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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
  • FutureGen in Kentucky (3.9 Mb): Geologic options to help meet clean air and energy challenges of the future
  
  KGS Regional and National CO2 Sequestration Research Efforts
  • 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

 

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