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Geothermal Workshop February 13-15, 2017

The Stanford Geothermal Workshop brings together engineers, scientists, and managers involved in geothermal reservoir studies and development by providing a forum for the exchange of ideas on the exploration, development and use of geothermal resources.

Stanford Geothermal Workshop

ENERGY 101A: Energizing California

A weekend field trip featuring renewable and nonrenewable energy installations in Northern California. Tour geothermal, bioenergy, and natural gas field sites with expert guides from the Department of Energy Resources Engineering. Instructors: M. Gerritsen and R. Horne

Graduation 2016

Congratulations graduates...wishing you luck & success in all that you do!

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How to store CO2 underground—and keep it there

Peering 500 years into the future of a simulated carbon sequestration site, Stanford Earth researchers are using speedy parallel computing in their quest to find the optimal approach for injecting carbon dioxide into deep reservoirs.

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Scrubbing CO2 from Atmosphere

While it is possible to chemically scrub carbon dioxide from Earth's atmosphere to lessen global warming, the process is prohibitively expensive. ERE Professor Jennifer Wilcox concludes that air-capture of carbon dioxide with chemicals will be far in the future.

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Welcome

Welcome to Energy Resources Engineering. We offer BS, MS, Engineer, and PhD degrees in Energy Resources Engineering and MS and PhD degrees in Petroleum Engineering. Our goal is to teach courses and perform research relevant to the production and transformation of energy resources.

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Spotlight

September 23, 2016

Hai Vo and Lou Durlofsky Receive Best Paper Award

Mathematical Geosciences

Mathematical Geosciences recently announced the winner of the 2014 Best Paper Award as "A New Differentiable Parameterization Based on Principal Component Analysis for the Low-Dimensional Representation of Complex Geological Models", Volume 46(7): 775-813 by Hai Vo and Louis J. Durlofsky. Congratulations!