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The Future of Geoenergy - A Perspective (2024)
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Gluyas, J. G., & Fowler, N. (in press). The Future of Geoenergy - A Perspective. Geoenergy Science and Engineering,

Energy from Earth resources (geoenergy) in the form of coal, oil and gas has fueled global society since the Industrial Revolution began. Amongst the consequences of fueling society and associated population growth, is climate change, driven by the e... Read More about The Future of Geoenergy - A Perspective.

Microdroplets initiate organic-inorganic interactions and mass transfer in thermal hydrous geosystems (2024)
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Yuan, G., Jin, Z., Cao, Y., Schulz, H.-M., Gluyas, J., Liu, K., …Wang, Y. (2024). Microdroplets initiate organic-inorganic interactions and mass transfer in thermal hydrous geosystems. Nature Communications, 15(1), Article 4960. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-49293-y

Organic-inorganic interactions regulate the dynamics of hydrocarbons, water, minerals, CO2, and H2 in thermal rocks, yet their initiation remains debated. To address this, we conducted isotope-tagged and in-situ visual thermal experiments. Isotope-ta... Read More about Microdroplets initiate organic-inorganic interactions and mass transfer in thermal hydrous geosystems.

Probabilistic Determination of the Role of Faults and Intrusions in Helium‐Rich Gas Fields Formation (2024)
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Halford, D. T., Karolytė, R., Andreason, M. W., Cathey, B., Cathey, M., Dellenbach, J. T., …Ballentine, C. J. (2024). Probabilistic Determination of the Role of Faults and Intrusions in Helium‐Rich Gas Fields Formation. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 25(6), Article e2024GC011522. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024gc011522

Natural gas fields with economic helium (>0.3 He %) require the radioactive decay of crustal uranium (U) and thorium (Th) to generate He and tectonic/structural regimes favorable to releasing and concentrating He. An unknown is determining the role o... Read More about Probabilistic Determination of the Role of Faults and Intrusions in Helium‐Rich Gas Fields Formation.

Coevolutionary Diagenesis in Tight Sandstone and Shale Reservoirs within Lacustrine-Delta Systems: A Case Study from the Lianggaoshan Formation in the Eastern Sichuan Basin, Southwest China (2024)
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Jiang, N., Wang, X., Zhou, H., Luo, L., Tan, X., Zhu, Y., …Gu, Y. (in press). Coevolutionary Diagenesis in Tight Sandstone and Shale Reservoirs within Lacustrine-Delta Systems: A Case Study from the Lianggaoshan Formation in the Eastern Sichuan Basin, Southwest China. Minerals, 14(4), Article 335. https://doi.org/10.3390/min14040335

Tight sandstone and shale oil and gas are the key targets of unconventional oil and gas exploration in the lake-delta sedimentary systems of China. Understanding the coevolutionary diagenesis of sandstone and shale reservoirs is crucial for the predi... Read More about Coevolutionary Diagenesis in Tight Sandstone and Shale Reservoirs within Lacustrine-Delta Systems: A Case Study from the Lianggaoshan Formation in the Eastern Sichuan Basin, Southwest China.

The depositional settings of organic-rich shale in the faulted lacustrine basin: A case study of the Y1 Member of the Yingcheng Formation in the Songliao Basin (2024)
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Lan, H., Guo, M., Fu, M., Gluyas, J., Guo, H., Li, D., …Xing, F. (2024). The depositional settings of organic-rich shale in the faulted lacustrine basin: A case study of the Y1 Member of the Yingcheng Formation in the Songliao Basin. Oil Shale, 41(1), 49-70. https://doi.org/10.3176/oil.2024.1.03

Volcanic activity is often associated with the development of faulted lacustrine basins. Organic-rich shale in such basins usually contains abundant volcanic material. The influence of volcanic input on organic-rich shale deposition in the basin stud... Read More about The depositional settings of organic-rich shale in the faulted lacustrine basin: A case study of the Y1 Member of the Yingcheng Formation in the Songliao Basin.

Variations of sedimentary environment under cyclical aridification and impacts on eodiagenesis of tight sandstones from the late Middle Jurassic Shaximiao Formation in Central Sichuan Basin (2024)
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Tan, X., Jiang, W., Luo, L., Gluyas, J., Song, L., Liu, J., …Chen, L. (2024). Variations of sedimentary environment under cyclical aridification and impacts on eodiagenesis of tight sandstones from the late Middle Jurassic Shaximiao Formation in Central Sichuan Basin. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 161, Article 106699. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2024.106699

Understanding eodiagenesis is essential to decoding the diagenetic pathways of tight sandstones that act as excellent unconventional oil & gas reservoirs. Great paleoclimate change is capable of influencing eodiagenetic processes of tight sandstones... Read More about Variations of sedimentary environment under cyclical aridification and impacts on eodiagenesis of tight sandstones from the late Middle Jurassic Shaximiao Formation in Central Sichuan Basin.

Artificial Intelligence and Human-Induced Seismicity: Initial Observations of ChatGPT (2023)
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Wilson, M. P., Foulger, G. R., Wilkinson, M. W., Gluyas, J. G., Mhana, N., & Tezel, T. (2023). Artificial Intelligence and Human-Induced Seismicity: Initial Observations of ChatGPT. Seismological Research Letters, 94(5), 2111-2118. https://doi.org/10.1785/0220230112

Freely available artificial intelligence (AI) tools, such as the Chat Generative Pre‐trained Transformer (ChatGPT), offer an alternative method to online search engines for scientific results and opinions to be automatically collated into concise sum... Read More about Artificial Intelligence and Human-Induced Seismicity: Initial Observations of ChatGPT.

First navigation with wireless muometric navigation system (MuWNS) in indoor and underground environments (2023)
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Tanaka, H. K., Gallo, G., Gluyas, J., Kamoshida, O., Lo Presti, D., Shimizu, T., …Yokota, Y. (2023). First navigation with wireless muometric navigation system (MuWNS) in indoor and underground environments. iScience, 26(7), 107000. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2023.107000

Navigation in indoor and underground environments has been extensively studied to realize automation of home, hospital, office, factory and mining services, and various techniques have been proposed for its implementation. By utilizing the relativist... Read More about First navigation with wireless muometric navigation system (MuWNS) in indoor and underground environments.

The importance of facies, grain size and clay content in controlling fluvial reservoir quality – an example from the Triassic Skagerrak Formation, Central North Sea, UK (2023)
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Aro, O. E., Jones, S. J., Meadows, N. S., Gluyas, J., & Charlaftis, D. (2023). The importance of facies, grain size and clay content in controlling fluvial reservoir quality – an example from the Triassic Skagerrak Formation, Central North Sea, UK. Petroleum Geoscience, 29(2), Article petgeo2022-043. https://doi.org/10.1144/petgeo2022-043

Clay-coated grains play an important role in preserving reservoir quality in high-pressure, high-temperature (HPHT) sandstone reservoirs. Previous studies have shown that the completeness of coverage of clay coats effectively inhibits quartz cementat... Read More about The importance of facies, grain size and clay content in controlling fluvial reservoir quality – an example from the Triassic Skagerrak Formation, Central North Sea, UK.

The effect of meteoric water on the very fine crystalline dolomite reservoir in the shallow burial zone: A case study of the Ma55 submember of Majiagou Formation in Ordos Basin (2023)
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Lan, H., Guo, M., Fu, M., Deng, H., Gluyas, J., Xu, W., …Guo, H. (2023). The effect of meteoric water on the very fine crystalline dolomite reservoir in the shallow burial zone: A case study of the Ma55 submember of Majiagou Formation in Ordos Basin. Frontiers in Energy Research, 10, Article 1089171. https://doi.org/10.3389/fenrg.2022.1089171

The meteoric water has obviously changed the physical properties of dolostone reservoirs in the vertical vadose zone and the horizontal phreatic zone, but its influence on the dolostone reservoirs in the shallow burial zone beneath the phreatic surfa... Read More about The effect of meteoric water on the very fine crystalline dolomite reservoir in the shallow burial zone: A case study of the Ma55 submember of Majiagou Formation in Ordos Basin.

CO2-plume geothermal: Power net generation from 3D fluvial aquifers (2022)
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Norouzi, A. M., Pouranian, F., Rabbani, A., Fowler, N., Gluyas, J., Niasar, V., …Babaei, M. (2023). CO2-plume geothermal: Power net generation from 3D fluvial aquifers. Applied Energy, 332, Article 120546. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2022.120546

Previously CO2, as a heat-extraction fluid, has been proposed as a superior substitute for brine in geothermal energy extraction. Hence, the new concept of CO2-plume geothermal (CPG) is suggested to generate heat from geothermal aquifers using CO2 as... Read More about CO2-plume geothermal: Power net generation from 3D fluvial aquifers.

Atmospheric muography for imaging and monitoring tropic cyclones (2022)
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Tanaka, H. K., Gluyas, J., Holma, M., Joutsenvaara, J., Kuusiniemi, P., Leone, G., …Yokota, Y. (2022). Atmospheric muography for imaging and monitoring tropic cyclones. Scientific Reports, 12(1), Article 16710. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-20039-4

Large-scale solid bodies on Earth such as volcanoes and man-made pyramids have been visualized with solid earth muography, and the recently invented technique, acqueous muography, has already demonstrated its capability to visualize ocean tides and t... Read More about Atmospheric muography for imaging and monitoring tropic cyclones.

Experimental diagenesis using present-day submarine turbidite sands (2022)
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Bello, A. M., Charlaftis, D., Jones, S. J., Gluyas, J., Acikalin, S., Cartigny, M., & Al-Ramadan, K. (2022). Experimental diagenesis using present-day submarine turbidite sands. Frontiers in Earth Science, 10, https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2022.952690

Hydrothermal-reactor experiments were conducted to investigate the potential formation of chlorite and microquartz grain coatings on detrital quartz and feldspar grains, and to understand their role in inhibiting the formation of quartz cement and fe... Read More about Experimental diagenesis using present-day submarine turbidite sands.

Analytical Solution for Predicting Salt Precipitation During CO2 Injection Into Saline Aquifers in Presence of Capillary Pressure (2022)
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Norouzi, A., Niasar, V., Gluyas, J., & Babaei, M. (2022). Analytical Solution for Predicting Salt Precipitation During CO2 Injection Into Saline Aquifers in Presence of Capillary Pressure. Water Resources Research, 58(6), https://doi.org/10.1029/2022wr032612

Salt precipitation within pores of the reservoir is an important phenomenon occurring during CO2 injection into saline aquifers. The phenomenon results in permeability reduction and injectivity impairment. Salt precipitation mainly happens because of... Read More about Analytical Solution for Predicting Salt Precipitation During CO2 Injection Into Saline Aquifers in Presence of Capillary Pressure.

Petrographic and diagenetic investigation of the distal Triassic ‘Budleighensis’ fluvial system in the Solway and Carlisle Basins for potential CO2 storage (2022)
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Marsh, J., Jones, S., Meadows, N., & Gluyas, J. (2022). Petrographic and diagenetic investigation of the distal Triassic ‘Budleighensis’ fluvial system in the Solway and Carlisle Basins for potential CO2 storage. Petroleum Geoscience, 28(3), 2021- 2065. https://doi.org/10.1144/petgeo2021-065

Failure to find hydrocarbon prospects in the Solway Basin region has resulted in a lack of research into the local Sherwood Sandstone Group petrography, reservoir quality and depositional history compared to the analogous southern reservoirs in the E... Read More about Petrographic and diagenetic investigation of the distal Triassic ‘Budleighensis’ fluvial system in the Solway and Carlisle Basins for potential CO2 storage.

Waste heat mapping: A UK study (2022)
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Albert, M. D., Bennett, K. O., Adams, C. A., & Gluyas, J. G. (2022). Waste heat mapping: A UK study. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 160, Article 112230. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2022.112230

The following study considers the spatial distribution, grade and seasonal variation of waste-heat from industrial sectors in the United Kingdom in 2018. Opportunities to offset the emissions caused by heat generation through the use of waste-heat re... Read More about Waste heat mapping: A UK study.

The Principles of Helium Exploration (2022)
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Danabalan, D., Gluyas, J. G., Macpherson, C. G., Abraham-James, T. H., Bluett, J. J., Barry, P. H., & Ballentine, C. J. (2022). The Principles of Helium Exploration. Petroleum Geoscience, 28(2), petgeo2021-029. https://doi.org/10.1144/petgeo2021-029

Commercial helium systems have been found to date as a serendipitous by-product of petroleum exploration. There are nevertheless significant differences in the source and migration properties of helium compared with petroleum. An understanding of the... Read More about The Principles of Helium Exploration.

Evolution of nC16H34-water–mineral systems in thermal capsules and geological implications for deeply-buried hydrocarbon reservoirs (2022)
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Yuan, G., Jin, Z., Cao, Y., Liu, K., Gluyas, J., Wang, Y., & Xi, K. (2022). Evolution of nC16H34-water–mineral systems in thermal capsules and geological implications for deeply-buried hydrocarbon reservoirs. Geoscience Frontiers, 13(2), Article 101322. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gsf.2021.101322

Organic-inorganic interactions between hydrocarbons and most minerals in deeply buried reservoirs remain unclear. In this study, gold capsules and fused silica capillary capsules (FSCCs) with different combinations of nC16H34, water (distilled water,... Read More about Evolution of nC16H34-water–mineral systems in thermal capsules and geological implications for deeply-buried hydrocarbon reservoirs.

Human-induced earthquakes: E-PIE—a generic tool for Evaluating Proposals of Induced Earthquakes (2022)
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Foulger, G., Wilkinson, M., Wilson, M., Mhana, N., Tezel, T., & Gluyas, J. (2023). Human-induced earthquakes: E-PIE—a generic tool for Evaluating Proposals of Induced Earthquakes. Journal of Seismology, 27(1), 21-44. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10950-022-10122-8

The HiQuake database documents all cases of earthquake sequences proposed on scientific grounds to have been induced by anthropogenic industrial activity. Because these cases range from being highly plausible to unpersuasive, stakeholders have reques... Read More about Human-induced earthquakes: E-PIE—a generic tool for Evaluating Proposals of Induced Earthquakes.