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We had a busy and productive winter quarter at Stanford. Below we highlight some of NGI's accomplishments during the first three months of 2016.
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2016 NGI Request for Proposals
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This call for proposals from the Stanford Natural Gas Initiative is open to Stanford faculty performing new research in any aspect of natural gas development, use, policy, markets or impacts. Expected funding for each proposed project is up to $100,000 per year.
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More than 90 members, guests, and speakers attended the NGI Annual Affiliates Meeting on March 1st and 2nd, 2016. During these two days current research on the topics of methane leakage, natural gas conversion to liquid fuels, natural gas economics and policy, and hydraulic fracturing were presented.
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NGI Moderated Panels at Vail Global Energy Forum
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Watch the panels on "Innovative Technologies and Efficiencies in the Upstream Energy Sector", and "The Age of Natural Gas Downstream", p
resented at the 2016 Vail Global Energy Forum and moderated by NGI Director, Mark Zoback, and Precourt Institute for Energy Co-Director, Sally Benson.
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Ongoing Research by NGI Faculty
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Comparing natural gas leakage detection technologies using an open-source "virtual gas field" simulator
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The Fugitive Emissions Abatement Simulation Testbed (FEAST) allows users to estimate the costs and benefits of various methane leak detection and repair (LDAR) programs. FEAST simulates a virtual gas field, in which leaks are created over time using a random process supported by empirical leak datasets. The model then simulates the application of various LDAR technologies against this virtual gas field, determining which leaks will be fixed and repaired using a given technology.
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Water Use and Management in the Bakken Shale Oil Play in North Dakota
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Oil and natural gas development in the Bakken shale play of North Dakota has grown substantially since 2008. This study provides a comprehensive overview and analysis of water quantity and management impacts from this development. |See Paper|
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Tired of the Climate Wars? Me Too
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Our Strategic Advisor, Tisha Schuller, writes about how to get activists at both ends of the spectrum past their suspicion and anger about each other.
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First Stanford Natural Gas Initiative Workshop Announced
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Next Affiliates Meeting Scheduled for October 12, 2016
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Our next Affiliates Meeting has been scheduled for Wednesday, October 12, 2016. More details will be announced soon.
NGI members will have the chance to present their research interests and priorities for NGI.
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SYMPOSIUM ANNOUNCEMENT
New Business Models and Technologies to Reduce Energy Poverty with Natural Gas, a collaboration of the Stanford Global Development and Poverty Initiative and the Stanford Natural Gas Initiative
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The Natural Gas Initiative has begun planning for a major international symposium on natural gas and energy poverty. The goals of the symposium are to identify: (1) new business models for bringing natural gas resources to bear on energy poverty; (2) new technological developments that could enable use of natural gas in energy-poor regions at a variety of scales; (3) regions in the developing world that would benefit most from new use of natural gas resources. Attendance at this workshop, which will take place in Spring 2017, is available to
NGI industrial affiliate members. Any organizations that are interested in this topic and that would like to have a role in the symposium are encouraged to contact NGI Managing Director
Brad Ritts. [
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