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The Puzzle to Plugging the Worst Natural Gas Release in History

By Guest PostJanuary 28, 2018Sciencealiso canyon disaster, barry freifeld, curt oldenburg, lehua pan, natural gas release, t2well, worst

How Berkeley Lab experts simulated the leak and are helping to shape safety regulations in the wake of the Aliso Canyon disaster

By the time Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) scientists Barry Freifeld and Curt Oldenburg visited the Aliso Canyon natural gas storage facility in December 2015, the SS-25 well blowout had been leaking natural gas into the air for more than six weeks. The notoriously strong winds at Aliso Canyon carried the natural gas and its added odorant to the nearby Porter Ranch neighborhood, leading to thousands of families evacuating their homes. (more…)

Depleted Gas Reservoirs Can Double as Geologic Carbon Storage Sites

By Guest PostJanuary 6, 2012Environmentatmosphere, australia, barry freifeld, berkeley lab, boreholes, caprock, climate change, co2 deep underground, co2 storage capacity, co2crc, coal burning power plants, daily co2 emissions, depleted gas reservoirs, depleted natural gas reservoirs, fossil fuel, gas fields, geologic carbon sequestration, geologic carbon storage sites, gigatons of capacity, global emissions, greenhouse gas, groundwater, injection, lawrence berkeley national laboratory, mitigation strategy, natural gas, naylor 1 well, otway project, permanent storage, pipeline network, rock formations, sandeep sharma, seismic and acoustic monitoring equipment, soil, Technology, tom daley, trap co2, u tube samplers, western victoria

*Berkeley Lab scientists help verify science behind geologic carbon sequestration*

A demonstration project on the southeastern tip of Australia has helped to verify that depleted natural gas reservoirs can be repurposed for geologic carbon sequestration, which is a climate change mitigation strategy that involves pumping CO₂ deep underground for permanent storage.

The project, which includes scientists from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), also demonstrated that depleted gas fields have enough CO₂ storage capacity to make a significant contribution to reducing global emissions. (more…)