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Dr. Chambers to guide students from UL Lafayette and Chile in researching photovoltaic, green hydrogen during cultural exchange

UL Lafayette and the University of Magallanes will partner for the "Collaborative Research and Knowledge Exchange in

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Multistate Hydrogen Hub

A Multistate Hydrogen Hub will be established by Louisiana, Oklahoma and Arkansas for the development, production an

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The University of Louisiana at Lafayette is now home to the Tuscaloosa Marine Shale Laboratory, a multidisciplinary consortium of geologists, petroleum engineers, geophysicists and economic development experts from UL Lafayette and four other institutions.

The Tuscaloosa Marine Shale is an 8-million-acre subsurface rock formation estimated to hold about 7 billion barrels of light, sweet crude oil. But the Tuscaloosa Marine Shale has teased – and largely spurned – the energy industry for decades.

Read more about our researchers' plan to unlock the black gold mine in the latest issue of La Louisiane, the Magazine of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

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