Zaki Bassiouni, the former dean of LSU's College of Engineering, passed 8 July.

In a 2-1 vote, The Texas Railroad Commission approved the Rose carbon capture and storage project in Southeast Texas, which is planned to store up to 5 million tonnes of carbon dioxide per year.

Injection of CO₂ into depleted gas reservoirs, and even more so for saline aquifers, initiates a series of interconnected physical and geochemical phenomena. The geochemical process within silicate and carbonate reservoirs offers the potential to enhance storage by creating secure CO₂ reactions with rock/brine/additives.