Managing potential interactions of subsurface resources

Abstract

Subsurface resources include oil, gas, coal, groundwater, saline aquifer minerals, and heat (for geothermal use). Pore space itself should also be considered as a resource as it can be used for injection of waste fluids, produced water, storage of natural gas, compressed air, and supercritical CO 2. Use of subsurface resources can overlap in space, and pressure changes at one site can remotely influence resource use at other sites. Resource use can also vary in time, such as the use of depleted oil or gas fields for natural gas or CO 2 storage. Before allocation of a subsurface resource it is therefore useful to understand the potentially wide range of resources available in an area, how they might be developed successively, and how they could affect each other if used concurrently. While these issues are primarily geological, they have critical significance for legal, environmental, and economic considerations.

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“…A kutatók több csoportja foglalkozik a kérdéskörrel, a városi és az interurbán felszín alatti infrastruktúrával, a felszín alatti természeti erőforrások kinyerésével és a térinformatikával. Kevés kutatás vizsgálja a hasznosítások közötti konfliktusokat és ezek fenntartható megoldását (Field et al, 2018;Volchko et al, 2020). A földtani erőforrások több szempontú osztályozásáról a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) által készített tanulmány ismert (Jenni et al, 2018), de ez nem tér ki az e tanulmányban taglalt összes erőforrásra, és nem tartalmaz kritikalitási értékelést.…”

Design and Implementation of a Composite Array Resistivity Data Logger for High-Resolution 2D Inversion Modeling

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