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Curtis M. Oldenburg publication distribution in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Earth Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Curtis M. Oldenburg sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 603+

This scientist: 245 publications — 77th percentile

77% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more.

Curtis M. Oldenburg D-index placement in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Earth Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Curtis M. Oldenburg sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 54 D-Index — 71st percentile

71% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more.

Overview

Curtis M. Oldenburg is affiliated with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the United States. Their body of research mainly spans fields such as Engineering and Environmental Science with focused subfields including Environmental Engineering, Ocean Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Geophysics, and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering.

They have contributed extensively to topics including:

  • CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions
  • Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods
  • Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis
  • Enhanced Oil Recovery Techniques
  • Drilling and Well Engineering
  • Earthquake and Tectonic Studies
  • Landfill Environmental Impact Studies

Recent scholarly papers authored by Curtis M. Oldenburg include:

  • Coupled Hydromechanical Modeling of Induced Seismicity From CO2 Injection in the Illinois Basin, 2022, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Advanced monitoring and simulation for underground gas storage risk management, 2021, Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering
  • Thermodynamic analysis of a novel fossil-fuel-free energy storage system with a trans-critical carbon dioxide cycle and heat pump, 2020, International Journal of Energy Research
  • Multi-Layered Systems for Permanent Geologic Storage of CO2 at the Gigatonne Scale, 2022, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Development of lean, efficient, and fast physics-framed deep-learning-based proxy models for subsurface carbon storage, 2022, International journal of greenhouse gas control

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Yingqi Zhang
  • Rajesh Pawar
  • Bailian Chen
  • D. R. Harp
  • Stefan Finsterle

Curtis M. Oldenburg's work has been published predominantly in these venues:

  • Greenhouse Gases Science and Technology
  • International journal of greenhouse gas control
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Transport in Porous Media
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth

Best Publications

  • TOUGH2 User's Guide Version 2

    K. Pruess;C.M. Oldenburg;G.J. Moridis

  • Process Modeling of CO2 Injection into Natural Gas Reservoirs for Carbon Sequestration and Enhanced Gas Recovery

    C.M. Oldenburg;Karsten Pruess;Sally M. Benson

  • Joule-Thomson cooling due to CO2 injection into natural gas reservoirs

    Curtis M. Oldenburg

  • Dispersive Transport Dynamics in a Strongly Coupled Groundwater-Brine Flow System

    Curtis M. Oldenburg;Karsten Pruess

  • INTRODUCTION TO CARBON CAPTURE AND SEQUESTRATION

    Berend Smit;Jeffrey A. Reimer;Curtis M. Oldenburg;Ian C. Bourg

  • T2Well-An integrated wellbore-reservoir simulator

    Lehua Pan;Curtis M. Oldenburg

  • CO2 migration and pressure evolution in deep saline aquifers

    Jens T. Birkholzer;Curtis M. Oldenburg;Quanlin Zhou

  • Carbon Dioxide as Cushion Gas for Natural Gas Storage

    Curtis M. Oldenburg

  • Thermodynamic analysis of a compressed carbon dioxide energy storage system using two saline aquifers at different depths as storage reservoirs

    Hui Liu;Hui Liu;Qing He;Andrea Borgia;Lehua Pan

  • A shallow subsurface controlled release facility in Bozeman, Montana, USA, for testing near surface CO2 detection techniques and transport models

    Lee H. Spangler;Laura M. Dobeck;Kevin S. Repasky;Amin R. Nehrir

  • Numerical Simulation of Ferrofluid Flow for Subsurface Environmental Engineering Applications

    Curtis M. Oldenburg;Sharon E. Borglin;George J. Moridis

  • Dynamic mixing in magma bodies - Theory, simulations, and implications

    Curtis M. Oldenburg;Frank J. Spera;David A. Yuen;Granville Sewell

  • Economic feasibility of carbon sequestration with enhanced gas recovery (CSEGR)

    C.M Oldenburg;S.H Stevens;S.M Benson

  • Numerical simulation of salt precipitation in the fractures of a CO2-enhanced geothermal system

    Andrea Borgia;Karsten Pruess;Timothy J. Kneafsey;Curtis M. Oldenburg

  • Certification framework based on effective trapping for geologic carbon sequestration

    Curtis M. Oldenburg;Steven L. Bryant;Jean-Philippe Nicot

  • On numerical modeling of capillary barriers

    Curtis M. Oldenburg;Karsten Pruess

  • CO2 Injection for Enhanced Gas Production and Carbon Sequestration

    Curtis M. Oldenburg;Sally M. Benson

  • On leakage and seepage from geologic carbon sequestration sites: Unsaturated Zone Attenuation

    Curtis M. Oldenburg;André J. A. Unger

  • Comparison of Aerobic and Anaerobic Biotreatment of Municipal Solid Waste

    Sharon E. Borglin;Terry C. Hazen;Curtis M. Oldenburg;Peter T. Zawislanski

  • A mechanistic treatment of the dominant soil nitrogen cycling processes: Model development, testing, and application

    F. Maggi;C. Gu;W. J. Riley;G. M. Hornberger

  • Surface CO2 leakage during two shallow subsurface CO2 releases

    Jennifer L. Lewicki;Curtis M. Oldenburg;Laura M. Dobeck;Lee H. Spangler

Frequent Co-Authors

Karsten Pruess
Karsten Pruess Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Jonny Rutqvist
Jonny Rutqvist Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Jean-Philippe Nicot
Jean-Philippe Nicot The University of Texas at Austin
Jens Birkholzer
Jens Birkholzer Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Stefan Finsterle
Stefan Finsterle Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Christine Doughty
Christine Doughty Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Sally M. Benson
Sally M. Benson Stanford University
Quanlin Zhou
Quanlin Zhou Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Ian C. Bourg
Ian C. Bourg Princeton University
Berend Smit
Berend Smit University of California, Berkeley

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