Ash yieldβ€”not thermal maturityβ€”controls pore evolution and methane adsorption in deep CBM reservoirs. A 20% ash threshold defines reservoir quality in the Ordos Basin. #openaccess at https://short-url.org/1l7Ih
#CoalbedMethane #CBM #EnergyGeology #naturalgas #basin
The first issue in 2026, Volume 13 Β· Issue 1, has just been published. Eight research articles are included! Welcome to read! #openaccess at https://short-url.org/1kGnw #NaturalGas #coalbedmethane #reservoirs #basin #energytransition
#MissKittyPolitics The research I need to do for #Albus 2026 and 2028 requires the laptop. But I'm sitting in my usual perch outside today in 40Β°. I don't take the cold the way I used to. When I was working on the rigs in the #Williston #Basin, I would walk down to the tavern in my t-shirt in -20.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@sflorg/116003437911970681

This interesting #study is based on ancient lake #sediment #analyses from the #BogotΓ‘ #Basin. It proves that the existing #climatemodels about the #Pliocene were underestimated regardung tropical regions. This allows prognoses, according to which also the global warming of today may bring more heat in some #tropicalzones than expected.
See science communication article below.
Β© this text #StefanFWirth 2026

True-triaxial experiments show that weak interlayers, not elasticity, dominantly control hydraulic fracture height in middle-deep Sichuan shales. #openaccess at https://h7.cl/1nvLx
#NaturalGas #Hydraulicfracturing #ShaleGas #Geomechanics #deepresources #basin
More than a billion years ago, in a shallow #basin across what is now northern Ontario, a #subtropical lake much like modern-day Death Valley evaporated under the sun’s gentle heat, leaving behind #crystals of #halite β€” rock #salt
#EarthScience #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2025/12/es12232501.html
Scientists Crack Ancient Salt Crystals to Unlock Secrets of 1.4 Billion-Year-Old Air

β€œIt’s an incredible feeling, to crack open a sample of air that’s a billion years older than the dinosaurs,” Park said.