PEER Reports

PEER Reports

New PEER Report 2025/14: "Fragility Curves for Gas Leakage Through Caprock of the Underground Gas Storage Reservoir in California"

April 28, 2026

PEER has published Report No. 2025/14, Fragility Curves for Gas Leakage Through Caprock of the Underground Gas Storage Reservoir in California. The report was authored by Yingqi Zhang, Jonny Rutqvist, Preston Jordan, and William Foxall, of the Energy Geosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

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New PEER Report 2025/15: "Numerical Modeling and Seismic Fragility Curve Development: Components and Subsystems of the Natural Gas Surface Infrastructure"

April 29, 2026

PEER has published Report No. 2025/15, Numerical Modeling and Seismic Fragility Curve Development: Components and Subsystems of the Natural Gas Surface Infrastructure. The report was authored by Elide Pantoli and Tara Hutchinson, of the Department of Structural Engineering, University of California, San Diego.

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Numerical Modeling and Seismic Fragility Curve Development: Components and Subsystems of the Natural Gas Surface Infrastructure, PEER Report 2025-15

Elide Pantoli
Tara Hutchinson
2025

This report is one of a series of reports documenting the methods and findings of a multi-year, multi-disciplinary project conducted by the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER) with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and funded by the California Energy Commission (CEC). The overall project is titled “Performance-based Earthquake Engineering Assessment Tool for Natural Gas Storage and Pipeline Systems” henceforth referred to as the “OpenSRA Project.”

The overall goal of the OpenSRA Project is to create an open-source research-based seismic risk...

Fragility Curves for Gas Leakage Through Caprock of the Underground Gas Storage Reservoir in California, PEER Report 2025-14

Yingqi Zhang
Jonny Rutqvist
Preston Jordan
William Foxall
2025

This report is one of a series of reports documenting the methods and findings of a multi-year, multi-disciplinary project conducted by the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER) with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and funded by the California Energy Commission (CEC). The overall project is titled “Performance-based Earthquake Engineering Assessment Tool for Natural Gas Storage and Pipeline Systems” henceforth referred to as the “OpenSRA Project.”

The overall goal of the OpenSRA project is to create an open-source research-based seismic risk...

Fragility of Wells due to Dynamic Shaking—The Impact of Ground Shaking on the Integrity of Natural Gas Storage Wells in California, PEER Report 2025-13

Keurfon Luu
Preston Jordan
Floriana Petrone
William Foxall
Jonny Rutqvist
2025

This report is one of a series of reports documenting the methods and findings of a multi-year, multi-disciplinary project conducted by the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER) with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and funded by the California Energy Commission (CEC). The overall project is titled “Performance-based Earthquake Engineering Assessment Tool for Natural Gas Storage and Pipeline Systems” henceforth referred to as the “OpenSRA Project.”

The overall goal of the OpenSRA Project is to create an open-source research-based seismic risk...

New PEER Report 2025/13: "Fragility of Wells due to Dynamic Shaking—The Impact of Ground Shaking on the Integrity of Natural Gas Storage Wells in California"

April 14, 2026

PEER has published Report No. 2025/13, Fragility of Wells due to Dynamic Shaking—The Impact of Ground Shaking on the Integrity of Natural Gas Storage Wells in California. The report was authored by Keurfon Luu, Preston Jordan, William Foxall, and Jonny Rutqvist of the Energy Geosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Floriana Petrone, University of Nevada, Reno.

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New PEER Report 2025/12: "Fragility of Wells due to Fault Shearing—The Impact of Fault Displacement on the Integrity of Natural Gas Storage Wells in California"

April 13, 2026

PEER has published Report No. 2025/12, Fragility of Wells due to Fault Shearing—The Impact of Fault Displacement on the Integrity of Natural Gas Storage Wells in California. The report was authored by Tsubasa Sasaki, Preston Jordan, William Foxall, Jonny Rutqvist of the Energy Geosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Floriana Petrone, University of Nevada, Reno.

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Fragility of Wells due to Fault Shearing—The Impact of Fault Displacement on the Integrity of Natural Gas Storage Wells in California, PEER Report 2025-12

Tsubasa Sasaki
Preston Jordan
Floriana Petrone
William Foxall
Jonny Rutqvist
2025

This report is one of a series of reports documenting the methods and findings of a multi-year, multi-disciplinary project conducted by the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER) with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), and funded by the California Energy Commission (CEC). The overall project is titled “Performance-based Earthquake Engineering Assessment Tool for Natural Gas Storage and Pipeline Systems” henceforth referred to as the “OpenSRA Project.” The overall goal of the OpenSRA project is to create an open-source research-based seismic risk assessment...

Efficient Risk Calculation and Epistemic Uncertainty Propagation for Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering Distributed Systems, PEER Report 2025-08

Maxime Lacour
Norman A. Abrahamson
2025

A Report for the ”Performance-based Earthquake Engineering Assessment Tool for Natural Gas Storage and Pipeline Systems” Project.

This report is one of a series of reports documenting the methods and findings of a multi-year, multi-disciplinary project conducted by the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER) with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and funded by the California Energy Commission (CEC). The overall project is titled “Performance-based Earthquake Engineering Assessment Tool for Natural Gas Storage and Pipeline Systems,” hereafter referred to...

Sensing and Monitoring Technologies for Natural Gas and Pipeline Systems, PEER Report 2025-09

Chien-Chih Wang
Sumeet Kimar Sinha
Peter Hubbard
Yong Liang
Kenichi Soga
2025

This report documents the methods and findings of a multi-year, multi-disciplinary project conducted by the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER) with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and funded by the California Energy Commission (CEC). The overall project is titled “Performance-based Earthquake Engineering Assessment Tool for Natural Gas Storage and Pipeline Systems,” henceforth referred to as the “OpenSRA Project.”

The overall goal of the OpenSRA Project is to create an open-source research-based seismic risk assessment tool for natural gas...