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2012

Holland, G. and Gilfillan, S.M.V. (In Press) Noble Gas Applications in Assessing the Viability of CO₂ Storage. In: The Noble Gases as Geochemical Tracers, Advances in Geochemistry Series, Springer-Earth Sciences

Scott, V., Gilfillan, S.M.V., (In Review) Chalmers, H., Markusson, M. and Haszeldine, R.S. Carbon Capture and Storage - Climate Saviour or Convenient Untruth? Nature Climate Change

2011

Gilfillan, S.M.V. and Haszeldine, R.S. Report on noble gas, carbon stable isotope and HCO₃- measurements from the Kerr Quarter and surrounding area, Goodwater, Saskatchewan. In: The Kerr Investigation: Final Report, Findings of the Investigation into the Impact of CO₂ on the Kerr Property, ed. Sherk, G.W.

Gilfillan, S.M.V., Wilkinson, M., Haszeldine, R.S., Shipton, Z., Nelson, S.T. and Poreda, R.J. He and Ne as tracers of natural CO₂ migration up a fault from a deep reservoir, International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 5, no. 6, p. 1507-1516 DOI:10.1016/j.iggc.2011.08.008

Gilfillan, S.M.V. and Haszeldine, R. S. Comment on "Potential Impacts of Leakage from Deep CO₂ Geosequestration on Overlying Freshwater Aquifers" Environmental Science and Technology, 45 (7), p. 3171-3174. DOI:10.1021/es104307h

2009

Wilkinson, M., Gilfillan, S.M.V., Haszeldine, R. S. and Ballentine, C.J. Plumbing the depths - testing natural tracers of subsurface CO₂ origin and leakage, Utah, USA. in M. Grobe, J. C. Pashin, and R. L. Dodge, eds., Carbon dioxide sequestration in geological media - State of the science: AAPG Studies 59

Gilfillan, S.M.V., Sherwood Lollar, B., Holland, G., Blagburn, B., Stevens, S., Schoell, M. and Cassidy, M., Ding, Z., Zhou, Z., Lacrampe-Couloume and Ballentine, C.J., Solubility trapping in formation water as dominant CO₂ sink in natural gas fields. Nature, 458, p. 614-618. DOI:10.1038/nature07852

Nelson, S.T., Mayo, A.L., Dutson, S.J. Gilfillan, S.M.V., Shipton, Z., Harris, R.A. and Tingey, D.G. Enhanced fracture permeability and accompanying fluid flow in the footwall of a normal fault: The Hurricane Fault at Pah Tempe Hot Springs, Washington County, Utah. GSA Bulletin, 121, no. 1-2, p. 236-246. DOI:10.1130/B26285.1

2008

Gilfillan, S.M.V., Ballentine, C.J., Holland, G., Sherwood Lollar, B., Blagburn, D., Stevens, S., Schoell, M. and Cassidy, M. The noble gas geochemistry of natural CO₂ gas reservoirs from the Colorado Plateau and Rocky Mountain provinces, USA. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 72, p. 1174-1198. DOI:10.1016/j.gca.2007.10.009

Bushby, Y.E., Gilfillan, S.M.V. and Haszeldine, R.S. Carbon Capture and Storage in the UK. In: Energy and the Natural Heritage, ed by C.A. Galbraith and J.M. Baxter. TSO Scotland, Edinburgh. p. 117-134.

Articles in Preparation

Gilfillan, S.M.V. and Ballentine, C.J. Noble gas snapshot of the continental lithospheric mantle from CO₂ well gases. EPSL.

Conference Presentations

Gilfillan S.M.V., Haszeldine, R.S., Poreda, R. and Hovorka, S. Natural and artificial noble gases as tracers of injected CO₂ migration within a deep reservoir, 21st Goldschmidt Geochemistry Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, August 2011. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta Supplement In press Talk.

Gilfillan S.M.V., Wilkinson, M., Haszeldine, R.S., Nelson, S. and Poreda, R. He and Ne as tracers of natural CO₂ migration from a deep reservoir, 20th Goldschmidt Geochemistry Conference, Knoxville, TN., June 2010. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta Supplement, 74, Issue 12, p. A331 Talk.

Gilfillan, S.M.V., Sherwood Lollar, B., Haszeldine, R.S., Holland, G., Blagburn, D., Stevens, S., Schoell, M., Cassidy, M., Ding, Z., Zhou, Z., Lacrampe-Couloume, G. and Ballentine, C.J. CO₂ dissolution in formation water as dominant sink in natural gas fields. 19th Goldschmidt Geochemistry Conference, Davos, June 2009. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 73, No. 13S p. A435. Talk.

Gilfillan, S.M.V., Ballentine, C.J., Sherwood Lollar, B., Stevens, S., Schoell, M. and Cassidy, M. Quantifying the precipitation and dissolution of CO₂ within geological carbon storage analogues. 18th Goldschmidt Geochemistry Conference, Vancouver, July 2008. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 72, No. 12S p. A309. Talk.

Gilfillan, S.M.V., Ballentine, C.J., Haszeldine, R.S., Holland, G., Shipton, Z. and Wilkinson, M. Further insights into geologic CO₂ storage from natural analogues of the Colorado Plateau and Rocky Mountain provinces, USA. Eos Trans. AGU, 87(52), AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, December 2006. Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract H21A-1362. Poster.

Gilfillan, S.M.V., Ballentine, C.J., Holland, G., Sherwood Lollar, B., Blagburn, D., Stevens, S., Schoell, M. and Cassidy, M. New insights into geologic CO₂ sequestration from natural analogues of the Colorado Plateau and Rocky Mountain provinces, USA. 16th Goldschmidt Geochemistry Conference, Melbourne, August 2006. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 70, No. 18S, p. 203. Talk.

Ballentine, C.J., Gilfillan S.M.V., Holland, G., Zhou, Z. and Mackintosh, S. Developing phase interaction models to apply noble gases to the problem of carbon dioxide sequestration 16th Goldschmidt Geochemistry Conference Melbourne, August 2006. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 70, No. 18S, p. 32. Talk.

Gilfillan, S.M.V., Ballentine, C.J., Holland, G., The noble gas geochemistry of magmatic CO₂ well gases: source, character, transport and emplacement. 8th International Conference on Gas Geochemistry, Palermo, Sicily, October 2005. Talk.

Gilfillan, S.M.V., Ballentine, C.J., Holland, G., The noble gas character of mantle fluids associated with Cenozoic volcanism in the SW USA. 15th Goldschmidt Geochemistry Conference, Moscow, Idaho, May 2005. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 69, No. 10S, S1, p. A144. Poster.