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Research.com Recognitions

  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America
  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America

Overview

Jean-Philippe Nicot is affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on engineering and earth and planetary sciences, with notable contributions in subfields such as geophysics, mechanical engineering, mechanics of materials, ocean engineering, and geochemistry and petrology.

Their main research topics include hydraulic fracturing and reservoir analysis, hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, seismic imaging and inversion techniques, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, earthquake and tectonic studies, groundwater and isotope geochemistry, and geochemistry and elemental analysis.

Nicot has published extensively in a range of scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Applied Geochemistry
  • AAPG Bulletin
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Journal of Geochemical Exploration

Notable recent papers by Nicot cover various aspects of groundwater, environmental science, geophysics, and hydrology:

  • "The changing nature of groundwater in the global water cycle," 2024, Science
  • "Can we beneficially reuse produced water from oil and gas extraction in the U.S.?" 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Mobilization of Arsenic and Other Naturally Occurring Contaminants during Managed Aquifer Recharge: A Critical Review," 2021, Environmental Science & Technology
  • "Pore Pressure Threshold and Fault Slip Potential for Induced Earthquakes in the Dallas-Fort Worth Area of North Central Texas," 2021, Geophysical Research Letters
  • "Recent water disposal and pore pressure evolution in the Delaware Mountain Group, Delaware Basin, Southeast New Mexico and West Texas, USA," 2022, Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies

Nicot has collaborated frequently with a number of researchers, including:

  • Peter Hennings
  • Roxana Darvari
  • Katie Smye
  • Bridget R. Scanlon
  • J. Ge

Among Nicot's recognitions, they have been named a Fellow of the Geological Society of America.

Best Publications

  • Water Use for Shale-Gas Production in Texas, U.S.

    Jean-Philippe Nicot;Bridget R. Scanlon

  • The changing nature of groundwater in the global water cycle

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  • Comparison of water use for hydraulic fracturing for unconventional oil and gas versus conventional oil.

    Bridget R Scanlon;Robert C Reedy;Jean P Nicot

  • Evaluation of large-scale CO2 storage on fresh-water sections of aquifers: An example from the Texas Gulf Coast Basin

    Jean-Philippe Nicot

  • Source and Fate of Hydraulic Fracturing Water in the Barnett Shale: A Historical Perspective

    Jean Philippe Nicot;Bridget R. Scanlon;Robert C. Reedy;Ruth A. Costley

  • Can we beneficially reuse produced water from oil and gas extraction in the U.S.

    Bridget R Scanlon;Robert C Reedy;Pei Xu;M Engle

  • Certification framework based on effective trapping for geologic carbon sequestration

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

  • Static and dynamic reservoir modeling for geological CO2 sequestration at Cranfield, Mississippi, U.S.A.

    Seyyed Abolfazl Hosseini;Hamidreza Lashgari;Jong W. Choi;Jean-Philippe Nicot

  • Monitoring a large volume CO2 injection: Year two results from SECARB project at Denbury’s Cranfield, Mississippi, USA

    Susan D. Hovorka;Timothy A. Meckel;Ramon H. Trevino;Jiemin Lu

  • Elevated naturally occurring arsenic in a semiarid oxidizing system, Southern High Plains aquifer, Texas, USA

    B.R. Scanlon;J.P. Nicot;R.C. Reedy;D. Kurtzman

  • Will water scarcity in semiarid regions limit hydraulic fracturing of shale plays

    Bridget R Scanlon;Robert C Reedy;Jean Philippe Nicot

  • Brine flow up a well caused by pressure perturbation from geologic carbon sequestration: Static and dynamic evaluations

    Jens T. Birkholzer;Jean Philippe Nicot;Curtis M. Oldenburg;Quanlin Zhou

  • Mobilization of Arsenic and Other Naturally Occurring Contaminants during Managed Aquifer Recharge: A Critical Review

    Sarah Fakhreddine;Henning Prommer;Bridget R. Scanlon;Samantha C. Ying

  • Finding regional co-location patterns for sets of continuous variables in spatial datasets

    Christoph F. Eick;Rachana Parmar;Wei Ding;Tomasz F. Stepinski

  • Assessing leakage detectability at geologic CO2 sequestration sites using the probabilistic collocation method

    Alexander Y. Sun;Mehdi Zeidouni;Jean-Philippe Nicot;Zhiming Lu

  • Single-well push–pull test for assessing potential impacts of CO2 leakage on groundwater quality in a shallow Gulf Coast aquifer in Cranfield, Mississippi

    Changbing Yang;Patrick J. Mickler;Robert Reedy;Bridget R. Scanlon

  • Inversion of pressure anomaly data for detecting leakage at geologic carbon sequestration sites

    Alexander Y. Sun;Jean-Philippe Nicot

  • Pressure perturbations from geologic carbon sequestration: Area-of-review boundaries and borehole leakage driving forces

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

  • A survey of oil and gas wells in the Texas Gulf Coast, USA, and implications for geological sequestration of CO2

    Jean-Philippe Nicot

  • Common attributes of hydraulically fractured oil and gas production and CO2 geological sequestration

    Jean-Philippe Nicot;Ian J. Duncan

  • Methane Sources and Migration Mechanisms in Shallow Groundwaters in Parker and Hood Counties, Texas-A Heavy Noble Gas Analysis.

    Tao Wen;M. Clara Castro;Jean-Philippe Nicot;Chris M. Hall

  • Enhanced CO2 Storage and Sequestration in Deep Saline Aquifers by Nanoparticles: Commingled Disposal of Depleted Uranium and CO2

    Farzam Javadpour;Jean-Philippe Nicot

  • Risk Assessment for future CO2 Sequestration Projects Based CO2 Enhanced Oil Recovery in the U.S.

    Ian J. Duncan;Jean-Philippe Nicot;Jong-Won Choi

  • Pressure perturbations from geologic carbon sequestration: Area-of-review boundaries and borehole leakage driving forces

    J.-P. Nicot

Frequent Co-Authors

Susan D. Hovorka
Susan D. Hovorka The University of Texas at Austin
Bridget R. Scanlon
Bridget R. Scanlon The University of Texas at Austin
Curtis M. Oldenburg
Curtis M. Oldenburg Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Robert C. Reedy
Robert C. Reedy The University of Texas at Austin
Steven L. Bryant
Steven L. Bryant University of Calgary
Alexander Y. Sun
Alexander Y. Sun The University of Texas at Austin
Chris M. Hall
Chris M. Hall University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Jens Birkholzer
Jens Birkholzer Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Christine Doughty
Christine Doughty Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
James E. Saiers
James E. Saiers Yale University

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