By National Research Council, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Board on Earth Sciences and Resources, Committee on Earth Resources, Committee on the Preservation of Geoscience Data and Collections
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New technologies now allow extraction of previously unimagined information from Earth’s library of rock. SOURCE: ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company. FIGURE 1-4 Flames from Hutchinson, Kansas, January 17, 2001. This fire and a fatal one in Hutchinson the next day originated when natural gas migrated through rocks from a storage facility 8 miles away (see the first page of the Executive Summary for a fuller account). SOURCE: Hutchinson, Kansas Fire Department. 21 INTRODUCTION SIDEBAR 1-7 Ice Core Reuse Ice cores are cylindrical sub-surface samples of glacier ice.
Because of trends within the petroleum industry, core repositories increasingly serve smaller companies operating in domestic fields, which leads to more efficient use of domestic resources. Increased demand for domestic oil and gas production will in turn increase demand for information about older fields, and much of this information lies in cores and cuttings—if they have been preserved. Access to geoscience data and collections increases efficacy of companies in the exploration and development of a new field and in the redevelopment of old fields (see Sidebar 1-4, for example).
Examples include the state geological surveys of Kansas, Kentucky, and Ohio, all of which have added new space A NATIONAL SHORTAGE OF SPACE Although it is difficult to quantify the amount of space available in the nation’s repositories, many are essentially at or near capacity. Repository managers therefore are refusing to accept new data and collections because they simply do not have enough space in the repository. Figure 2-2 illustrates the amount of space available at state geological survey repositories around the United States, and Tables 2-3a and 2-3b summarize, respectively, the available space at state geological surveys and at other entities across the nation.