3-D Seismic Exploration Project, Ute Indian Tribe, Unitah & Ouray Reservation, Unita Basin, Utah
To determine the utility of a 3-D seismic survey as a tool for oil and gas (NGLs) exploration on the Uintah and Ouray (Northern Ute) Indian Reservation.
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| Project ID: DE-FG26-00BC15193 | Project State: UT |
4-D High Resolution Seismic Reflection Monitoring of Miscible CO2 Injected Into a Carbonate Reservoir
The objective of this DOE sponsored Cooperative Agreement is to perform field-level research to better understand the movement of carbon dioxide (CO2) through oil reservoirs. CO2 is injected into reservoirs to increase oil production. The project will acquire, process, and interpret 4D (length, width, height & time) seismic data to accomplish this objective. Reservoir fluid char... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-03NT15414 | Project State: KS |
A Framework to Design and Optimize Chemical Flooding Processes BBFA Breakout
The goal of this proposed research is to provide an efficient and user friendly simulation framework for screening and aptimizing chemical/microbial enhanced oil recovery processes. The framework will include (1) a user friendly interface to identify the variables that have the most impact on oil recovery using the concept of experimental design and response surface maps, (2) UTC... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-03NT15412 | Project State: TX |
Acquisition of Oil & Gas Reservoirs Database
Purchase the service of cataloging and evaluating state incentive programs related to oil and natural gas exploration and production.
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| Project ID: DE-AP26-03NT30135 | Project State: CO |
Additional Reserve Recovery Using New Polymer Treatment on High Water Oil Ratio Wells Located in Kingman County, KS Independent Rnd 2 Breakout
The objective of this project is to treat Viola-Simpson formations with polymer on an active producer well in order to reduce the high water production encountered in this field and increase oil production.... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FG26-03NT15433 | Project State: CA |
Advanced Stripper Gas Well Produced Water Remediation
The objectives of the project are to:
- Remediate stripper gas well produced water by reducing hydrocarbon and metal salt content in the water to agriculture use standards, and
- identify technology combination requirements to make a productive water resource from produced waters, and
- reduce stripper gas well operating costs by mitigating water transportation ... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FG26-00NT40965 | Project State: MT |
Alaska North Slope Tundra Travel Model
Develop an ecological model designed to take into account the interactive affect among snow depth, snow density, ground hardness,and vegetation community, to predict tundra resistance to disturbance to replace the current tundra travel standards.
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| Project ID: DE-FG26-03NT41790 | Project State: AK |
Amplitude - Preserving Kirchhoff Migration (PARTNERSHIP)
They will develop realistic and workable approaches for seismic amplitude preserving Kirchhoff migration amd amplidue vs. angle analysis ( AVA) to delineate reservoir physical properties
This will lead to improved images and increase the amount and reliability of information of images.
They will focus on obtaining more information, use of AVA to evaluate formation properties ... Read more >
| Project ID: FEW 04FE02 | Project State: NM |
An Integrated Multi-Component Processing and Interpretation Framework for 3D Borehole Seismic Data - BBA Rnd 2
The primary objective of this DOE sponsored project is to develop 3D Vertical Seismic Profiling (VSP) borehole software for data processing and interpretation. At the completion of this project Paulsson Geophysical Services will have a software package that more reliably models reservoirs in 3D from VSP data.
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| Project ID: DE-FC26-03NT15418 | Project State: CA |
Application of Time-Lapse Seismic Monitoring for the Control and Optimization of CO2 Enhanced Oil Recovery Operations AT2 Breakout
Solicitation: DE-PS26-03NT15391-0 This project's objective is to demonstrate advanced technologies that will better characterize oil reservoirs for CO2 flooding and the monitoring of the CO2 flood front during injection for "real-time" decision making.
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| Project ID: DE-FC26-04NT15425 | Project State: AK |
Basin Analysis and Petroleum System Characterization & Modeling, Interior Salt Basins, Central and Eastern Gulf of Mexico PRIME Breakout
The objectives of the project are to develop through basin analysis the concept that the petroleum systems acting in a basin can be identified through basin modeling and demonstrate that the information and analysis resulting from the characterization and modeling of these petroleum systems in the North Louisiana Salt Basin and the Mississippi Interior Salt Basin can be used in pro... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-03NT15395 | Project State: AL |
Best Management Practices for Stormwater Discharge
Form a State working group on Phase II of the NPDES storm-water permit requirements.
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| Project ID: DE-AP75-03SW54441 | Project State: OK |
CO2 Enhanced Oil Production From the Citronelle Field in the Rodessa Formation, South Alabama
The project performers will conduct CO2 injection tests in Citronelle oilfield in Mobile County, AL. The project will introduce CO2 enhanced oil recovery (EOR) for tertiary recovery from Alabama's uniquely structured oil reservoirs, providing oilfield operators and CO2 producers with improved estimates of oil yields from EOR and the capacity of depleted reservoirs to sequester CO2.... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-06NT43029 | Project State: AL |
Ceramic Membrane Reactor for Syngas Production
An ion conducting ceramic membrane (ICCM) catalytic reactor will be fabricated whereby the functions of oxygen separation and oxidation will be combined resulting in reduced capital and operating costs in producing the appropriate synthesis gas for downstream conversion to Fischer Tropsch fuels.
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| Project ID: FWP-4340-70 | Project State: ID |
Characterization of Wettability States of Alaskan Reservoirs
New methods for a rapid, non-destructive wettability characterization will be developed. The new techniques will be used to experimentally ascertain the influence of wettability on oil recovery efficiency in representative Alaskan cores. Results from experiments and data analysis will be used to demonstrate how influencing the wettability through injection of fluids with differen... Read more >
| Project ID: FWP45633 | Project State: WA |
Coal Bed Methane (CBM) Water Disposal Project
A literature review will be conducted on the reported Russian and Canadian CBM water management methods and practices applied in the arctic and sub-arctic environments with the focus on foreign approaches, environmental standards and regulations, success stories, and strategies to avoid. Foreign solutions related to CBM co-produced water will be assessed. Collected information wi... Read more >
| Project ID: FEWB240-01 | Project State: ID |
Combining a New 3D Seismic S-Wave Propagation Analysis for Remote Fracture Detection With a Robust Microfracture-Based Verification Technique
This research shall combine a new seismic shear-wave (s-wave) imaging concept for 3-D acquisition geometries with a new microfracture-based analysis technique of oriented sidewall cores to create a next-generation technology for detecting and characterizing subsurface fractures. This technology has the potential to provide industry a more robust 3-D seismic fracture-detection metho... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-AC26-00NT40690 | Project State: TX |
Consortium - Rockphysics for Improved Oil Recovery and Oil Field Management
The Stanford Rockphysics Project is focused on discovering and understanding the relations between geophysical measurements (e.g., seismic) and reservoir rock and fluid properties; and application of the results to the improved management of oil and gas recovery problems.
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| Project ID: 75-02SW52173 | Project State: CA |
Creating a Geologic Play Book for Trenton Black River Appalachian Basin Exploration
The objectives of the proposed two-year research project are to: develop an integrated, multi-faceted, resource assessment model of Trenton-Black River reservoirs in New York, Ohio and West Virginia; define possible fairways in which to conduct detailed studies, leading to further development of the gas resources in Ordovician fractured carbonates across the basin; and develop an ... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-03NT41856 | Project State: WV |
Demonstration of Integrated Remote Sensing Analysis to Identify Oil Exploration Leads in the Williston Basin, Fort Berthold Indian Reservation
Integration of remote sensing data to assess exploration potential, taking maximum advantage of existing data availability but also a relatively low-cost approach that will be readily applicable elsewhere.
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| Project ID: DE-FG26-02NT15453 | Project State: VA |
Design and Develop Integrated Compact Multi-Phase Separator System
Develop simple, cost effective integrated compact multi-phase separator system
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| Project ID: DE-FC26-03NT15416 | Project State: OK |
Develop Electronic Casing Tally Software for Pocket PC
Develop drillpipe and casing tally sheets program (PCTALLY) for Pocket and Desktop PCs. The data will be entered into the Pocket PC on the rig floor and transmitted via wire (cradle) to the desktop PC.
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| Project ID: DE-AF26-02NT20519 | Project State: TX |
Developing Enzyme and Biomimetic Catalysts for Upgrading Heavy Crudes Via Biological Hydrogenation and Hydrodesulfurization (PARTNERSHIP)
Develop a hydrogenation catalysts capable of operation at moderate or mild conditions. In order to make the biological enzymes work with compounds in crude oil, it is necessary to create favorable binding interactions between the oil substrates and enzymes. The difficulty in coupling enzymes with the hydrophobic substrates in oil can be overcome by reducing the polarity or increa... Read more >
| Project ID: FEW49022 | Project State: IL |
Developing the Next Generation Fracture Detection and Prediction Technology
The overall purpose of the project is to develop an integrated approach to natural fracture detection and prediction that permits the quantitative description of natural fracture properties and ultimately leads towards the improved characterization of (natural gas) reservoir flow properties.... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-AC26-99FT40688 | Project State: VA |
Development & Evaluation of New Processes for the Production of Ultra Clean Fuels from Natural Gas
The objective of this project is to perform comprehensive life cycle analyses and a market study on ultra clean fuels of commercial interest produced from natural gas. As part of the life cycle analysis, fuel samples shall be obtained and tested in engines and ful cells to obtain data on emissions.... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-01NT41098 | Project State: TX |
Development of Bypassed Oil Reserves Using Behind Casing Resistivity Measurements
Many productive zones of the Santa Fe Springs oil field in Los Angeles County, California have been water flooded and more permeable sand layers have preferentially watered out. It is suspected that flood fronts have bypassed lower permeable oil saturated sand intervals. This project will use cased-hole resistivity measurements to identify higher oil saturated sands. Up to four ... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FG26-03NT15435 | Project State: CA |
Electrical Generation Using Non-Salable Low BTU Natural Gas
Utilize low BTU shallow gas to supply fuel for new engine generator.
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| Project ID: DE-FG26-99BC15241 | Project State: KS |
Enhanced Coal Bed Methane Production Through Computerized Gas Lift Utilizing Casing Head Gas as an Energy Source
The Project Objectives are:
1) Enhance gas production through more efficient elimination of water from Coal Bed Methane (CBM) stripper wells.
2) Eliminate the need for an external power source to remove water from CBM stripper wells.
3) Improve the removal of coal fines and suspended solids from CBM stripper wells.
4) Reduce the front-end, operatin... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FG26-00NT40790 | Project State: TN |
Enhanced Oil Recovery by Horizontal Waterflooding
The overall objective of this project is to demonstrate that horizontal waterflooding can be technically and economically effective in the recovery of oil from the Bartlesville formation in the Woolaroc Field, Osage County, Oklahoma. Using horizontal wells for waterflooding will overcome some of the limitations of waterflooding shallow, naturally fractured, low permeability reserv... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-02NT15452 | Project State: OK |
First Phase Joint Training Program for Coalbed Methane (CBM)
Develop and conduct training seminars/workshops in China, through the US/China Institute of Tulane University, for promoting the development of China's CBM industry with US technology/equipment.
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| Project ID: 75-03SW54353 | Project State: LA |
Geologic and Other Controls of Hydrocarbon Occurrence in the SE Part of the Appalachian Basin
The project intends to: 1) employ the petroleum system approach to understand the geologic controls of hydrocarbon occurrence in the southeastern Appalachian basin; 2) better characterize the T_P parameters related to petroleum migration from the boundary of the oil-gas window; 3) obtain more quantitative definitions of reservoir architecture (both structurally and lithologically) ... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-02NT15341 | Project State: TN |
Hydrates Joint Industry Project (JIP) 2003 Membership
To promote, through basic and applied research, for the common good of the industry, advancements in operating techniques and measures to mitigate or control hydrate formation in hydrocarbon production and processing facilities.
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| Project ID: 75-03SW54512 | Project State: OK |
Identification of Naval Technologies Transferable to the Offshore Energy Industry
Identify to the industry applicable Navy technology for high value - high quality and low cost. This project represents one of the first efforts to map the offshore industry's technological needs against the immense inventory of available U.S. Navy technologies. The portion of the Navy's technology inventory that is most closely aligned with the offshore energy industry residees ... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-AF26-03NT30859 | Project State: TX |
Improve the Outcome of the Microhole Drilling Field Test at Rocky Mountain Oilfield Testing Center (RMOTC)
Improving the outcome of the microhole drilling field test at Rocky Mountain Oilfield Testing Center (RMOTC) in the summer of 2004 by purchasing a tandem motor.
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| Project ID: 75-04SW55402 | Project State: TX |
Improved Gas Flooding Efficiency / Breakout
The objectives of this investigation are to acquire the information required and to subsequently develop adsorption/desorption models for reservoir rock at reservoir conditions; to determine economic sweep efficiency/injectivity criteria for reservoir scale systems; to expand foam gas flooding to shallow reservoirs; and to develp models and modules for simulating carbon dioxide flo... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-04NT15532 | Project State: NM |
Improvement of Carbon Dioxide Sweep Efficiency by Utilization of Microbial Permeability Profile Modification to Reduce the Amount of Oil Bypassed During Carbon Dioxide Flooding
Overall - To improve the sweep efficiency of carbon dioxide gas flooding by coupling it to permeability profile modification procedure especially designed for that purpose.
Research Phase - To determine the geological characteristics of the Eutaw Formation at the Eucutta Oil field located in central Mississippi, to formulate the exact nutritional supplements in laboratory coref... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-05NT15458 | Project State: MS |
Improving Science-Based Methods for Assessing Risks Attributable to Petroleum Residues in Soil Transferred to Vegetation (PARTNERSHIP)
Develop technologies and practice that reduce environmental risk and decrease the cost of regulatory compliance of oil recovery operations.
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| Project ID: FEWEE-1760 | Project State: CA |
Interpreting Reservoir Architecture Using Scale Frequency Phenomena
Provide outreach assistance to the Oklahoma Geological Survey in their education and technology transfer program.
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| Project ID: 75-03SW54547 | Project State: OK |
LNG from Coal Mine Methane for Industrial and Transportation Applications
The primary objectives of this work are to conduct a pilot scale field demonstration of a process to capture, purify, and convert coal mine methane (CMM) into commercially significant volumes of liquefied natural gas (LNG). The work will thereby demonstrate the extent of reduction in CMM emissions and the efficiency and economics of the production of LNG from CMM thereby achieved.... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-00NT40978 | Project State: VA |
Low-Cost Acquisition and Analysis of 3-C Seismic Test Data
Demonstrate to Independent Exploration companies how to acquire and analyse 3-D seismic data from small 3-C seismic test patches.
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| Project ID: DE-FG26-03NT15437 | Project State: TX |
Membership to Petrotechnical Open Software Corp (POSC)
One year membership in the POSC.
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| Project ID: 75-02SW53373 | Project State: TX |
Multi-Azimuth 3-D Seismic Attributes Demonstration, San Juan Basin
The objective of this project is to demonstrate the methodology of applying modern seismic processing techniques, followed by a rigorous seismic attribute analysis, for detecting and quantifying areas of high natural fracture density that are likely to lead to commercial gas production from low permeability gas formations.... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-AC26-00NT40697 | Project State: TX |
NRG Database Project
Construct a petroleum reservoir level database that will allow for the subsequent addition of reservoir characterization information similar to that contained in the GASIS and GSAM and TORIS databases.
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| Project ID: EIA-1 | Project State: TX |
Next Generation Seismic Modeling and Imaging (PARTNERSHIP)
The objectives of this project are to understand and model 3-D wave propagation in complex geological settings, and to develop and test new, faster, more reliable seismic imaging methods.
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| Project ID: FEW81/90 | Project State: CA |
Novel Reactor for the Production of Synthesis Gas
The objective of this project is to develop an advanced technology for producing synthesis gas from natural gas via partial oxidation reforming. The production process combines the use of a short-reaction time catalyst and a novel gas mixing technology.... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-00NT41027 | Project State: NY |
Petroleum Indicator by Electric Relaxation
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| Project ID: DE-FG02-03ER83748 | Project State: CA |
Pipe Tally Sheet Software for Pocket PC's
Improving the performance of the program known as "Pipe Tally Sheet Software for Pocket PC's". The intent of this work is to provide users with a free and significantly improved program.
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| Project ID: 75-03SW54534 | Project State: TX |
Purchase of Seismic Data of the Chukchi Sea
Acquire seismic recordings along five lines in the Chukchi for its circum-Arctic task.
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| Project ID: 75-02SW53536 | Project State: CO |
Ramey Laboratory Research Program 2004
Provide DOE with copies of all reports, pre-publication manuscripts, and final publications from the Program.
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| Project ID: 75-04SW55379 | Project State: TX |
Resource Assessment and Production Testing for CBM Development in the Illinois Basin
The goal of this project is to obtain fundamental information on methane content, permeability, and well-completion data and techniques for Illinois Basin coal beds, and associated organic-rich shales. This study will provide essential baseline information necessary for the development and production of coalbed methane (CBM) from areas believed to have the best potential for econo... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-03NT41876 | Project State: KY |
Resource Assessment of Deep Natural Gas Resource of the Onshore Salt Basins NE Gulf of Mexico
The objectives of the proposed study are to perform resource assessment of the in place deep (below 15,000 feet) natural gas resources of the onshore interior salt basins of the North Central and Northeastern Gulf of Mexico through petroleum system identification, characterization and modeling and to use the petroleum system based resource assessment to identify those areas in the ... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-03NT41875 | Project State: AL |
Searchable Technology Database
Obtaining the searchable technology database whichcatalogs the industry needs.
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| Project ID: DE-AP26-03NT30605 | Project State: TX |
Second Symposium on Stability and Compatibility During the Production, Transportation and Refining of Petroleum
Support technology transfer efforts aimed at increasing domestic oil production.
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| Project ID: 75-03SW54548 | Project State: WY |
Shear Wave Seismic Study: Comparing 9C3D SV & SH Images With 3C3D C-Wave
Primary Objective is to determine which of two seismic wave data (9-C or 3-C) provide better S-wave information for reservoir characterization, then transfer that knowledge to independents.
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| Project ID: DE-FG26-03NT15431 | Project State: TX |
Solving the Shugart Queen Sand Penasco Unit Declining Production Problem
Construct geologic model, conduct reservoir simulation, optimize waterflood in Shugart Queen Sand Penasco Unit, Eddy County, NM.
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| Project ID: DE-FG26-99BC15245 | Project State: NM |
Stripper Well Consortium
The objective of this project is to develop an industry-driven consortium, which will provide a cost-efficient vehicle for developing, transferring, and deploying new technologies into the private sector. The consortium will focus on improving the production performance of domestic stripper wells, including both natural gas and oil stripper wells. The proposed consortium will cre... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-00NT41025 | Project State: PA |
Stripper Well Consortium
The objective of this project is to continue operation of an industry-driven consortium, which will provide a cost-efficient vehicle for developing, transferring, and deploying new technologies into the private sector. The consortium focuses on improving the production performance of domestic stripper wells, including both natural gas and oil stripper wells. The consortium has cr... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-04NT42098 | Project State: PA |
Support for the Mathematics, Science, and Engineering Academy (MSEA)
Introduce children from grades 8-12 from traditionally under-represented groups to mathematics and science through a series of summer enrichment activities.
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| Project ID: DE-AP75-03SW54417 | Project State: GA |
T-R Cycle Characterization and Imaging: Advanced Diagnostic Methodology for Petroleum Reservoir and Trap Detection - BBFA Breakout
The objectives of the investigation are to develop through transgressive-regressive (T R) cycle characterization and modeling a sequence stratigraphy predictive model that can be used for improved petroleum trap and reservoir imaging, detection and delineation by using the characteristics and geometries of T R cycle units and their associated bounding surfaces to provide a reliable... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-03NT15409 | Project State: AL |
Testing and Validation of High Resolution Fluid Imaging in Real Time (PARTNERSHIP)
1) To provide unique expertise in 3-D seismic and electromagnetic modeling coupled to field testing to validate and guide overall joint seismic/EM single well method develoment; 2) To provide a focus and catalyst towards the overall development of a final product
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| Project ID: FWP-P225 | Project State: NM |
Testing of a 5kWe SOFC on Diesel Reformate
Demonstrate the integration and performance operation of a 5kWe solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) on diesel reformate.
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| Project ID: FEW 4661-06 | Project State: ID |
The Mississippi Leadville Limestone Exploration Play, Utah, and Colorado - Exploration Techniques and Studies for Independents AT2 Breakout
The objectives of this proposed study are to: (1) develop and demonstrate techniques and exploration methods never tried on the Mississippian Leadville Limestone in the Paradox Basin of Utah and Colorado, (2) provide the facies, hydrodynamic pressure regime, and oil show quality maps that can be used to target areas for exploration, (3) increase deliverability from new and old Lead... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-03NT15424 | Project State: UT |
The Use of Acid Stimulation for Restoring to Production Shut-In Oil Fields/Independent Rnd 2 Breakout
The principal objective of this project is to restore production to wells in the Las Cienegas field in Los Angeles, California. This field is representative of many potentially productive areas and wells that were shut in due to low oil prices and uneconomical operation. Low oil prices in 1998 and 1999 led to thousands of oil wells being shut in throughout the United States. Wit... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FG26-03NT15432 | Project State: CA |
Thermal Recovery of North Slope (AK) Heavy-Oils From Ugnu and West Sak Sands is Feasible Without Permafrost Melting Around Multi-Branch Wells
SBIR Phase II selection in FY 2006.
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| Project ID: DE-FG02-05ER84063 | Project State: CA |
Ultra-Deepwater and Unconventional Natural Gas and Other Petroleum Resources Program Administration
The objective of this project is to maximize the value of indigenous U.S. natural gas and other petroleum resources with a focus on near-to-mid-term results. Priority resources to be addressed include ultra-deepwater natural gas and onshore unconventional natural gas (tight gas sands, gas shales, and coalbed methane), which have been identified by the National Petroleum Council (NP... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-AC26-07NT42677 | Project State: TX |
