algebra, that helped them understand energy concepts and gave them insight into an engineering and science profession. Two local middle school teachers also attended the workshop and assisted with instruction.

 

STORE Partners with TXESS Revolution for "Energy, Climate and Water in the 21st Century" Summer Institute

In collaboration with TXESS Revolution, STORE provided instructors for a two-week professional development workshop for K-12 teachers at The University of Texas at Austin on Energy, Climate and Water in the 21st Century.

STORE discussed various energy resources, water monitoring and climate change mitigation technologies (carbon sequestration) at the workshop, June 13-25, 2011.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Precious Williams (above left), graduate student in Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering Department, and Dr. Jon Olson (above right), STORE member and professor in the department, assist teachers with a porosity and permeability lab.

Fighting Climate Change... by Pumping Oil?

Marc Airhart, January 2009

Most people don't think of producing petroleum and fighting greenhouse gas emissions as compatible endeavors. But oil and gas operators in Texas have decades of experience in a practice that may be a first step in greenhouse gas reduction.