Media Coverage
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2024
Texas signs largest offshore lease for carbon capture and storage in U.S. history
October 10, 2024 // Houston Public Media
Kick Starting Carbon Storage Industry Goal of New Project
September 25, 2024 // Jackson School of Geosciences
7th Offshore CO2 Storage Workshop, Port Arthur, Texas
September 24, 2024 // IEAGHG News
Bureau Researchers Engage GeoFORCE Students in Research Projects
August 8th, 2024 // Bureau of Economic Geology
Better Carbon Storage with Stacked Geology
July 23rd, 2024 // Jackson School of Geosciences
Texas opens more coastal waters for carbon storage wells
July 1st, 2024 // The Texas Tribune
IEAGHG CCS Summer School in Darwin, Australia
June 26, 2024 // ABC Radio in Darwin, Australia’s Radio Program “Drive Time.”
Green Climate Fund supports it's first CCS activity and a new centre of research in CCS is launched - CCS Developments with a global impact from Trinidad and Tobago
May 20, 2024 // IEAGHG News
New CCS Knowledge Shared at UTCCS-7 in Austin, Texas
January 30, 2024 // IEAGHG News
2023
Can Carbon Capture and Storage Decarbonise the Cement Sector in Developed and Emerging Economies?
December 3, 2023 // IISD Earth Negotiations Bulletin
Research aims to sequester carbon deep in the ocean off B.C. coast
November 2, 2023 // CBC News in Edmonton
Evaluating the Promise of Carbon Capture
October 26, 2023 // The Wall Street Journal On-Demand Webinar
Is Carbon Capture Essential to Fighting Climate Change?
May 5th, 2023 // Open to Debate
Supermajors frustrated by regulation barriers amid high CCS appetite
April 17th, 2023 // Upstream Research
GoMCarb Project Final Meeting – CCS in Offshore Gulf of Mexico
April 11th, 2023 // IEAGHG Blog
Texas Port Partners with UT Scientists to Store its Greenhouse Gas Emissions
March 29, 2023 // Jackson School of Geosciences
Gulf Coast Carbon Center’s Sponsors Meeting, February 2023
February 27, 2023 // IEAGHG Blog
Innovative Ways to Approach CO2 Storage
January 16, 2023 // The Global CCS Institute podcast "Capture. Store. Repeat."
2022
Potential of CCS in Africa Highlighted During COP 27
November 16, 2022 // IISD SDG Knowledge Hub
Carbon Capture and Storage – Where is it in Africa and What Can Be Learned for Emerging Economies?
November 10, 2022 // IISD SDG Knowledge Hub
The Big Business of Burying Carbon
September 1st, 2022 // WIRED
2021
Houston company could provide answer to Elon Musk's $100 million question
January 29, 2021 // Houston Chronicle
2020
Texas GOP, Dems tried to solve a climate change problem together 10 years ago. Then it unraveled.
December 10, 2020 // Houston Chronicle
On Gulf Coast, is carbon storage the next big thing?
October 29, 2020 // Houston Chronicle
2019
Research shows ramping up carbon capture could be key to mitigating climate change
December 9, 2019 // UT News
- If the world can capture carbon, there’s capacity to store it, Norwegian SciTech News, December 12, 2019
- Study finds enough geologic storage to meet U.N. climate goals, E&E News, December 11, 2019
- Study shows world has sufficient CO2 storage capacity, Carbon Capture Journal, Jan/Feb 2020
- Ample Geological Capacity Exists to Store Large Quantities of Captured CO2, Yale Environment 360, December 26, 2019
Could squeezing more oil out of the ground help fight climate change?
October 2, 2019 // Vox
Global students, experts studying carbon capture and storage at U of R
July 9, 2019 // Regina Leader-Post
Managing CO2 output
July 2019 // Southeast Texas Business Journal
Climate change: The problem Texas business leaders are afraid to name
June 21, 2019 // Houston Chronicle
“Carbon neutral oil” is promising, but far from guaranteed
June 20, 2019 // Houston Public Media
What to do about CO2? Try stuffing it into the Gulf of Mexico
June 6, 2019 // WIRED
Reproduction: The floor of the Gulf of Mexico could be future home to a lot of carbon
June 8, 2019 // Grist
Climate change partnership
May 11, 2019 // Spectrum News Austin
Partnership seeks to fight climate change and boost Caribbean nation’s economy
May 6, 2019 // UT News
Carbon sequestration series part II: discussing risks with Dr. Katherine Romanak
Apr. 21, 2019 // The American Shoreline Podcast Network
Carbon sequestration with Dr. Susan Hovorka
Feb. 25, 2019 // The American Shoreline Podcast Network
Renewables, nuclear, CCS to play role in decarbonized economy: experts
Feb. 7, 2019 // S&P Global Platts
2018
Experts say government leadership, technology and individual action are key to climate change fight
Dec. 14, 2018 // Texas Standard
Everything must happen everywhere to tackle climate change
Nov. 29, 2018 // UK Geoenergy
Researcher receives award for contributions to carbon mitigation technology
Nov. 28, 2018 // The Daily Texan; U-Wire
Bureau of Economic Geology scientist recognized for greenhouse gas mitigation technology
Nov. 14, 2018 // EurekAlert; Scienmag; Bioengineer; Life Science Weekly
Carbon capture could help curb climate change. But will anyone foot the bill?
Nov. 5, 2018 // Marketplace
Inside a plan at UT to capture and store carbon—forever
July 1, 2018 // Alcalde
$2.5M grant funds real-time monitoring of underground carbon sequestration
March 14, 2018 // Penn State News; EurekAlert; US Fed News; States News Service; Scienmag; Carbon Capture Journal; US Official News
2017
UT Bureau of Economic Geology granted $4 million to run carbon capture partnership
Dec., 4, 2017 // UT News; Targeted News Service; State News Service; Press Point Release
Petra Nova: producing power and trapping CO2 underground
Nov. 2017 // Jackson School of Geology
Could carbon capturing make "clean coal" a reality?
June 14, 2017 // PBS Newshour
UT scientists monitor country's first commercial CO2 sequestration operation
April 2017 // Jackson School of Geosciences News
Older Highlights
Susan Hovorka's feature in "The Future" issue exploring "who, besides Lance Armstrong, will lead the way"
Feb. 1, 2008 // Texas Monthly
Susan Hovorka on carbon capture and storage
Sept. 17, 2012 // EarthSky
CO2: commodity vs. waste
Apr. 5, 2014 // Texas CEO Magazine
Other Media Appearances
Elon Musk is building SpaceX's Mars rockets in a tiny Texas hamlet. But getting them off the ground there may be harder than he imagined.
June 5, 2019 // Business Insider
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Last Updated: January 31, 2019
