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4 Alignment with National and Stakeholder Needs
4 Alignment with National and Stakeholder Needs
Pages 67-76
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Much of this chapter, and the remainder of the report, revolves around the ERP role in compiling existing and generating new field and laboratory data; the timely release of ERP products; how the ERP might assist efficient and effective use of products; and how the ERP obtains stakeholder feedback so that it might quickly modify activity in response to that feedback. This chapter focuses on addressing the shorter-term needs and issues.
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Datatracking efforts are limited to counting website visitors, and the ERP could only provide anecdotal information about how its products are used. Both federal and nonfederal ERP product consumers that interacted with the committee suggested that they would value regular participation in ERP project identification and prioritization to improve product alignment with their needs.
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Given the emphasis on reproducible results in published scientific literature, it is important to provide raw and derived data with published ERP assessments so that others can test and therefore increase confidence in ERP results. Without exception, the ERP consumers from whom the committee heard underlined the value of geoscience data to their organizations, including but not limited to seismic data, well log data and analyses, rock property data, rock/fluid geochemistry data, and subsurface temperature and pressure data.
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Archival databases and interactive maps for specific projects (e.g., related to produced water and resource geochemistry) are accessed through the individual project subheaders found on the bottom of the map viewer portal webpage.5 To validate ERP product consumer comments related to the ease of accessing the ERP data, the committee conducted its own (albeit unscientific)
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Other data dissemination practices were suggested by ERP product consumers, including: • substituting published, appropriately credited state geological survey data for non publishable data. This approach may yield consistent assessment results and avoid issues associated with proprietary commercial data; • releasing computer-generated basin models and petroleum systems analyses used in assessments that can be worked with and modified by researchers; • turning other legacy data sets into more easily accessible information (e.g., core and geophysical well log data)
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APPLYING INTEGRATED APPROACHES Science funding has traditionally supported specialist disciplines within individual science-mission agencies, leading to the rise of research executed within conventional disciplinary boundaries. Accordingly, the ERP analyzes most geologic energy resources independently (e.g., uranium and geothermal resources typically are evaluated independently of oil and gas resources)
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. There is an emerging effort to characterize continuous resources as complex, interconnected systems in which development decisions have to consider not only the volume of the resource but also the local energy infrastructure, including transport, surface storage, and commodity markets; the environmental impacts, including related sand and water supply, produced water disposal or recycling, and the potential for induced seismicity; the possibility for 7 See https://www.eenews.net/assets/2017/10/25/document_gw_15.pdf.
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A systems approach to analysis of the subsurface framework might be applied with this information. The ERP, in partnership with developers and research organizations, could investigate the management of underground fluids in a specific region within the Permian Basin, including produced waters, storage capacity of disposal intervals, subsurface pressure monitoring, and proactive minimization of hazards such as induced seismicity.
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IHS estimates, for example, that more than 30 million tons of sand will be required in 2018 for production operations in the Permian Basin.b Moreover, monthly volumes of water disposed in saltwater disposal wells has reached 100-200 million barrels in some West Texas counties (Whitfield, 2017)
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