The Department of Energy (DOE), National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) solicits projects in FY08 that will support program goals to: (1) develop technologies for reducing the cost of environmental compliance while improving environmental protection and provide sound science for policy makers that will maximize recovery of domestic oil and gas resources; and (2) maximize recovery from domestic (unconventional) oil resources.
The key objective of this FOA is to initiate R&D to address a broad spectrum of environmental, and exploration and production (E&P) issues associated with unconventional oil and gas resource development, including those associated with the Bakken Shale of North Dakota and Montana, the Arctic North Slope and other frontier resource areas.
The program is seeking to add multiple (4-7) environmental R&D projects to its portfolio to address the constraints of developing domestic natural gas and oil resources, the most critical priorities identified in the 2007 Oil Shale Environmental Workshop, and environmental issues that impact access to
Alaska’s energy resources. In addition, multiple projects (3-6) are being sought to develop advanced technologies for primary or enhanced oil recovery with a primary focus on unconventional oil resources including the Bakken shale resource of the
Williston
Basin and heavy viscous oil of
Alaska’s
North Slope.
