Future Directions for the U.S. Geological Survey's Energy Resources Program (2018) / Chapter Skim
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The ERP collects data, develops models, assessments, and standards for those energy resources that constitute the nation's geologically based energy portfolio. The program also examines potential environmental aspects of energy production.
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The ERP combines raw geologic, geochemical, and geophysical data collected by the agency with data from literature, state and other federal agencies, and the private sector to create products that enhance understanding of geologically based energy resources and support their prudent development. As the national and global energy portfolio evolves, reasoned policies and decision making related to energy resources at various levels of government, within nongovernmental bodies, and in the private sector depend on high-quality scientific analysis and its dissemination.
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Whereas this report focuses on the ERP's portfolio and products, the committee also considered how the ERP might stay aware of the priorities and information needs of ERP product consumers so that its products might be most relevant in the future. While this committee's task was focused on ERP activities, another National Academies ad hoc committee has been convened separately to consider the water science and research portfolio of the USGS Water Resources mission area.3 The USGS and the National Academies negotiated these tasks to be distinct and independent.
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Source: USGS. 4 Geologically based carbon sequestration refers to the long-term storage of industrially produced carbon dioxide in subsurface reservoirs.
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The committee heard presentations from and held discussions with leadership of the DOI and the USGS, with ERP staff, and with federal, state, and industry consumers of ERP products during two of its three meetings. It also interacted with several ERP scientists based at the USGS facilities at the Denver Federal Center during a tour of labs at that facility.
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Other projects are based on program priorities and direction from a program council that meets annually to review ERP project progress and performance. Program council members include the ERP program coordinator and the three associate program coordinators, Science Center directors, deputies of the three most relevant science centers, and invited guests, including USGS staff and external contacts (e.g., from the Bureau of Land Management and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management)
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, when the ERP focused primarily in three subprograms: National Oil and Gas Resource Investigations and Assessment, National Coal Resource Investigations and Assessments, and World Energy Investigations and Assessments. The ERP budget for FY2017 was approximately $24.7 million6 (see Table 1.1 for budgets and numbers of employees allocated per budget)
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Alaska Petroleum Systems 1.514 6.132 6.85 Wind Energy Impacts 0.440 1.782 2.99 EERSC Quality Management System (QMS) 0.645 2.612 4.68 Implementation Gas Hydrates 0.875 3.544 3.73 Central Energy Resources Science Center (CERSC)
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Although the commodity studies include several different energy resources, more than half of the budget goes toward resource assessment, and the underlying geological, geophysical, and geochemical research needed to support those assessments. PRODUCTS OVERVIEW The ERP portfolio includes a mix of legally mandated service products and opportunistic research products.
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Gas Hydrates Field reports, peer-reviewed publications, USGS Scientific Investigations and Digital data reports on gas hydrate resources on the North Slope of Alaska, South China Sea, offshore India, and the U.S. Gulf of Mexico Geothermal Peer-reviewed publications on geothermal systems in California Oil Shale Data Series additions, peer-reviewed publications, USGS Fact Sheets, on oil shale resources in the Western United States Uranium South Texas assessment, plus publications on water quality considerations, and baseline environmental analyses Wind Wind turbine map and database, energy impacts assessment methodology and onshore wind turbine locations Environmental Aspects of Topical studies on coal and produced waters, including trace elements Energy Production and Use in coal ash, atmospheric particulate matter near mountaintop coal mines, characterization and assessment methodologies for produced waters, and analysis of controlling factors Geochemistry/Geophysics NPRA Seismic database, geochemistry publications, geochemistry labs SOURCE: www.energy.usgs.gov.
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energy outlook and categorizes geologically based energy resource challenges expected as a result of that outlook over the next 10-15 years. Chapter 3 describes how the ERP addresses current energy-related challenges through its portfolio and the ways that portfolio might be modified in the near future.
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Chapter 5 describes the committee's conclusions regarding the priority research and products for the future, given the projected energy outlook. Chapter 6 presents a synthesis of the committee's recommendations based on conclusions found throughout the report.
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