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News and updates featuring research, faculty achievements, student projects, and industry impact from the Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering.

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Research

Petroleum engineering research tackles future decarbonization

Nov. 9, 2023 • 7 min. read

Dr. D. Nathan Meehan is leading petroleum engineering research to reduce carbon emissions produced by the oil and gas industry and lay the economic, regulatory and practical groundwork for future large-scale carbon dioxide storage.

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Research

Project tests saline aquifers for carbon dioxide storage

Aug. 27, 2023 • 4 min. read

Texas A&M University faculty are working with industry and academic partners on a Department of Energy project to mine the information needed to safely plan future large-scale carbon dioxide storage in a coastal Texas saline aquifer.