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Contact: Dave Harris

Current research (active funded projects)

CO₂ Sequestration - opportunities for storage of CO₂
- Kentucky Consortium for Carbon Storage (KYCCS.ORG)
- FutureGen in Kentucky (3.9 Mb): Geologic options to help meet clean air and energy challenges of the future
- Midcontinent Interactive Digital Carbon Atlas and Relational Database(MIDCARB)
- NATional CARBon Sequestration Database and Geographic Information System(NATCARB)
- Midwest Geological Sequestration Consortium(MGSC)
- Midwest Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership(MRCSP)
Predicting Cumulative production of Devonian Shale Gas Wells from Early Well Performance Data, Appalachian Basin of Eastern Kentucky
Trenton-Black River tectonic dolomites
Trenton-Black River Appalachian Basin Exploration Consortium
Coalbed Methane

Continuing research

Tar Sands of Western Kentucky - future petroleum resource
Subsurface stratigraphy of the Corniferous - understanding resources
Illinois Basin Cross Sections - understanding deep structure
Rough Creek Graben - deep gas in western Kentucky
Stratigraphy and Reservoir Sedimentology of Mississippian Carbonates - understanding reservoirs
Regional Subsurface Maps in Kentucky - resource tools
Gas Reservoir Character of the Devonian Shales - understanding resources
Structure and Kinematics of the Rome Trough - deep basin evolution
East Continent Rift Basin - deep structure of central Kentucky

Summaries of completed research projects

Rome Trough Consortium - deep gas in eastern Kentucky
CO₂ sequestration in the Devonian shale for enhanced methane production

Truck-mounted drilling rig