2025
McCormack, K. Vega-Ortiz, C., Edelman, E., and McPherson, B. (2025). "Hydraulic fracturing in the overpressured, isotropically stressed Cane Creek Unit, Paradox Basin." Interpretation 13 (1) T11-T19. https://doi.org/10.1190/INT-2024-0021.1
2024
McCormack, K., Li, J., Yoklavich, T., and Xia, Y. (2024). “A review of fluids under nanoconfinement: Reactivity, geomechanics, phase transitions, and flow.” Physics of Fluids 36 (9). https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0224861
McCormack, K. and Smith, P. (2024). “Improved spatial understanding of induced seismicity hazard from the discretization of a curved fault surface.” Computational Geosciences 26, 461-468. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10596-024-10276-z
2023
*El-kaseeh, G. and McCormack, K. (2023). “Multi-scale seismic Measurements for Site Characterization and CO2 Monitoring in an EOR/CCUS project, Farnsworth Field, Texas.” Energies 16 (20), 7159. https://doi.org/10.3390/en16207159
*Qin, Y., Li, J., Huang, L., Gao, K., Li, D., Chen, T., Bratton, T., El-kaseeh, G., Ampomah, W., Ispirescu, T., Cather, M., Balch, R., Zheng, Y., Tang, S., McCormack, K., and McPher- son, B. (2023). “Microseismic monitoring at the Farnsworth CO2-EOR field.” Energies 16 (10), 4177. https://doi.org/10.3390/en16104177
McCormack, K., McLennan, J., Jagniecki, E., and McPherson, B. (2023). “Discrete measurements of the least horizontal principal stress based on core data: An application of viscoelastic stress relaxation.” SPE Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering 26 (03), 827- 841. https://doi.org/10.2118/214669-PA
*McCormack, K., Zoback, M., Frederiksen, A., and Dvory, N. (2023). “Shear-wave anisotropy measurements in the crust from receiver functions: An interplay of lower- and upper-crustal anisotropy.” Geosciences 13 (3), 79. https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences13030079
2022
*McCormack, K., Bratton, T., Chen, T., and McPherson, B. (2022). “Induced seismicity potential based on probabilistic geomechanics for the San Juan Basin CarbonSAFE project.” Geophysics 87 (6), EN69-EN79. https://doi.org/10.1190/geo2021-0704.1
2021
McCormack, K., Zoback, M., Kuang, W. (2021). “A Case Study of Vertical Hydraulic Fracture Growth, Stress Variations with Depth and Shear Stimulation in the Niobrara Shale and Codell Sand, DJ Basin, Colorado.” Interpretation 9 (4), SG59-SG69. https://doi.org/10.1190/INT-2020-0246.1
2024
Ampomah, W., Bui, D., McCormack, K., Bratton, T., Wang, S., Amosu, A., Huang, L., Smith, C., Smith, M. Hama, A. (2024). ``Advancing Characterization of Faults through Deployment of Novel Geophysical, Geochemical and Geomechanical Technologies at the SJB CarbonSAFE Site.'' Proceedings of the 17th Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies Conference. http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5068331
Xing, P., McCormack, K., Edelman, E., List, D., Maxwell, G. and McLennan, J. (2024). “Wellbore Stability Analysis of Wells in Paradox Play in Southeastern Utah: Investigat- ing the Impact of Salt Mobility.” 58th Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium. https://doi.org/10.56952/ARMA-2024-0196
2023
McCormack, K., Paulsson, B., Edelman, E., He, R., Moodie, N., and McPherson, B. (2023). “The design of a Downhole Source Tomography experiment for the detection of CO2 plumes in the subsurface.” 57th Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium. https://doi.org/10.56952/ARMA-2023-0474
Dvory, N., Smith, P., McCormack, K., Esser, R., and McPherson, B. (2023). “On the path to least principal stress prediction: Quantifying the impact of borehole logs on the prediction model.” 57th Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium. https://doi.org/10.56952/ARMA-2023-0510
2021
McCormack, K. and Zoback, M. (2021). “Layer-to-layer stress variations in the Niobrara Shale and Codell Sand, DJ Basin, CO: Implications for hydraulic fracturing.” 55th Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium.
2024
*McCormack, K. (2024). “Constraining induced seismicity hazard on the Neck of the Desert fault for the proposed Iron Mountain, Utah carbon sequestration project.” Office of Scientific and Technical Information - Department of Energy. https://doi.org/10.2172/2279003
2023
*McCormack, K., Bodmer, M., and Huang, L. (2023). “A case study of denoising microseismic data in the Farnsworth, TX CO2 EOR site.” Office of Scientific and Technical Information - Department of Energy. https://doi.org/10.2172/2310376