The Earth Resources Laboratory (ERL) is MIT’s primary home for research and education focused on sub-surface energy resources. Through integration across disciplines, departments, and school boundaries, and with support from federal agencies and a consortium of energy companies, ERL addresses questions concerning hydrocarbon exploration and production, geothermal energy, CO2 sequestration, and near-surface environments.
ERL’s faculty, research staff, and students work with a variety of methodologies (including geophysical imaging, rock physics and chemistry, multiphase flow, geomechanics, microseismics, and remote sensing) to obtain an understanding of sub-surface reservoirs—their structure, the geological materials of which they are made, the fluids that flow through them, and changes that occur in response to production.
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